Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“From here on out, Americans can annually celebrate July 8 as ‘Freedom From Compulsory Podiatric Nudity Day’ That’s the day the US Transportation Security Administration stopped requiring air travelers to remove their shoes while waiting in line to get ogled and felt up by government-employed pervs before boarding their flights. … Number of terror attacks prevented by the rule: Zero. Cumulative amount of time passengers spent un-shoeing and re-shoeing, according to Slate‘s Henry Grabar, using a conservative estimate of one minute per passenger per flight: 250,000 years. Yes, years. To put it in economic terms, at the US federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, the TSA SHOULD have to cough up a total of about $16 billion in wages to air travelers for their time. Instead, those travelers (and everyone else) fund TSA to the tune of more than $10 billion per year. It’s time to defund and disband the agency entirely.” (08/14/25)