Legal Commentary

I Apologize in Advance For TSA Making You Miss Your Flight

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Boing Boing reports that TSA is now requiring that you remove all electronic devices from your carry-on bags, including cables etc. and place them in a separate bin to be scanned at the security checkpoints. I could hold the line up ten minutes myself given all the gear I travel with…

No word at present about this new assault on air travel at TSA’s new oh-so-friendly PR blog (“Liquids cover 70% of the earth and they also make up a good percentage of our comments from the traveling public.”).

Don’t let the smiling faces fool you: the more we engage in security theater and ‘protect’ against minimal threats to look good while diverting resources from things that matter, the more that any hypothetical enemies are laughing.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on February 01, 2008 (boomark / email).