Oh, Yes! Give Me a Cavity Search! Please!

Pavlov lives. Bombs go off in Boston so Americans now are willing to allow government agents to regard them as terrorists until proven otherwise. The following is as stimulus-response as the bell Pavlov rang to get his dogs to salivate:

Across the U.S., from Washington to Los Angeles, police stepped up security, monitoring landmarks, government buildings, transit hubs and sporting events. Security was especially tight in Boston, with bomb-sniffing dogs checking Amtrak passengers’ luggage at South Station and transit police patrolling with rifles.

”They can give me a cavity search right now and I’d be perfectly happy,” said Daniel Wood, a video producer from New York City who was waiting for a train.

I’m sure that Mr. Wood speaks for a lot of Americans who are about to find that the biggest beneficiaries of these events are government agents who are paid to abuse everyone else.

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12:20 pm on April 16, 2013