THE ‘10s: YR NEW FAVORITE DECADE OF FEAR
Jan. 16th, 2010 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogSo, we’re 15 days into the new decade. Let’s see how that’s going.
1. DON’T TAPE ME, BRO!
Police in Boston are arresting people for recording them with camera-phones while they arrest other people who don’t have camera-phones.
2. AL QAEDA: THE PRIMARY SCHOOL YEARS
Mikey Hicks is on the TSA’s terrorist watch list. He is eight years old. He received his first airport pat-down when he was two. Because shit, Jim, you never can tell.
3. EVERYTHING IS A BOMB
In San Diego, an 11-year-old kid brings a science project to school: a motion sensor. A vice principal thinks it’s a bomb, shuts down the school, calls the cops and has the bomb squad x-ray it. The kid is not charged, but authorities recommend he get counseling – presumably because no kid in his right mind would make something that adults might think is a bomb.
Actually, that last one is understandable – given that we have been trained to assume everything might be a bomb. Because 9/11 changed everything.
As you can see.
Ride the fear train,
This is dF
1. DON’T TAPE ME, BRO!
Police in Boston are arresting people for recording them with camera-phones while they arrest other people who don’t have camera-phones.
2. AL QAEDA: THE PRIMARY SCHOOL YEARS
Mikey Hicks is on the TSA’s terrorist watch list. He is eight years old. He received his first airport pat-down when he was two. Because shit, Jim, you never can tell.
3. EVERYTHING IS A BOMB
In San Diego, an 11-year-old kid brings a science project to school: a motion sensor. A vice principal thinks it’s a bomb, shuts down the school, calls the cops and has the bomb squad x-ray it. The kid is not charged, but authorities recommend he get counseling – presumably because no kid in his right mind would make something that adults might think is a bomb.
Actually, that last one is understandable – given that we have been trained to assume everything might be a bomb. Because 9/11 changed everything.
As you can see.
Ride the fear train,
This is dF
