>>In Poll, Most Americans Back Bush
Yeah, just like his daddy in the last war. Then came '92. It's becoming a Bush tradition.
Different time, same old tune. Will check back with ya next round, heh heh heh.
It's all downhill from here.
Peak too early, fall hard. All sounds so familiar, doesn't it ?
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee !!
Please check your liberties at the door, George W. McCarthyism is on the rebound.
Achtung !
sfgate.com
-- -- -- The political profiling starts? If you're a
known political activist who doesn't act subservient
to an obnoxious National Guardsman, you might be
in trouble at an airport.
Last Thursday, Maine Green Party member Nancy
Oden had a reservation on American Airlines to fly
from Bangor International Airport to Chicago for a
Green Party convention. She says that before she
even showed any ID, her ticket had an "S" written
on it, presumably for "search."
"These people know who I was and what I looked
like," she said. "One National Guard guy grabbed
my arm and started yelling pro-war stuff at me. I
said 'Don't touch me. I don't have to listen to your
mindless guff.' "
Oden says she's "lost the fear gene" in 30 years of
activism.
She says that "when six other National Guardsmen
armed with machine guns approached this woman
of a certain age, with some gray hair, conservatively
dressed, I said, 'Guys, is this all for me?' "
The upshot was that she was banned from the flight,
and from all flights, for allegedly not complying with
a search. She says she did comply with the search,
but didn't like being manhandled by a "little Taliban
guy" of a National Guardsman.
She was told she was flagged in the computer.
Pending a lawsuit she's bringing, she doesn't know if
she'll ever be able to fly out of Bangor again. That's
really tough, and adds new meaning to the old
Maine saying: "You can't get there from here."
Somehow the nation has gotten to a lot of places
we never thought possible. |
