Reply #29: This well may be the case, but taking it out on the footsoldiers... [View All]

[TheMadMonk]

...isn't particularly productive. Especially since doing so aids and abbetts the enemy.

And the ideas expressed in the OP are not at all incompatible with your various outrages.

The media could have done what it's done with so many other RW horrors. Ignored it and turned it into just one more bug up the arse of LW bloggers, right beside electoral irregularities, Gee-dubs military record, FEMA trailers, 2 wars, and so on.

Instead they made every report of malfeasance about the screeners performing the search, whilst the TSA itself is cast as the beleaguered agency doing unpopular things in the name of public safety.

And even here on DU it worked, with large numbers of suposedly progrssive people coming forward to tell us the "inconvenience" is the price of safety, so shut up and spread'em.