This week, Ryan Bird was detained at an airport and booked as a threat to American security... Boing Boing reported on the incident: A flier in the Milwaukee airport wrote "[TSA secretary] Kip Hawley is an idiot" on the clear plastic bag that he was ordered to put his liquids into, and ran it through the x-ray machine. The TSA goon working the machine detained him for 25 minutes, telling him that the First Amendment didn't apply in airport security. Does anyone seriously think that calling the head of the TSA an idiot endangers airplanes? Or that terrorists would call attention to themselves by writing inflammatory things about the TSA Obergruppenfuhrer on their carry-on luggage? The TSA then confiscated the baggie and the traveller's liquids, took his picture, and "filed a report" on him. (To read Bird's first-hand account, click here.)

Bird's response? He has created a website called KipHawleyIsAnIdiot.com that is devoted to helping travelers express their dissatisfaction with the TSA's security theater war on moisture. KipHawleyIsAnIdiot.com gives you instructions for making your own "freedom baggie" with your opinion of the TSA chief.