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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Too many people in this country do not trust authorities to use their discretion, and would rather address problems through rules. This same impulse gives us sentence guidelines, which take discretion away from judges (and give it to prosecutors, but few people understand that), and zero-tolerance policies, so that six-year-olds can be suspended from school for having butter knives in their backpack.
I don't think this is necessarily a conservative impulse, but it is consistent with the conservative attacks on government over the last couple of decades and with "get tough" politicians who put more energy into campaigning than into governing.
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we don't trust the government, so we want rules? do you laugh behind your back at the people who respond to you?
We have far too many airports and far too few* "smart young people" willing to be in Governement service. also, don't know if you remember, but the brave Democratic congress made sure TSA was ruled by government employment rules. So don't talk about our "level of warm comfort with little real security" as being tied at all to anything other than your union lobbys.
*especially as compared to Israel.
