Originally Posted by
WillCAD
More and more anti-TSA articles are appearing in mainstream media, with fewer and fewer of them citing "inconvenience" or "hassle" as the primary complaint. Primary complaints are now "incompetence" and "holes in the system", with "waste" being a close second.
This is a dangerous trend. The more the general public becomes aware of TSA's incompetence, the more they will be willing to allow TSA to tighten its grip on our resistance to achieve some mythical safety from the Evil Bwown Muswim Tewwowist boogie man.
Although I'm certainly happy to expose the useless nature of TSA's current screening regimen, I'm far more worried about the invasive, abusive, and un-Constitutional nature of the various screening methodologies. Violations of our rights, in the long run, are a far more serious issue than mere inconvenience, and even the dangers of placing a completely incompetent federal bureaucracy in charge of security screening pale in comparrison to the dangers of allowing the government to restrict our freedom of movement.
But the media isn't talking about that stuff.
Thank you, this is one of the most insightful comments I've ever read here on FT and in TS&S.
I too am greatly worried about the federal government's slow and steady transition of interstate travel from a right to a privilege. But I'm not sure how best to fight this encroachment, given that a platform of "appropriate security need not steamroll civil liberties" is viewed as "lax on security" and thus political suicide.