>My spouse's ex put commie pamphlets in her luggage when they traveled. She was stopped for it.

What? Tell us more.

Who stopped her? Why was she actually stopped and searched? They aren’t going to just see or know you have “commie pamphlets” in your suitcase.

Checked luggage gets opened legally without the owner present all the time.

Some luggage does, sure, but not most.

Parent’s spouse just got really unlucky that their ex put pamphlets in their luggage the same day they got randomly selected to have their luggage searched? And the TSA agent cared so much about pamphlets that they reported it somewhere? And then stopped her?

That’s a lot of really bad luck all in one day, don’t you think? That’s why I’d like a little more information before I blindly believe this isn’t just made up.

When I was a teenager after 9/11, me and my family had donated to the Holy Land foundation. For the next two years, my literal firewood delivery business I ran with my dad that grossed under 10K was audited by the IRS.