Now my aversion to the TSA and their lack of regard for the 4th Amendment is clear. But let us set this aside for the point I wish to make.
Today, I was glossing through the mountains of TSA excesses when I came across this. People complain about the TSA and I join in their chorus. But they still wish to keep the TSA, in the interest of safety of course. Smarter men than myself regularly document their lack of effectiveness, but this isn’t about how bad the TSA is. It’s about how bad the American people are. Now in the land of the free and the home of the brave we cowardly give in to the whims of those that exert authority over us and allow ourselves to be fondled, ogled, and otherwise degraded, but we become outraged when a little girl is searched, or a Medal of Honor soldier has his wheelchair inspected.
You cannot have it both ways. If you simply restrict your inspections to Ahmed and Tariq, our enemies will find the grandmother who is underwater on her mortgage to smuggle a weapon onto your plane. They will hold that MoH soldier’s family hostage to put a small bomb in his chair. Or maybe they’ll give a little girl a teddy bear with a weapon inside to run past a gate. Our enemies are not fools. Just as I don’t want you to tell me how to set an L-shaped ambush, I wouldn’t suppose in all our outrage, we should tell the TSA hot to keep weapons off of planes.
In other words, direct your outrage in the right direction. Don’t hate them for doing their jobs thoroughly (but feel free to hate them for how rude and unprofessional they are); point that finger at yourself and your legislator for allowing the TSA to exist with such free reins in the first place.
Oh, and England, <insert jab about the monarchy>.
