It must be both surprising and gratifying to our authoritarian statist rulers to find it so easy to impose ever increasing humiliations and burdens on the American people by gulling them into acceptance of the notion that the impositions are necessary for public safety and security and/or the common good.
The latest travesties, described in this report, would have been resisted forcefully and, if necessary, with violence, by earlier generations of Americans. Now there are hardly even any murmurs of protest and no effective opposition or resistance. (Some, like me, respond simply by traveling only via our private cars, ceasing to fly or travel by any means that requires exposure to such atrocities, but that too serves the purposes of the authoritarian rulers.)
Our country is being transformed bit by bit but at an accelerating rate from the past's "land of the free and home of the brave" to the "land of the servile and home of the fearful" that we are becoming. To understand the in progress changes just imagine how the founders -- think of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Patrick Henry -- would have reacted had a functionary of some government agency presumed to grope them or paw through their belongings before they could board a stagecoach.
Those who commit these atrocities must have passed a test similar to the one described in a joke in which a gun is handed to applicants for a government job. Each applicant then is instructed to enter a room and shoot to death a relative who is confined and seated in it. Most applicants, not knowing that the gun is loaded with blanks, withdraw. Only those who proceed are hired. Executive and supervisory positions go to the "really good Germans" who emerge from the room declaring that because the gun was loaded with blanks it was necessary for them to beat its occupant to death with a chair. So it goes in the Transportation Security Agency, Janet Incompetano's entire Department of Homeland Security, and virtually all the rest of the federal bureaucracy that is training us to accept and live with whatever they choose to inflict on us.
These people all would have been shunned, if not coated with tar and feathers, and run out of town astride rails by Americans of generations past.
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