Category Archives: security theater

look out, it’s loaded

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 13 by Anton

Dangerous metal object for all you subversives to carry in your pocket. (Link from Lenny Foner.)

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“screeners now failing to catch anything”

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 08 by Anton

SatireWire In a troubling sign that investigators may be getting bored with their success smuggling guns and knives onto airplanes, the U.S. Department of Transportation today disclosed that its agents have recently cleared airport security checkpoints with an M1 tank, … Continue reading →

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voodoo security

Posted on Monday, 2002 April 29 by Anton

There’s nothing new in this story — which is why such stories need to be published again and again and again. Harassment in the name of security, a subject on which I have touched before, is useless and dangerous (like … Continue reading →

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not unexpected

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 March 19 by Anton

Imagine my lack of utter shock at receiving no response to my inquiry to Washington concerning security at the Fed Bldg.

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Obie was making sure

Posted on Monday, 2002 February 25 by Anton

A week or two ago I wrote to a friend in jail. Uncertain what resources might be available to him, I enclosed a stamped return envelope. The letter came back, marked “RETURN TO SENDER / UNAUTHORIZED MAIL”; it had been … Continue reading →

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potential terrorist thwarted!

Posted on Monday, 2002 February 25 by Anton

As a favor to my dearest friend, I went today to the Federal Building in San Francisco to drop off a piece of paper. I cleverly left my pocket-knife behind (and missed it twice) but, addled by a lifetime of … Continue reading →

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Tom, Dick and Harry II

Posted on Thursday, 2002 February 21 by Anton

Eventually it occurred to me that by publishing my conversation with ‘Tom’ (here and on several libertarian mailing-lists) I spoiled its evidentiary value. Dammit. I’ll never be Nero Wolfe (though I surpass him in one respect). I have the impression … Continue reading →

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