Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano hinted this week that the body scanners and “enhanced” pat-downs that have caused a ruckus at airports across the country could be coming to a train station, port or subway near you.

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Where do you draw the line?

“I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime,” she said. “So what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there?”

Where do you draw the line?

If they could attack here, they could attack here. You tighten up there, it now means here is looser. And it just keeps going and going and going….

Are we going to have to install scanners to enter and exit our homes? I know that sounds silly, but that’s the path we’re on. Consider that 20 years ago we never would have thought we’d be where we are now, so truly… how silly does it sound?

 

Napolitano has defended the screening procedures and criticized the protests.

“I really want to say, look, let’s be realistic and use our common sense,” she said last week, explaining that the screening technology has been in development since before the failed Christmas Day bombing attack last year.

“This is not about the government itself,” she said. “We all have a role to play in security.”

“And so I really regret some groups saying, ‘Well, we don’t want to be a part of that,'” she added. “I regret it because it’s not what we’re all about. What we’re all about is shared responsibility.”

 

OK then. Is that how it is?

Then let me carry my gun into the cabin of the plane.

Then work to repeal laws restricting where I can carry my gun, such as government offices, schools, sporting events, universities.

If you really want security, then work towards the ends that actually can achieve it… not this silly knees bent running about advancing encroaching behavior.

So tell us, Napolitano… where do you draw the line? What is too far for you?