Joe Rocks One Out

"Precisely two things have made flying safer since 9/11: sealing off cockpit doors and passengers becoming aware that they will probably have to fight back against would-be hijackers. The rest has been a net negative."

People fly a lot in America, and most of them know this. That affects their perception of legitimacy, and also of the justice of the measures being applied. The resentment is real. As one RedState.org commenter put it:

"Big government has just been caught rubber stamping for Big Commerce at the ports while leather-booting the rest of us at the airports. The national wound has just had the scab ripped from it. Nobody should be surprised that it's bleeding."

That's in a GOP blog, folks, not Atrios' Eschaton.

RTWT. And follow the link to Brown's 10 points about them cowboys and injuns ... I need to get busy and start reading my copy of "Imperial Grunts"...