This constant harangue about airport security pat-downs has long become tiresome for me. FOX news seems to be leading the charge, but all the other news sources are fast on their heels in the outcry. This whole dust-up is frustrating for many reasons, not the least of which is that I’m just tired of listening to it.
Here is my biggest issue with this issue: hypocrisy. As usual, people (usually liberal-minded people, mind you) piss and moan about one thing or another and when they finally get their way, in spades, they piss and moan that they got what they wanted but not how they wanted it. In this case, Americans, who have long valued their privacy and the fundamentals of the free market, all of a sudden are clamoring for their privacy to be invaded and are ignoring a basic principle of the free market because they are being inconvenienced at the airport . . . for security purposes. Was 9/11 really that long ago? What’s more, are these same people watching the same news outlets that pump them up about getting mauled by a giant black man wearing a TSA badge when they report the many, many foiled terrorist attack attempts?
