Sunday, March 07, 2004
Outspoken Clothing - Homeland Security Is Monitoring Progressive Clothing Sites
Outspoken Clothing - Homeland Security Is Monitoring Progressive Clothing Sites
I found this site after reading up on the latest news on the presidential campaign. Did search for "Anyone But Bush" and found them. Much of the items, shirts, hats and the like, is OK but then I saw the notice about Homeland Security checking out the site. I've got to wonder what a "Drop Bush, Not Bombs" t-shirt has to do with the homeland security or is it more of an indication of insecurity.
To quote from the page....
For those of you who aren't access log literate, this means that they came to Outspoken Clothing via the search engines AltaVista and Lycos, where they searched on the phrase "progressive clothing." Now, maybe there is just someone working there who wants to buy our Anyone But Bush 2004 or Gay Marriage Now merchandise, but somehow, we doubt it.
It seems that the anti-terrorist division of our government is spending its time (and our tax dollars) doing web searches on people who disagree with their politics and have the audacity to say so on t-shirts. Progressive clothing = potential terrorist? Never mind that we're three pacifists running our business out of an apartment - because we don't like Bush, we might be a threat to national security. We're interested to see what happens the next time one of us tries to get on a plane!
If you run a progressive or liberal small business web site (or blog etc.), we suggest that you check your access logs, and let us know if you are also getting visits from the DOJ or DHS. We'd like to find out how much this is happening, and get the word out.
This is beyond funny. It reminds me of Hoover and Nixon. What the heck are we coming to?
I found this site after reading up on the latest news on the presidential campaign. Did search for "Anyone But Bush" and found them. Much of the items, shirts, hats and the like, is OK but then I saw the notice about Homeland Security checking out the site. I've got to wonder what a "Drop Bush, Not Bombs" t-shirt has to do with the homeland security or is it more of an indication of insecurity.
To quote from the page....
For those of you who aren't access log literate, this means that they came to Outspoken Clothing via the search engines AltaVista and Lycos, where they searched on the phrase "progressive clothing." Now, maybe there is just someone working there who wants to buy our Anyone But Bush 2004 or Gay Marriage Now merchandise, but somehow, we doubt it.
It seems that the anti-terrorist division of our government is spending its time (and our tax dollars) doing web searches on people who disagree with their politics and have the audacity to say so on t-shirts. Progressive clothing = potential terrorist? Never mind that we're three pacifists running our business out of an apartment - because we don't like Bush, we might be a threat to national security. We're interested to see what happens the next time one of us tries to get on a plane!
If you run a progressive or liberal small business web site (or blog etc.), we suggest that you check your access logs, and let us know if you are also getting visits from the DOJ or DHS. We'd like to find out how much this is happening, and get the word out.
This is beyond funny. It reminds me of Hoover and Nixon. What the heck are we coming to?
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