department_of_homeland_security william s. burroughs Every citizen of Annexia was required to apply for and carry on his person at all times a whole portfolio of documents. Citizens were subject to be stopped in the street at any time; and the examiner, who might be in plain clothes, in various uniforms, often in a bathing suit or pyjamas, sometimes stark naked except for a badge pinned to his left nipple, after checking each paper, would stamp it. On subsequent inspection the citizen was required to show the properly entered stamps of the last inspection. The Examiner, when he stopped a large group, would only examine and stamp the cards of a few. The others were then subject to arrest because their cards were not properly stamped. Arrest meant "provisional detention"; that is, the prisoner would be released if and when his Affidavit of Explanation, properly signed and stamped, was approved by the Assistant Arbiter of Explanations. Since this official hardly ever came to his office, and the Affidavit of Explanation had to be presented in person, the explainers spent weeks and months waiting around in unheated offices with no chairs and no toilet facilities. Documents issued in vanishing ink faded into old pawn tickets. New documents were constantly required. The citizens rushed from one bureau to another in a frenzied attempt to meet impossible deadlines. All benches were removed from the city, all fountains turned off, all flowers and trees destroyed. Huge electric buzzers on the top of every apartment house (everyone lived in apartments) rang the quarter hour. Often the vibrations would throw people out of bed. Searchlights played over the town all night (no one was permitted to use shades, curtains, shutters or blinds). No one ever looked at anyone else because of the strict law against importuning, with or without verbal approach, anyone for any purpose, sexual or otherwise. All cafes and bars were closed. Liquor could only be obtained with a special permit, and the liquor so obtained could not be sold or given or in any way transferred to anyone else, and the presence of anyone else in the room was considered prima facie evidence of conspiracy to transfer liquor. No one was permitted to bolt his door, and the police had pass keys to every room in the city. Accompanied be a mentalist they rush into someone's quarters and start "looking for it." The mentalist guides them to whatever the man wishes to hide: a tube of Vaseline, an enema, a handkerchief with come on it, a weapon, unlicensed alcohol. And they always submitted the suspect to the most humiliating search of his naked person on which they make sneering and derogatory comments. Many a latent homosexual was carried out in a straightjacket when they planted Vaseline in his ass. Or they pounce on any object. A pen wiper or a shoe tree. "And what is this supposed to be for?" "It's a pen wiper." "A pen wiper, he says." "I've heard everything now." "I guess this is all we need. Come on, you." After a few months of this the citizens cowered in corners like neurotic cats. 021126 ... blue star Rumy was recently appointed "Sexiest Cabinet Member" by People Magazine. SEXIEST CABINET MEMBER???!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! 021128 ... Suicide Snowman aka department of jerking off in full public view..... They're not doing anything, just trying to give the american public a feeling of false security... they couldn't stop an attack if they don't know when it's gonna happen 021128 ... screwing for virginity does any one even know the "official duties" of the department? i was just wondering because i watch alot of news and i dont think i have ever heard specifics 021128 ... tourist Eroding Personal Liberty Is the Primary Function. 021129 ... the spork You'd be surprised, but a great uninteded allegory for such things as the creation of the USDHS can be seen in Star Wars Episode II, and though some of it is conjecture here and we can only hope that it would prove false, some more of if appears to fit well enough to justify the comparison Figure in power surreptitiously orchestrates or allows the events that put his dominion in jeopardy, then uses political influence to make a power play by convincing the terrified masses he governs that the best solution to the crisis is to declare war and hand him unchecked power this is no war on terrorism, this is about two things: oil and as the acquisition and consolidation of political power only question i have left about Dubya is if he is the master or the apprentice, though i could guess easily enough. 021129 ... battle flag blues The USDHS is a combination of 22 existing agencies within the Executive branch of the US government into one massive "super-agency" including such functions as Immigration and Customs as well as some investigative and law enforcement and yeah, the Homeland Security Act which made it all possible grants those investigative arms of the DHS a scary amount of power to go outside of normal consitutionally established rules and norms of procedure if you drive through the Beltway area and hear a faint sound that sounds like several people driving on a flat tire, that's the sound of the authors of the consitition spinning in their graves 021129 ... . . 021129 ... .. .. 021129 ... [.:..The SeeR ..:.] Brilliant analysis spork! My intuitions about this have been creeping me out from the start. Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Tom Daschle and GWB have successfully removed the power from the people... But don't worry, they've replaced it with anti-depressant microwavable dinners that have digital quality sound! The Rebellion can start now... or We can wait until it's too late. (I getta be Obi-Wan!) 021130 ... [.:..The SeeR ..:.] The_Rebel_Alliance 021130 ... u24 just visited my website. http://www.puremango.co.uk/dhs.jpg 050722 ... my name is not ever dumbening holy shit. any particular text you think triggered the visit? or do you think they are just scanning about every site in the whole damn world? grrrr. 050722 ... still not ed aka department_of_homeland_clusterfuckery 050722 ... not someone whose intelligence is decreasing u24, maybe they were just "checking your backpack." remember: don't run. it's a killable offense, apparently. 050723 ... andru235 homeland security is a danger to the nation 050724 ... f24 sometimes smartening: yeah, I'm sure they're just indexing every hacking site* on the net, so in case of cyber terror, they can shut the most 'dangerous' ones down. IMHO. *along with many others (bomb/drug making, etc) 050725 ... akuma aoi vs the magnesium hat rhymes_with_orange 050725 ... birdmad interesting how much the name Chertoff sounds like what that agency is generally guilty of (in full public view, no less) 050920 what's it to you? who go blather from