Bad joke - Part II

When I posted the article about the guy who got the third degree for scribbling a sentence with the word "bomb" in it (not even in the military meaning), I was thinking that the tendency to abuse power by small-minded control freaks in mundane jobs is perhaps the biggest beneficiary of the PATRIOT ACT and the fascist tendencies now running their course in our country. Digby posted about that same article, and provides another account of a journalist trying to enter at LAX, which you really should read. His conclusion:

If this keeps up, sooner or later we will all end up, in one way or another, on the "Homeland Security Watchlist" where anyone from a professional rival to a vengeful neighbor can be the instrument of terror in a way that bin Laden and gang can only envy. In fact, these little people with too much power scare me a hundred times more than the Islamic terrorists. The threat that lives among us is ourselves.

Yes. We can't escape ourselves. And that's why we must repeal the PATRIOT ACT, something both The Little Emperor and John Kerry support.