I mentioned SEP more in context with the other planes but I guess it could apply to the hijackers too.

What angers me about the security measures in airports these days (penning large numbers of people in one small place, making them hold a selection of objects in little plastic bags, having them partially disrobe in public and having them perform a digital strip search regardless of age) is that it's disproportionate to the risk and underlines the atmosphere of society under siege.

Isn't this giving the terrorists exactly what they want?

Hasn't it crossed the minds of the people devising these procedures that a few bombs in these security areas would kill hundreds, close down the airport and render the whole procedure virtually useless?

We are have our sharp objects taken away from us, toe nail cutters, nail scissors, disposable razor cartridges etc and are given canned drinks, glass bottles on the plane.

We can purchase all manner equally improbable melee weapons from the in-flight catalogue and have them brought to our seat by the steward or stewardess.

The 9-11 planes were taken by men with Stanley knives, they give us glass bottles but take away eye-brow tweezers?