Jonah Goldberg: It's time for revolt against TSA - latimes.com

Goldberg's article is spot on. We are being dehumanized in many ways.

It seems the first commandment of the TSA is that every mind must be trained in the likeness of a machine. "Garbage in, garbage out," is how computer programmers explain the way bad outputs are determined by bad inputs. Likewise, if TSA workers are programmed not to use common sense or discretion — surprise! — TSA workers won't use common sense or discretion.

Why not? One reason is we've institutionalized an irrational phobia against anything smacking of racial or religious profiling. Once you've decided that disproportionate scrutiny of certain groups is verboten, you'll have to hassle everyone equally. Thus we're told that a 95-year-old woman's diaper is just as likely to be the front line in the war on terror as a 22-year-old Pakistani's backpack.

The most dangerous part of this nonsense is we're being taught; taught to accept invasive searches without the least probable cause; taught to submit to authority; taught to behave like sheep.

Surely there are enough Americans disgusted by this to bring such abuses to an end.