As a former scout and proud knife-carrying citizen (well, technically a resident, if you want to be a jerk about it) I second this motion as put forth on BoingBoing for president-elect Obama to address:
The Right To Bear Pocket Knives
Up until the day the terrorists won, I routinely carried my trusty tool (not an euphemism, for once) in my pocket or backpack on my trans-Atlantic flights to and from Italy, with ne'er a complication. But the fear-mongering institution of Homeland Security put an end to that, and it's time that someone, in turn, puts an end to their fascist, police-state policies.
Flying was bad enough before all these random, unreasonable rules and regulations (the liquids ban and the 1-quart Ziploc bag rule also come to mind --I still think S.C. Johnson & Son is in cahoots with the Bush administration for that one), but it's been nearly unbearable over the last few years. Most, if not all of the policies are pointless, counter-intuitive, inconvenient and wasteful, and they are so incompetently enforced that they don't fulfill the purpose they were enacted to serve (kind of encompassing the Bush administration, come to think of it.)
So, instead of benefiting from these sacrifices for collective public safety, we all have lost considerable personal freedoms, not to mention time and money. Let's cut the shit, all right?
The merits of carrying a pocket knife are numerous and overwhelmingly outnumber the chances of it being used for nefarious reasons. Not a day goes by that I don't use mine, it's probably the most useful tool on my person at all times --more so than even my cell phone (actually, I used my knife to open up the impregnable clamshell plastic packaging my cell phone came in, thankyouverymuch...)
Am I supposed to abandon my convenient and practical utensil when I fly somewhere just to satisfy a bullshit sense of security?
Fuck that.
Obama, the ball is in your court. This one's a no-brainer, do what you gotta do.
The Right To Bear Pocket Knives
Up until the day the terrorists won, I routinely carried my trusty tool (not an euphemism, for once) in my pocket or backpack on my trans-Atlantic flights to and from Italy, with ne'er a complication. But the fear-mongering institution of Homeland Security put an end to that, and it's time that someone, in turn, puts an end to their fascist, police-state policies.
Flying was bad enough before all these random, unreasonable rules and regulations (the liquids ban and the 1-quart Ziploc bag rule also come to mind --I still think S.C. Johnson & Son is in cahoots with the Bush administration for that one), but it's been nearly unbearable over the last few years. Most, if not all of the policies are pointless, counter-intuitive, inconvenient and wasteful, and they are so incompetently enforced that they don't fulfill the purpose they were enacted to serve (kind of encompassing the Bush administration, come to think of it.)
So, instead of benefiting from these sacrifices for collective public safety, we all have lost considerable personal freedoms, not to mention time and money. Let's cut the shit, all right?
The merits of carrying a pocket knife are numerous and overwhelmingly outnumber the chances of it being used for nefarious reasons. Not a day goes by that I don't use mine, it's probably the most useful tool on my person at all times --more so than even my cell phone (actually, I used my knife to open up the impregnable clamshell plastic packaging my cell phone came in, thankyouverymuch...)
Am I supposed to abandon my convenient and practical utensil when I fly somewhere just to satisfy a bullshit sense of security?
Fuck that.
Obama, the ball is in your court. This one's a no-brainer, do what you gotta do.
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