So now the Consumer Product Safety Commission's in on the War on Terror ... this time terrorizing physicists and little kids! Check it out:
"Garage chemistry used to be a rite of passage for geeky kids. But in their search for terrorist cells and meth labs, authorities are making a federal case out of DIY science."
Wow, we here at Agitprop feel safer already! Kick those geeks to the ground and ship 'em to Gitmo!
"The first startling thing Joy White saw out of her bedroom window was a man running toward her door with an M16. White’s husband, a physicist named Bob Lazar, was already outside, awakened by their barking dogs. Suddenly police officers and men in camouflage swarmed up the path, hoisting a battering ram. “Come out with your hands up immediately, Miss White!” one of them yelled through a megaphone, while another handcuffed the physicist in his underwear. Recalling that June morning in 2003, Lazar says, “If they were expecting to find Osama bin Laden, they brought along enough guys.” The target of this operation, which involved more than two dozen police officers and federal agents, was not an international terrorist ring but the couple’s home business, United Nuclear Scientific Supplies, a mail-order outfit that serves amateur scientists, students, teachers, and law enforcement professionals."
Yeah baby! Battering rams! This is real smart - lock up anyone who might help train our next generation of scientists. Oh wait - we forgot ... science is out now.
tags: bush science chemistry impeach bush consumer product safety commission war on terror
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Posted by: Fred | May 31, 2006 at 07:26 AM
There's really a simple solution for this. Just change the name of the business to United Christian Bible Supplies. Problem solved!
Posted by: Tony | May 31, 2006 at 07:34 AM
Science makes Jesus cry.
Posted by: Robot Buddha | May 31, 2006 at 08:46 AM
I really enjoyed playing with my chemistry set and they are right about kids not enjoying science without the benefit of labs. Sometimes I didn't understand something until I saw it with my own eyes.
We are such a sad country lately.
Posted by: Debra | May 31, 2006 at 10:28 AM
Who's going to invent the next generation of giant bomby-things?
Posted by: Tata | May 31, 2006 at 11:11 AM
It is going to be even more difficult for the US to compete internationally in math and science (like Bush wants to compete in a glbal economy) when the DHS is busy rounding up all those would-be-scientists.
Posted by: M A F | May 31, 2006 at 11:35 AM
reminds me a bit of the story about the kid who brought a burrito to school, and some one in their "post 9-11" thinking called the cops saying he either had a gun or explosive...
I wish I could find the link to that story...
Posted by: denisdekat | May 31, 2006 at 04:43 PM
UGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Yes, let's dumb down our children even further.
Posted by: Catherine | May 31, 2006 at 05:10 PM
And this made us safer how? Jesus, this country has lost it's rational mind completely.
Posted by: pissed off patricia | June 01, 2006 at 06:28 AM
First round up all the thinkers and artists and toss 'em in jail... then target a certain group of people & toss them in jail ... murdering them comes next!
Posted by: HelenWheels | June 01, 2006 at 10:31 AM
Bob Lazar? Is that the same guy who outed Area 51? The government has been wanting to nail him for years...
Posted by: Martin Hoerchner | June 02, 2006 at 03:19 PM
Let's not stop with merely dumbing down the kids, let's weigh them down with sugar and lard, and plop 'em in front of a movie or video game, and create diabetic, drooling idiots who are prone to violence!
Posted by: HelenWheels | June 05, 2006 at 04:28 PM