Making the rounds: federal air marshalls are being significantly impaired by garden variety bureaucratic bullshit:

Last week, I wrote a column on the idiotic dress code policy instituted by Thomas Quinn, head of the Federal Air Marshals Service. Quinn promptly dispatched his flack, David M. Adams, to the cable networks this week to accuse Washington Times reporter Audrey Hudson and me of spreading "patently false" reports and "misinformation."
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Given the climate, it's remarkable that so many marshals have spoken out. I've received scores of e-mails from current and former marshals in support of my column. Unlike these truth-tellers, I cannot be fired by the government for sharing their thoughts. I am removing their e-mail addresses and other identifying data, but otherwise am reprinting their letters as I received them.

Read them and tell me who is spreading "misinformation"-- the bureaucrats or the marshals?

That sound you hear is the system working. Bureaucratic bungling like this has been the rule, not the exception, for as long as humanity's government has been more sophisticated than the chief whacking people on the head with a rock. The founding fathers blessed us with the right to say what we want, when we want, precisely to correct the ridiculous excesses that are inevitable when the petty opinions of a single man are made inviolate.

Now to publicize our indignation. Link, you bloggers, link like the wind!

Or, you know, something like that.

Via Silflay.