"That law is supposedly secret. Us peons don't get to know what, if anything, the law of the land actually says on that subject. After all, if bad guys could see the law, they'd know what they could get away with. Too bad the founders didn't have the foresight to keep the Bill of Rights secret; it could have eliminated lots of pesky civil rights suits and 'technicalities' that freed innocent people." -- Keith F. Lynch, 2006-06-18, in the newsgroup rec.arts.sf.fandom, regarding the secret law about airport security (currently (at the time I inserted this quote into the queue) being challenged) [Subject: "Re: Conventions that don't suck?", Message-ID: <e755q5$84h$1@panix2.panix.com>
[Reminder: tomorrow is International Talk Like A Pirate Day.]