Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The TSA's Goal is Humiliation, not Security

"[T]he effectiveness of pat-downs does not matter very much, because the obvious goal of the TSA is to make the pat-down embarrassing enough for the average passenger that the vast majority of people will choose high-tech humiliation over the low-tech ball check."

-- Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, October 29, 2010, here