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October 23rd 03, 04:16 AM

In article ,
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Jim He's refering to the guy who told the government he was going to
Jim smuggle banned items into an aircraft and did so and got caught.
Jim Not exactly the smartest move in the world. I think the
Jim reference is to smuggling a razor aboard an aircraft. He may get
Jim some free room and board out of this (in a federal pen).

Actually, the individual in question smuggled banned items onto
multiple aircraft, including notes describing the contents and
providing plenty of contact information for himself. He then emailed
the TSA at the end of his trip.

The items were not discovered until five weeks after his trip. Then
the TSA found the emails and passed them to the FBI which came to get
him.

I think he knew what he was doing. I don't agree with what he did,
but he made a statement and he appears to be willing to do the time.

He had a point to make via a typical college kid civil disobedience
maneuver and boy he made it. In SPADES. Congress is already looking
for Transportation Security Administration heads to gnaw on for this
one. Welcome to America . .

Kind of on a par with Matthias Rust, the German student pilot who flew
his Cessna into the Soviet Union and landed in the middle of Red Square
during the annual Border Guards something-or-other holiday. Definitely
made a statement!

They mentioned on the radio (KNX 1070 in Los Angeles) that he has also
been protesting the mandatory draft registration, but that protest
hasn't been making any real headlines. You have to wonder, then: is he
just trying to make headlines regardless of the cause, or what?

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