The LRC page the past several days has had a wealth of articles and commentary on the Porno Scanners, and if anyone needs proof that the U.S. Government now is about humiliation, intimidation, and bullying, it exists wherever these machines exist. But there also is more.

On one of my blogs, I often deal with people falsely accused of child molestation. Many readers are familiar with the Tonya Craft trial, but another man is going to trial in the same district for child molestation simply for giving a child a “good job” pat on the back. Furthermore, if a person even looks at a picture of a nude child, even if it is not for sexual intent, that person can be charged with crimes that will send him or her to prison for life. If one places one’s hands on the outside of someone else’s clothing in the wrong place, even if not done with sexual intent, that legally is sexual assault.

Yet, what do TSA agents do every day? They “pat down” people by doing things that would send people not wearing the proper government costumes to prison. They look at pictures of naked adults AND children. Don’t tell me that the TSA workforce does not have at least some people who get their sexual jollies out of this. Furthermore, one can bet that people who do have predilections to a darker sexual side have found that TSA employment can satisfy some of those nefarious urges.

But there is more. What did the Nazis do when they herded people to their executions? They stripped them of all of their clothing in a final humiliation. For all of the “security” nonsense that the government has foisted upon people that these things are “necessary” to “keep us safe,” government actions elsewhere tell a different story, one in which, like the minions of Hitler, government workers simply are letting us know that they are the government — and we are not.

The federal government spends billions of dollars to promote and fund the arrest, trial, and imprisonment of people accused of sexual assault, rape, and child molestation. Yes, there are sexual predators in our midst, but since the feds jumped into this mix years ago, the number of false accusations has skyrocketed, and many, many innocent people each year are sent to prison because they did not have a quarter-million dollars or more of spare change to pay for effective counsel. (Tonya Craft and the three Duke lacrosse players all spent more than a million dollars apiece to defend themselves despite the fact that the charges against them were ludicrous on their face.)

The federal government helps to fund an army of “child protective” workers who believe every parent is a child rapist (except for the workers and their friends, of course). The federal government pays out millions of dollars through the Violence Against Women Act to help promote false charges of rape and sexual assault.

Yet, we see the final irony. If we wish to fly, the federal government now empowers its agents to do those very things to us that if we did them to others, we would go to prison. Every day, TSA workers literally violate state and federal laws, yet are permitted to do those things that would land anyone else in a government cage for life. This is the reality of American life today.