The Poster Police: a 19-year-old student activist is questioned by police and Secret Service for a poster in her home critical of Dubya’s Texas capital punishment record. Yes, rudely critical:

Brown got it at an “anti-inauguration” protest in Washington, D.C. Distributed to hundreds of activists, it depicts George W. Bush holding a length of rope against a backdrop of lynching victims, and reads: “We hang on your every word. George Bush: Wanted, 152 Dead”–a reference to the number of people executed by the state of Texas while Bush was governor.

It occurred to me to say that this story makes me want to go out and find an anti-Shrub poster to hang on my wall. Then it occurred to me that I’ve been at least as rude, if not as eloquent as the poster, about our risible President most days here in FmH, and in the public record no less. Should I expect my Secret Service visit soon? Would it help if I playfully suggested we could start referring to them by their initials, “S.S.”? I know you, or your ilk, are out there, with your Echelon and your Carnivore, trolling for verbiage like this…

Here’s a link to the National Lawyers’ Guild pamphlet Know Your Rights — what to do if agents come to question you.