"By invoking the NAZIs you automatically lost the debate."
Only with those to whom the experience in Germany does not serve as a warning or to those who use the phrase "Why THAT could never happen here" to rationalize their ignorance and apathy in the never-ending struggle to preserve a 250 year old experiment in human freedom that COULD fail if folks fail to guard their liberty.
"In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in men but bind them down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution." Thomas Jefferson
"The Constitution is just a goddamned piece of paper."
(Reliably reported recent remark by George W. Bush)
I was at a sports event this weekend where 60,000 people subjected them selves to pat downs by security agents who were screening out weapons and privately purchased refreshments.
Do you not object to that because it was private agents?
Or is it because you can't find the balance in life?
Pat downs of sports fans is ok but for air passengers it is tyranny?