Because You Have Nothing To Fear If You Aren't A Terrorist


From an article on the database that stores information on the habits of people who travel (like what books they're reading, who they travel with, where they're staying and so on.) A database that started, of course, with Clinton (like the no-fly list) but has become much worse under Bush.

Zakariya Reed, a Toledo firefighter, said in an interview that he has been detained at least seven times at the Michigan border since fall 2006. Twice, he said, he was questioned by border officials about "politically charged" opinion pieces he had published in his local newspaper. The essays were critical of U.S. policy in the Middle East, he said. Once, during a secondary interview, he said, "they had them printed out on the table in front of me."


Ian Welsh September 22, 2007 - 2:25pm
( categories: Human Rights )

- eom


"The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Escher Sketch September 22, 2007 - 3:16pm

Silly people, they just needed to donate a little of their Biometric data, to be stored on a chip in one of these Cards and you can just whiz through checkpoints.

Papers Please

"There are two types of folk music:
quiet folk music and loud folk music.
I play both."

Dave Alvin

Peter C September 22, 2007 - 7:14pm

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