Tuesday, November 19, 2002

Congress backs Bush on homeland security. The US Senate votes decisively in favour of creating a huge new Department of Homeland Security - long advocated by President Bush. [BBC News | Front Page] The decisive 90-9 vote settled a lengthy dispute between Congress and the White House over whether to move ahead with the plan. Further evidence that, despite their rhetoric, both the Republican and the Democrat branches of the Boot On Your Neck Party are equally committed to opression. comment () trackback ()  6:04:11 PM     Teens leave U.S. after terror prank. The students, 17-year-old Fhilup Kojic of Germany, 16-year-old Pablo Sorie of Spain and 17-year-old Marcus Ulander of Sweden, arrived in the United States three months ago. They attended Payson High School. Thurston, who found the video Tuesday on a CD discarded by Kojic and Sorie as they prepared to move to another host family, said the video showed the boys wearing sheets or pillow cases on their heads like turbans. They also boasted about planting bombs at the World Trade Center, hijacking airplanes and demanding ransom money, said Thurston, who alerted police and officials from the EF Foundation for Foreign Study after viewing the tape. The boys claimed in the video to be Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Mohammed Atta and pretended to shoot the flag with a BB gun, Thurston said. The U.S. flag was hanging on the wall behind the boys while they filmed the video. "They said, 'We don't have a lighter but if we did we'd light it,' " Thurston said. [deseretnews.com] Charming people, those Europeans. comment () trackback ()  2:39:46 PM     Birthing The Ogpu: Chronicles Of The Galloping Sovietization. Fred On Everything - Birthing The Ogpu: Chronicles Of The Galloping Sovietization - some comments on the "security" on Fred's latest airline trip morphing into a fine rant on the Aunty Gummint's new Total Information Awareness program. [smith2004] Brainless thoroughness complemented thorough brainlessness. They pulled everything out, knowing what none of it was, and stuffed it back in, having accomplished nothing. The exercise was pointless. I had two dive lights containing twelve C-cells. They could have been carefully sealed Semtex. The dive computer could have been full of C4. And the airlines wonder why people fly less. Tell you what. I'm going to call Homeland Security in an Arabic accent and say, "We sending suicide bomber, he haff explosive prostate. Heeheehee!" Then I'll buy railroad stocks. ... Patterns of behavior. Data mining. If you have lunch three times at Kabob Bazaar, and charge ammunition at the shooting range where you take your daughter plinking, and read a book on torpedo design because you like military history-the computers will kick your name out, and the feds will show up to ransack your life. I'd rather have the terrorists. [End the War on Freedom] comment () trackback ()  9:14:21 AM     Lawful selling of guns caught on tape. A few days ago, my undersheriff received a call from a television station ... they wanted me to comment on some video taken at a gun show recently held here. Apparently, while under cover, they videotaped the sale of a rifle by a private person, to the undercover reporter. It sounded like they wanted me to watch the video, and then wring my hands that something like this could happen. Hmm. It sounded interesting. At the appointed time, they arrived, all the way from Seattle. I guess it isn't news that one of the largest gun shows in the state is held in King County. As they set the equipment up, the reporter began by looking at me with a wrinkled, almost pained look, and said 'Sheriff, (that's me) we came down and secretly videotaped a gun purchase between our reporter and a private person at the gun show in Centralia ... are you concerned about that?' 'Let me be sure I understand what we have here,' I replied. 'You have a video, of a lawful transaction, by law-abiding citizens, and wonder if that concerns me?' Nope. [FirearmNews.com] Is it legal to secretly videotape someone like that in Washington? comment () trackback ()  9:01:03 AM

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