{"id":24253,"date":"2011-12-05T17:23:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T00:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/i-feel-safer.html"},"modified":"2011-12-05T20:17:40","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T03:17:40","slug":"i-feel-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/i-feel-safer.html","title":{"rendered":"I Feel Safer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel <i>so<\/i> much safer to know that someone with a purse design element that looks vaguely gunlike is guilty of a &quot;federal offense&quot; and can be harassed and made late for their flight. Sometimes.  Depending on what TSA agent or checkpoint they encounter.  Al-Qaeda fashionistas don&#39;t stand a chance! <\/p>\n<p>Thanks, TSA! #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fl1.yimg.com%2Fbt%2Fapi%2Fres%2F1.2%2FQxrvyaXftW31dLFJIq5R9A--%2FYXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTE1MDtweG9mZj01MDtweW9mZj0wO3c9MTUw%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fblogs%2Fthesideshow%2Fpursegun.jpg.cf.png' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/sideshow\/florida-teen-detained-tsa-design-her-purse-221835034.html'>Florida teen detained by TSA for design on her purse<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt&#39;s not unusual for 17-year-old to find themselves in hot water with the fashion police. But on a flight from Virginia to Florida, Vanessa Gibbs found herself detained by the Transportation Security &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel so much safer to know that someone with a purse design element that looks vaguely gunlike is guilty of a &quot;federal offense&quot; and can be harassed and made late for their flight. Sometimes. Depending on what TSA agent or checkpoint they encounter. Al-Qaeda fashionistas don&#39;t stand a chance! Thanks, TSA! #ddtb Embedded Link &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/i-feel-safer.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Feel Safer!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24785,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/23\/i-feel-safer-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":24253,"position":0},"title":"I feel safer!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Dec-11 9:18pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Nothing new in the Vanity Fair article below, but a great reminder of the inconvenience and general worthlessness of most of the \"security theater\" we see at the airport.The other aspect not talked about is the self-perpetuation of such a security regime. 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Now if they could just do so in a manner that wasn't\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25687,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/23\/pat-downs-privilege-and-posturing.html","url_meta":{"origin":24253,"position":5},"title":"Pat-Downs, Privilege, and Posturing","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Jan-12 9:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, despite the hilarity, the whole \"Rand Paul was detained by the TSA\" story sounded just too good to be true. 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