Re: Man up!

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, pcg wrote:
> You know, I understand the irritation over all this, I really do, but I 
> think it's important to measure our sense of indignance. Nobody's 
> barging into our homes and demanding stripteases from our children. 
> Nobody's forcing any of us to fly anywhere. We have no inherent rights 
> regarding our ability to board an airplane, uh, unmolested (ahem).

That's a bizarre sentence.  We have no inherent right to board a plane, 
true.  But we *do* have an inherent right not to be molested, at least not 
without *probable cause*.  There is no intrinsic link between boarding a 
plane and being molested.  It is only the government that makes it so.

> My girlfriend's 83 year old grandparents drove roundtrip from Florida to 
> Nebraska three times this year because they refuse to put up with the 
> hassle at airports. It's enough of an issue for them that they'd rather 
> spend 22 hours in the car, and so they do.

And of course, if the government decided to set up road blocks and pull 
over random drivers the option of being exposed to potentially harmful 
radiation or having their private parts fondled by minimum-wage hacks who 
have no medical or police training, you'd be fine with that too, right? 
Because it's not like anyone forced your grandparents to *drive*.

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