I'm one of the whitest, blond-haired, blue-eyed crackers you'll ever meet and when I had a large beard, even I got profiled. For a while, I understood it, just kind of shrugged it off. In 2013, it's getting a lot harder to do so when it's so clear the security apparatus largely exists as a way to get administration insiders like Mike Chertoff super rich without actually providing security. The failure rates of the scanners were actually SEALED largely I assume because they were so poor, or at least that was the public implication made in Congress when Napolitano was asked about this. The Congressman (no not looking it up) said "well, these rates are sealed, but do you really think these sorts of failure rates are acceptable?" Napolitano basically refused to address it.