Writes Steve Black:

With the TSA goings on as of late, I hear a lot of talk about our Constitutional Rights. This recently started to get to me, and at first I didn’t realize why. Today, it finally hit me.

1. Being the Rockwellian that I’ve become, I recognize that the Constitution, though a prodigious document, is severely lacking due to its vagueness, so to speak. Yes, you can tell advocates of the TSA, “What about the Fourth Amendment?”, but thanks to that wonderfully vague inclusion of “unreasonable,” you leave the door wide open to attack. They will just respond, “Ever since 9/11, the underwear bomber, etc., enhanced pat-downs and full-body scanners are no longer unreasonable.”

Yes, you and I see the utter lack of logic in this, but others are easily persuaded.

2. By using the phrase “Constitutional Rights” so repetitively, even by those antagonistic toward the TSA, listeners are subjected to a subtle and subliminal message of State superiority. “These rights are our Constitutional Rights, given to us by the Constitution!” No, no they’re not. They are our natural rights, RECOGNIZED by the Constitution, not given by it.

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.