The TSA's state-mandated molestation

This article pretty much sums up the situation in America right now.  There will soon come a time when those that refuse to be groped or scanned will pretty much be housebound, unless you have your own vehicle and somewhere to park it, (not so easy in the big cities).

With over 300 hundred million people, one would have thought that there would have been mass protests and demonstrations in the United States over this Orwellian program.  However, most people are like sheep and will accept most anything governments mandate, if it means the illusion of security is maintained.

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemoller

From the article:

The humiliations of the patdown policy, which Janet Napolitano wants to expand, are an Orwellian assault on American freedom

As an American – that is, someone considered lucky to get seven consecutive days off work – the only way I could possibly travel such distance is to fly. But flying includes the legal obligation I submit to having my genitalia groped by some TSA thug wearing the same latex gloves already shoved down nine dozen other strangers' underwear. There's only two ways an American flyer can reliably avoid this: be rich enough to buy your own plane, or a high-ranking congressman or other VIP exempt from the indignities they inflict upon ordinary citizens.

So, I can't fly. And maybe, someday not far off, I won't be able to ride any form of mass transit either, unless I become so debased and broken in spirit that I don't mind vacation and business trips bookended by government-mandated sexual humiliation. And while my government requires such dehumanisation, I mournfully recall 20 years ago, when the cold war ended and we Americans thought concepts like "freedom" and "human dignity" would rule the future.

The TSA's state-mandated molestation
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/dec/29/air-transport-terrorism