the end
Via Radley Balko's blog, two other stories on Tennessee's multi-agency "anti-terrorism" operation that produced a bunch of traffic tickets and arrests on ordinary criminal warrants. Under the stunning headline, "Law Enforcement Crackdown on Terrorists," they ... it ...arrrgggggghhhhh!!!! Okay, just go look at the fucking stories.The highpoints:
"They are determining if and when they plan another round-up."
Because massive government "round-ups" are routine and unobjectionable.
And these astounding four paragraphs:
The FBI along with hundreds of officers said they are looking for anything out of the ordinary. Agents take computers and paperwork from businesses.While some business owners feel they are being targeted -- by armed government agents raiding their businesses and hauling off their property in a fishing expedition for "anything unusual" -- law-enforcement officers said they are just trying to track down possible terrorists before something big happens.
One store owner said he was told the agents were looking for stolen electronics. While some business owners feel they are being targeted, law-enforcement officers said they are just trying to track down possible terrorists before something big happens.
"What we have found traditionally is that terrorists are involved in a number of lesser known type crimes," said Mark Luttrell, Shelby County sheriff.
There has been no word on if any of the confiscated goods have led to any arrests.
Random, pre-emptive police raids. That the police say they are "just" doing to catch any potential future terrorists. In Tennessee.
Motherfucking fuck. Stick a fork in us.
posted by Chris Bray @ 10:19 PM
5 Comments:
Yeah, if the sleeper cell targetting Graceland gets away, the Feds'll never, ever live it down.
Clearly we're being acclimated. But I think there's an element of paper-shuffling going on: the feds and local cops have gotten a lot of extra money and equipment and computers out of this whole Homeland Security boondoggle, and if they don't start looking busy, someone's going to start asking questions about the pointlessness of the whole operation.
"What we have found traditionally is that terrorists are involved in a number of lesser known type crimes," said Mark Luttrell, Shelby County sheriff.
What the ever-loving fucking fuck? We have found this traditionally when?! Which terrorist cells have "traditionally" operated in Shelby County? And when, precisely, did we ascertain that Islamic Jihad has been trafficking in stolen clock-radios?
Thanks a lot, Bray -- I had been in a perfectly good mood tonight.
I have a newborn daughter, currently asleep a couple of feet away from me. I'm thinking about the world she has to live in, and hooooly fuck, am I in a foul fucking mood. So I totally win the depressed-and-angry medal, tonight, and everybody else has to be in second place.
Fortunately, I am drinking.
Yeah, I know the feeling. But eventually she'll get old enough to understand what's going on around her, and you will get more and more desperate -- not to change what's going on, but just to keep them from noticing as long as possible.
That's when you're really in hell, friend. My time is running out.....
Be careful around that daughter of yours. "What we have found traditionally is that most terrorists were infants at some point."
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