Thought crime
In Cali: In an often-tense post-9/11 environment, the Indian American executive director of the Orange County Republican Party was investigated for possible terrorist activity by the Orange, Calif., police department Nov. 18, following a tip-off by a local resident who overheard him speaking on his cell phone about assault rifles.
December 1st, 2008 at 11:25 am
As opposed to before 9/11, in which case they’d have just done it because he was Republican and thus obviously crazy.
December 1st, 2008 at 11:28 am
The growing culture of suspicion and snitching scares me just as much.
December 1st, 2008 at 11:47 am
“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”
-Edward Abbey
December 1st, 2008 at 2:39 pm
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