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Can I just take a moment to froth in rage here?

"Why, Batya," you ask, "what has you so enraged?"

This.

I just. HOW IS THIS HAPPENING.

Edited to add: here's Raed Jarrar's own account of what happened. Thanks,

madfilkentist.

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Fear, lack of real public knowledge, and a "leadership" that is power-mad.

Among other things. *sighs*

Except I can't figure out how to blame this one on the leaders. (Despite the Current Music, which is my personal private anti-Dubya song.)

The leaders are partially to blame, for creating and encouraging the atmosphere of Fear Of Everything. For creating and encouraging a general policy of Violating Freedoms Is Okay When You're Scared.

The people who buy into it are also partially to blame. Particularly the idiots in the airport who "complained". (About WHAT? Is a bomber seriously dumb enough to advertise it beforehand?)

The idiots in security who acted as they did on the complaint also are partially to blame, for taking the general policies noted above and applying them further. It's security and law enforcement's job not only to respond to possible threats, but to determine when there is no threat. There was no threat and no law broken, and what they should have done, after speaking to the man, was to go back to the complainers and say "ma'am, the gentleman poses no threat and is not breaking any law or rule." And if the idiots who complained weren't satisfied, well, they could stay off the damn plane.

Whuf.

I find myself using this icon more and more lately...

Dude. It took me a moment, but I figured out the icon. Brilliant.

Hee! Thanks. When I was googling for images, I actually had in mind for 'foxtrot' something like one of those pictures of footsteps to teach people how to do different dances. But when an overwhelming number of Amend's comic strips came up, I went "oh YEAH!" :)

Seconding the icon-love.

patrickat has a great WTF variant of his own, but I can't find it.

You mean this one?

That's the one! :D

[heads up: found it.]

I just figured the icon out myself... brilliant!

The leaders have inspired a climate of fear in which infringement upon civil liberties is possible and encouraged.

Thank you for linking. We all have to know about horrors like that when they happen.

Not just yours, Barry Helton actually updated the words and put it on a CD, which I could find if I were home.

Srsly? I'd love to hear that.

Barry Childs-Helton, ya rly. Except it was actually Wild Mercy, their band. I am fogbrained today, and super frustrated because I can't find anything online more recent than 2003 but I thought I had this and I KNOW I've heard it, because it made Maureen really mad at OVFF.

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