When a gent opened his suitcase from a trip to Seattle, he found the anti-war placards he’d packed — and he found another little surprise.
Inside, handwritten on a TSA “Notification of Baggage Inspection” slip (indicating his bag had been opened for security screening), was a message, “DON’T APPRECIATE YOUR ANTI AMERICAN ATTITUDE!“
Yeah, because that’s why we spent all that money federalizing airport security.
The TSA admits that “We do not condone our employees making any kind of political comments or personal comments to any travelers. That is not acceptable.” But they also deny that it’s necessarily a TSA person who did it. “It’s a leap to say it was a TSA screener.”
Yeah. Because doubtless someone else certailny could have broken the TSA seals on the bag, written the note on a TSA slip, put it into the suitcase, and then resealed the bag.
While the rhetoric from the gent whose bag this was done to gets a little bit extreme (I’m not sure youl could seriously argue that this represents “trampling people’s civil rights”), his outrage is understandable. Crap like this is just the sort of thing that undermines both the TSA and “homeland security.”
(Of course, if I were paranoid, I might suggest that maybe it was done by anti-war types, to discredit the TSA. On the other hand, if I were paranoid, I might suggest it was done by the FBI to discredit those hypothetical anti-war types.)
(via BoingBoing)