Washington still has tin ear

The airport-screening fiasco shows Washington didn't get the memo of Nov. 2.

The political establishment simply can't understand what all the furor is over.

From Big Sis Janet Napolitano to the Congress to the White House, they underestimate American anger over being treated like cattle – worse actually, because PETA would be all over them if they permitted cattle to be treated like this.

They don't believe Americans really care about their Fourth Amendment rights being violated.

Of course, they don't get it because they aren't being ogled and molested and groped for the privilege of flying on an airliner.

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But there's more to this than being out of touch and insensitive and having a political tin ear.

The directive to treat travelers like this illustrates a bigger point about Washington's sense of morality, its ability to discern right from wrong, even its common sense.

Look at the way Washington handled this matter.

It could have focused like a laser beam on preventing the real threats posed by hijackers and bombers. Of course, that wouldn't involve inspecting bottles of milk carried by mothers with babies or patting down kids or ogling teenagers or frisking the elderly and infirm. Instead, it would involve zeroing in on those most likely to pose actual risk. By the way, the very worst thing that would happen to these folks is what happens now to every passenger – every man, woman and child! But Washington won't go for that. That would be "profiling." Better to violate everyone's constitutional rights and make everyone miserable in the name of "equality."

Make sense?

It makes about as much sense as the way the federal government sued Arizona for attempting to enforce federal laws against illegal immigration using Washington's own guidelines.

The Washington establishment thinks there is something wrong with law-enforcement officers attempting to determine whether those they stop on traffic violations and other matters are actually in the country legally.

But that is morally wrong, according to the Obama administration – unless, nonsensically, everyone is asked.

Now, I long ago concluded that Obama and his party don't like enforcement of immigration laws for selfish, political reasons. They want the country overrun by illegal immigrants because they see selfish, political benefit in it.

How do we, therefore, explain Washington's embrace of these heinous airport-screening procedures? Where's the selfish, political benefit?

I believe most of the Washington elite simply seek to rule over subjects, much like the old elite of Europe did.

Call me naïve, but I just can't believe Washington wants to destroy the airline industry. I can't believe they want to push Americans to another uprising. I can't believe they could think this move would be popular. I just don't think they anticipated the uproar. And I still don't think they realize how widespread it is and how vociferous it is.

That's why we have an opportunity to assert our rights – and our values – on this issue.

I want to ask you to do two things along those lines, if you haven't already:

• Sign the electronic petition to Obama, Janet Napolitano and Congress to shut this atrocity down now. Let the Washington establishment know that we are a nation of laws and a nation where the people govern themselves. They need to be reminded, again, that they work for us – at our pleasure.
• Take advantage of another program I have devised to send individual letters of protest to Obama, Napolitano and every single member of the House and Senate, with guaranteed delivery by FedEx for a price far lower than you could send them yourself with a lot more convenience. If you tried to do this yourself, it would take hours and cost $236 in postage along. But you can do this in about one minute for a cost of only $29.95 thanks to the economies we are able to find with a program of massive scale like this.

Or, you can just accept the new indignities of airport screening and another nail in the coffin of American liberty.