2009-05-13 Comics artist Mark Sable detained for Unthinkable acts

2009-05-13 Ian Randal Strock SFScope \irony\American totalitarianism\airport security\US Transportation Security Administration\War on Terror http://sfscope.com/2009/05/comics-artist-mark-sable-detai.html Comics artist Mark Sable detained for Unthinkable acts Comics artist Mark Sable detained for Unthinkable acts  ...comics writer Mark Sable was detained by TSA security guards at Los Angeles International Airport this past weekend because he was carrying a script for a new issue of his comic miniseries Unthinkable. Sable was detained while traveling to New York for a debut party at Jim Hanley's Universe today.

The comic series follows members of a government think tank that was tasked with coming up with 9/11-type "unthinkable" terrorist scenarios that now are coming true.

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"I cooperated politely and tried to explain to them the irony of the situation. While Unthinkable blurs the line between fiction and reality, the story is based on a real-life government think tank where a writer was tasked to design worst-case terror scenarios. The fictional story of Unthinkable unfolds when the writer's scenarios come true, and he becomes a suspect in the terrorist attacks." Commentary:
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&ldquo;comics writer Mark Sable was detained by TSA security guards at Los Angeles International Airport ... because he was carrying a script for a new issue of his comic miniseries Unthinkable&rdquo; in which &ldquo;a writer was tasked [by the government] to design worst-case terror scenarios&rdquo; which later &ldquo;come true, and he becomes a suspect in the terrorist attacks.&rdquo; Irony, anyone?   