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The real terrifying thing about airports
By adamg on Sat, 09/22/2007 - 1:23pm
The Outraged Liberal says it's not loony MIT students but the way the government is now tracking even the books American travelers carry with them:
... Maybe George Orwell's only mistake was not naming his book 2007?
Speaking of Star Simpson (what, haven't heard enough of her already?), Dan Kennedy wonders just how long Howie Carr spent on his generic stupid-college students column today: Four minutes or five?
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towards the end of the article
it's the end of that article that worries me the most:
"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.""