Holy WTF, Batman?

Courtesy my old roommate, semanticdm05, terror in the heartland.

What blows my mind is not just the "hi, we're the DHS and we're walking into a small software business in Iowa and leaving with one of the employees" aspect of it, but the cavalier attitude of semanticdm05's remaining co-workers. What has to happen to a community in order for the general response for something like this to be "oh, well, if the feds were interested in him, he must've done something wrong?"

Bear in mind, folks, that unless I'm conflating two different people, Yassine Azizi is a guy who had a pretty normal life. He had a job and co-workers who liked him. He was the president of the student chapter of the IEEE. Google on his name, and that's all that comes up. (I think semanticdm05 misspelled his first name by one character.) When Jathan Desir was busted during Operation Fastlink two years ago, it made the news (and Slashdot). The fact that DHS can make arrests like this in broad daylight with no information made available -- and the fact that people react as if this is a common, everyday occurrence -- creeps me right the fuck out.

(I suppose the fact that I saw V for Vendetta last night with allonymist and enochsmiles isn't exactly helping matters, but still.)