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The TSA is more actively harmful to the freedoms we (supposedly) cherish, and is a strong push towards a surveillance society and a police state. Many other ag
by Firehed 14y ago
The TSA is more actively harmful to the freedoms we (supposedly) cherish, and is a strong push towards a surveillance society and a police state. Many other agencies are equally unproductive (or actually do something useful, just in a very inefficient manner), but not actively working against something we care about.
- chernevik 14y agoThe TSA is more _obviously_ harmful. And many other agencies aren't _actively_ working against things we care about -- that is, obstruction per se isn't generally their goal. But they're still obstructive just the same.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoThe TSA is also extremely visible in the public's eye. How many people do you know that have complained that the CIA was spying on them, vs. how many people do you know who have complained that they got government-groped?
- fennecfoxen 14y agoI take it you don't care about a quasi-reasonable budget, the kind without a deficit of ~1/3. Or about the economic growth lost when tax dollars siphon it out of the broader economy. (Or even away from alternative quasi-productive government infrastructure projects.) Unsurprising, really; there are entire political parties based on the premise of not caring about those things, and in many countries. ;)