Re: Teen arrested at Logan for alleged sarcasm in his bag
Sunder posts:
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/214/metro/ Teen_arrested_at_Logan_for_alleged_bomb_threat_in_his_bag+.shtml
According to the police report, the note, which was placed on top of clothes in a black gym bag read: ''[Expletive] you. Stay the [expletive] out of my bag you [expletive] sucker. Have you found a [expletive] bomb yet? No, just clothes. Am I right? Yea, so [expletive] you.''
Not every sentence containing the word "bomb" is a bomb threat. Apparently this concept is lost upon the cretins guarding our airports. While this kid is probably screwed for using the B-word, one wonders what the boundary is that one has to cross with a note in ones luggage to get arrested. For instance, which of these sentences, written on a note in ones luggage, would get one arrested and/or booted off a flight. "Don't wrinkle my clothes, you minimum wage douchebag" "Bush lied to start a war" "R.I.P. First Amendment" "There is only one God, and Mohammad is his Prophet" "Hang Israeli War Criminal Ariel Sharon" "The 9/11 Martyrs are in Paradise" "Proud NAMBLA Member since 1979" "John Walsh is an expert on everything, except watching his kid at the mall" "Death to AmeriKKKa" "Free Jim Bell" "What the world really needs is a fifty dollar weapon that sinks aircraft carriers" "Founding Member, Aryan Nations" "Support Strong Crypto" Perhaps John Gilmore, in his copious free time, could place these one by one in his gym bag, and report back on the results. :) -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"
At 4:24 PM -0700 8/5/03, Eric Cordian wrote:
While this kid is probably screwed for using the B-word
He got screwed for saying "yet". Read the note again. Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
At 04:24 PM 08/05/2003 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
Perhaps John Gilmore, in his copious free time, could place these one by one in his gym bag, and report back on the results. :)
Aside from John's "Suspected Terrorist" pin, I think he's been one of the people who carries around a nice metal engraved copy of the Bill of Rights in his hand luggage.
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Bill Stewart
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Eric Cordian
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R. A. Hettinga