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Hello there, everyone. Judge Andrew Napolitano here for Judging Freedom.
Today is Thursday, March 24. It's about 11.15 in the morning here on the East Coast.
And after two years of the federal government telling the airlines how to run their businesses,
the airlines are finally saying to the federal government, back off. We've installed
all kinds of ventilation equipment in the airports and in every one of our jets. People are sick and
tired of wearing their masks. They don't have to wear them in schools. They don't have to wear them
in stadiums. They don't have to wear them in restaurants. They don't have to wear them in
indoor and outdoor public places. Why are you still picking on us? By the way, what the heck does the federal government know about operating airlines? in a joint letter yesterday are begging their masters who regulate them to drop the mask requirement.
If you're on a flight for a long time, the mask requirement is dreadful,
particularly if you're paying a lot of money to fly in comfort over the Atlantic to Europe.
It's just not the same.
You wear the mask, you take the mask off for two minutes,
they yell at you, and it's really no way to live.
And we now know that the mask is superfluous,
particularly if you've been vaccinated.
So I don't want to say that I'm joining this chorus
because the idea to me of private enterprise begging the government is un-American and antithetical.
They should just do it anyway.
Who the hell is the government to interfere with business and its customers at the critical juncture where business and the customers meet. They already
do this with the TSA, a bunch of rent-a-cops telling us what we can have on our bodies
and in our briefcases rather than simply walking through a magnetometer or rather than simply
letting the airlines decide. Want to fly in an airline where they're going to touch your body and scrutinize whether there's metal in your chest?
Go to this airline.
Want to fly in an airline where they treat you like a free person?
Go to that airline.
Of course, the government doesn't allow that.
But I'm getting carried away.
I hope the mask requirement falls.
It has fallen nearly everywhere else.
I expect that it will because Joe Biden needs the approval ratings.
Judge Napolitano, judging freedom.