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Wednesday, 23 July 2008
The Gestapo Wants To Remove My Nefertiti

Few can be unaware of that right, one guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, of all Americans to wear nipple rings free of  government interference, no matter what airport security machines are set off by those rings, and fewer still need to be reminded of the divine right of American women to similar accoutrements or below-the-waist bling, such as the Isabella, the Fourchette, and, let's not forget, the ever-popular Nefertiti.

Thus deeply disturbing, not to mention unconstitutional, is the behavior of officious officials demanding the removal, by means of pliers, of innocent  items that happen to set off the undiscerning machines to which we entrust so much of our airport check-in security. .

Jane Mayer ("The Dark Side") and other cri-de-coeur cassandras  have been proven right; we Americans are well on our way, in our hysteria over Muslim terrorism, to a police state. I can practically hear the Gestapo rapping on my kitchen door right now.


 

Posted on 1:04 PM by Hugh Fitzgerald
Comments
23 Jul 2008
Artemis

Zoiks!  How did THAT ever make it past the NER Board of Public Decency?

Piercing's not my cup of sebum, but the Bill of Rights was never meant to be a complete enumeration.  If Nefertitis are not banned by law, then they're legal.  The presumption is that we people are born with all rights, and they can only be taken away specifically by our lawmakers.

What I don't like is making Nefertitied Nuns do strip searches, while Muslim men between 20 and 40 are waved through, in order not to appear "racist."



23 Jul 2008
Artemis

Number of women who have used their Nefertiti to comandeer a jetliner: 0.



23 Jul 2008
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A Wingstroke & A Prayer
 
Hugh makes the point that while there have been some inappropriate searches as a result of lowering the state's iron bar to include the obviously innocent, they do not a police state prison make. 
While I've seen plenty of piercings, I had to enter "Isabella Fourchette Nefertiti" to learn that they pertain to what a Decency Board might demurely describe as the "nether region."  Which hath naught to do with the "nether part" of  "Airborne Isabel" whose ticket was punched, not by the TSA, nor by a jealous god, but a jealous and full of fury, furry angel.


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