U.S. citizenship no bar to terror screening

[lovuian]

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U.S. citizenship no bar to terror screening
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Big News Network.com Tuesday 16th November, 2004

Five government anti-terrorism agents arrived at the door of Nancy Swift's modest home in a northern Virginia suburb last August, where Swift lives and rents out some rooms. They threatened her with a subpoena. They dispatched agents to her office to ask about her. They took away her garbage in the trunks of their cars, and they questioned one of her housemates.

It all happened, apparently, because a neighbor called authorities about one of Swift's tenants in the house, a young Middle Eastern man who had other Middle Eastern friends visit one holiday weekend. The neighbor also turns Swift in to the county government when her grass gets too long.

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Neighbors turning in Neighbors Welcome to the Patriot Act!!!

[eternalburn]

1. Guilty until proven innocent.....

....it's been that way for a long time.

[izzie]

2. Scary

My God what are we doing?

[daleo]

3. The neighbor sounds like a nut

Unfortunately, this neighbor is perfectly in keeping with recent political trends.

"My neighbor harbors terrorists...and she doesn't clip her lawn the regulation inch and a half."

[Fear]

4. THESE are NAZI practices.......this is how the Reich was setup...

[VivaKerry]

5. Not 'set up' - Bolstered!

We are one sick society!

[Fear]

12. agreed

:(

[Baja Margie]

6. It's unraveling.

Bet your bottom boots the right wing militia are preparing for disaster as we are sitting here reading the news. I'm afarid my friend was correct when he said, "It's going to be us vs. them. You have to shoot them before they shoot you."

I don't think this is alarmist anymore. Goddamn it, we are FUCKED,

[fujiyama]

7. More and more

I feel like leaving the country.

[annabanana]

8. lovely

absofuckinlutely lovely....
"Be Alert for things that look 'suspicious'"

[colonel odis]

9. one good narc-ing deserves another, doesn't it?

shouldn't particularly annoying and sanctimonious righties be turned in with equal vigor? the loud, local talk show host? the smug prick down the street? the little business with bush stickers all over his front window?

didn't you see some furrin' lookin' turrist types hanging out at one of them's house last weekend? weren't they saying un-american things loudly in public just the other day? weren't you having coffee in one of them's shop a few weeks back and he wished quite vocally awful things to happen to mr. bush?

if they want to intimidate people, let them intimidate their own.

[Guaranteed]

10. Read the article, folks...there's more.

This is fucking ridiculous. FUCK that neighbor. I want to beat the SHIT out of that guy.

[kintaro]

11. history again?

reminds me of germany 1933+
people starting to denounce each other if they don't follow the expected attitude.