If you don't want a pat down, go through the scanner.

If you don't want to go through the scanner, get a pat down.

If you don't want either, don't fly.

It's really quite simple.

I also have no problem with a little profiling. If you lined up every terrorist that ever tried to bomb or hijack a plane and they were all short, white, chubby dudes of German descent....well...I'd expect to get searched before every flight.

We must be doing something right, because there haven't been any airline tragedies recently attributed to terrorism...and it isn't because they don't want to.