This is an amazing story but considering everything that we have witnessed from the Bush team over the last few years, it is hardly surprising. Where did these people get the idea that policing porn somehow fit into the Homeland Security agenda of protecting America from terrorism? Sorry, but I'm not buying the story that they were enforcing a local sexual harassment policy. These people were surely trained to do a job so how did this find it's way into their daily routine? Who is giving these people their orders?
Two uniformed men strolled into the main room of the Little Falls library in Bethesda one day last week and demanded the attention of all patrons using the computers. Then they made their announcement: The viewing of Internet pornography was forbidden.
The men looked stern and wore baseball caps emblazoned with the words "Homeland Security." The bizarre scene unfolded Feb. 9, leaving some residents confused and forcing county officials to explain how employees assigned to protect county buildings against terrorists came to see it as their job to police the viewing of pornography.
