I am not sure what the author of the above article expects from the casual observer. She has, to all intents and purposes, a good life. Probably has a nice home or two, a husband that is employed full time and she has the time to bitch about being asked questions that the FBI is empowered to ask. Well, all I can say is, yes please, I will have some of that!
The FBI does not mean the Federal Bureau of Investigation, it means the Fucked up Bunch of Idiots! This we know already. They could not organise a piss up in a brewery let alone catch a spy. As Jane O'Brien rightly pointed out, it took the feds over seven years before they got round to having a word and even then they sent a contractor! Not even a properly trained agent! The FBI expect us to believe they know what they are doing?
While they were spending time having coffee in down town DC, you can bet some real nasties were laughing into their coffee somewhere else planning their next outrage. I sympathise to a some extent with Jane O'Brien. I had an experience with a friend, crossing the border from Canada (that nasty horrible country that the US government and FOX news hates so much!) to go shopping. We had our passports and everything was in order. But, because we were foreign nationals travelling from a foreign country (Canada for christs sake!), we were told to park the vehicle in another location, our passports were kept and sent up in a tube upstairs and then told that we had to report to the office for 'processing'.
This involved a wait for an hour in which time not one person told us what the hell was going on but other people there said that they are going to take your picture AND your fingerprints AND charge you $7 dollars for the privilege! Well, we had heard the horror stories about people who make a fuss when entering the US so decided to swallow this time, vowing never to return. We were not even given the option of turning around and going back. It seems that once you are on US soil, you belong to the US. They searched our car while we upstairs, I assume they have the powers to do this? There was nothing there of course for we were going shopping there to buy stuff from the US!
Now, I will never go back there. I was in two minds post Sept 11 about going back and it is sad for I always enjoyed going there. But this is how messed up the US and it's security paranoia has become. You can't even go on a casual shopping trip without major hassle. I have no problem with the US protecting it's border but I do not see why I should have to pay for it and they have my picture and dabs on a database for which there is and never will be any accountability.
In the end, the US is the big loser for it has become a fortress that is becoming increasingly difficult for foreign nationals to get into, out of or even through and eventually, people will say enough already and just stop going there. I cannot see that this is what the US government intends to happen but this is the real effect. Jane O'Brien should have no complaints about being questioned by the feds. She married into their family and lives on their soil. She is wise to stop short of becoming a US citizen for once that happens, she will belong to them.
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