Comments about ‘TSA pilot security program launched’

This is a very dangerous precedent, when the unseen ramifications are considered in the mix. It boils down to that famous Nazi phrase,"Your papers, please...."

Follow the logic here: At first, a few people give up some of their privacy to make traveling less hassle. The rest of us who value our Fourth Amendment rights do not give in, and we continue to be subjected to TSA's "Security Fantasy".

Within a few more years, as more and more foolish citizens give up their liberty, soon TSA ramps up the violation of those who value their privacy, to the point where attempting to travel "without your papers" results in full strip searches, interrogation under a bright light, missed flights, etc.

How do you suppose the Nazis pulled it off, anyway? They didn't just pop their final solution on the German people in a single day in May 1936. It was a gradual, creeping assault on their liberties, always involving "that other guy/family/Jew".

Benjamin Franklin had it right when he said that those who were willing to trade some of their liberty for some security deserved neither. History has borne out that they receive neither, either.