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Groping For a Balance Between Safety and Liberty – And Losing Touch With Both

November 24th, 2010 · 9 Comments

Tomorrow my family and I will be flying to see family for Thanksgiving.  So I’ve been following the new TSA porn-o-scanner/crotch-grope policies with some personal interest.  I’m unimpressed. The purpose of government is to protect, promote, and advance individual liberty.  Public safety is obviously a part of this – if you’re dead, you can hardly […]

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