Matt Welch Talks Rand Paul vs. The TSA on Freedom Watch

Reason Magazine Editor in Chief Matt Welch appeared on Freedom Watch With Judge Napolitano to discuss the treatment of what guest host Elizabeth MacDonald calls, "OWS pests", the economics of security surrounding the TSA and how the super committee's failure may jeopardize payroll tax cuts. Air Date: November 22, 2011.

Approximately 20 minutes.

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Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Matt Welch
• libertarian
• TSA
• Rand Paul
• police state
• Constitution
• Fourth Amendment
• Homeland Security

[TWSceptic]

What happens in US is exactly what the terrorists wanted. After they blow up those building and killed all those people, they have now also achieved that US government is taking away the rights and liberties of the people. And the worst part is it is almost completely ignored.

[ThePythagoran]

Paul 2012, Paul 2016, whenever we can get one in. Oh, and first I guess.

[exiled30]

I have a feeling that if Judge Napolitano gets a pat down by the TSA it would get violent.

[bentothetenthpower]

@Panpiper

It's true, a lot of us Canadians feel that way, ever since the Patriot Act.

[Panpiper]

@linagee I am a Canadian and there is absolutely no way I will visit the States. I would experience the same level of paranoia from a US visit as I would visiting North Korea. That may be irrational on my part, but it is the literal truth.

[hannas1234]

Free market solution: private chartered flights.

[snewso]

Why don't we allow air travel companies to install their own security measures?

[andrewjefferson1776]

@TWSceptic Dude, I appreciate the sentiment but the terrorists are the US government! The only real threat is a tyrannical government who takes away its people's liberty with the excuse of giving them security. We are less secure than we've ever been now because we can't even defend ourselves from our own government. Al Qaeda is the boogeyman the government uses to usurp power from the people. Please try to see the bigger picture before all is lost. This government is the terrorist!

[TWSceptic]

@lives2live PS: the whole point of terrorism is to spread fear with the people. The 'funny' thing is that after the attacks, the government actually helped them with that. Think about that one for a while. Because that's how stupid our government is.

[TWSceptic]

@lives2live That's not what I said if you read carefully and understand what I said. NOWHERE did I say they knew what our government was going to do and anticipated on that. For them it is probably an UNEXPECTED consequence of their attacks.

The point was that they WON and we LOST. And we keep losing.

[lives2live]

@TWSceptic This is exactly the mind set Paul has been trying to shake. The terrorists DID NOT ATTACK US BECAUSE OF OUR LIBERTIES. That is the message of the media and the main stream politicians, because that makes us the good guys and creates a reason to keep bombing and meddling. They attacked us because of our decades long bombing, military and political involvement in their part of the world. WE PROP UP GOVERNMENTS THAT OPPRESS THEIR PEOPLE. Please stop propagating the lie.