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September 04, 2004

Take him away

Imagine someone putting a bumper sticker on their car and getting a visit from the Secret Service. It could seem a bit much for the punk-rock-ish sentiment "King George. Off with his head." Ok, no real threat to the President was intended but given these times better safe than sorry, right? Now imagine going to the press and announcing to the world how the incident made you cry. I do not know how the rest of Derek Kjar's day was going but this is not a story I would want running - with my picture - in the newspaper.

He said the agent he contacted in response to a cryptic message left on his voice mail would not even say why he wanted to talk - only that he wanted to meet Thursday morning.
That's when Kjar began to cry. "I didn't know what the hell was going on," he said. "It made me so nervous."

See what the VRWC is capable of? They made him cry! Shame on you. Shame on you King George! But wait... there's more.

The agents finally left after Kjar handed over the sticker. Kjar said he feared the agents were going to "take me away."
Now, he feels as if they did.
"I kind of feel trapped, like I'm not allowed to express my opinions. I felt like my freedom of speech was shot to hell right there."

Because it doesn't matter that he was not "taken away", that he is perfectly free to keep his stupid bumper sticker and that he can say what he likes. In the Salt Lake Tribune. Crying, no less. It's that he feels trapped.

Posted by Ghost of a flea at September 4, 2004 09:01 AM
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