Comment Another Crisis? (Score 2, Insightful) 224
Is there anything going on in the U.S. today that is NOT a "national crisis"? We need a break.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer refused to run the photos, explaining:The alert issued by FBI agents in Seattle on Monday called for the public's help in identifying photographs of two Middle Eastern-looking men who had been reported travelling on ferries exhibiting "unusual behavior."
Not consistent with the newspaper's policy, or, you know, the US Constitution, which guarantees freedom of the press from government interference and equal protection under the law for everyone in the United States."We have no confirmation that these men's behavior was anything but innocuous, and to forever taint them by associating them with terrorism under these circumstances is not consistent with our policy," the paper said.
Force needed to accelerate 2.2lbs of cookies = 1 Fig-newton to 1 meter per second