This week's Code Level Red is partly inspired on the notorious excesses of Homeland Security's no-fly list denied (sort-of) by this squirmingly defensive FBI press release. Not that we're "anti-FBI." Indeed, we celebrate the Bureau's efforts to root out public corruption in our side-story based on the University of California San Francisco employee indicted for selling confidential bid information But ultimately, even the Government Accountability Office has a hard time calling the program success in this Terrorist Watch List Screening: Efforts to Help Reduce Adverse Effects... report which should open in pdf for ya.
The big inspiration, however, is the story Amy Goodman has been telling on her book tour of the guy strong armed for wearing an anti-nazi t-shirt. To read the non-fictionalized version see Raed Jarrar's Blog where he tells it in his own words. Finally, watch out for Artists Against the War and their dangerous T shirts.
