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 Homeland Security Doesn’t Get British HumorPosted on Jan 30, 2012
It seems some tweets about plans to “destroy” America, British slang for drinking and drugging too much, and a repeat of a “Family Guy” joke, convinced U.S. officials that a pair of visiting tourists were actually terrorists who flew to L.A. in order to exhume Marilyn Monroe. The duo told the Daily Mail that security personnel searched their equipment for shovels before they were detained and deported. —PZS
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By Psychobabbler, January 31 at 5:49 pm Link to this comment
Sure it seems pretty outrageous and stupid, but take a good look at the picture of them. It’s like if Godzilla and King were British. They could totally wreck the whole southern California area easily. XD
Report thisBy c.d.embrey, January 31 at 1:29 pm Link to this comment
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Same as it ever was: Bob Dylan’s “Talkin’ John Burch Paranoid Blues” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWD8kDHCctw from 1963.
A friend of mine’s father belonged to an IWW Union in the 1920s. Although I never met the man, I’m sure I’m on someone’s watch-list because of that 8-0.
Report thisBy diamond, January 31 at 1:16 pm Link to this comment
I had to read this story twice when I came across it before I could grasp the sheer Orwellian idiocy of it. In a world awash with useless, meaningless dumbness this takes the c**e. Similarly absurd things were done by the Soviets and the Nazis. The Austrian Nazis even got Sigmund Freud to sign a statement that he had been well treated by the Gestapo before they released him. Freud wrote on the bottom of the statement: ‘I can heartily recommend the Gestapo to anyone.’ He was joking of course, but the Gestapo were much too thick to get the joke.
Report thisBy TheEnd, January 31 at 9:59 am Link to this comment
@ monkeymind - Yes.
Report thisBy gerard, January 31 at 9:53 am Link to this comment
Take a look at this for a minute: Chris Hedges just wrote about “borders” and capitalism having no borders. In a still wider view, no radical “over-the-top” system of thought or behavior acknowledges borders; each thinks it is the only, the best, the essential orthodoxy.
Radicalisms inevitably set about to “conquer” each other and reign supreme. In the process they are willing to do anything. Life itself is sacrificed to a cause believed to be “righteous,” or “necessazy”, whether it is or not. This characteristic is what makes radicalisms of all kinds dangerous and abusive.
“National security surveillance” is no exception. The other side of its face is the radicalism called “terrorism.”
The much-praised “founding fathers” understood those rational old Greeks and their “Nothing too much.” They planted in the fresh political soil of “America” the moderating limits of democracy in the form of a Constitution. Now that very Constitutional foundation is under deadly threat from
Report thisthe tyrannical forces of limitless economic exploitation. What happens next is our duty to moderate, our problem of how to, and our opportunity
to restore.Democracy itself is at stake here and now.
What we do and how we do it are equally important.
By Jim Yell, January 31 at 9:33 am Link to this comment
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I will take a deep breath and repeat that the lead in to our War On Terror could have been stopped in its tracks by the existing police and intellgence community. They had the information necessary to stop the terrorists of 9/11, but the ones who called the shots were either careless or had political reasons for not doing their job.
Putting security under one mega group makes it easier for people who intend no good to control every aspect of research and response to intellegence threats. Rather than putting everything under one Head, we should have improved communication between all the policing and intellgence groups, rather than create an all in one agency that is certain to become a fulcrum for the overthrow of Democracy in our country.
It is wrong and it is illegal.
Report thisBy Oceanna, January 31 at 7:57 am Link to this comment
These same fine people are monitoring website comments according to a release
from a couple of weeks ago that designated Huffington’s as a Homeland Security
monitoring site, and stated that there were others in addition to the list.
The brownshirts descend! Oops, I meant white shirts. Sorry.
Report thisBy Eric L. Prentis, January 31 at 6:30 am Link to this comment
Homeland security seems to be all muscle and no brain.
Report thisBy gerard, January 30 at 10:13 pm Link to this comment
Insane! Leaves the Red Queen grovelling in the dust!
Report thisBy monkeymind, January 30 at 9:39 pm Link to this comment
So, I know I am not the sharpest tool in the shed but isn’t anyone else concerned, interested, mildly inquisitive, about how the gov. got the tweets… or are we just resigned now to the fact that every toot, tweet, Facebook, email, is scanned by one big arse brother?
Report thisBy Octopodian, January 30 at 6:21 pm Link to this comment
If “p******” people off on Hollywood Blvd means “pushing
Report thispeople off on Hollywood Blvd,” that would be an act of
terrorism. I mean how would you like someone to push you
off on Hollywood Blvd? A guy could get hurt! On behalf
of all the adults here I say, “Mission accomplished and
good *uck to you.”