Here’s the audio of the passenger who was recently detained at St. Louis airport for carrying $4710 in cash contributions to a political organization through security.

I have a hard time figuring out why carrying ‘a large sum of money’ makes someone a threat to airport security. Someone who is going to blow up a plane is unlikely to bring a large sum of money with them onboard, unless perhaps they’re attempting to single-handedly combat the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing… (Though even there, as Ben Bernanke drops money from helicopters, doesn’t it seem easier for a terrorist just to burn the money than the bring it onboard an aircraft?)

(Hat tip to One Mile at a Time.)