Comments on: Comics artist Mark Sable detained for Unthinkable acts

By: George

George — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:17:00 +0000

If anyone thinks Obama is going to fix anything like TSA checkpoint hassles, then they have been reading too many comic books.

By: Rick's Cafe

Rick's Cafe — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:39:20 +0000

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!

By: xeniphobe

xeniphobe — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:31:55 +0000

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.

By: GetSmart

GetSmart — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:54:47 +0000

#6
“and no one outside of BoingBoing thinks comics are important.”
No one of course, besides the media companies who have made literally billions of dollars off them (Comic Book characters, that is.) since CGI got good enough to do the special effects necessary to put them on the big screen.
Seriously, this is what TrueCrypt volumes and such like are for, to keep retards out of things they can’t understand. And that are none of their fucking dimwitted business.

By: Cap'nKangaroo

Cap'nKangaroo — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:34:34 +0000

#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?

By: xeniphobe

xeniphobe — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:14:59 +0000

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.

By: dawane

dawane — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:33:16 +0000

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.

By: Improbus

Improbus — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:17:18 +0000

What do expect from TSA apes? Reason and kindness?

By: Zybch

Zybch — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:33:02 +0000

“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.

By: echeola

echeola — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:10:46 +0000

He should write about blowing up a high school and be a student. Then he would be summarily expelled.

By: Drunken Duck

Drunken Duck — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:57:49 +0000

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