We are making huge progress against the TSA’s scheme to make private parts public, but we must look beyond the coming victory. The police state and its private contractors like Michael Chertoff want to install scanners at mall, school, stadium, government, and business entrances. They want CCTV cameras everywhere. They want to scan every email, phone call, and web search. They want to know every dime you spend, and every place you go, and what you talk about. Remember the home-to-State TV hookups of 1984? We already live in the foreign-policy realm George Orwell prophesied, of perpetual war for perpetual oppression. And we are approaching the fully fascist economy. We do not have one dictator, of course. We switch him out every few years, iin the festival of democracy.

Is all lost? Absolutely not. Every government wants to be a totalitarian state. All that prevents it is popular resistance, of the sort we now see against the TSA. When that popular resistance retreats, as during government wars (how they love them), the State expands. But when it retreats, and it will in this instance, we must not relent. We must seek the abolition of the TSA, and all national socialist security, and put the airlines in charge, at private cost and with private ability, of taking care of their airplanes and their passengers. 9/11/01 was not foiled by federal airline security, which then used its pathetic failure as an excuse to tighten their grip around our neck.

But we do not need to consent. Indeed, we must not consent, for the sake of ourselves and our children and grandchildren, and everything good and true. America, under the boot of the biggest, richest, most powerful, most incompetent State in history, is only partially a free country. What are we going to do about it? Servitude is voluntary. So is anarcho-capitalism. Read, resist, peacefully revolt. A smart and motivated minority can achieve everything. (Thanks to Eli Cryderman)

UPDATE from Gary Chartier:

Thanks a lot for “We Must Not Relent.” Even people who know better seem to be focused pretty narrowly on protesting the porno-scanners and pat-downs. But the humiliation of airline passengers started long before the most recent abuses got under way. We can’t stop challenging the state’s goons until they cease demanding conformity with the whole range of post-9/11 airport and airline rules–and, of course, until the air travel system is fully marketized and the state is no longer involved in it at all. I appreciate your keeping the pressure on.

The Best of Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.