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batyatoon ([personal profile] batyatoon) wrote2006-08-30 12:11 pm
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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, [livejournal.com profile] madfilkentist.
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[personal profile] silveraspen 2006-08-30 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Fear, lack of real public knowledge, and a "leadership" that is power-mad.

Among other things. *sighs*
adiva_calandia: (WTF.)

[personal profile] adiva_calandia 2006-08-30 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
........

Uh.

Whut.
bcgphoenix: (i'ma CUT YOU.)

[personal profile] bcgphoenix 2006-08-30 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
.....

I have no words.

*just. stares.*
ladyiapetus: (Harpo: OMGWTFBBQ?!?)

[personal profile] ladyiapetus 2006-08-30 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I am scarily reminded of one of Frank Burns' lines from M*A*S*H, the one that went "Unless we all conform, unless we follow our leaders blindly, there is no possible way we can remain free."
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[personal profile] varadia 2006-08-30 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Some days I hate the fact that an outside world exists.

[identity profile] kaikias.livejournal.com 2006-08-30 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
*lets the icon say it*

[identity profile] darthrami.livejournal.com 2006-08-30 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
...whut.

[identity profile] filkerdave.livejournal.com 2006-08-30 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I heard that on the news, then saw a link in [livejournal.com profile] debgeisler's LJ this morning.

It's a damned shame I can't get one of those shirts before I fly to London next week. (That and a shame I didn't get one of the Ben Franklin shirts at LACon)

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2006-08-30 04:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! That's disgusting! And so familiar!

*quietly fumes*

[identity profile] xochitl42.livejournal.com 2006-08-30 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I...I know. I know. Ugh.

[identity profile] mabfan.livejournal.com 2006-08-30 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
People are scared. That's how it's happening. And they're letting it happen.
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[personal profile] madfilkentist 2006-08-30 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm scared. Because it's happening.

[identity profile] patrickat.livejournal.com 2006-08-30 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
The paranoia is taking over, and just about anything that deviates from the normal is going to be a target. All it really takes is one or two people going to security to express a concern about some aspect of another passenger for that other passenger to be subject to additional scrutiny. It doesn't really matter whether the concern they express is well-founded.

[identity profile] agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com 2006-08-30 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it sad that I want to make one in Elvish just to see who'd get the joke?

[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2006-08-30 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I would buy that!

[identity profile] daniidebrabant.livejournal.com 2006-08-30 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
...I feel mildly ill.

[identity profile] agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com 2006-08-30 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, it's not like the 'Mericans in question would know the difference.

[identity profile] greektoomey.livejournal.com 2006-08-30 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
This ain't your grampa's you-ess of aye.

[identity profile] tropes.livejournal.com 2006-08-30 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I saw that on Salon the other day. Shocking.

[identity profile] filkerdave.livejournal.com 2006-08-30 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I would wear it. On a flight.

(Having worn this (http://www.cafepress.com/politicklers.13281004) on a flight already).
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[personal profile] mtgat 2006-08-30 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope he sues them for ten million dollars and wins.

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