Hear, hear!  Kevin Williamson comes through with another solid critique of “security theater.”

The scale of the intrusive, 4th-Amendment violating TSA bureaucracy is simply out of line.  It is neither just, nor necessary, nor effective–but like most fascist cooperations between the corrupt and the corruptible, assertive regime and avaricious corporation, it uses the fears of the ignorant and supine to subject us all to humiliation and extortion.

We are about a decade past the time for reforming this mess.

When he lamented the crimes of socialism in arms, George Orwell received the usual rejoinder, that one has to break a few eggs to make an omelet. Orwell, who was unique among the literary men of his generation, had the insight to ask the necessary question: “Where’s the omelet?”

We might ask the same thing regarding the Transportation Security Administration.

(source: The TSA’s 95 Percent Failure Rate: Security Theater as Farce | National Review Online)