[rhizome]

I don't think any rate of change of instances of abuse matters a whit. As for the TSA/HSA, I really think there's a case of governmental PTSD and they really have no idea what they're doing, so they just fuck with everybody. There's no strategy, they just collect all the data at the NSA, crawl up your asshole at the airport, detain you for a random number of days, and call these policies of full-spectrum personal invasions "protecting the country." They hire the stupidest, weakest and most unquestioning people so that they will perform perfectly robotically, with a maximum snitch factor. Seriously, they're just guessing.