‘Please goose me’? … Pah-leeze!

Susan Estrich in today's Las Vegas Review-Journal tries to defend the new "enhanced" screening procedure by the TSA as perfectly OK because they make air travel safer.

Her piece appeared under the headline: "Please goose me to keep me safe".

While good Americans can disagree about where to draw the line on this issue, it's a mistake for the Estrich's of the world to go quietly into the TSA line without thinking about the constitutional rights that make this country a special place. "Please goose me"? Pah-leeze!.

It is true that in times of war we as a people have temporarily suspended our rights for the sake of the country. But let me remind my liberal friends that so far this president can't even bring himself to say with consistency the phrase "war on terror".

If warrantless searches of our bodies are OK in airports, will we just as quietly extend that principle to searches of our cars or our houses, or our offices, or our churches?

If not, why not?

Before we ask the TSA to "please goose me", a little thought about where we draw the line on suspension of liberty seems in order.