LH: >>As I was about to send this off, I wondered what Mike would make of it. >>Oppressive brown shirts, using anti-terrorism as an excuse, knocking down my >>door over specious accusations?<< I really do hate to disappoint you, Lawrence, but I have no problem with the police checking you out. In fact, I support it. : ) Seriously though, I do hope you're able to board the next airplane you want. Once your name makes the Suspected Terrorist List, it's apparently there forever. That would be my worry if I were you. It is scary when the authorities come knocking. Long ago my wife and I left the house in the late afternoon to go shopping, we left our 12 year old daughter to watch the 5 and 3 year old. Within the next day or two the Children's Protective Service came calling. There was an anonymous complaint that we left our children unsupervised. I was livid. I was furious. I was ready to take down the Government. "Bring it on", I was shouting. But then I made the mistake of thinking about it. It's good to know that there are people out there concerned about the welfare of children. Would that they could prevent more of the horrible abuses that happen than they do. Much later it occurred to me that maybe it was my 12 year old daughter who called in the complaint. That really made me mad. Mike Geary Memphis ----- Original Message ----- From: Lawrence Helm To: Lit-Ideas Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 7:31 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Busted by an unknown dog lady I've been in a lot of debates over the years and thought I had been attacked in every way imaginable, but in a Rhodesian Ridgeback discussion group I was attacked in a new way. One unidentified but obviously very angry lady turned me in to the Sheriff's department. A couple of lines of one of my notes taken out of context was provided to the Sheriff's department along with the suggestion that I was a possible terrorist. So out comes a deputy sheriff and someone from the Banning Police Department (both part of the task force) to check me out. Actually, the accusation sounded fishy to them, but they had to make sure I wasn't a terrorist. I introduced them to Ginger, one of my Rhodesian Ridgebacks. They didn't think she was a terrorist either. I would have liked to have questioned them a bit more about their task force and what they did in our region, but since I hadn't let them in the house and since they rather quickly concluded I wasn't a terrorist, they were anxious to leave. They didn't actually knock down my door; just pounded loudly on it. They gave me the impression that they knew they were wasting time. A CYA detail just in case I did turn out to be a terrorist of some sort. They wouldn't want it on record that I had been reported but they hadn't checked me out. Okay, Mike. What do you make of this? Lawrence Helm San Jacinto