Hey, often times, when I buy a ticket, and go through security to ride in someone's big jet, I get randomly selected for a secondary inspection. It's random, no due cause (I did not trigger the walk through machine).
I was sent to Las Angeles, by a friend to look at a couple of tiger moths, a couple of weeks after the bombing/bombing threat of the terminal at LA on an EL AL flight ( I think it was cheapest for him LOL ) They took me in to interview me ( 2 of them) then a row of machines to go through my baggage, then physically walk me to the boarding gate, then I put my shoes back on. That was not theatre that was for real. What you have nowadays is simply THEATRE for appeasing the masses and giving the slimy politicians an excuse to say they have done something !
The very fact you got RANDOMLY selected without due cause for increased checks proves it is both theatre and political correctness and a JOKE !
RANDOMLY pulling someone over on a highway is NOT for getting the bad guys off the highway either !