Government Pays Up To Settle With Traveler Who Was Detained By TSA For Trying To Learn Arabic
Found on Techdirt on Monday, 26 January 2015
George, who was flying out to California to start his senior year at Pomona College, was carrying with him two items that caught the screeners' attention: Arabic-language flash cards and a book critical of the US government.
Between the TSA's presumption that Arabic = terrorism and the PD's willingness to continue the ignorant farce, George was stuck in a rights-less limbo. As he points out, there's an ugliness inherent to the government's long-running security theater, one that crosses over to the law enforcement agencies who are asked to detain travelers.
That's why you stay away from the US and its thought police.