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Comics artist Mark Sable detained for Unthinkable acts – SFScope — I wonder what they’d do with R. Crumb?
Sable wrote of his experiences: “Flying from Los Angeles to New York for a signing at Jim Hanley’s Universe Wednesday May 13th, I was flagged at the gate for ‘extra screening’. I was subjected to not one, but two invasive searches of my person and belongings. TSA agents then ‘discovered’ the script for Unthinkable #3. They sat and read the script while I stood there, without any personal items, identification or ticket, which had all been confiscated.
“The minute I saw the faces of the agents, I knew I was in trouble. The first page of the Unthinkable script mentioned 9/11, terror plots, and the fact that the fictional world had become a police state. The TSA agents then proceeded to interrogate me, having a hard time understanding that a comic book could be about anything other than superheroes, let alone that anyone actually wrote scripts for comics.
The real irony is that Sable has a website and series called, GROUNDED!
Via Tod White.
BFD! On my last seven trips from Sac to Irvine I’ve been pulled aside four times. I’m hating my country and have started a no underwear while flying policy. You should see the looks on those Iranian and Indian security checkers when I drop my pants
He should write about blowing up a high school and be a student. Then he would be summarily expelled.
“In the end, I feel my privacy is a small price to pay for educating the government about the medium.”
What a jerk! If thats really his attitude then I wish him all the invasive cavity searches in the world. Lets see what he thinks about his privacy then!
Without privacy we have nothing.
What do expect from TSA apes? Reason and kindness?
Stopping this sort of thing is why we voted for Obama!
When are the Repukes going to stop throwing wrenches in the works and let him get on with cleaning up or shutting down these paranoid ministries?
Lovely security system you saddled us with, Bushies.
Hey you, down off the cross, we need the wood!
Half of this story is true: the last half.
The truth is you were randomly chosen, and then the idiots (who Obama is NOT going to fire) found something that addled their tiny brains and they got out of hand.
We all know they hire idiots (EOCC requirements forbid real background checks), but the idea that he was singled out for a check because he wrote subversive comics? Ricockulous.
News flash: you’re not that important, and no one outside of BoingBoing thinks comics are important.
#5 When has Obama said he would close down TSA? And when have the Republicans voted to block the elimination of the TSA. Since the Obama administration has control of the Dept. of Homeland Security and thus total control of TSA, how has Obama been blocked? By his own appointees? The Republicans do not even have control of any part of Congress, how can they do anything but sit, watch and complain?
Ok, I forgot that pedants rule the web….comics are not considered politically important by governments, and are generally not considered very important by the general public. Not to say they don’t make money, but that’s not the point. Comics are not today’s Samizdata”, and he was not tracked down due to his “subversive” material. The local agents were obviously bored and in need of a diversion.
The general quality of bureaucrats is not in question…some are competent, most like this example, are something else.
Picture this quality of ‘gate keeper’ behind the admitting desk at your local emergency room after health care gets nationalized and hospitals/doctors all become government employees.
….medical expenses will surely go down!
If anyone thinks Obama is going to fix anything like TSA checkpoint hassles, then they have been reading too many comic books.