Bush v. Science

So now the Consumer Product Safety Commission's in on the War on Terror ... this time terrorizing physicists and little kids!  Check it out:

"Garage chemistry used to be a rite of passage for geeky kids. But in their search for terrorist cells and meth labs, authorities are making a federal case out of DIY science."

Wow, we here at Agitprop feel safer already!  Kick those geeks to the ground and ship 'em to Gitmo!

"The first startling thing Joy White saw out of her bedroom window was a man running toward her door with an M16. White’s husband, a physicist named Bob Lazar, was already outside, awakened by their barking dogs. Suddenly police officers and men in camouflage swarmed up the path, hoisting a battering ram. “Come out with your hands up immediately, Miss White!” one of them yelled through a megaphone, while another handcuffed the physicist in his underwear. Recalling that June morning in 2003, Lazar says, “If they were expecting to find Osama bin Laden, they brought along enough guys.”

The target of this operation, which involved more than two dozen police officers and federal agents, was not an international terrorist ring but the couple’s home business, United Nuclear Scientific Supplies, a mail-order outfit that serves amateur scientists, students, teachers, and law enforcement professionals."

Yeah baby!  Battering rams!  This is real smart - lock up anyone who might help train our next generation of scientists.  Oh wait - we forgot ... science is out now.