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
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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.