THE ‘10s: YR NEW FAVORITE DECADE OF FEAR

[defrog]

So, 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,

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