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Originally Posted by RePinion
I wouldn't say it's utterly inconceivable, just decidedly unrealistic.
No offence to RTH, but do you really think what he may have written on some blog would really be of that much concern to the US Department of Homeland Security? Do you know how many people maintain blogs, contribute to online journals, etc., critical of US policy? Christ, I've written letters to the editor which have been published in the Globe and Mail and Harpers criticizing US trade and security practices. Back in lawschool, I even wrote an article which was heavily supportive of people like Naomi Klein, Ron English, and adbusters. Perhaps they have a dossier on me somewhere. I couldn't care less. I have never had the slightest iota of trouble entering the US. If RTH registers as a potential threat at all, I can assure you it is only as a very, very low level one. I doubt if his writings are what caused him to be stopped and checked. It is possible, just not very likely.
As for union membership and taking pictures of port facilities, well, that's another story altogether ...
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you're missing the point.
I know I'm not a threat, and they know I'm not a threat. They aren't interested in actual threats.
They're interested in creating a culture of fear where they can push the public to give up more of their privacy rights.
In the US it is now legal for the government to detain someone for no reason at all.
I too have had letters pubished, articles in RTH and other online journals. Very few relate to US politics, but don't kid yourself into thinking they don't monitor such stuff.
Look at what the US government did to Michael Ruppert and the folks at Beyond the Wilderness.
It's real-life stuff. They know so much more about us than any of us know.
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