Reuters reports that the Transportation Security Administration has ordered elimination of the "VIP lines" that allow frequent travelers to move through check-in and security more quickly. Don't waste time trying to figure out how this will make anyone safer, because safety, according to the TSA, is not the goal of this new regulation. The goal, rather, is to ensure that airport security is more "equitable."

In other words, TSA policy is apparently being written by union thugs and diversity counselors. These are the same people, by the way, who insist that it is only fair that a 70-year Jewish woman have the same likelihood of being searched by airport security as a 25-year old man named "Ahmed." Rich Lowry eviscerates Transportation Secretary and multicultural mullah Norman Mineta for this kind of nonsense in an excellent National Review Online piece.

I know the retort: equal rights and fairness good, discrimination bad. This is entirely wrongheaded. To the extent that people pose differential threats that are correlated with physical behaviors or other observable characteristics, discrimination is a valuable tool. To quote a former Supreme Court Justice, "the Constitution isn't a suicide pact." The ethos that regards equity of outcomes as more important than equity of opportunity, however, may well be just such a thing. We are certainly testing that hypothesis, when we allow the fairness and sensitivity police to determine our security policies.