There is. So. Much. Rage.

[batyatoon]

-- and hey, how's that for a cheery title for my first LJ post in months?

I'd been planning to start posting more often again, and I was gonna make this a What's Been Up With Me Lately sort of thing -- stuff about the apartment we're attempting to buy and the ohmygod job offer I got yesterday and similar. But I decided to save that for a later post.

Because I read this. To which I am linking with permission of the author. (Selkie's a recent addition to my flist; I met her through milliways_bar, which is another thing I will tell you all about next time.)
[ETA: Link removed, as post has been locked -- see below.]

It's about a very personal, very ugly civil rights violation. All perfectly legal and perfectly horrifying.

This story we spread.

Comments

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

That sucks big red rubbery moose.

I hope (but don't imagine) that she had the sense to get the names and badge numbers of all the people involved. More to the point, while they may have been within their legal rights, HOW they do the things they do might well be out of bounds, despite that WHAT they do is technically okay. (IANAL. IDNPOOTV.)

And, naturally, right after seeing this, dglenn posts a link to this story (http://pennandteller.com/sincity/penniphile/federalvip.html) about Penn Jillette coping with the TSA. It helps that he's a celeb, and has money and the confidence to stand up to them -- but it would be good to spread this around, too, so folks know how to stand up to the rent-a-cops the feds are relying on.