DHS arrests teacher

[deminks]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/wjxt/20060406/lo_wjxt/3379371

A local school employee said a rough run-in with a couple of
Homeland Security officers has left him with a strong sense of insecurity.

Leander Pickett, a teacher's assistant at Englewood Elementary, said he was manhandled and handcuffed by two plain clothed Homeland Security officers in front of the school Tuesday for no reason at all.

"I walked up to him and said, 'Sir, you need to move.' That's when he said 'I'm a police officer. I'm with Homeland Security ... I'll move it when I want to.' That's when he started grabbing me on my arm," Pickett said.

"If this is Homeland Security, I think we ought to be a little afraid," Brinson said.

[DIKB]

1. omg

it's 70 years ago, and we're in Nazi Germany!!!

Though these troopers lack the boldness to goosestep whereever they please. I think it's a case of denial.

[SammyWinstonJack]

28. bush's goon squad. nt

[dailykoff]

2. Good frickin' grief.

Is it fascism yet? YES!!!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Yeah, very afraid...

neutral investigative entity my ass.

there is no such thing.

[Erika]

4. W's America

We've lost our country. The traitors in this country are those who voted for him.

I hope they now realize what they did to this country with their votes for him.

[Beelzebud]

5. DHS is a mutant that must be dismantled.

Look at the idiots they have running it... Shit flows downstream..

[YouthInAsia]

6. Gestapo. n/t

[splat@14]

7. I gotta ask...Does the teacher look real young? n/t

[tblue37]

30. He's young and Black and has long braids.

Obviously he has committed the crime of BWB (Breathing While Black).

[sproutster]

8. Shocking, they are saying he was antagonizing them - witnesses disagree

Homeland Security Officers lying?

[bahrbearian]

9. Vote it up on Yahoo, and then Kick it.

[tsuki]

10. The Bushstapho pulled into a school to consult a map, hmmm?

Sounds like they were trolling for UA.

[deminks]

13. That was what I was wondering,

given the DHS news this past week.

[immoderate]

11. I wonder what kind of training they get.

If any.:shrug:

--IMM

[Gabi Hayes]

12. when's that bastard going to APOLOGIZE? he made his own trouble.

he deserves whatever he gets

did he punch them?

or was it just a poke?

how DARE he?

he should NEVER EVER EVER get in the way of a cop doing his duty!

lucky they didn't shoot him

they should have

hope he loses his job and gets sent to Gitmo

his family too

and take McKinney with him!

you know she's behind it

[Gabi Hayes]

14. first they came for the teachers, then they came for the.....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/16/AR2006021602066.html

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. -- George Orwell

[MisterP]

29. David Horowitz will take the colleges and universities,

DHS the elementaries and Hungarian Rubik's Cubes sellers.
The ROTC can conquer the high schools, perhaps.

[stillcool]

17. Sweet....

:toast: :thumbsup: :hi:

[sendero]

33. Don't worry...

.. there will be a fucking bad-cop apologist here any second to defend these two-bit security-guard refugees :)

[AX10]

15. The DHS was a mistake. It must be dismantled.

Pickett was directing traffic. The SOB DHS nazi should have listened and done as Pickett said, not the other way around. To think, these bozos want Tasers. No way in HELL! :argh:

[Hissyspit]

18. Well, that was obvious to a bunch of us at the time.

But all KINDS of mistakes have been made over the past five years and no one was listening to reason, most didn't see what the administration was really up to, and there just wasn't much that could be done. Hopefully, things are becoming different. When a poll says 70% of Americans say we're heading in the wrong direction, maybe they are.

[Neil Lisst]

16. with Chertoff, Brown, and Doyle picking these DHS cops ...

one can only imagine how deficient they are

[Gabi Hayes]

19. chertoff is a real fricking MONster.....he was one of the Clinton inquisi-

tors, and PERJURED himself bigtime at his confirmation hearings

in addition, he's probably tied into TERRORISTS!

know anthing about his New Jersey terror ties?

[Neil Lisst]

22. no, but if you'll hum a few bars ...

talk to me

[Hissyspit]

20. Be sure and email it and rate it up.

[Marie26]

21. Lame cover story

"The department said the only reason the officers were at the school was because they pulled over to look at a map."

The Homeland Security officers pulled into the elementary school to "look at a map?" So why were they standing outside of the car? Most people who pull of the road will look at a map inside the car. Why did they pull all the way up to the bus loading area? I wonder why they were really there. Also, when did DHS get its own police force? I've never heard of that before.

[Swamp Rat]

23. FIRE THEM!!!

They have NO business working in law inforcement!... if that is what they claim to be doing. :eyes:

I hope they are sued into poverty.

[AX10]

24. Same here.

Sue the SOB's into poverty!!!!!

[ArbustoBuster]

25. I hope they spend five to ten in jail.

As well as their bosses, if these goons weren't fired on the spot.

[Swamp Rat]

26. Welcome to DU!

Just kidding! :D

[Karmakaze]

27. What a disgrace!

"You know you hear these stories everyday and say, 'This will never happen to me,' but yesterday it happened to me," Pickett said.

Martin Niemöller knows exactly what this guy is talking about.

[Kailassa]

31. Kicking for the night people.

:kick:

[Gabi Hayes]

32. this needs to be up here every DAY!

what was that Orwell quote about the boot on your face forever?