Ravenwood - 09/17/04 05:00 PM
Teacher Arrested After Bookmark Called Concealed Weapon
A weight may soon be lifted off a Maryland woman charged with carrying a concealed weapon in an airport.I feel safe.It wasn't a gun or a knife. It was a weighted bookmark.
Kathryn Harrington was flying home from vacation last month when screeners at the Tampa, Fla., airport found her bookmark. It's an 8.5-inch leather strip with small lead weights at each end.
Airport police said it resembled a weighted weapon that could be used to knock people unconscious. So the 52-year-old special education teacher was handcuffed, put into a police car, and charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
She faced a possible criminal trial and a $10,000 fine. But the state declined to prosecute, and the Transportation Security Administration said it probably won't impose a fine.
Harrington said she'll never again carry her bookmark into an airport.
Hell, why didn't they call it an "assault weapon?" I mean, since an "assault weapon" is whatever the government wants it to be...
Posted by: Thibodeaux at September 17, 2004 6:38 PM"...the Transportation Security Administration said it probably won't impose a fine."
Silly me, but since the TSA is not a court, isn't it unconstitutional for them to be imposing fines?
I think so, it falls under due process.
As long as Americans tolerate this BS we deserve what we get.
Know of any way to get a listing of all the people employed by the TSA? Or any Government agency?(Fed, State, local)
Like in Chicago where that Trooper violated that citzens second amendament right, if the people that actually carry out the illegal orders, are confronted face to face on THEIR free time about their criminal actions, it will sink in.
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