incrementally increasing madness?

[Wayne Johnson]

See the article about the DC Metro cop who knocked down and handcuffed a 
pregnant black woman for.....talking too loud on her cell phone...at the bus 
stop!

I hope she has/gets some really good legal assistance on this and sues DC 
Metro into the gd ground.

wjohnson

Yes.  Madness is upon us.  I think that there is a Hindi phrase....something 
like the Kali-yuga....phonetic spelling is rather tricky.  Anyway this is 
supposed to be a really, really bad cycle.  And we are in it.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Madelon Umlauf" <madelon@austincc.edu>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>; <TacCon@aol.com>; 
<byronmarshall2001@yahoo.com>; <gizmo10035@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 8:50 AM
Subject: incrementally increasing madness?


> It must seem a truism to say that 9/11 was
> a watershed, a turning point in microhistory.
>
> The country has become palpably madder
> than before with cops in the library and ever
> more arcane password security measures.
>
> As for viewing this whole biz from on high,
> as though one were a god, if Americans
> are so stupid as to believe as they do,
> don't they "deserve" another Bush
> administration? I am using the word deserve
> in the poetic sense as though one were
> writing literary fiction: 9/11 implies cops
> in libraries, a quagmire war in the middle
> east, etcetera
>
> Univ of Texas library is a bastion of old-time
> freedom: they have walkup Internet access
> stations without any ID required, none, zilch.
> nor no cops either.
>
> Their most recent password security hurdle
> includes picking 3 out of 12 security questions
> and providing answers. Such as name of
> first pet, name if you could choose one other
> than your own, favorite childhood dish, and
> on and on. Otherwise the terrurists might know
> that my roommate has 10 books checked out
> of the art library if they could only figgur out
> her password and peep at the list of books.
> The 8 elements of the password must include
> a letter, a number and a keyboard symbol.
>
> The cops talking more and more loudly in
> the lobby of the public library is so over the
> top compared to the previous American
> on the ground reality before 9/11 that it makes
> me realize more and more and more how
> watershed an event it was.
>
> incrementally increasing madness?
>
>
>