> there wasn't any price paid for security/counterterrorism theatre under Bush Every time anyone wants to get on an airplane,they're forced to take a nude self

> there wasn't any price paid for security/counterterrorism theatre under Bush Every time anyone wants to get on an airplane,they're forced to take a nude selfie. And if there's a blip, a government employee will...well, let's just say any private business would get sued six ways to Sunday for sexual harassment. Osama bin Laden's been dead for years, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are over. Everybody just accepts it. A high price to pay, in both (1) the TSA's budget, and (2) the fact that Americans just don't care about this infringement on freedom and privacy. When was the last time you saw disbanding the TSA suggested in any political debate from a candidate of either party? So all the stuff about mask mandates, vaccine passports, and so on -- that stuff, once implemented, will never go away. The September 11 response has taught me that the government will take your freedom in a crisis, but they'll never give it back. It's when the compulsion to have government to fix the crisis seems most reasonable that we should be most unreasonably insistent on keeping our freedom.