SvD and the war terrorism

It has been quite some time since I felt the need to comment on a newspaper article but I can't let a thing like this pass uncriticized. SvD writes today as a part of an article on terrorism (translated from Swedish).

"Yesterday in the papers pop singer Dilba was complaining about how she was treated after making a "joke" about blowing up airplanes at Arlanda airport. She had been treated "like a terrorist" and been told that she was not allowed to board her aircraft to the US. Instead she should be thankful that society is taking terrorism seriously. The anti terrorist measures she is complaining about is working."

Then the article proceeds to other matters. Let me first say, what a load of complete crap! Does anyone believe that following up on every clue no matter how trivial, will make us safer? Terrorists are not likely to go up to security guards and tell them that they are carrying a bomb. Let us look at the two parties in this story. Why does Dilba joke about blowing up airplane? She is clearly sarcastic about it. This is probably since she as a customer is annoyed to be searched and thinks that the whole procedure is ridiculous. She is therefore "complaining" in her own way, although it's is a stupid move. The staff on the other hand are acting all jumpy, they hear the word bomb and goes nuts. They know what they are looking for and better safe than sorry right? But acting like this is not to take the threats seriously. It's to take things out of proportion and go paranoid. The companies clearly don't mind security at all, they only care about looking secure. So that they can point out that in fact they are doing something. Real security would involve calm and reasonable employees who upon Dilbas remark says "Really? Well, cut the crap. What are you really going to do on your stay in the US? Did we check her bag?". We should praise real work to prevent terrorism, not silly security acts. Real terrorists are smarter than Dilba and therefore the security staff should be smarter as well.

Link to the article (in Swedish).
Link to the article about Dilba (in Swedish).