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Politics

Luggage Tags for the Land of the Free

Brian Doherty | 8.22.2007 1:08 PM

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Including "Note to Security: Have Fun Rifling Through My Underwear." Collect them all!

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Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason and author of Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired (Broadside Books).

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  1. Warren   18 years ago

    I've carried the security edition bill of rights through airport security like six times. It always winds up in those tubs with the rest of the contents of my pockets. It's never been stopped once. I suppose I keep it and make the metal detector go off, but then I'd just have to take it out of my pocket and put it in a tub. But maybe it would get noticed.

    That's the thing about TSA, they'll take your deodorant and nail clippers because they've been told "take deodorant and nail clippers" but as long as you paint your grenade to look like an apple, it sails right through.

  2. sage   18 years ago

    "Hey Yo! The socks in my other bag are just the BOMB!"

  3. NP   18 years ago

    "Note to Security: I'm NOT personally connected to al-Qaida. I just thought the turban looked pretty cool."

  4. Lamar   18 years ago

    Don't hassle the airport security monkey. Just say, "thank you, sir, may I have another"

  5. The Wine Commonsewer-Reg US Pa   18 years ago

    Very nice but not as inflammatory as the suitcase stickers we got from Reason Trustee, Drew Carey. I was grateful TSA didn't find mine.

    And like, Warren, I also have the security edition of the Bill of Rights. Never been ballsy enough to leave it in my pocket to set off the alarms. Mrs TWC threatening me with the couch has something to do with that I suppose.

  6. fishfry   18 years ago

    What's the airport code for Gitmo? GTO?

  7. thoreau   18 years ago

    I also put my Security Edition Bill of Rights in the tub with my stuff, and they never, ever notice it.

    Here's a great note to leave in your luggage:

    The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

    Leave a copy inside your luggage as well.

  8. Brandybuck   18 years ago

    While walking through the TSA cattle line, I was discussing the software I wrote that generated BOMs. My coworker panicked, thinking that someone would mistake "BOM" (bill of materials) for "bomb", and loudly whispered so that all could hear: "Don't talk about the BOMs!"

    🙂

  9. The Wine Commonsewer-Reg US Pa   18 years ago

    Tee,

    Without Probable Cause

    Dang near everything I hate about the government is tied to this little constitutional nicety.

  10. Taktix?   18 years ago

    I also put my Security Edition Bill of Rights in the tub with my stuff, and they never, ever notice it.

    It's rarely noticed likely because the TSA people can't read.

    Do they have a picture-only version of the Security Edition Bill of Rights?

  11. Randolph Carter   18 years ago

    it's a boot... stamping on a face... forever.

  12. LibertyPlease   18 years ago

    it's a boot... stamping on a face... forever.

    I think that is what TSA is intended to prep us for. It's not airline security (obviously), it's conditioning.

  13. jac   18 years ago

    I would use those if it said "dirty underwear".

  14. Bobster   18 years ago

    I remember a woman in New York talking to a reporter about the police checking bags of subway riders who volunteered to be searched. She said she felt safe and liked going to the officer to be searched as it made her a good citizen. I think we are doomed.

  15. Lamar   18 years ago

    When I lived in NYC, I would make sure to take all my dirty laundry when I went to visit my mom. I wanted to have those TSA hacks plunder through my crusty undies. F'ers never did.

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