Ah, so crime does pay! - Ed Brock  Law, like all aspects of
human behavior, is arbitrary.  Basically, that means we make it
up as we go along, and that's not a bad thing. You see, life is
random and flexibility is required. When wood loses its
flexibility it loses its strength, it becomes brittle.  In the
same way the law, and indeed our everyday sense of right and
wrong, must remain flexible in order to be effective. It must be
able to deal with unforeseeable circumstances, or as Donald
Rumsfeld would say, "the things we don't know we don't know."  A
case in point is that against Nathaniel Heatwole, the 20-year-
old college student who smuggled box cutters onto a Southwest
Airlines flight to prove a point. His point, it would seem, was
taken, as evidenced by the fact that he is now an official
trainer for federal airport screeners.  As part of a plea
bargain, Heatwole made a video based on his experience to reveal
the holes in the system that allowed him to do what he did.
Heatwole might also have to serve up