Mike Van Winkle interviews Freeman contributor Becky Akers about airport security. How much liberty should we give up in the name of security? Are full-body constitutional? Where did it all go wrong?
If the existing system is of no value, and the airlines could do a better job, would they not implement their own security system unless prohibited from doing so? As far as I know they are not so constrained.
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I guess I’ve been conditioned so well by the regime that a Free-Market airline security solution didn’t even occur to me, but of course it’s the best solution, as ever.
But the aim of State-run American airline security is political theater, not airline security. It’s designed to keep the public fearful, and also to demonstrate the power of the State.
8 January 2010 at 9:10 am