kengr

(swiped from

kightp)
Every now and then the police arrest somebody suspected of some terrible, violent crime, and as a piece of public relations they'll announce all of the horrible books, movies and/or CDs they found in the suspect's house, as if to prove that the suspect is obviously guilty and horrible and monstrous.

So here is my challenge to you. You can either do this from memory or take a moment to look through your book and music collections, and then answer this question:

Name ten books, CDs and/or movies that you own that the police would cite as evidence against you at their press conference.

Well, there's the porn. Including several autographed books by Carol Queen. And several short stories by Margaret Weller that are autographed.
The Prince by Machiavelli
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Several US Army Field Manuals on improvised weapons and explosives.
A couple of comics on guerilla warfare and how to build boobytraps printed by the Chines to distribute to insurgents as training aids (pucked up at a gun show years ago, wish I'd been able to afford the whole set)
The IWW songbook

And likely other things I haven't thought of.

Then there are the sex toys, BDSM gear (some of which they are going to report as stuff for torture and interrogation).

And all the stuff on the computers. Heck, I've got a system that runs Linux and another that runs OS/2. The cops tried using that sort of thing as evidence that someone was a hacker in a case recently (the courts finally threw out the warrant but...)

Oh yeah, the practice grenade and the "clacker" (device used to trigger claymores and other boobytraps. And the sword, and the...