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Terrorism isn't something that can always be prevented, and thus the answer to terrorism is often, "Do nothing." Yet doing nothing requires restraint and wisdom. As we live in the United States, we'd be lucky to have either. As we live in the United States, we get neither. And so when I saw old woman in a wheelchair, I smirked to myself: "No doubt she'll be selected for additional screening." After going through the line, I turned around to see that TSA had both a better and a worse sense of humor. I saw three TSA screeners surrond the old woman. Perhaps they wanted to inspect her wheel chair? Seems silly, after all, to suspect grandma of terrorism. Yet most modern activities are frivolous and wasteful.  But it got weird.  They agents started spreading her legs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).