Life During Wartime : Another Brick in the Wall
Posted on March 15, 2003 at 12:31 pm | No Comments
If this story doesn’t make you at least a little bit nauseous, a little bit afraid, or a little bit angry… well, you’re on your way to full submission.
from the Seattle Times…
Suitcase surprise: Rebuke written on inspection notice
Seth Goldberg says that when he opened his suitcase in San Diego after a flight from Seattle this month, the two “No Iraq War” signs he’d picked up at the Pike Place Market were still nestled among his clothes.
But there was a third sign, he said, that shocked him. Tucked in his luggage was a card from the Transportation Security Administration notifying him that his bags had been opened and inspected at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Handwritten on the side of the card was a note, “Don’t appreciate your anti-American attitude!”
“I found it chilling and a little Orwellian to have received this message,” said Goldberg, 41, a New Jersey resident who was in Seattle visiting longtime friend Davis Oldham, a University of Washington instructor. more
And the dark times keep on getting darker.
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