[RaceBannon]

major bump

[Michael.SF.]

Should we expect to hear from the usual suspects that this man's rights may be violated, because he has committed no crime?

[TomServo]

This is just what we need, for Texas City to blow up.

Again.

[searchandrecovery]

I've taken pictures of refineries (philly area) in the past 'cause they look cool. Might just have been a photographer.

[tall_tex]

Nothing to see here, move along...to Academy, they got a sale on 9mm, ought-6's, and 12 gage 02's....

[Huck]

OK he was WHITE? Sure he wasn't a little swarthy?

[Dallas59]

Yep...he did nothing wrong. Maybe the HLS needs to question Google Image Search?


http://www.wetmaap.org/Texas_City_and_Virginia_Point/Background_Slides/slide_13.html

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=Texas+City+refinery

http://images.google.com/images?q=Texas+City&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&start=180&sa=N

[Chieftain]

Possible petro-terrorist in east Texas alert!

[maquiladora]

The man, described as white with dark hair

I think I know that guy!!

[mombonn]

The man was seen driving a white van.

Paging Chief Moose.

[glock rocks]

"That's not to say we don't have enough home-grown idiots already who might want to do something."

Nor is it to say that we don't have any white boys who've seen the light (in a jail-house moslem kinda persuasion) who might want to do something. John Doe2 was a figment. Move along.

Just be careful you don't profile more than two swarthy types per day... that could lead to some real trouble.

[COEXERJ145]

Well, in all fairness, it is most likely totally innocent. I'm sure a lot of people here would think I was a terrorist if they saw me taking pictures of my favorite thing, commercial airliners.

People who take pictures of things that many consider to be abnormal are regularly suspected of being terrorists and many of my fellow plane spotters have been arrested over the years. I myself had a national guardsman pull, and load, his M-16 on me back in Feb. 2002.

[woofer]

Texas City, located on the Texas Gulf coast about 30 miles south of Houston, has three refineries including the largest U.S. plant operated by BP Plc., which is the third-largest U.S. refinery, processing 470,000 barrels of crude oil per day.

Down on the Chocolate Bayou. Where the workmen's chant is "nothing new after two, nothing more after four".

Wait, no. That's the creed of the technicians in a Nuclear power plant.

That's one big facility, the old Amoco Refinery. The only bigger one I've ever worked at was Mobil's at Yanbu Saudi Arabia.

[exhaustedmomma]

People stop and take photos of those refineries all the time. The only thing curious is why this guy.

[George W. Bush]

One would think that Al-Qa'ida would just use a small plane to circle the refinery and photograph/video everything is detail.

It wouldn't be difficult.

[doug from upland]

We have seen this over and over and over.

[gathersnomoss]

..."The man, described as white with dark hair,"

Disinformation. I'll take bets that he is not "white".

[TeleStraightShooter]

As in all cases, the "Far-Out-Man" left's #1 suspect is:

Haliburton!

</sarcasm>

[Log]

Probably an ACLU photographer looking for a lawsuit to file.

[CyberAnt]

Why don't these places have web cams set up so they can get a better look at these people who are taking pictures.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Ok, that's it. We need a moratorium on the sale of White Vans...