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dinopollard and lorilori ]: Special agents from the TSA’s Office of Inspection interrogate two bloggers and serve them with a civil subpoena after they post a leaked copy of the TSA’s new rules to prevent another SizzlePants attack.
The TSA says the document was not intended for public viewing – even though it contains rules that the public has to follow in order to get on an airplane in or headed for the US.
In other words, they’re going after bloggers for publishing rules that they want us to follow but don’t want us to read online before we go to the airport.
It’s times like this I think Kurt Vonnegut was right: the TSA is secretly run by Andy Kaufman.
Meanwhile, to understand why the TSA is doing what it’s doing, here’s a handy chart to assess the risk of you being killed by a terrorist on an airplane.
So at least yr being inconvenienced for no good reason.
FUN FACT: Technically those odds have been in effect since well before 9/11. But we were all about Irrational Fear back then.
Slim chance,
This is dF
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EDITED TO ADD [1JAN10]: The TSA has dropped both subpoenas against the bloggers. Probably because all the other bloggers blogged about it. Stupid bloggers and their bloggery.
dinopollard and lorilori ]: Special agents from the TSA’s Office of Inspection interrogate two bloggers and serve them with a civil subpoena after they post a leaked copy of the TSA’s new rules to prevent another SizzlePants attack.The TSA says the document was not intended for public viewing – even though it contains rules that the public has to follow in order to get on an airplane in or headed for the US.
In other words, they’re going after bloggers for publishing rules that they want us to follow but don’t want us to read online before we go to the airport.
It’s times like this I think Kurt Vonnegut was right: the TSA is secretly run by Andy Kaufman.
Meanwhile, to understand why the TSA is doing what it’s doing, here’s a handy chart to assess the risk of you being killed by a terrorist on an airplane.
So at least yr being inconvenienced for no good reason.
FUN FACT: Technically those odds have been in effect since well before 9/11. But we were all about Irrational Fear back then.
Slim chance,
This is dF
###############
EDITED TO ADD [1JAN10]: The TSA has dropped both subpoenas against the bloggers. Probably because all the other bloggers blogged about it. Stupid bloggers and their bloggery.
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on 2009-12-31 06:50 am (UTC)God: the real terrorist.
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on 2010-01-01 02:09 am (UTC)