Traveler Detained for Anti-TSA Message

scifience writes "A traveler frustrated with recent changes to airport security procedures found himself detained in Milwaukee after writing a message critical of the TSA's leader on a plastic bag presented for screening. The message, which read "Kip Hawley is an Idiot," resulted in a confrontation with law enforcement, the traveler being told that his right to freedom of speech applied only "out there (pointing past the id checkers) not while in here [the checkpoint]." The story, which is detailed in a rapidly-growing thread on a discussion forum catering to frequent flyers, has attracted the interest of the ACLU, an AP reporter, and many others. The incident raises a number of interesting questions and concerns regarding just where our rights end."

Comments

Re:Our rights

[gilroy]

Oh, that's easy. 2004 November 2.

The issue today is, was that a temporary lapse or a fundamental shift in the American polity? Considering that the House just legalized torture, I'm tending toward the latter.

Re:It used to be your rights end where mine begin

[sm62704]

America isn't even in America any more, and wasn't long before I was born. I'm reading a history of the 1920s, the Wilson and Harding administrations were amazingly like the Bush administration - rights trampled, incompetent cronies hired, etc.