So, I Married a Terrorist
May. 3rd, 2005 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
artemisdartThis morning, my husband headed off to work as usual. He got on the bus and sat there, as is the usual way of things. At one stop the bus failed to start moving again. "Hmmm," he thought. "Wonder if there's a technical difficulty." The bus sat there. And sat there. Then, some policemen got on the bus.
"Aha!" he thought. "They're here to take someone away! Wonder who?" And he started looking around to see who would be taken off by the fuzz.
Only to be surprised when they came for him.
Yes, someone had mistaken my husband for a dangerous terrorist, and had reported his presence to the local authorities. The police took him off the bus and spent 10 minutes or so running his identity through their computer systems, and then apologized and let him go. The Metro Transit Authority man ran him in to work in his little Metro Transit Authority van.
Now, I know he has a beard and was wearing his black bomber jacket. He may also have had unkempt hair. But a terrorist? If he were going to wreak havoc upon civilized society (which I'm not ruling out, mind you) I think he would be a bit more subtle about it than resorting to crass violence. He would probably (this is just a guess) manipulate people and institutions so that his desired outcome was achieved, without anyone being able to trace anything back to him. (Come to think of it... this might explain a lot about the state of the world today. HEY! GET OVER HERE!!)
Regards to all from our cell of the insurrection.
"Aha!" he thought. "They're here to take someone away! Wonder who?" And he started looking around to see who would be taken off by the fuzz.
Only to be surprised when they came for him.
Yes, someone had mistaken my husband for a dangerous terrorist, and had reported his presence to the local authorities. The police took him off the bus and spent 10 minutes or so running his identity through their computer systems, and then apologized and let him go. The Metro Transit Authority man ran him in to work in his little Metro Transit Authority van.
Now, I know he has a beard and was wearing his black bomber jacket. He may also have had unkempt hair. But a terrorist? If he were going to wreak havoc upon civilized society (which I'm not ruling out, mind you) I think he would be a bit more subtle about it than resorting to crass violence. He would probably (this is just a guess) manipulate people and institutions so that his desired outcome was achieved, without anyone being able to trace anything back to him. (Come to think of it... this might explain a lot about the state of the world today. HEY! GET OVER HERE!!)
Regards to all from our cell of the insurrection.
