This is why I am not overly concerned about the recent invasive screening techniques used by the TSA. The balance between freedom and security is a zero-sum game. Increase security and freedoms decrease. Increase freedoms and security decreases. Americans will tolerate only so much before they will do what they are best at–revolt. Congress is…
As most political scientists, or anyone with common sense for that matter, knows, freedom and security are opposing forces. The freer a nation, the less secure; the more secure, the less free. Finding the balance is not always easy. A balance is important, but when that balance starts to tip the scales against what freedom…