The above video shows the latest example of overreach by the TSA. A pilot put a cellphone video on YouTube revealing security at San Francisco Airport is a joke. The TSA promptly sent six government agents to his house to intimidate him.

And then there's

about a rape victim who was arrested after refusing to be assaulted by government agents:

As I've noted in the past, the federal officials responsible for this sort of thing should not be merely fired. They should be indicted for conspiracy to deprive American citizens of their rights.

If this were a free country, Dominatrix of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano would be hiring defense attorneys about now.

State Senator Michael Doherty

that would prohibit the worst excesses of the TSA. One of the bills would permit prosecution of TSA agents who assault residents of New Jersey. Here's a quote from his site:

“All of these bills remove any claim that TSA agents are immune to any state statutes that they violate when searching passengers or crew. If we don’t take strong action against these violations, where will it lead? Today planes, tomorrow trains and buses, what then? Will the drive to the market be viewed as a ‘privilege,’ the walk to church? Will we stand upon the slippery slope of paranoia that leads to invasive searches becoming a way of daily life, or say ‘No’ and defend our rights to privacy now while we still have them.”

Doherty's been a lone voice in the wilderness of Warren County on this issue. But now the Washington Post has weighed in with a series headlined "Agony at the Airport" about the TSA. This piece on the lobbying effort that led to the introduction of those useless but intrusive scanners is particularly interesting.

No agency in the sorry history of the inside-the-Beltway crowd has wasted more of our time and more of our money than the TSA. As security expert Bruce Schneier has noted, the TSA doesn't produce security. It produces "security theater" - an act that is supposed to make us feel we're getting our money's worth.

Time to close the curtains on the TSA. If even the Washington Post is onto them, how long before Obama figures it out?