Asymptomatic

I dislike President Bush most of all because of frequent simple rights violations that are the result of his policymaking. Enforcing the Patriot Act might not directly cause these indiscretions, but it fosters the type of fear in people and law enforcement that turns reasonable questioning for safety into outright harassment.

I don’t want scared flight attendants to bully me off a plane because of what book I’m reading or what lapel pins I might wear (no matter how tasteless they find my political statement), or turn a plane around because they take some writing on my vomit bag the wrong way. You’ve got people so worked up that passengers with a predisposition to delusion have used this as an excuse to behave like terrorists. People are even coining terms like Miami Model to describe how law enforcement is using homeland security laws to squash protests.