Homeland Security, DC-Style

"Why don't you go and take care of some real crime?" This was the quizzical response by a middle-aged woman who was arrested this week for eating in the Washington, DC metro. She was searched, handcuffed and locked up for chewing the last bite of her candy bar after passing through the fare gates -- and released several hours later after paying a $10 fine, pending a hearing.

Silly me. Here I thought that the security and police forces of the nation's capitol were all geared up to protect us from bio-chem and other terrorist attacks. But no crime is too small for ever-vigilant law enforcement, now protecting subway riders from the hateful scourge of smacking lips and jihadist saliva.

 Posted by glenn