| Thursday, February 16, 2006 |
| Hello, this is Homeland Security |
So how surreal is this? One of our Fellows, who incidentally, fell and broke his elbow on the ice on Monday, comes to me all upset this morning and says he needs my help. Apparently, he got a call out of the blue from Homeland Security because they got a report of him taking photographs of a nearby school over the weekend.
Here's what you should know about this guy: (a) he's from India, (b) he had never, ever, seen snow before this past weekend and is completely fascinated by it, (c) his apartment complex is next door to a school.
So here's this wide eyed, mild mannered, Indian physician taking pictures of a beautiful snowstorm like everyone else, and someone calls Homeland Security and reports him.
So at 2:00 this afternoon, I have to meet with an inspector, and my poor little doctor buddy has to bring his visa, passport, and all the photos he took and answer a bunch of silly questions.
And Bin Laden is still missing...... |
posted by Broadsheet @ 10:58 AM   |
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Yeah, from the top levels to the insignificant ones. At my lowly governmental place of work, one of our contractors is "coming out" as a transgender person and before he can wear what he wants (skirts, I suppose) to work, the higher ups have to meet and "discuss how they are going to handle this". Handle what? What the hell are they going to do about it, isn't this still a free country or did I miss something?
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I would have also brought the hospital's staff attorney to the meeting.
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To be fair to the Homeland Security guy, who was very kind and polite, he was simply following a lead. It's the paranoid, conspiracy theory, asshole, tin foil hat wearing, racist, profiler neighbor who turned him in in the first place that I want to strangle. Oh, was that out loud?
And if you knew this guy at all, you'd know how utterly ridiculous this was. He's so shy and meek, he's afraid of his own shadow.
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Yeah, from the top levels to the insignificant ones. At my lowly governmental place of work, one of our contractors is "coming out" as a transgender person and before he can wear what he wants (skirts, I suppose) to work, the higher ups have to meet and "discuss how they are going to handle this". Handle what? What the hell are they going to do about it, isn't this still a free country or did I miss something?