Ambivalence
This sounds stupid until you think it through.
If the bad guys know we're strictly applying all safety and counter-terrorism measures, especially when they are patently absurd on their face, such as frisking the Prime Minister of New Zealand, then they'll know that "social engineering" around the problem is useless. Atta and crew used lax security to good effect on 9/11 (when box-cutters set off alarms, they'd just knowingly point to their fanny packs).
This sounds about right to me:
"It doesn't matter who you are - whether you are a first-class passenger, whether you are a business-class passenger or whether you are a VIP - if your number comes up, you're screened," he said.
And kudos to the PM for taking the incident in stride.
And I'm sure Claire Wolfe would be pleased!
