Speaking of “Assault Weapons . . .”
. . . Can get you investigated:
In an often-tense post-9/11 environment, the Indian American executive director of the Orange County Republican Party was investigated for possible terrorist activity by the Orange, Calif., police department Nov. 18, following a tip-off by a local resident who overheard him speaking on his cell phone about assault rifles.
George Andrews, born in South San Francisco, Calif., and of Malayalee descent, was at an automotive shop in Orange, waiting to get his flat tire fixed.
“I was talking to one of my staff about invoices, and then we got onto a tangent about Barack Obama and gun control policy,” Andrews told India-West. “You usually don’t see East Indians around here talking on their cell phones about gun policy,” he said.
Andrews’ conversation was overheard by someone who sent an e-mail to the Orange Police Department, spokesman Sgt. Dan Adams told India-West. The OPD has its own agent of the Department of Homeland Security, who headed the investigation into the matter, said Adams.
“We get e-mails and phone calls from a variety of people,” said Adams, adding: “Anytime anyone overhears something that could be a threat to the nation, we’re going to look into it.”
Andrews was exonerated of any plots or crimes.
Most of the crew where I work are gun owners (and one even has an FFL) and conversation is often about guns, including “assault weapons.” So far, I haven’t been investigated — that I know of!
14 Responses to “Speaking of “Assault Weapons . . .””
on 27 Nov 2008 at 1:04 pm # Linoge
Wow. 1984, here we are.
on 28 Nov 2008 at 8:33 pm # Massachusetts Refugee
There will be no ridiculing of the god-king’s policies, especially those that he lied about during the campaign.
on 28 Nov 2008 at 9:29 pm # Matt
The laws that are bound to be passed with a NO checks-and-balances Democrapic regime from the House of Reps. on up to the White (Black) House, which will violate the Constitution and the “civil rights” that the pigs on the left so dearly claim to defend, will make the Patriot Act look like the work of a first grader. And it will be OK, because bigotry from the left is really tolerance. And we don’t question tolerance.
on 01 Dec 2008 at 2:18 pm # Ride Fast
Holy shit. I wonder if they are investigating me yet. Cosmic irony, I think I know Andrews!
on 01 Dec 2008 at 2:38 pm # Ride Fast
[…] You can ask but don’t tell […]
on 02 Dec 2008 at 12:51 am # M. Simon
I’m on a message board that discusses fusion reactors.
From time to time questions about nuclear weapons come up with respect to using a neutron producing fusion reactor to irradiate U238 to produce Pu239.
Fortunately biowarfare doesnt come up often (except WRT the advantages of urban sprawl) and I don’t recall any discussion of chemical weapons.
Jeeze I hope I didn’t get you guys in trouble
on 02 Dec 2008 at 1:56 am # bobby b
“And it will be OK, because bigotry from the left is really tolerance.”
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When they do act similar to how a bigot might act, it’s different, because (as several have explained to me, slowly, and patiently, as if to a rather slow child) they do so with good and pure intentions.
When “Rethugs” do it, it’s simply our nature.
Our evil, puppy-killing, eat-the-poor nature.
on 02 Dec 2008 at 2:43 am # Hucbald
Ah, thanks Bobby. I almost forgot. I hadn’t put any puppies in my blender yet today.
Be right back…
The irony of leftard condescension is that while they have a higher percentage of doctoral degrees, they also have a lower IQ average than conservatives do… wait, perhaps there’s no irony in that.
on 02 Dec 2008 at 4:01 am # Sam
Hucbald: actually, the answer to that is much like the answer to why Barky could get so many people at a rally: Reblicans have more important things to do than spending a third of their adult life in college or worshipping at the feet of the annointed one…like jobs.
on 02 Dec 2008 at 4:01 am # Sam
Sorry, Republicans. It helps to spell things correctly on occasion.
on 02 Dec 2008 at 4:04 am # gs
McCain barely carried Orange County, but it’s historically been a Republican stronghold. I don’t see what a Democrat President-Elect who hasn’t taken office yet has to do with the Andrews matter.
on 02 Dec 2008 at 8:09 am # ron
I fail to see the danger in this. We should not discourage citizens who believe to have heard a threat from contacting authorities. The conversation was investigated, and the man exonerated. As it should be.
on 02 Dec 2008 at 8:46 am # JFM
The irony of leftard condescension is that while they have a higher percentage of doctoral degrees,
Doctoral degrees in what? In gender studies or similar crap where the only thing you need to do is to tell what the local Ward “Eichman” Churchill wants to hear? Sorry but to me that is not degree but a time filler for rich white kids.
I for one, only respect hard science degrees and I think it is high time to clean up universities of departments in junk science whose only purpose is give to a bunch of losers a tax-payer funded job (even in non-state universities a lot of their funding from the tax payer through research).
on 02 Dec 2008 at 12:49 pm # Youngblood
Sorry, but it’s tough to tell a Pakistani terrorist from a Republican East Indian. Had the situation been different, those who are tut-tutting the police calls would certainly be asking why the cops didn’t respond to the threat. Sorry, it really is better to be safe than sorry when “sorry” means that innocent people die.
Notice that Mr. Andrews was questioned, not locked up or put on trial. Hardly “1984″, as your first commentator suggested.