Bill of Rights Cards & 4th Amendment Tape

Via jwz, a cool product: Bill of Rights, Security Edition. It's a pocket-sized metal card - just big enough to set off metal detectors.

The next time you travel by air, take the Bill of Rights - Security Edition along with you. When asked to empty your pockets, proudly toss the Bill of Rights in the plastic bin.

You need to get used to offering up the bill of rights for inspection and government workers enforcing the USAPATRIOT ACT need to get used to deciding if you'll be allowed to keep the Bill of Rights with you when you travel.

Penn Jillette loves them, anyway.

And if you like symbolically giving up the bill of rights when you fly, you'll love having the 4th amendment symbolically sliced through to have your luggage and packages searched. The EFF sells 4th Amendment packing tape. (They sell the Bill of Rights Cards, too, but it's a fundraiser for them, so they cost more.) As the designer, Brad Templeton, says:

You can put this shipping tape on your packages and your airplane luggage. Every time I fly, my luggage gets a card in it telling me how “for my protection” they have searched it.

Now, when they open my luggage, they will have to literally slice the 4th amendment in half in order to do this.