This TSA issue does crystallize for many the encroaching police state in a way that people who care about such things should pay attention to. It’s not abstract and it affects Real Americans rather than some faceless foreigner. It’s one of those proverbial “teachable moments” if anyone cares to connect the dots.
if we can't make this a teachable moment, if this matter which has clearly gripped regular everyday americans without regard to politics can't be used to force a much-needed very public discussion about civil liberties and rights, then the terrorists and Republican'ts have really won.
right now, every statement coming out of tsa is just making it worse. And what Obama said today? oh boy, did he miss that mark by about a mile and a half. Obama does not do "I feel your pain" well at all.
connect the dots - do you like being publicly exposed, humiliated? did you know you gave up all your rights by buying a plane ticket to gramma's? and don't get me started on warrantless and/or secret searches or wire-tapping, data-mining by the feds, ... how'm I doing so far? this should be front page outrage by progressives, not the other folks.
do victims of rape or abuse deserve to be aggressively groped in public by strangers? do people with disabilities have less rights to dignity than Congresspeople or blond haired blue eyed 24 year olds (male or female)?
just what are we gaining by taking the most invasive and expensive approach in an intentionally crowded security crushes when others are doing as good or better using well-trained well-paid humans beginning from the minute someone walks in the door?
connect the dots - this "teachable" moment will slip away soon, another shiny object will appear, the crowds will move on, and we will lose another bit of what makes us Americans.
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