We’re either gonna look at you naked or feel you up — your call.” That’s the choice the federal Transportation Security Administration offers any law-abiding citizen who wants to fly — and the fact that we’re willing to put up with it shows that there’s something seriously wrong in America today. Two items last week put the problem in stark relief.

First was the viral video of a 6-year-old’s recent encounter with the agency in New Orleans. As ABC News described the clip, “It shows a TSA agent rubbing the young girl’s inner thighs and running her fingers inside the top of the girl’s bluejeans.”

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