(10/25/08) Las Vegas, NV--
Duly diligent Transportation Safety Administration personnel today confiscated a pocketknife from Mark Hanna, 58, of Las Vegas, as he attempted to enter the Barack Obama presidential campaign rally at Bonanza High School. Only weeks ago (see 09/03/08), TSA took Hanna’s pocketknife of thirty-one years at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport in an action he decried as robbery. The “weapon” taken off Hanna today had been purchased two weeks ago in Flagstaff, Arizona, while Hanna was there visiting his daughter, triggering immediate questions of how Hanna had successfully smuggled the Swiss Army blade past authorities at the Hoover Dam checkpoint. Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff has warned of the danger posed by repeat offenders, making Hanna’s second apprehension in as many months cause for possible alarm at an increase in terrorist activity. Election officials staved off questions of whether or not today’s incident might be indicative of tactics that could be used to deny eligible citizens their Constitutional right to vote. Magnotometers at polling places might be considered a violation of civil rights and so the method is first being tested at less contentious public assemblies (see Articles 20 and 23) to observe public reaction. The TSA official that talked Hanna down before successfully disarming him said that this was the first actual attempt to bring a pocketknife into the secured premises out of approximately 7,500 who had already been screened. Hundreds of would-be assassins could be seen turning back after watching Hanna get caught. Said Hanna, “Be afraid! Be very afraid!”
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