thesupermikey

http://www.livejournal.com/users/mephron/349969.html

Follow the link for the whole story. Censorship at its worst

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Locobot

Or its most hilarious. Sounds like a joke, if not it's just sad that we have people like that protecting our security.

The link was dead for me...

The secret service is no match for my prismatic wand and fireball scroll! lol

Lebell

fixed link.

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thesupermikey

I dont know if it is real or not, but it made boingboing.net.

Sorry about the bad link.

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Locobot

Actually sounds plausible now that I read the link. Can't decide if this is something to laugh or cry about.

Lebell

After reading the link, it was seriously short of verifiable facts and sounded more like someone's need for attention on the web.

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roachboy

on the other hand, look at this article from the guardian about the security preparations in nyc for this absurd rnc spectacle---makes goofy things on the order of the post that opened this thread seem less surprising....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/salon/stor...280907,00.html

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reconmike

Was the DNC an absurb spectacle also?

Security preparations are for the morons who plan to DISRUPT the convention.
I remember them closing down all train traffic under the fleet center for the DNC, how inconvienced the people of Boston must have been.

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roachboy

quote:
"Was the DNC an absurb spectacle also?"

obviously yes. the absurdity of the rnc is a matter of degree, not kind.

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thesupermikey

I understand that security has been upped for the RNC. That makes sense. You have lots of people coming together. It?s a big target for any one trying to make a statement.

This guy, however was confronted by security, not because he was endangering anyone, but because of the content of one of his books was deemed offensive to a 'Guard'.

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Kostya

I can see it all now:

Surly security type #1: 'Can I see your bag?'

D&D dude: 'Sigh, yes'

Surly security type #2, brandishing D&D book: 'Aha! What's this then eh?'

D&D dude: 'A book.'

#1: 'Hmm book you say? Sounds dangerous.'

#2: 'I've heard about these books.'

D&D: 'Can I please have that back.'

#1: 'Sorry buddy, but we're confiscating all the books today, then we take em out back and have a big bonfire with our work buddies.'

#2: 'What are you going to do about it foureyes?'

#1: 'Haha, good one, he has got four eyes!'

D&D: 'Ok, I'm going'

#1 and 2 chant and hoot as he does so calling him a nerd...

Dwayne

I wouldnt be suprised if this actually happened. I am offended now a days by what people get offended by.

On a lighter side, maybe the guard was worried that the book could give someone a fatal paper cut.

scapegoat

I wouldnt be supprised i that happend at all.....

Some of the things in that article from the gardian are truly distubing.

QUOTE:

"On July 4 this year, police say, the Secret Service directed them to arrest a couple for wearing anti-Bush T-shirts at a presidential speech in West Virginia - despite the fact that the speech was open to the public."

For example

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DelayedReaction

I'll have to bring my "Ultramodern Firearms" manual just to see what they do. Oooh! I could bring my 1911 blueprintS!

Seriously folks, this is a wonderful example of power being executed by a fucking retard. This is going to stop a terrorist about as effectively as a rolled-up newspaper.

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If this is true and the individual did not pursue legal retribution from the appropriate direction; shame on him.

If this is BS and I take the time to research its validity only to find out it's BS; shame on me.

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Yes, both conventions are.