"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
I, Pocket Knife
"By the time you read this, I’m probably little more than a glob of metal, like so many millions of my brothers and sisters. And I did nothing wrong. For a while, I blamed my owner—didn’t he know that the TSA wouldn’t let him take me on an airplane? But, of course he did. In fact, his diligence is trying to protect me is partly responsible for the mental slip that flipped me into the box with all the other innocents, victimized by the bureaucratic absurdity of US airport security rules."
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They must have all manner of new technology and procedures for finding such things nowadays. The last time I flew at all was in 2002, on a trip from Europe back to South Africa. You were not even allowed to take a nail clipper on board. I had no trouble at all smuggling my pocket knife along, however. But perhaps European security thugs are dumber and/or more lax than current American ones... :-)
My comment (on Independent Institute comments page):
"I am not even angry at the TSA employee. I am angry at the TSA."
What futility! The “TSA” doesn’t exist. It is a concept — an abstraction. Only employees — functionaries — OF “TSA” (“Your-Tax-Dollars-At-Work”)exist.
Your only hope that I see would be to encourage your fellow jack-knives to Abstain from Beans — assuming pocket knives could become eligible “voters”. Not at all impossible the way “votes” are counted these days.
http://www.anarchism.net/anarchism_abstainfrombeans.htm
Sam
Samarami | May 5, 2012 | Reply