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2011-10-14 Fifth Column

House Bill Would Criminalize Satire of TSA

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Posted by DarthVader 2011-10-14 13:05|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Combine the explosive growth of this government agency, with the endless "enhancements", extra conditions, that they put on travel, at the same time their utter rejection of profiling, which works, and the complete disregard for either constitutional rights or focused enforcement, and the only conclusion that can be reached is that this agency must end.

1) It does not stop terrorists, as already has been noted.

2) Its authority was abused from the start against non-terrorist American citizens for petty offenses, or for no offenses, other than resistance to intrusive search of their persons.

3) It violates provision after provision of the US constitution in so many ways that it is irredeemable.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-10-14 14:45|| 2011-10-14 14:45|| Front Page Top

#2 This won't survive the trip to the Supreme Court. Anyone who wrote this should be seriously mocked for their lack of understanding of free-speech.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-10-14 15:14|| 2011-10-14 15:14|| Front Page Top

#3 It should be a crime to *not* mock the TSA.

Posted by Iblis 2011-10-14 21:48|| 2011-10-14 21:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Wouldn't it have been easier just to plagarize the MLB disclaimer and swap any baseball reference for TSA?
So if I were to list TSA as a previous employer on a resume, is that breaking this law? (that assumes i would want to list the TSA and not my whorehouse piano-playing gig)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2011-10-14 22:50|| 2011-10-14 22:50|| Front Page Top

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