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Benjamin Franklin and the War on TerrorismPosted by Synfinatic on November 22, 2010 at 11:18 pm in Politics, Security Theater.I’ve been reading Walter Isaacson’s excellent biography of Benjamin Franklin lately and just came across a letter Franklin wrote to his English friend Joseph Priestly in late 1775: Britain, at the expense of three millions, has killed 150 Yankees this campaign, which is 20,000 pounds a head… During the same time, 60,000 children have been born in America. From these data his mathematical head will easily calculate the time and expense necessary to kill us all. Tags: Politics, terrorisim, tsa
Linky #2Posted by Synfinatic on October 17, 2008 at 3:59 pm in /dev/random.I’ve been sitting on these interesting articles and I figured I’d share: Warren Buffet explains in the New York Times why now it is the time to buy stock in US companies. Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Stanford Law School, and co-founder of Creative Commons writes in the Wall Street Journal, In Defence of Piracy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports on the NSA Spying on Americans again, but this time it’s our service men & women calling home to their families and organizations like Doctors without Borders. Update: Stephen Colbert has this to say on the subject: A scathing article on the … Tags: copyright, eff, south park, tsa
The TSA really cares! (ha ha ha)Posted by Synfinatic on February 2, 2008 at 10:49 am in TSA/DHS.This is my tax dollars at work- the TSA creating a blog to put a friendlier face to the incompetence people experience on a daily basis in airports around the country. Unfortunately, the “friendlier face” just reeks of government bureaucracy and provides little insight or hope for travelers frustrated with air travel. Tags: blog, censorship, tsa
TSA charges overly honest personPosted by Synfinatic on January 27, 2008 at 9:32 pm in TSA/DHS.Once again, the TSA fails to stop someone taking a loaded firearm through security. What makes this interesting, is that the individual in question (Mr Hinkle) realized his mistake and decided to go back to the security checkpoint and own up to his error. Tags: checkpoint, firearms, honesty, Ronald Regan Airport, tsa
The pursuit of life, liberty and artPosted by Synfinatic on January 23, 2008 at 11:30 pm in FBI/CIA/NSA, TSA/DHS.Ok, my first post on Security Theater. This story is of Ramak Fazel via the New York Times. Ramak is an American citizen who decided to visit all the state capitals and use stamps he collected as a child to send postcards from each of them to memorialize the trip. Tags: art, fbi, postcard, tsa
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