Finally, a uniter

OK, I’m sure this is not what Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama have meant by uniting left and right, but the Transportation Security Administration’s attack on the Bill of Rights is bridging the gap in a way that no one could have intended.

Gov. Chris Christie is just the latest high-profile politician to climb on board, joining a bipartisan group along with civil libertarians on the left and libertarian right to call on the TSA to find another way to screen passengers instead of subjecting them to an invasive and potentially embarrassing full-body scan or pat down.

Maybe, just maybe, the TSA will listen.

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

2 thoughts on “Finally, a uniter”

  1. I wish Christie would board the plane and keep going. He deserves a pat down and a full body scan for all to see. He is destroying education in NJ and will destroy the quality of life in NJ because his drastic cuts and draconian tool kit will leave NJ unable to take care of its basic needs and basic functions. Our infrastructure will continue to decline and we will no longer be in the top tier of national schools. Christie is the worst governor in my memory, much worse than McGreevey.

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  2. I wish the TSA would get on that plane.The TSA is nothing more than Yet Another Federal goon squad. It should be shut down. Make the airlines responsible for security. Put the fear of jail and financial ruin into them and their insurance companies. Shut down the TSA and let the goons and bureaucrats return to WalMart stocking shelves.Argh!Fourth Amendment?

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