You Wanna See Some Real Terror? (Hummercide suspect Josh Connole)

[The Sushi Bandit]

http://www.ocweekly.com/ink/04/05/lost-washburn.php

The reason terrorists are called terrorists is their acts cause terror, right? So tell me which is more terrifying: some lunkheads spraying graffiti on vehicles and torching a few on a deserted lot, or armed men dragging you off at gunpoint in the dead of night for no good reason, holding you captive for days while pressing you to confess to a crime you didn’t commit and also ransacking and seizing not only your property but also the property of 13 people whose only crime is that they’re your roommates?

You want a cup of instant dread? Have someone knock on your front door unexpectedly at 12:30 a.m. Even if it’s your hottie girlfriend, it will creep you out. It’s that much worse when it’s guys leveling the muzzles of very real guns at you. It’s just not a civil hour. It’s when storm troopers show up, not the guardians of our democracy; at least that was generally the case before the war on drugs eroded our freedoms, now further washed away by the war on terror. It’s not a good time of day for cops either, considering all the cases of kids and granddads they’ve mistakenly blown away on their nocturnal missions.