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Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal has filed a complaint against US customs agents for aggressive interrogation and demanding the passcodes for his phones and laptops and denying him access to an attorney. His expedited Global Entry status was revoked for allegedly refusing to comply with the search. Andreas and the ACLU are requesting an investigation into the incident. He works for Apple these days.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an
open doorway with an open mind.
-- E. B. White
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @09:37AM (9 children)
"This is a day when all Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world."
Bush 2001
(Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Friday April 05 2019, @01:39PM (7 children)
Wow, for a second there I thought that speech was going to be against ICE, TSA, Homeland Security, PATRIOT act, NSA and Border Security. But then when the punch line comes (Bush), you realize that it is in support of those very evils.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by aiwarrior on Friday April 05 2019, @01:57PM (6 children)
Sept 11 2001, was one of the most influential events of American society since WW2. They went from bold to wimps with 2 towers.
Americans always mock the French, but the truth is that they were never attacked at home like the French did (ok Pearl Harbor) for a long time. Look what 2 airplanes did to them. I wish MAGA was about the return of American values.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Friday April 05 2019, @02:11PM (1 child)
It is true that we have sacrificed freedom for security. And we should not have.
Trying to protect American citizens is a goal. But there will always be terrorists. You cannot absolutely guarantee security. Just how "open" of a society we want to have becomes a question.
But on the topic of trading freedom for security, I will paraphrase two famous people:
"those who trade freedom for security deserve and will have neither" -- Benjamin Franklin
but a more famous and influential person once long ago said . . .
"meesa thinks weesa should grant the chancellor emergency powers" -- Jar Jar Binks
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @02:20AM
The American Colonists who dumped the crates in the Boston Tea Party. The British literally called them Terrorists, big T. I don't remember a specific link right now, but the revolutionaries were called out as terrorists for the length of the war and many years thereafter.
I find it ironic then that America has been so loose with the term terrorism in the years since, routinely using it on people we call freedom fighters, or allies one week, and then terrorists the next, before calling them friends once more (See: Rojava and the YPG/Other Kurdish groups, maybe some DO qualify, but definitely not all of them from the point of attacking civilians. If you are hitting military or political targets that is not terrorism.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @05:08PM (3 children)
Don't forget the third plane that miraculously spiraled into the one newly-reinforced side of the pentagon.
Or the forth that was taken down by the rest of the people on board.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @09:16PM
and #3 and #4 disappeared when they crashed too.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday April 06 2019, @04:21AM (1 child)
And tower #7...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 13 2019, @10:58AM
Lan rebuilt them.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday April 06 2019, @01:22AM
> "...Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world."
Of course by "our" he means those in high level government.