Man held as terrorism suspect over punk song...

[mintlivedotcom]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=382039&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=

Maybe I should stop singing in the shower.

[dmw007]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=382039&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=

Maybe I should stop singing in the shower.

Sad to see it happen to what appears to be an innocent person. I guess that these days it is better to be safe than sorry (although, there is a fine line between protecting us from harm and from protecting our civil liberties).

[Sdashiki]

Since when does musical taste even come close to something like racial profiling?


Oh wait, there it is.

;)

[Blind Buzzard]

Makes you wonder about movies like "V for Vendetta," doesn't it?

[andiwm2003]

i almost got arrested in boston for taking pictures of birds on a pond. the pond happened to be a overflow basin for storm water and someone reported me to the police for terroristic activity.

well, 9 out of 10 ponds in boston are water reservoirs anyway, people fish, bike and run around the pond. the city has maps and pictures of the pond on the internet. i took the pictures on a puplic street with tens of people around biking and running.

that all didn't help. being in the middle of a visa application makes this very scary to me. if this raises a flag with the background check they do for my visa application it's gonna cost me a lot of time and money.

stupid paranoid people.

[aquajet]

It doesn't get any more disturbing than this. I'm just waiting for the day someone is detained for reading 1984.

These folks need to start a Thorazine regimen. Maybe put it in the water supplies.

That was a joke, btw.

[iBlue]

typical. always looking for terrorism in the wrong places. :rolleyes:

[dornoforpyros]

Listen to music while you still can.

[hookahco]

Makes you wonder about movies like "V for Vendetta," doesn't it?
FIRST THING I THOUGHT AFTER READING THE TITLE!!
I just saw it yesterday... great movie. Who knows.. maybe we'll end up like that someday. The government just wants to have an enemy it can "protect" us from.

[Don't panic]

Sad to see it happen to what appears to be an innocent person. I guess that these days it is better to be safe than sorry (although, there is a fine line between protecting us from harm and from protecting our civil liberties).

So i suppose you'd be ok if you get arrested, publicly humiliated, get some sort of precedent on you rap sheet for terroristic activities and loose a bunch of time and money because you come from Lebanon (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?u=53379)?
better safe then sorry....

[Blind Buzzard]

Being from OHIO; this is what was hitting our news station a few days ago.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/02/D8G3NUIG0.html

mmmmmm.... brain fizziles as i set in silence wondering how our founding fathers would react...

[Jaffa Cake]

Blimey... I've got London Calling in my iTunes, too. Worrying. And a quick peak in the rest of my library also reveals The Jam's 'A' Bomb in Wardour Street, Explode by The Cardigans and Happiness Is A Warm Gun by U2. Looks like I could be in BIG trouble

Luckily though, I've also got Killing An Arab by The Cure so hopefully that should demonstrate I'm not an al Qaeda sympathiser...

[Ugg]

Sad to see it happen to what appears to be an innocent person. I guess that these days it is better to be safe than sorry (although, there is a fine line between protecting us from harm and from protecting our civil liberties).

Whatever happened to common sense? Paranoia does nobody any good other than the charlatans that promote it. I guess that means you're glad to be ruled by them?!?!

[mkrishnan]

Listen, everyone. Listen well.

ALL TERRORISTS listen to classic rock and seminal punk. All of them. Mark my words™. It's what we call pathognomic.

[Sayhey]

Damn, I listen to the Clash all the time. I guess I'll have to change my musical taste or get discovered. How's Gil Scott-Heron's The Revolution Will Not be Televised (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=2627776&s=143441&i=2627760)? Do you think that will be ok? ;)

[mactastic]

Good thing he wasn't listening to DK! (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dead-kennedys/38164.html)

Or The Vandals (http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/V/thevandalslyrics/thevandalsanarchyburgerholdthegovernmentlyrics.html) for that matter.

Warning: Explicit lyrics!

[zimv20]

though i suppose one could get away with DK's Kill the Poor (http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dead-kennedys/38160.html).

[solvs]

I guess that these days it is better to be safe than sorry (although, there is a fine line between protecting us from harm and from protecting our civil liberties).
Which is why it isn't better to be safe than sorry. We still aren't even safe (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=190139) either. I'd say it's better to live free than live in fear. Also just saw V. Used to think it was paranoid fantasy. Now I'm not so sure.

[XNine]

That's it, on 06/06/2006 I will play all of my Clash, Exploited (especially the War Now EP), Zepplin, Subhumans, and just about any other classic punk/rock album I have as loud as my stereo will go, off of my balcony.

Should an anti-terrorist unit be deployed I will then over my Mic shout "I AM GODZILLA, YOU ARE JAPAN *credit to Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead*...(funny enough, I live in Denver.)

Let's hope they don't kill me. Because if they do, then I'm definitely going to be pissed.

:p

[tristan]

After they harass and round up enough innocent people in the US, maybe they'll eventually go after Bin Laden.

[zimv20]

After they harass and round up enough innocent people in the US, maybe they'll eventually go after Bin Laden.
why? what music does he listen to?

[XNine]

why? what music does he listen to?

Jihad Cave Rock, DUH. :D

[leftbanke7]

Listen, everyone. Listen well.

ALL TERRORISTS listen to classic rock and seminal punk. All of them. Mark my words™. It's what we call pathognomic.

Listen to it? Hell, if Cat Stevens is any indication, they wrote and sang it!

[FFTT]

I think Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld and Rowe should be locked up for high treason, does that make me a "Terrist" ;)

[solvs]

I think Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld and Rowe should be locked up for high treason, does that make me a "Terrist" ;)
No, just a realist. ;)