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Jetsetting Terrorist: TSA diaries of a convicted terrorist
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Jetsetting Terrorist: TSA diaries of a convicted terrorist is a personal blog at jetsettingterrorist.com about culture and politics. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Jetsetting Terrorist: The TSA won't leave me alone”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a diary of a convicted former activist's dealings with TSA screening. The commenter cites its account of a 1997 mink-freeing road trip conviction to argue that TSA resources are misspent.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Stories from TSA checkpoints, from a real convicted terrorist
Most-linked posts?
- Jetsetting Terrorist: The TSA won't leave me alone2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-11
What Hacker News says?
The scariest part of this is that the TSA is wasting all these resources on someone who got labeled as a "terrorist" due to his conviction for this: "The property crime for which he was convicted dates back to 1997 when he went on a cross-country road trip freeing minks from fur farms in three states. His weapon of mass destruction was a pair of bolt cutters." [1] Which means that these resources are not being spent…
Comment linking /about-a-tsa-labeled-terrorist/
on ““I'm a convicted terrorist. I fly a lot. And the TSA won't leave me alone.””Submitted “I'm a convicted terrorist. I fly a lot. And the TSA won't leave me alone.” as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Jetsetting Terrorist: The TSA won't leave me alone as a story · 8 points
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