All the safety and security in the world cannot justify violating our rights as Americans. Our leaders claim they are protecting us from terrorists by taking away nail clippers and Swiss Army knives, and by making young girls unbotton their pants in public. (Yes, this has happened. Click on the links within the articles below.) I do not buy this rhetoric for one second. Adolph Hitler would have likely claimed that he was only "protecting" Germany.

So how do we fight back? How can we safeguard our rights before they are gone forever? Sound and logical arguments are ineffective against politicians armed with meaningless catch phrases about fighting terrorism. We must rise up and shout out at the top of our lungs in the only language politicians and corporate leaders understand, the language of dollars and cents. It is time for a national and widespread boycott of the entire airline industry. We must make them hurt where it counts, in their pocket books, until such time that they see fit to return to us our constitutional rights, as well as our dignity. Take the train, Amtrak could use the money. Put aside whatever fears you may have about oil or the environment and fill up the gas tank and drive to your next destination. Cancel that trip overseas. (If that trip is for pleasure, I think the Queen Elizabeth II still crosses the Atlantic. Also, one can book comfortable passage on cargo ships to foriegn ports.) We must do everything we can! Our rights are not a lost cause, people. This is a fight we can win.

I have plans to post my own article on this subject, but, unlike creating the page with Tripod's nifty templates, writing articles worth reading takes a lot more time and effort. As a college student, time is something I have in short supply. So until I do, read the articles here. Also, make sure to click on the underlined links within them to even more horror stories of airport security.