Sometimes, words fail me

[pegkerr]

What country am I living in? A man was arrested in a public mall in upstate New York for wearing a t-shirt that said "Give Peace A Chance" and "No War In Iraq" -- handcuffed and led off to jail and night court. Even better is the fact that the man -- Stephen Downs -- is the director of the Albany Office of the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, which investigates complaints of misconduct by judges...

Thanks to sleigh for the link.

Added later: charges have been dropped. Sometimes, sanity actually wins out.

Comments

[papersky.livejournal.com]

You're living in the kind of country where when that happens it's news and people are horrified. Hold onto that, because it's when it starts becoming something to be cynical and shrug about that things are really bad.