The tax we pay, every day, for liberalism by Lawrence Auster

Over at TownHall Linda Chavez tells about the wide-open holes in U.S. airport security through which GAO investigators managed to sneak bomb-making equipment onto planes. Her advice? Lots more security, and lots more willingness of American travelers to sacrifice and not want to bring so many things onto planes.

Chavez's uncomplaining stoical prescription for life under constant terror threat epitomizes what I first wrote about in 2004 and have been repeating ever since: that this is our future so long as Muslims are living and moving freely among us. Paul Nachman in the first letter following Chavez's column quotes a VFR entry from 2006 where I summed up the problem. It is a hopeless grey vision of a society subjected to ever increasing and more onerous security, all because of the presence of a certain group whose presence we never challenge. It is as though a man were expiring from smoking four packs of cigarettes a day but it was forbidden to mention or even to think that he ought to stop smoking. No one ever asks, why do we have to live this way? What would have to change for us not to have to live this way? The question literally never occurs to people, because asking it would bring them up against the ruling idea of our society: thou shalt not discriminate.

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