Michael Chertoff: Trust Us
by Dave Cooper

It was reported today that government employee Michael Chertoff has stated that Americans should not be concerned about turning over their personal information to the government, especially if they don’t want to “be pulled aside and questioned…to be called out of line and someone’s going to do a secondary search of your bag and they’re going to ask you a lot of personal questions in the full view of everybody else.”

Stated more honestly, Chertoff would have people choose between submitting their personal information to the government or to being strip-searched in public. It’s the people’s choice…and isn’t choice what freedom’s all about?

He also said that people ought not to worry about a plan by the Transportation Security Administration to collect passengers’ full names and birth dates before they board an airplane. After all, “The average American gives information up to get a CVS card that is far more in-depth than TSA’s going to be looking at.” Apparently Chertoff would like to obscure the difference between applying for a drugstore discount card and submitting to the power of a corrupt and intrusive central government. (more…)