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Please read the student's blog before posting comments. He did nothing wrong.

This is another case of local police and Homeland Security people acting like Keystone Cops.

These are the same idiots that require a 90-year-old grandmother to submit to a body search at airport security.

It's all for show. Pathetic.

"He did nothing wrong."

I got stopped by two cops in Washington D.C. as I was calibrating some funny looking science equipment (including a 12-foot PVC pipe slung along my hip) in a field next to my hotel across the street from Andrews Air Force Base.

The cops blocked in my large Ryder rental truck and came around back with hands on their guns and asked for my I.D. I asked them what this was about (kind of knowing what it was!) and they said "Just show us your I.D."

I gave them my I.D. and the rental truck papers. The one guy checked it out and came back later and asked what I was doing. I told him and he said "working with this stuff near Andrews less than a year after 9/11 isn't the smartest thing to be doing. Don't do it - you're just making people nervous."

I said "You're right - sorry. And thanks for all your hard work".

Then - I got on with my life.

Yeah I could have said "I DID NOTHING WRONG!". I could have argued it was just science equipment. I paid for my room and I can be on the hotel property. You're profiling me 'cuz I have a Ryder van, long hair and a bandanna and a scruffy beard!!! You got NO RIGHT to ask me for my I.D. - I'm an AMERICAN CITIZEN you fascist pig. I'm going to put up a WEBSITE and let everyone know the fascist state that AMERIKA has become - what's your badge number? (Actually I did note his name and number when he first talked to me - not knowing where this might go!)
I read his entire website - I think this guy has issues. (His three pages of text look like my last paragraph).