The last line of the article is the most important: "If Americans are ready to embrace risk, it is time to strike a new balance."
If we could stop being cowards and accept that we might die, or our families might die, then we might fight these invasive policies. I'd love it if efficacy, privacy, and freedom were once again as given the same weight as security.
I don't hear many calls for courage, so I applaud even this veiled statement.
It's not that Americans are actually afraid of terrorists. It's not that we "haven't been ready to embrace risk."
It's that we don't care about freedom and liberty anymore.
Moreover, this former TSA head is acting like the TSA has to "cooperate" with public opinion or is even in any way beholden to it. That is a lie. The TSA can and does do almost anything without reprecussion.
Even it was 30 seconds, and it probably more like 2 - 3 minutes, that is for each passenger. Most normal people don't believe in security theatre and most normal people wouldn't agree with you.
If we could stop being cowards and accept that we might die, or our families might die, then we might fight these invasive policies. I'd love it if efficacy, privacy, and freedom were once again as given the same weight as security.
I don't hear many calls for courage, so I applaud even this veiled statement.
*edit - spelling.