Charles Krauthammer absolutely devastates the entire TSA screening process.
And his point is succinct without even stating it to its full extent. Because we refuse to profile what amounts to less than 1% of all domestic airline passengers (and probably less than that), we are all stuck playing a silly game of charades for the sake of... well, no one. In the end, we aren't even looking for terrorists, only objects that might possibly be used by them, if any were even aboard that given plane. But yet all of us must suffer.
But why is it so? On one side, you have the argument that passenger profiling equals a violation of civil rights. On the other, you have the argument that such a security system would be far too expensive. But yet the former are entirely silent regarding federally mandated sexual assault, and the latter don't seem to consider subjecting 100% of passengers to screening as less of a burden than focusing on the less than 1% we need to actually worry about.
Ironically, this demonstrates the obvious fact that Juan Williams was fired from NPR for stating, and thus why he was fired - not for lying, but for telling the truth. Because if we dismantle the idiotic political correctness of our airline "security" system, why we might actually begin to rationalize, and then dismantle, quite a few other government programs. And if that happens, what the hell will the worthless bureaucrats who concoct ridiculous authoritarian schemes such as this one do for a living?
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