Do critics of the TSA object to airport security? Hardly; we are pointing out inherent flaws in the status quo government security monopoly.
John Fund warns if you think the TSA is badly managed now, just wait until its unionized.
Deroy Murdoch calls for being more selective in scanning: “Pre-flight screening has moved from safety to comedy. Before it devolves into tragedy, officials should start profiling terrorists.”
He adds that had we given more scrutiny to, well, the types of men who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, the 3,000 people who died on 9/11 might have been eating Thanksgiving Dinner this year.
As a bonus, “avoiding terrorist profiling will waste scarce resources by subjecting everyone to the same time-consuming, often humiliating searches that have ignited public rage.”
Finally, another example of how a problem becomes a business opportunity: Someone has come up with underwear emblazoned with the Fourth Amendment, which, by the way, reads as follows:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
From The Detroit News:
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