The answer is really very simply and really quite monstrous in its evil. The more they can inject government into your life the more deeply and thoroughly they can control your life.

Recently at New York's Kennedy Airport an 85 year old woman was subject to what amounts to a strip search. This is the result of a "security" system that treats everyone as an equally dangerous potential terrorist threat. Personally I wouldn't feel the least bit threatened if airport security wave 85 year old Alice Zimmerman through the least stringent security possible and offered her a cup of tea.

But in the interest of appearing politically correct any person traveling through an airport is treated as equally suspect. The result is intrusive searches of senior citizens and pat-downs of small children.

But have no fear. Two brave public servants have stepped forward with a proposal to deal with this scourge. And their solution to an out of control trampling on individual liberty and dignity government agency? You guessed it. More Government.

Great idea. Instead of doing anything about the problem let's create yet another layer of government to act as a go between and protect the public from the previous failed level of government.

Sometimes they make it really hard to be an optimist.

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