One reason we’re the Brokest Nation In History is because the great moronic security bureaucracy of the United States devotes untold resources to criminalizing the law-abiding – as I often have cause to reflect when being finger-printed and eyeball-scanned every time I fly back to the US from abroad. In my case, that’s because I’m a legal immigrant and making you feel like a punk who’s held up the liquor store is part of the price the bozo bureaucracy exacts for a Green Card. But why US citizens born and bred put up with this nonsense is another matter.
-Mark Steyn
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When the state security apparatus becomes decrepit and ineffectual at stopping the bad buys, it turns in on its citizens.
ReplyDeleteI wish more people would listen to Mark Steyn.
I try not to put up with it.
ReplyDelete'Fiddle: Like generals always fighting the last war, the TSA is always reactive to the last threat, not the next one. Pretty much "We're doing something" theater.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Steyn is a Cassandra for our time.
Odie: Same here. I fear it's hurting the airlines. As G. Gordon Liddy says, When I was a kid, this was a free country.