E-mail on interfaith marriage gets former Marine on no-fly list, DHS dirty dealing

[TalkingDog]

http://www.suntimes.com/4436773-417/e-mail-on-interfaith-marriage-gets-st.-charles-man-on-no-fly-list


Mashal said he had sought the imam’s advice about raising children in a mixed-religion household. Mashal is Muslim; his wife is Christian.

He said the agents offered to get him off the list — if he would become an undercover informant at mosques. He refused and said he feels he was being blackmailed.

“I feel like I’m living in communist Russia, not the United States of America, for someone to jump into my life like that,” he said.

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, which enforces the no-fly list, wouldn’t comment. In October, Homeland Security sent Mashal a letter saying that it had reviewed his file and that “it has been determined that no changes or corrections are warranted at this time.”

[Duer 157099]

1. Wow. That's chilling. n/t

[Angry Dragon]

2. Police State

coming to a street corner near you

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. already on one

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. There is one heartening thing I got out of this article.

I normally try to avoid reader commentary like the plague, but I was curious so I peeked. Not much in the way of right-wing diatribe I have become so very used to seeing.

[BlueIris]

5. Holy shit. That is obscene.

It horrifies me that bigots like that exist in DHS. Or anywhere.

[hobbit709]

6. DHS has less to do with bigotry than more to do with the Gestapo mentality.

[snot]

7. K&R'd.

[felix_numinous]

8. RW has no concept of what freedom or liberty really is,

these words have lost their meaning.

[barbtries]

9. too late to recommend.

his comment is so true - what the hell goes on here these days.