In
another episode in the continuing saga of The Buffoons in Blue Overreact to
Every Squeak, Burp, and Fart at the Checkpoint, a 26-year-old man at Bradley
Airport in Connecticut was detained by the TSA and arrested by police for being
a smartass.
When he was singled out for a scan or a grope -- we don't know which yet -- and asked if he had anything else in his pockets, Jordan Rickard supposedly said, "Yeah, a bomb."
The
blue-shirted crusaders immediately swooped down on him and called the police.
Because, don'tchya know, if you really did have a bomb in your pocket, the
first thing you would do would be to announce it to all and sundry.
The
complicit media is, of course, playing up
this story to the hilt, especially now, in our time of bogus "high alert" abroad and
in "the homeland."
Sieg
heil.
The
man was promptly carted off to jail; his girlfriend wasn't.
Before
you get all "he was so stupid to have done that, he got what he deserved," blah blah blah, perhaps
you shouldn't be so quick to kiss the ass of every authority figure who comes
down the pike. Perhaps you shouldn't allow yourself to be so easily manipulated by
fear. Not to mention by lies and propaganda. Perhaps you should learn to be a
little more skeptical and to stand up for yourself and for your fellow
man.
Perhaps
you should even -- heaven forfend -- stand up for your rights.
For
the umpteenth time, as I've
written before, cracking a joke at the checkpoint is not against the law.
Just
because some of you are willing to bend over and spread 'em every time an
authority figure tells you to doesn't mean we all are. That's why Frank
Hannibal is suing, and why he'll almost certainly win.
