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United Airlines Claims TSA Banned Comic Books In Checked Luggage For Comic-Con, TSA Denies It (boardingarea.com)
schwit1 shares a report: San Diego Comic-Con has become so much more than just a comic book convention. But comic books remain the heart and soul of Comic-Con. In addition to attendees being there to buy comic books, vendors flock to Comic-Con to sell their comic books as well. That's why participants in Comic-Con were shocked to find a notice waiting for them at the San Diego airport after Comic-Con: "COMIC-CON ATTENDEES: REMOVE ALL BOOKS FROM CHECKED BAGS." On Twitter, United Airlines confirmed the ban: "The restriction on checking comic books applies to all airlines operating out of San Diego this weekend and is set by the TSA. ^MD" Consumerist reached out to TSA and were told by a spokeswoman that the warnings about not allowing comic books -- or any kind of book -- in checked bags were simply not true. There is "no restriction on anything related to putting comics or any type of books" in baggage, and TSA never put out any guidance to that effect, she said. "In fact, they are allowed in both checked and carry-on baggage," the spokeswoman told Consumerist, adding that there were no delays in the processing of checked bags out of San Diego yesterday.
On the one hand is a lazy, incompetent and mendacious corporation and on the other hand is a lazy, incompetent and mendacious government agency. Whom should I trust?
The stooges that were stated to be the hijackers on 9/11 (in the official conspircay theory) were almost all Saudi citizens, but the dumb dumb Americans have been mislead by zionist outlets like slashdot into thinking them Iraqis, or Libyans, or Syrians, or Palestinians (the owners of slashdot and other zionist outlets know that the sheeple never read the 'fine print'- so while the Saudi nationality of the 'hijackers' isn't a secret, post 9/11 zionist reporting tricks ensure few US sheeple know this fact).
9/11 led to the TSA, of course- and the TSA protects against nothing real. But like all Orwellian projects, the TSA exists to lay down an impression of something 'real' in the minds of the sheeple. And this wouldn't work unless the TSA was a constant irritant. So sexual assaults disguised as body searches. X-ray machines designed to damage people AND allow operators to see passengers naked. TSA agents dipping their 'probes' into the drinks of waiting passengers. TSA agents confiscating various laughable objects.
The point of a police state is that the citizen victims must feel the boot of the state on their necks every time they interact with the state.
Slashdot attempts to legitimise Orwellian security theatre by implying that it could be done 'right'. Standard apologist psy-op. The nazis aren't bad per se- it's just the bad apples and some poor management picks. Yeah- right. The owners of slashdot are sure the increasing small number of people here will fall for this garbage, just as they voted for the sick evil warmonger who destroyed secular Libya- Clinton.
I've had problems with checked bags that have a lot of books. They aren't opposed to books as books. They become a black box on the X-ray machines that checked bags go through. I've watched TSA scan my bag and then search exactly the place where the books are, pulling each one out and looking them over. I almost wanted to shout over "it's a book, maybe if you knew how to read you'd know that..." but better judgement prevailed. Other bags packed similarly wound up with the "we searched your stuff" notices inside.
It could be as simple as a comment from an agent at the airport checked scanner to a United baggage handler that a lot of comic books packed together would cause more bag searches. Maybe. Maybe not.
I don't know any reason why United would put up such a notice without some prompting. They're much better off if you check the heavy stuff at the check-in because that allows them to know weight and balance and have the real baggage handlers deal with it, instead of you packing an 80 pound "carry-on" that you then gate check and has to be handled by the gate agents.