I would quote that "Those who would sacrifice their liberty for safety deserve neither" by ol' Ben, but I'm sure you've heard it a thousand times already. And I can't recall it verbatim.
What liberty am I sacrificing here, exactly? I just have to wait longer at the air-port, and go through searches and stuff. Yes, it's not much fun, but it certainly doesn't harm me, and certainly not a price that's too high for my protection. At least, I value my life more highly than that mere inconvenience is costing me.

Besides, this is giving into fear, this is terror.
No, it's counter-measures, not terror. They're not preventing you from flying, or scaring the crap out of you. They just do certain mildly unpleasant things, to assure your safety, and others' as well.

But its not SAVING lives...its taking them. They're arresting people and taking away chunks of their lives by locking them up because they have something that makes them a "suspected terrorist".
Haven't heard of that, let alone seen any proof of such things happening. Frankly, if someone is a terrorist, I'd very much like to see them removed from their surroundings, and ship them to far-off places, or eliminate them (after a trial, of-course). Don't try to make me believe, a goverment would spend so much money, to send some random guy to the other end of the world, spend money on his empriosnment, without solid proof. For the goverment, that's a complete waste, nevermind the actual fiendishness of such an act.

I remember when I flew to Chicago they seached me up and down about 5 times. They made me open my luggage, take off my shoes, and belt, and jacket, put it all through this x-ray machine, then they ran the little metal detector over me, then I walked through about three big dooway type ones, then they felt me down, and hand checked all my stuff, then I had to wait about 10 minutes while they were consulting with each other, and then they finally let me in. Its so rediculous...I mean I do have facial hair, but sheesh.
I'm a bright-eyed, fair-haired Israeli, and I go through that every single time I'm at the air-port, here. And that, even though the chances of someone like me being a terrorist are ZERO. But, it has to be done to everyone, otherwise it's un-just and discriminating.

On the whole, if you disagree with air-port security regulations, I guess you haven't learned the lesson 911 taught you.