Ok...now for an INTERESTING question...you say you support the troops by wanting them home now with their families...but what about those who BELIEVE in what they are doing and WANT to stay there to finish it? How is bringing them home prior to finishing it "supporting THEM"??

Let 'em go to work for Blackwater, but not on our dime. Let Exxon/Mobil fund this shitty war, and stop using our as troops corporate mercenaries and Bush's Viagra substitute.

Abortions fuel their hate, which is what they survive on. The right wing is made up of a vast collection of bitter psychological vampires, desperately afraid someone else might be having sex or making a decent living. The right doesn't feel alive unless they're killing someone or grinding someone's throat under their boot.

They'll find something else to hate, and someone else to kill, other rights to trample.

Are regarding the troops, it's clear you don't know the first thing about being a soldier from your comments. You just want them to keep on being maimed and killed to sate your bloodlust. You don't care about them at all.

Just wondering.

For what it's worth, I think that first "anonymous" was absolutely correct in her assessment of your post.

My name is Bukk63, though my homies call me Bee-sitty-tree.

Yes, Holly. I agree with the unknown stranger who called your bullshit for what it is.

Shoot it! Shoot it!

Airport security screeners aren't cops, but then from all appearances neither are the Massachusetts State Police, nor anyone else ostensibly associated with "law enforcement" in the greater Boston area.

It's populated by so many terrified nitwits afraid of their own shadows, and LEDs. All you people attacking this poor girl and defending the hysterical freakout by these idiot cops need to get therapy for your irrational fears, or at least take a fucking Xanax. Good god. What the hell ever happened to the home of the brave? Oh, right. "9/11, 9/11, 9/11 -- wah, where's my binkie? I'm skeered Daddy George. Protect me by destroying everything that once made America special and unique."

Pathetic.

So-called "normal" people don't wet themselves in fear at the sight of a few flashing lights. Only red-blooded Americans, apparently.

I say again, what the fuck happened to the home of the brave?

Oh, the squealing fear of Americans stumbling over themselves to dismantle everything that once made America great.

The terrorists have won. We're afraid. Desperately, pathetically afraid. That Osama bin Laden, he sure knew how to push our buttons, didn't he?

Next time there's any kind of bomb scare, how about if we send you over there to check it out?

You may be George Bush's scared little bitch, but I'm not. So I'll go chat with the girl wearing the battery-operated sparkle-dough for you.

Just saying.

Yes.

Have you ever seen the way his father looks at him? The apple not only fell far from the tree, it wasn't even an apple.

I am a former cop. I worked a number of bomb scares as tactical support during my time on the job, and saw a considerable number of device as part of training, and a few different device in the field. They can look like all kinds of things, even, in principle, a blinkie playdough shirt.

Which is all a lead in to my firm belief that the police in Boston reacted terribly and their response afterward was ridiculous. The fellow who make the morgue comment should be out of a job, right now, today, with no severence and no recommendations.

The day before this incident, I made an impassioned defense of the police in Farhad's letters section regarding the tasering incident, though I was very critical of the police who tasered the student. I'm starting to regret that defense, even in general my opinion of most police is very high. Because when they are bad, they are really bad. And, man, have we been seeing bad

Even more disappointing than the ridiculous response of the police and the absurd spin in the media is the reaction of so many Americans that there was somehow nothing wrong with this incident. That the girl was "stupid" and "deserved" and "that's what she gets" and "I live in Boston and those Aqua Teen Hunger Force things were weird" and all the similar.

Well, let me tell you. Based on my time on the job, if being stupid was a crime, everyone would be in jail inside of a month. And I used to live in Boston, and most of my family still lives in Boston and its environs, and anyone who thinks that ATHF thing looked suspicious is a scared, emotional infant. Sorry, Mr. "I Live In Boston", but I called 'em like I see 'em.

We've given up as a society. We've said goodbye to the most important parts of the Constitution out of fear. Whimpering to the historical dustbin. No doubt the Supreme Court will come out in favor of guns in the case they just heard, but to fuck with habeas corpus, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, and most tragically the First Amendment.

As far as I'm concerned, anyone who attacks that girl and defends the police reaction and uses 9/11 as an excuse is complicit in dismantling the very things that made America a unique and special experiment. You're accomplices after the fact to Osama, seeing as how you're doing exactly what he wants, giving in to your fear.

I've said it here. Others have said it here. The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave this is not anymore.