[kj] OT: Man held as terrorism suspect over punk song

[Geoffrey ODonoghue]

A similar thing recently happened to Henry Rollins when he was in Australia - 
   
  US rocker and writer Henry Rollins was reported to the National Security hotline during his recent Australian tour because of a book he was reading on flight to Brisbane.
  A furious Rollins was informed he was "nominated as a possible threat" for reading Jihad: The Rise Of Militant Islam In Central Asia. 
  The incident happened on a flight from Auckland on the recent Big Day Out tour.   Rollins told Australian fans during his tour that he received a letter from a "nice woman" who worked "in one of those government areas that deals with anti-terrorism matters."   He posted the letter on his website.   "Please tell your Government and everyone in your office to go f... themselves. Baghdad's safer than my hometown and your PM is a sissy," he wrote. 
   
  Original article - http://entertainment.news.com.au/story/0,10221,18160231-7484,00.html
  Rollin's comments - http://21361.com/site_2004/dispatchs_archive/01-30-06.html
   
  Geoff
  

LONESTYLE at aol.com wrote:
      People are just plain paranoid. ~LB
   
   
      April 5, 2006 - 1 hour, 48 minutes ago 
  

  British anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when he started singing along to a track by punk band The Clash, police said Wednesday.


		
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