Viet-Justice

The fools over at the TSA have done it again.  A passenger was detained for writing “Kip Hawley is an idiot” on a plastic bag.  This is a disturbing addition to security theatre.  According to reports some TSA drone freaked and escalated the incident to a supervisor.

“It was obvious that he was already angry,” Bird said, adding that the screener told him, “You can’t write things like that.”

The supervisor told Bird he had the right to express his opinions “out there” — pointing outside the screening area — but did not have the right “in here,” Bird said.

Whoa! This supervisor is saying that the 1^st Amendment doesn’t exist past the screening area?  What’s next?  Are we going to guarantee the terrorists freedom of speech as a non-profiling measure?

What we need to do is get past this notion that Security Theatre is going to keep us all safe.  Avoiding passenger profiling and going into a panic over non-terrorist threats is not helping the situation.  I’ve heard some Republican acquaintances argue that the TSA is just doing their job and if you argue with what they’re doing you are helping the terrorists.

By standing up for the 1^st Amendment you are actually fighting terrorism.  In many Middle Eastern countries many clerics have said that freedom of expression is evil and Unislamic.  The TSA may not realize it, but their attempt to regulate non-violent speech is actually helping terrorism.  Now that I think about it, Kip Hawley must be working with the terrorists.

Taking a slightly different angle on the subject I also believe that the TSA was wrong for stopping this guy.  Apparently they’ve never heard that the best rebuttal against slander is the truth.  The truth is in the bag on this one.