YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FREAKIN' KIDDING: Seattle officials call for ban on 'potentially offensive' language.

Government workers in the city of Seattle have been advised that the terms "citizen" and "brown bag" are potentially offensive and may no longer be used in official documents and discussions.

KOMO-TV reports that the city's Office of Civil Rights instructed city workers in a recent internal memo to avoid using the words because some may find them offensive.

Here's a word I'd suggest using for the Seattle Office of Civil Rights: "downsized." As in permanently.

[UPDATE & BUMP] Instapundit calls the language police "illiterate idiots." He's right.