I'm here to make the argument with this essay that we're at a critical point in time in terms of retaining some control over our government but that it's time to push back HARD because the beast's hunger for more power is getting ever more voracious.
Case in point: the TSA and the general government overreaction and paranoia about terrorism. Certainly there are some bad people who want to kill us and who need to be ventilated but we're now letting the government treat everyone it encounters in ways that we'll eventually feel really stupid about, like looking back on Joe McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee witch hunt or the decision to send innocent Japanese citizens to concentration camps in World War II.
This week's news shows that the civil liberty infringements are just getting worse:
- In response to a highly publicized case in which a 6 year old was patted down, TSA goon Janet Napolitano is asking for legislation guaranteeing TSA the power to search minors without parental consent
- Not satisfied with turning airport travel into an exercise in public humiliation, the TSA this week occupied a train station, detaining and searching passengers.
It looks to me as if they'll keep grabbing more power for their ineffective yet insulting little bureaucracy until we show some dignity as a people and push back, HARD.
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