Originally Posted by
bocastephen
Makes me wish we had an excommunication process.
The release is probably to remind a good chunk of the TSA force not to behave like idiots if they see observant Jews traveling with religious items.
Picture the lulov and etrog, now picture the TSA at EWR, PHL, and BWI and their well-known attitude issues....get the picture?
And also some BDOs might consider this stuff "odd" (read- enough to take someone in for questioning) when it's perfectly normal. Head off that kind of trouble at the pass, I guess.