[Infowarrior] - More on: TSA wants to know what you're reading

[Richard Forno]

Note that the last paragraph makes no reference to "possible violations of a
law associated with a traveller" WHILE FLYING.   Translation: You could be
found reading books on terrorism or drug-making at an airport and that might
"suggest" you are breaking the law somewhere, thus placing your name on a
watchlist that's impossible to get off of because some idiot TSA screener
felt what you were reading was possibly related to criminal activity.
Perhaps I'm a conspiracy theorist here, but I'm not reassured by this
official statement, and neither should you.

Hospital gowns, booties, and a pre-boarding shot of Demerol  -- it's coming
soon.  :(

Sometimes dystopic movies and literature are a sobering reflection, if not
prediction, of modern reality.

-rf


http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/homeland-securi.html

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> But the government is not interested in the books travelers read, according to
> Knocke.
> 
> "I flatly reject the premise that we care at all about the latest Tom Clancy
> novel a traveler is reading," Knocke said.
> 
> "But the fact does remain that CBP officials are going to be mindful of
> whether there is anything that suggests there could be possible violations of
> a law associated with a traveler or items in possession of a traveler as they
> make an admissibility decision about that traveler," Knocke said. "That is
> what they are charged by Congress to do."