“If you touch my junk, I’m going to have you arrested.”

John Tyner’s line lacks the elegance of “Give me liberty, or give me death” – but it doesn’t lack the weight. We’ve got to pick it up and run with it, now, while the momentum is ours.

The California software engineer’s challenge to an airport Transportation Security Administration agent, who wanted to prod Tyner’s genitals before he got on a plane, could – if we act now — become a long-overdue shout heard round the world. It’s a rare moment when we call all speak, confidently and assertively, as one people with one voice.

“The Terrorists Have Won,” announces the top headline on today’s conservative Drudge Report, over a photo of a TSA agent groping a nun.

“Are TSA Screenings Too Much?” wonders liberal MSNBC’s website.

No ambiguity, for once. Nearly all Americans – Tea-partiers and radical feminists and investment bankers and Raging Grannies and soccer moms and church groups – can get behind this one. How often is that going to happen? The daily violation at our airports has finally hit the “national conversation” in a big way – and so has the discussion of what the TSA’s attitude toward passengers really means, and really is.