Spare me the argument of Timothy McVeigh.  When are we going to start profiling?  How many terrorists and suspected terrorists with a certain type of name and certain type of racial makeup need to be arrested before we realize my 70-year old mother is not a likely terrorist?!

Congress needs to pass legislation that exempts TSA agents, federal law enforcement and local law enforcement from civil lawsuits in the performance of their duties with regard to terrorism detainments.  Although Congress would never have the spine to do so, unless these first responders can perform their jobs to detain and question possible terrorists, we will only be spinning our wheels in preventing terrorism. 

Certainly there should be procedures to sanction TSA or law enforcement that oversteps their bounds and common-sence.  Certainly, we should not target arabs/muslims to the exclusion of possible other actors of other racial or cultural makeup.  But to foolishly ignore that the vast majority of terrorists are male within a certain age group and certain racial/cultural makeup is sticking our damn heads in the sands.

I make this argument knowing full well that my racial background visually puts me within the suspect group.  But so what?!  I would rather answer a few more questions when boarding a plane than have my family and friends lives in danger due to foolish policies.