Last Friday, Austrian art group Sabotage was planning to distribute fake passports for its "State of Sabotage" as part of the opening of an exhibit at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center. Apparently, the "art critics" at the US Department of Homeland Security didn't like the idea and snatched the items out of Sabotage leader Robert Jelinek's luggage. From the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Jelinkek… did not discover the items were missing from his luggage until it turned up Thursday, a day after his arrival here. Buried inside the luggage was a folded receipt from U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the missing items, which also included: seventy-seven brochures produced by the CAC and Sabotage, a container of glue, two ink pads, four "State of Sabotage" stamps, a camera and a bottle of Sabotage perfume called "Cash."
A spokesperson with US Customs and Border Protection said that the items were confiscated because the agent thought they could "in some way be harmful if imported into the U.S."
Link to Enquirer article, Link to the State of Sabotage where you can apply for a passport! (Thanks, Bob Pescovitz!)
