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Friday, July 11, 2008 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

Propped up by a culture of fear, TSA has become a bureaucracy with too much power and little accountability. Where will the lunacy stop?
By Patrick Smith

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  • Friday, July 11, 2008 04:14 AM

    It's Ayn Rand's world. We just live in it.

    Welcome to the mediocracy, where individual judgment is a character flaw, and mindless obedience to vague and random rules the penultimate mark of the model citizen. Add this tale to the other anecdotal signs of cultural entropy, children expelled from school for drawing army men, causing the teacher to feel threatened. Or the girl expelled & faced with prosecution for wearing a candy necklace to school & violating the zero tolerance drug policy. We are not the first society to venture down this road. Too bad we don't seem able to learn from the fate of the others. Patrick Henry & the founders would be so proud of what their bold experiment has become. :p

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