Policing Porn Is Not Part of Job Description:
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.
The unarmed (and lightly trained, it appears) men are part of a Homeland Security agency (your tax dollars — $3.6 million worth — at work). I wonder if this would happen with just one officer: I have to think there was a sense of “I’ll do it if you do it” or “We have to stop this” going on.