While The TSA Is All Up In Your Panties...
A 16-year-old boy is hopping the airport fence and stowing away in a plane's wheel well -- all the way to Hawaii.

The TSA provides "security" for idiots -- a security puppet show put on by people who couldn't catch a terrorist if he walked up and introduced himself as "Al Kaida." It's intended to fool people who confuse police-ish-costumed inconvenience and idiocy for actual protection from anything meaningful. Their numbers, sadly, are legion.

And this isn't to say that I buy into the ridiculous fallacy that we can be perfectly safe.

What these costumed thugs are helping make a dent in is our civil liberties. Thank you to all who stand up against the TSA and all of the others who take money for violating people's civil liberties. Jonathan Corbett, especially, deserves our thanks. From a FreedomToTravel newsletter I subscribe to:

Freedom To Travel USA is paying close attention to Jon Corbett's lawsuit.

So what's next? Oral arguments are scheduled for June 4th, 2014, in Miami.

In the meantime, Jon had a heart-felt closing paragraph in his brief:

CORBETT CONCLUDING BRIEF PARAGRAPH
"Nothing that the TSA has argued mitigates the fact that they are literally touching the genitals of random passengers who have committed the sole crime of having desire to travel. Nothing that the TSA has argued mitigates the fact that they are imaging every square inch of the bodies of random passengers when less intrusive, more effective, and less expensive measures are available to it.

If the jurists of this Court wish to live in a world, and have their children grow up in a world, where the above is 'reasonable,' please deny this petition and inform the cave-dwellers in Afghanistan that they have won."