I'm Not Impressed
DAILY PUNDIT
By Bill Quick on Liberal Fascism
Declarations - WSJ.com
America is in line at the airport. America has its shoes off, is carrying a rubberized bin, is going through a magnetometer. America is worried there is fungus on the floor after a million stockinged feet have walked on it. But America knows not to ask. America is guilty until proved innocent, and no one wants to draw undue attention. America left its ticket and passport in the jacket in the bin in the X-ray machine, and is admonished. America is embarrassed to have put one one-ounce moisturizer too many in the see-through bag. America is irritated that the TSA agent removed its mascara, opened it, put it to her nose, and smelled it. Why don't you put it up your nose and see if it explodes? America thinks.
And, as always: Why do we do this when you know I am not a terrorist, and you know I know you know I am not a terrorist? Why this costly and harassing kabuki when we both know the facts, and would agree that all this harassment is the government's way of showing "fairness," of showing that it will equally humiliate anyone in order to show its high-mindedness and sense of justice?
Why, Ms. Noonan? You know why. Because "America," panicked and thoughtless to the point of irrationality, shrieked and roared for government to do something to protect them, and government of course responded with (as usual) the most boneheaded, useless, but politically correct "solutions" it could come up with.
Hence, instead of giving pilots unbreakable cockpit doors and firearms to defend those doors, they hired tens of thousands of new political serfs and started checking the underwear of eighty year old Swedish-American grannies from North Dakota.
And Ms. Noonan? Some of us were protesting this lunacy when it might have done some good - back before it had occurred. But I don't recall that you were one of them. So it's a bit incongruent for you to start whining now, isn't it? |
