Undercover Homeland Security officers handcuffed and roughed up a
school employee who asked them to move their car out of a school bus
loading zone. Leander Pickett, a teacher’s asisstant at Englewood
Elementary, was slammed against a car and handcuffed in the backseat
for 30 minutes by Homeland Security agents, while scared children
looked on. The school’s principal said, “If this is Homeland
Security, I think we ought to be a little afraid.”
While seemingly a small incident in comparison to the mass round-ups
and detentions of immigrants and surveilance and supression of dissent
by the Department of Homeland Security, nonetheless this incident is
telling of the standard operating procedure of this whole regime: “we
can do whatever we want, and you’re not even allowed to ask
questions”. Just listen to Bush administration officials
repeatedly justify the war on Iraq, torture, NSA spying, and more with
the implicit or explicit refrain that if you ask questions, you’re
“helping the terrorists”.
Is all this fascist enough yet for you to resist?
The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
(Source: “Local Teacher’s Run-In With Homeland Security Creates
Insecurities”, Yahoo News, 4/6/06,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/wjxt/20060406/lo_wjxt/3379371)