>I'm glad our lawyer verified my common sense reaction that this is
>blatantly illegal. Does the USA Patriot Act really sanction this kind
>of erasure of the Bill of Rights? You don't need to be a libertarian
>to find this mighty scary.
>
>Miles
well, this isn't the first time that this has happened. peace activists who are known are marked for search. i sent a post here from Rohit Kahare. he mentioned that he was marked for a searched, as was a young woman with a antiwar tee-shirt and nose ring. Oden was branded because of her antiwar activism. this sucks. but it also sucks that the friggin' forwards that were sent here didn't exactly get the story right. i am so fucking sick and tired of having people like Declan McCullagh look into it, only to find that the left couldn't just present that case--it was bad enough on its own merits--without twisting it to make it sound like the Feds had set out to consciously prevent her from flying. They set out to make her miserable, she resisted civilly (as she should. yay! for her), they intimidated her in response. <That's the way it works and that's what ought to be highlighted, not some gestures at conspiracy.