more non-news from the department of insecurity

[topaz]

Stolen from fj:

Watch out when doing your homework; you too could be charged with Photographing While Black.

Lose your resident alien paperwork, spend seven months in detention. Part I and Part II. (I'd like to find more coverage of this issue to find out exactly what the backstory is, but this is all I can find so far.)

I like bookteacher's suggestion quite a lot: if you're white, the next time you see agents in a public place searching or checking IDs of a non-white person, demand to join the party. "Excuse me, officer? Are you here to perform random searches? Here, please search my bag. No, no, I insist that you search my bag!"

(At least it's more productive than my other instinct, which was to say "no" to anyone demanding to search my bags on the T and thus become a test case for the ACLU when I got arrested.)

Comments

[d3l1r1um.livejournal.com]

I'm absolutely horrified, in an unsurprised sort of way.

[qwrrty.livejournal.com]

That kind of sums up my reaction to almost everything following 9/11.