DHS Raids Home To Seize Deadly Hair Straighteners

Federal agency founded to fight terrorism continues war on grooming appliances

Paul Joseph Watson

Infowars.com

Monday, March 26, 2012

The Department of Homeland Security, a federal agency
created in the aftermath of 9/11 to fight terrorism, has continued its
war on potentially deadly grooming appliances by raiding a home in the
affluent Orange County city of Laguna Niguel to seize allegedly
counterfeit hair straighteners.

“About 10 investigators with the Orange County District
Attorney’s Office and special ICE Homeland Security Investigations
agents combed through the garage and the single-story house in the 29500
block of Pelican Way near Niguel Road and Alicia Parkway,” reports the Orange County Register.

According to the feds, the American people need to be
protected from the threat of counterfeit hair straighteners because they
could pose a safety hazard to consumers.

The owners of the business that sold the product, Brisk
Deals, labeled the incident a “misunderstanding,” adding that the feds
conducted the raid as if they were targeting armed terrorists, not dodgy
hair irons.

“They attacked the house like they thought we had guns,
like we’re a gang or gun-running or something,” said UCI electrical
engineering graduate student Mohsen Rafizaden, accusing the DHS of
causing his mother to have a panic attack for which she was taken to
hospital.

The affidavit against the business claims that the hair
straighteners violate trademarks held by Chi Curling Irons and GHD. The
fact that the house was the target of a terrorist-hunting style siege
over hair appliances illustrates how far the Department of Homeland
Security has overstepped its jurisdiction.

Let’s not forget last month’s proud announcement on behalf of the DHS that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) had stopped 13,000 potentially unsafe hair dryers from entering the country.

It’s just a shame that the agency doesn’t seem to pursue illegal aliens with the same zeal it uses to go after salon tools. Last year, the DHS announced that illegals who broke the law by sneaking into the country would be allowed to stay in the country and seek employment.

Despite the raid, the company’s website, BriskDeals.com,
is back online having initially disappeared following the incident. The
DHS’s usual method is to arbitrarily order ISPs to shut down a
company’s website merely on the accusation of activity involving
counterfeit goods or intellectual copyright infringement. In the case of
music blog www.dajaz1.com, the website was closed for a year on charges the DHS had to later admit were completely false.

Still, it’s good to know that the DHS’ war on faulty
hair appliances isn’t taking away from its focus and the very reason it
was created – to fight terrorism.

We recently reported
on a document out of the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security &
Preparedness that lists banal bodily activities such as yawning, staring
and goose pumps as “suspicious activity” indicative of terrorism.

Perhaps sellers of dubious hair appliances should be
treated as terrorists too, and then the DHS can really be empowered to
go after this obviously fundamental threat to our way of life.