Blackmoor Vituperative

Me [going into post-9/11, TSA-style super-dumbfounded mode]: So what you’re saying is you can’t ship any sort of containers, even if they’re empty? You know that we originally ordered these empty cans and jars from a company, and *they* shipped them to *us*.

FedEx guy: They must have used a different vendor [“vendor”? I can’t remember, some word like that, like a “service”].

Which I imagine he said because he couldn’t bring himself to say, “It’s the *words* that are *on* the containers that are dangerous” […]

(from putative.com, FedEx refuses shipment of made-up stuff, empty cans)

The thing that bugs me is the thought-war being waged on the sensible by the senseless, and it looks like the senseless have won. Even the guy who wrote the passage above uses the phrase “post-9/11, TSA-style”, as if today’s world is somehow intrinsically different from that of 2001-09-10. News flash — it isn’t. The only thing that has changed is that the people who want to oppress you have found something more emotionally stimulating than “it’s for the children” in order to justify dismantling your basic human rights. Frankly, I am surprised that the cynical bastards haven’t figured out a way to use Hurricane Katrina as an excuse to restrict, control, and oppress us.