LewRockwell.com has recently been linking to a spate of articles condemning TSA’s airport security operations, including the agency’s enthusiastic embrace of body scanners:
TSA Porno-Scanners: What They’re Really Looking by Claire Wolfe
TSA Resistance Taking Off: Are the Elitist Airlines Worried, Yet? by Robert Wenzel
Knee-Jerk Alert: TSA Bans Printer Cartridges … World Is Now Safer by David Parker Brown
TSA Groping Out of Control by Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones
Invasion of the Body Scanners: More Tales of Terror from the Unfriendly Skiesby John W. Whitehead
The Indignity About the Full Body Scanners by AirlineNightmare.com
Hey, US Air by Kathryn Muratore
As the federal government continues coming up with ways to infringe upon our civil liberty and privacy, it is important that we keep in mind that these infringements are not the root of the problem. The root of the problem is U.S. foreign policy, specifically the U.S. government’s interventionist, imperialist policies abroad. Thus, as important as it is to continue battling against the infringements themselves, it is equally important that we pull the weed out by its root.
It is U.S. foreign policy — the regime-change operations, the interference in foreign elections, coups, assassinations, embargoes, sanctions, foreign aid, torture, abuse, invasions, and occupations — that produces the anger and the hatred that then leads to the constant threat of terrorist retaliation.
The U.S. government then uses the constant threat of terrorist retaliation to justify its constant and ever-growing infringements on the civil liberty and privacy of the American citizenry.
To put it simply, empire abroad leads to loss of liberty and privacy at home.
Thus, the only real, long-term, permanent solution to restoring a life of normality, liberty, harmony, and prosperity to our land, including the restoration of airline travel without governmental infringements on civil liberty and privacy, lies in dismantling the U.S. government’s overseas military empire. As long as the empire is permitted to exist and operate around the world, it will continue doing bad things to people overseas, who will then wish to retaliate, which will then be used as the excuse for ever-growing infringements on the civil liberty and privacy of the American people.