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Is that what the TSA actually said, or just your interpretation of it?
by dedward 15y ago
Is that what the TSA actually said, or just your interpretation of it?
- finnw 15y agoWouldn't it be a shame if your shop got broken into, looted and set on fire? Is the above sentence a threat? Of course it is. Not literally (I did not directly say that I would send thugs to loot your shop if you refused to pay me protection money) but a reasonable person would, more likely than not, interpret it as a threat. If I did not mean it that way but was so dumb as not to anticipate that you would read it that way, I would deserve to go to jail for extortion anyway. And the TSA, by virtue of having the power to add people to the No Fly List without public scrutiny and knowing of all the rumours of them having added people for political reasons, they should expect any "request" they make to be interpreted that way, and they should take extra care to ensure that it isn't.