It's cold out there and there are lots of germs spread around in crowds. Y'all should really mask up. You know, for health reasons.
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The flu is nasty this year. In addition, while COVID may not bring you down today, it’s apparently causing long term neural damage over time. So yes, mask up.
Marino wool makes a particularly nice gaiter for Mideast winter as well.
If you do get sick, go to your nearest ICE office, and apply for a job. Make sure to cough on your hand and shake hands with as many people as you can, and surreptitiously lick your fingers before touching doorknobs and computer keyboards, and cough deeply, and often.
The time Senior Senator Ted Kennedy was flagged by the No Fly List
Federal air security officials said the initial error that led to scrutiny of the Massachusetts Democrat should not have happened even though they recognize that the no-fly list is imperfect. But privately they acknowledged being embarrassed that it took the senator and his staff more than three weeks to get his name removed.
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The government does not make public the names or the total number of people on the list, which officials say is constantly updated. According to FBI documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union under a Freedom of Information Act request, more than 350 Americans have been delayed or denied boarding since the list's inception. The list has not led to any arrests, officials said.
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The TSA said passengers who have been tripped up by the list can contact the agency's ombudsman and obtain a letter to show airline and security officials that they have been cleared.
David C. Fathi, who said he is apparently on the no-fly list, obtained such a letter but said it hasn't done him much good. "By the time I show the letter, it is already too late," he said.
Fathi, a U.S. citizen of Iranian ancestry and an ACLU attorney, said he has been stopped seven or eight times at airports, but not on every flight. Once he was led from the counter by armed police and questioned extensively at the airport.
I hadn't thought of this, but it does make sense given their stance is that protestors are treated as domestic terrorists.
Obviously that's a bunch of shit, but that's where we're at
"If you have nothing to hide..." always assumes some modicum of goodwill, or at least restraint, from those doing to the looking.
In the US, the police are allowed to literally destroy your house, even if you are innocent. And you will not be reimbursed. By anyone.
These are two examples, and neither of them are the one I was looking for:
https://www.aol.com/news/police-blew-innocent-womans-house-175150270.html
https://reason.com/2017/11/19/the-cops-were-chasing-a-shopli/
One of the reasons I've never done a Pre Check application. Also never been fingerprinted for any job. Try to keep off the feds radar as much as possible. Not sure if it will help much, but at least I'd like to make it harder for them to ID me.
They're gonna come for all of you, eventually.