[MineralMan]

"In the process, I ask him a question about which I have wondered. "Can you tell me how many American citizens have hijacked airplanes in the United States during the past 30 or 40 years?"


He stares blankly and says, "I don’t know." I tell him I can’t think of one, short of the legendary D. B. Cooper in the Pacific Northwest a half-century ago, but he parachuted into oblivion. "


Here you go. Now, do you suppose there was any sarcasm in his voice? I'd guess so, based on the tone of his article. In fact, there was a hijacking by an American, and it was the one most recent before 9/11. He was wrong, you see.

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MineralMan wrote: Here you go. Now, do you suppose there was any sarcasm in his voice? I'd guess so, based on the tone of his article. In fact, there was a hijacking by an American, and it was the one most recent before 9/11. He was wrong, you see.

I am a retired police officer with over thirty years os service.

Law enforcment officers — and that's what these TSA screeners are — are not allowed to take enforcement action for speech as long as there is no breach of the peace, and the peace of a law-enforcement officer cannot be breached by mere words.

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I didnt realize sarcasm was a national security threat.