TSA Manager Charged With Sexual Abuse
No, not of the passengers -- nobody cares about citizens' constitutional rights -- but of a co-worker.

Lisa Simeone blogs at TSANewsBlog:

Shane Hinkle, 38 -- not just a TSA agent, but a manager, no less, at Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky -- was arrested and charged with four counts of first-degree sexual abuse of a fellow employee. He resigned from the TSA later that day.

No, he wasn't fired. But then we all know that:

"TSA holds its employees to the highest ethical standards and expects all employees to conduct themselves with integrity and professionalism."

We've heard that line so many times we have it memorized. It's trotted out every time one of the blue-shirted thieves or molesters is caught. (Of course, we also know that many more of them out there aren't.)

Hinkle's mistake was that one of his assaults was caught on camera. Too bad the same doesn't apply to the rest of the poor schmucks who get assaulted while going through security, as thousands of people can attest.

Of course, the TSA is just a security puppet show, not actual security, and it's serviing its actual purpose: Obedience training for the American public so we'll be docile (and maybe even yawn) as our rights are yanked from us.

And, recently, a commenter described the "administrative search" excuse just right: as an "end run around the Constitution." Yep. That's pretty much it.