Now here's an idea I could get behind. Er. Support. Er. Whatever.
The STRIP Act is not some adult show.It's a new House bill that stands for Stop TSA's Reach In Policy and would prevent Transportation Security Administration officers from wearing law enforcement uniforms and police-like badges and calling themselves officers unless they receive law enforcement training.
Years ago, a friend drew/wrote comic strips for our high school newspaper. And it so happened that for a brief, shining moment, the sheriff yanked special deputy status away from our school cops, meaning they couldn't carry guns. This was due if I recall correctly to some fit of pique on the part of the sheriff, but at any rate it ran in the (real) newspapers that our town(ship) clowns had been stripped of their police powers.
So naturally, my buddy produced a comic about this, with a fairly-recognizable caricature of one of the school cops in hot-footed pursuit of a couple of truant students, when all of a sudden somebody yells, "Hey officer! Your police powers have been yanked!" or whatever it was. Anyway, the second panel is the cop stopping dead in his tracks. "You mean I've been stripped?"
Third panel: Cop standing there in his BVDs with a stupified look on his face, off-screen voice: "Yep."
The school paper ran it. And the next day my friend made an involuntary visit to the Vice Principal to have the Riot Act read, viz., perhaps he should be more circumspect with regard to his subject matter next time.
Hey, Geoff. Can you redo that comic for me? :) You may never get to fly again, but you never go anywhere anyway.
