Following up on a previous article which gained the ire of Glenn Greenwald Yasha Levine and Mark Ames now give a more in depth explanation of why the negative actions of the TSA suddenly became a conservative cause celebre last year.
I don't like what the TSA does but I do not labour under any illusion that right wingers care about civil liberty issues at all. They simply would prefer to return to privatised airport security at which point they would immediately become deeply concerned about the need to maintain security, even at the cost of civil liberties if necessary.
This is just another issue of shooting the messenger. The people who work for the TSA deserve decent working conditions just like everyone else. Yes they are the ones on the front line doing embarrassing and unpleasant things to everyday air travellers but they aren't the ones setting DHS policy or passing legislation that restricts civil liberties. If liberals and leftists were smart they'd direct their anger at the politicians and senior civil servants pushing these policies, not the low paid grunts on the front line.
So really do give the new article a read.
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