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Saturday, August 02, 2003 Out of Creative Loafing... comes this story I missed when it was fresh. Man sits in coffee shop reading subversive article, is later paid a visit by the FBI. Excerpts: "Were you at the Caribou Coffee on Powers Ferry?" asks Agent Trippi...."Did you notice anything unusual, anyone worth commenting on?".... Then they ask if I carried anything into the shop -- and we're back to me. Trippi's partner speaks up: "Any reading material? Papers?" I don't think so. Then Trippi decides to level with me: "I'll tell you what, Marc. Someone in the shop that day saw you reading something, and thought it looked suspicious enough to call us about. So that's why we're here, just checking it out. Like I said, there's no problem. We'd just like to get to the bottom of this. Now if we can't, then you may have a problem. And you don't want that." .................. I almost laugh out loud when they ask me to pop my trunk. There's nothing in my car, of course. I keep looking anyway, while telling them it was probably some kind of what-did-they-know-and-when-did-they-know-it article about the buildup to Gulf War II. Trippi nods, unsatisfied. I turn up some papers from the University of Georgia, where I'm about to begin as a grad student. He asks me what I'm going to study. "Journalism," I say. As I duck back into the car, I hear Agent Trippi informing his partner, "He's going to UGA for journalism" in a way that makes me wonder whether that counts against me. .............. After he's gone, I call my dad back to see if he has calmed down, maybe come up with a name. We retrace some steps together, figure out the article was Hal Crowther's "Weapons of Mass Stupidity" from the Weekly Planet, a free independent out of Tampa. ............. Special Agent Trippi didn't return calls from CL. But Special Agent Joe Parris, Atlanta field office spokesman, stressed that specific FBI investigations are confidential. He wouldn't confirm or deny the Schultz interview. "In this post-911 era, it is the absolute responsibility of the FBI to follow through on any tips of potential terrorist activity," Parris says. "Are people going to take exception and be inconvenienced by this at times? Oh, yeah. ... A certain amount of convenience is going to be offset by an increase in security." Oh right, he lost CONVENIENCE. I was thinking freedom, civil rights, along those lines...but if it's only convenience being lost here - hey don't worry about it! posted by Jojo | 8:37 AM Hi. Remember me? I'm the "Iraq went uranium shopping in Africa" justification for the US attack on Iraq. Turns out I wasn't true. Everyone's freaking out. Apparently George W didn't know I was a lie. Is that possible? How could he not know? Well, four senior US officials have now taken the blame - oh yeah! {slaps forehead} I really should have remembered that was a fabrication. I really should have told the President. Sorry about that boss! Condaleezza Rice is the latest daisy in the chain: here's her interview with PBS (and here's the daisy-before-last, the third to go down, Rice's own chief deputy (via Cursor). posted by Jojo | 8:22 AM Tuesday, July 29, 2003 Welcome back Jo. Last weekend I freaked out and almost joined the rat race. I'm 32 and never had a mortgage. I've come to my sense, but still, today I care about this: The shadow treasurer, Mark Latham, said yesterday: "Someone on a nurse's wage cannot afford to buy a three-bedroom home in any part of metropolitan Sydney. When it gets to the point when the people who serve the community can't afford to live in the community, it's an issue for everyone." And if you think Sydney's bad (which it is), well over in new York, most of us couldn't even afford to live like this: The father of an Australian imprisoned by the US military for allegedly fighting with the Taliban shut himself in a wire cage on a New York street Monday to highlight his son's plight. Jokes aside — go Terry Hicks! Go the humanity: "I wouldn't even keep a dog like this," Terry Hicks said, referring to his son David's incarceration for the past 19 months at the US military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. posted by Jojo | 8:45 AM |
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