At the Fourth of July parade in Montpelier, VT a few weeks ago, GOP governor/Bush apologist was harmlessly pied in the face by an activist dressed up like Santa Claus. Sadly, I was on the other side of the block when this happened, so I didn't see it firsthand.
But apparently, a pie is now a weapon of terror, according to the government.
The blogmaster of Integral Psychosis, apparently knows the guy who pied the governor. In this post here, he reveals some rather chilling news:
The other day I ran into Matt, AKA Santa Claus, the infamous Governor Douglas pier. He recounted for me the story of a few nights prior, when the vehicle he was a passenger in was pulled over by Montpelier Police late in the evening. Though he had no ID on him (he wasn’t the driver) when he gave the officers his name they wondered aloud why his name was so familiar- eventually realizing why.
As Matt tells the story, the MPD were in fact quite sympathetic to his pie-fully sweet action of dissent during the Independence Day parade, and even cracked a few jokes with him and the other passengers. However, one of the officers did say this: "You know, you’re on the FBI’s Terrorist Watch list now. You’re going to have a really hard time getting on a plane or a Greyhound Bus. We have nothing to do with it- it’s an FBI thing. Just watch out for yourself." (I’m paraphrasing from Matt’s story, obviously I don’t know the officer’s exact words).
If this is true (and being really good friends with the blogger, having worked on many things together in many realms, I don't doubt him), this is indeed yet another chilling development in the curtailing of our civil liberties. Are they going to check if you have an eclair before you board the plane now? What's next, suicide pie-ers?