That's really stretching the elastic, like when the subway cat tries to put on a pair of 24" waistline ladies' unmentionables.
As long ago as when I was a little lad, long before George Bush, long before 9/11, people were being asked the contents of a package (either at the post office or a private delivery service), such as "any liquids or flammables inside?"
Signs since long before George Bush and 9/11 have been posted describing items one could not send out in the mail or through a delivery service, but people generally don't pay any attention to signs, and so this is, and was, always simply a gentle reminder.
The lonely star idiot primitive is just a grouch; in fact, among the circa 5,000 primitives on Skins's island, I always considered the lonely star idiot primitive in real life to probably be one of the most selfish, anti-social, intolerant people one can hope to meet. And I bet I'm not wrong.