Security threat. No license to demean us.

Traveling by air at sends a spill of fear down my spine. I am phobic of height and the sheer imagination that I am in a tube flying numbs all my feelings. Any thoughts about the turbulence occurring mid air provokes and chokes so are the safety demonstrations. Therefore, to read stories of someone, like the Nigerian young man, who wanted to blow up the plane to Detroit, is blatant madness. It must have caused tremendous pains to the 300 people on board who were innocent caught in the middle of Al Quida terrorists fighting for supremacy.
The attack is not in isolation as in the recent there has been attacks using planes, the recent being Sept 11 that brought down twin towers in USA. Such attacks or other attempts by terrorists or by groups related to them have seen in the past security measures heightened around the world. Apart from the displeasure of having to fly, security frisks bring the other discomfort; removing of jackets, anything metallic and shoes and at times inhuman frisks that do not recognize my civic rights.
Well I presume no one would want his life jeopardized by reckless security lapses like it happened on Christmas night last year. We cannot afford to risk any life either in USA or elsewhere. But does that give governments rights to introduce scanners that show human anatomy with little or nothing to conceal? We have had new security measures announced by the USA administration with Britain in hot pursuit that Okays the use of the scanners among other measures. The debate on scanners is not new, as efforts to introduce them earlier hit a snag after court ruling. The question I would ask is what has made them right, if it was inhuman to use them then? With the new measures there has been a hue and cry in many parts of the world and one can only hope that sanity reigns and that or decisions be informed accordingly. http://www.businessinsider.com/new-security-measures-at-air-canada-forces-mass-cancellat
To me the new measures beg more questions than answers. What is the logic of ‘labelling’ some countries as threats to USA subjecting anyone coming from these countries to extra frisks? Are terrorists only in the named countries? If we need to introduce new measures why not do it indiscriminately to all? Does this probably explain why European airports are slow to adopt them despite the urgency with which Obama announced them? Or even the confusion created by having to apply double laws to various people depending on their origin? http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2010/01/04/news/doc4b4231031bc43249057914.txt
I personally think that though we need to travel in serene environment no one should be denied of his right or have his dignity lowered due to his origin, color or religion. On the same note we expect Obama to explain the failure on the part of security agents who allowed the alleged terrorist board the plane despite the information passed to them by the father. To Obama I say heads must roll until we know who gave a hand, when, how and why. Admission that the buck stops at your door is not news, we have heard it many times. The problem is systemic. Before thinking of how to fix us, fix your house Mr. President! Otherwise we will not just sit down and watch governments violate our civic rights and our rights as human to be treated with dignity.