Further to this post on Americans’ liberties,

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the conclusion of a column by George Will,

…Disproportion is the common denominator of almost all of life’s absurdities. Automobile safety is important. But attempting to maximize it would begin (but by no means end) with forbidding left turns.

Bureaucracies try to maximize their missions. They can’t help themselves. Adult supervision is required to stand athwart this tendency, yelling “Stop!”

Again, Buckley: “Every year, whether the Republican or the Democratic Party is in office, more and more power drains away from the individual to feed vast reservoirs in far-off places; and we have less and less say about the shape of events which shape our future.”

The average American has regular contact with the federal government at three points – the IRS, the post office and the TSA. Start with that fact if you are formulating a unified field theory to explain the public’s current political mood.

and of a post by Paul at Celestial Junk:

…Over on this side of the world we’d rather grope 5 year olds, cover cancer survivors in urine, humiliate flight attendants, and suspect the very pilots who are ultimately responsible for the passengers being groped than offend one single person who triggers a profile alarm.

Next thing you know, terrorists will be launching fake or poorly planned attacks just to get a kick out of how we submit ourselves to ever more monkey-brained security methods … if they haven’t already.

As for me, the TSA grope and porn-fest is just another example of how divorced from reality progressive elites are. They hold a world view, that no matter how illogical, must be adhered to. Pounding square pegs into round holes is, in the end, the only thing that progressives do well.

Beside Paul’s video links, I’ve also just seen some video on the networks of the groping; it really is de trop.

Mark
Ottawa