Over at NHFree.com we have been kicking around various ideas for civil disobedience. I'm kind of a perfectionist about CD and think it should be done mostly when it's something average people could support. So I'd like to know what you progressive NH folks think, before I decide whether to do this. Right now I'd say there's a 10% chance I will.

Considering how many people have been harmed by the TSA, how expensive it has gotten, how ineffective it is generally acknowledged to be... how it even endangers people...perhaps *something* harmless needs to be done to show them that at least some folks have had enough. The images of despondent, shuffling, compliant humanity in those lines...do not remind me much of the America I read about in history books.

What if I were to touch base with all the authorities at Manch airport and inform them I and others will be appearing at a given time near the security checkpoint. I'd be wearing a shirt that reads something like: "Report TSA abuses here." I'd want to stay out of the way. If people approach me with complaints about the authorities, I give out phone numbers they can call. Maybe I bring a camera and interview passengers who come up to me, air their stories, let them use my phone, provide some other form of humanitarian assistance. Probably I do not try to videotape the checkpoint itself unless something controversial happens there. I broadcast live on Porcupine 411. Media gets invited.

My hope would actually be that I could report we have the most travel-friendly checkpoint in the country, and that airport authorities are open to scrutiny by us citizens.

More likely, assuming this really happens, I get arrested before I'm able to interview anyone. And we just plan on that possibility. Arrests generate more discussion, which is what we want, and sometimes they result in change. Most of the civil disobedience arrests I've followed in New Hampshire have in fact resulted in liberty-friendly change.

Someone pointed out that the checkpoint is on private property...which raises a potential moral issue. But the Manch airport seized some of its land through forced eminent domain seizures, some as recent as 2006. Even without the land grabs it seems quasi-public, hardly pure private property.

I would rather go up against the state govt. as they are easier to influence, and I've already done Washington once. But the feds appear to be the entity giving us the best civil dis softballs.

I felt I should consult with New Hampshire residents on the broadest practical scale before taking this much further.... so here's you're chance to weigh in and make this event your event, or perhaps make it not happen at all.

What are your thoughts?