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Old Sep 5, 2013, 7:10 am
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Olivia Gets Wanded

The TSA has become so ingrained that children's books now portray the security process as something pleasing:

https://twitter.com/usayd/status/370237296215216129/photo/1

http://www.amazon.com/Olivia-Goes-Venice-Ian-Falconer/dp/1416996745

Although I believe children should be taught what to expect (and wanding isn't it) they should also be taught why it is wrong.
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Old Sep 5, 2013, 7:45 am
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Didn't chairman Mao have literature describing the perks and joys
of turning in your dissident parents to authorities? Hit them when they're
young and their brains are still malleable...

I've submitted my polemic children's novel to Amazon, for publication, called
Olivia Machine Guns Totalitarian Zombie Squad.
No response so far.
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Old Sep 5, 2013, 8:37 am
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We had a thread about this exact same book and image just over 2 years ago:


http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/check...n-darling.html
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