Yeah, I know, internet petitions are, to steal from Dodgeball, the online equivalent of a “bunch of retards trying to hump a doorknob.”
Still, I received an email today from the Association of Flight Attendants in response to my blogging against the recent Transportation Security Administration decision to once again allow small knives and sharp tools on airline flights [see here and here]. The association hoped I would publicize their drive against the decision.
Despite the fact that I despise online petitions in general, and the concept that such spammable means could ever effect public policy in particular, I will link to the AFA’s site, Leave All Blades Behind.com, if only for the sake of hopefully spreading the word against what I feel is a tragic mistake. Fine, so Joe Schmoe gives up his handy pocket knife; the people running this probably-worthless petition are the ones in a position that all too recently faced boxcutters held by murderous bastards. I say again: while sharp objects may no longer be considered the major threat to our flights, they still must be considered a controllable threat.