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Wednesday, December 31, 2003
 

Frum and Perle to Bush: "Start More Wars!". Richard Perle and David Frum have authored a new book, challenging the Bush Administration to start more wars in order to win the war on terror. According to today's Daily Telegraph of London, within the book President Bush was sent... [LewRockwell.com Blog]
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The Fish That Threatened Pittsburgh.

The following tale from The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, passed along by reader Sandy Smith, is the latest in a growing litany of odd encounters with the Transportation Security Administration. Our story thus far: The author, a college student flying home to Pittsburgh from NYC for the holidays, has arrived at LaGuardia airport:

I wasn't prepared, however, for the TSA to stop me right at the entrance, proclaiming that no small pets, including fish, were permitted through security. I had, however, just received the blessing of the ticket agents at US Airways and pre-assured MJ's travels with Pittsburgh International Airport security weeks before our travel date. I tried to explain this to the screener who stood between me and the gates, but she would have none of it.

I was led back to the US Airways ticket counter, stocking-footed and alone, where the agents reasserted that they did not see a problem for me to have a fish on board, properly packaged in plastic fish bag and secured with a rubber band as MJ was. But the TSA supervisor was called over, and he berated me profusely. He exclaimed that in no way, under no circumstances, was a small fish allowed to pass through security, regardless of what the ticket agents said.

Does the fish get flushed in the name of national security? To find out, go to here.

Incidentally, the February issue of Reason--on newsstands now!--has a great cover story titled "'Dominate. Intimidate. Control.'"--The sorry record of the Transportation Security Administration." If you subscribed, you'd have read it by now.

[Hit & Run]

The story has a happy ending so far--the author and her boyfriend smuggled it past the Terrorist Safety Association thugs. However, the story also has her name on it, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if they both end up being arrested by a vengeful goon squad.
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CA: Gun case declared a mistrial due to hung jury. A mistrial was declared Tuesday after jurors deadlocked over whether the design of a Beretta pistol caused the accidental shooting death of a Berkeley teenager in 1994.

It was the second time Alameda County jurors pondered the circumstances that ended with Kenzo Dix shot dead by a 14-year-old friend showing off a gun he thought was unloaded.

The first civil trial ended with jurors exonerating the Beretta gun company. Their verdict was overturned by an appellate court that ruled a juror convinced parents are responsible for weapons in their homes had bullied other jurors and affected the outcome. [FirearmNews.com]

It's disgusting, but hardly surprising, that a verdict was overturned because one of the jurors actually had the gall to believe in personal responsibility and convince other jurors of the same. I wonder how that person even got on a jury in the first place? The lawyers must not have been very careful about excluding responsible people.
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