LA Mayor Villaraigosa Naked For Freedom

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa stepped through an LAX full body scanner yesterday to try to convince people pre-Thanksgiving holiday traffic that they’re perfectly safe, not nasty and won’t give you cancer. I mean, this is lame on many levels, probably first and foremost because if Villaraigosa were to go through the airport without the press there, he wouldn’t be harassed by people the way others are being harassed.

I had a lady tell me today that it would be better if we stopped being “touchy-feely” and caring about peoples’ “feelings” and just racially profiled “Muslims.” Yes, that would solve all of our problems, especially because all brown people look the same (I just confused an Armenian for a Mexican yesterday, but hey, I was saying he was cute, so whatever).

The point is, neither Villaraigosa, nor whites advocating for racial profiling, nor the TSA talking heads are the ones who are going to have their privates tussled in the name of freedom and national security. Isn’t there some sort of, like, law against crazy searches? Like, the Fourth Amendment or something? Do you think Thomas Jefferson would let some guy with no advanced police training (but who does mind your spite) feel around his balls in the name of liberty? I have a hard time buying it, myself.

At least Saturday Night Live got it right.