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                          “Oversight? What oversight?”
                                        
> Fleen: On what complaint or authority did these detectives say they were
>         talking to you?
> Boyd: On the complaint that I may have made terroristic threats through
>         computers. At least, that's what was passed down to me from the
>         State's Attorney through the detectives on the phone.
> Fleen: So who is it that you're supposed to have threatened? Is it now law
>         in the state of Maryland that if anybody anywhere unknown to you
>         feels uneasy at something you write, it's a crime?
> Boyd: Well, a terroristic threat is an old legal concept. Basically, it's
>         calling in a bomb scare or something similar.
>          
>          Now, in the second comic, there's the verbatim transcript of what
>         I said that got me fired. And there's a co-worker who overhears it,
>         which as far as I know is what happened. And Ian [McConville]'s
>         drawing resembles someone in the office to an uncanny degree. Of
>         course, he's never met her, because he lives in California.
> 
> Via Snarkoleptics [1], “Interview With The [DELETED-Vampire-DELETED] Terror
> Suspect [2]”
> 

This is for Smirk, with whom I've gone back and forth over topics like this.
Matt Boyd got fired [3] over something he said at work [4] and was later
investigated for making terrorist remarks [5].

Okay Smirk, how much do you want to bet Matt Boyd's name is on the No Fly
List [6]? (Also interesting is this list of people on the list [7], including
a few American military and government workers)

[1] http://community.livejournal.com/snarkoleptics/401298.html
[2] http://www.fleen.com/archives/2007/05/04/interview-with-the-vampire-terror-suspect/
[3] http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-04-30
[4] http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-04-24
[5] http://www.fleen.com/archives/2007/05/03/breaking-news-3/
[6] http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/05/60minutes/main2066624.shtml
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List#False_positives_and_alleged_misuses

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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