Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

February 2, 2009

In recent years the Super Bowl has been a launching pad for high-profile advertising campaigns.

Among the organizations using this year?s Super Bowl for promotional purposes was the federal Transportation Security Administration, which used the event to promote public awareness of its ?behavior observation? techniques. Dozens of TSA ?behavior detection? officers were sprinkled through the crowd of 75,000 people for the supposed purpose of ferreting out individuals with malign intentions.

What special powers of discernment do these TSA personnel possess? Can they, like the empathic Betazoid aliens from Star Trek, sense concealed emotions, or detect the presence of hidden evil, like the Jedi Masters from Star Wars? Of course not; their ?behavior detection? skills, such as they are, amount to nothing more than an ordinary ability to recognize suspicious behavior and follow up on a hunch.

Rather than expanding its obnoxious presence to sporting events, the TSA should be scrapped outright.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.