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Comic Artist Detained For Script Containing 9/11 Type Scenarios
Comics writer Mark Sable was detained by security at Los Angeles International Airport because he was carrying a script for a new issue of his comic miniseries, Unthinkable. Unthinkable follows members of a government think tank that was tasked with coming up with 9/11-type "unthinkable" terrorist scenarios that now are coming true. Sable wrote about his experience saying, "...I was flagged at the gate for 'extra screening.' I was subjected to not one, but two invasive searches of my person and belongings. TSA agents then 'discovered' the script for Unthinkable #3. They sat and read the script while I stood there, without any personal items, identification or ticket, which had all been confiscated. The minute I saw the faces of the agents, I knew I was in trouble. The first page of the Unthinkable script mentioned 9/11, terror plots, and the fact that the (fictional) world had become a police state. The TSA agents then proceeded to interrogate me, having a hard time understanding that a comic book could be about anything other than superheroes, let alone that anyone actually wrote scripts for comics. I cooperated politely and tried to explain to them the irony of the situation. While Unthinkable blurs the line between fiction and reality, the story is based on a real-life government think tank where a writer was tasked to design worst-case terror scenarios. The fictional story of Unthinkable unfolds when the writer's scenarios come true, and he becomes a suspect in the terrorist attacks." It's too bad that the TSA can't protect us from summer blockbuster movies and not just graphic novels.
This is just another chapter in the corrupt fascist Bushitler's regime to destroy freedom and democracy...
oh, right. Obama. What I mean is that this is perfectly acceptable, and is all part of The One's plan for when peace shall guide the planet and love will steer the stars. Yes we can! All hail Obama!
OMG THE GOVERNMENT IS EVIL!!
More NY police are shot and killed on the job each year than there are perpetrators killed by cops.
http://www.theppsc.org/Staff_Views/Aveni/OIS.pdf
But don't let the truth stop you from being a retardedly hateful and paranoid of "THE MAN," thinking you're the only intelligent guy in America, even though 70% of the populace feels exactly the same way you do.