[extropy-chat] Bill of Rights- Security Edition

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Amara Graps <Amara.Graps at ifsi.rm.cnr.it> wrote:
> http://www.securityedition.com/ 
> 
> What is the "Security Edition" ?
> 
> The First Ten Amendments to the constitution of the
> United States
> printed on sturdy, pocket-sized, pieces of metal.
> 
> The next time you travel by air, take the Security
> Edition of the
> Bill of Rights along with you. When asked to empty
> your pockets,
> proudly toss the Bill of Rights in the plastic bin.

Cute.  Except:

> You need to get used to offering up the bill of
> rights for inspection and government workers need to
> get used to deciding if you'll be allowed to keep
> the Bill of Rights with you when you travel.

The "inspection" will be just seeing that it's a
simple piece of metal, with total ignorance of the
specific words engraved on it.  You'll likely be
allowed to keep those pieces of metal, but whether
you'll be allowed to keep the rights they proclaim is
a different story.  Try offering them as a defense to
any degree to a security officer, and that will likely
only hasten your exit from the group of citizens
allowed to fly on standard commercial aviation: if an
officer's procedure and the guiding law that allows it
come into conflict, usually the officer's procedure
wins out, especially in the short term.

Symbolic, and in practice possibly detrimental.