http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=indymedia ********* hello declan, i was disturbed to see this story, posted to indymedia.org today. under the title "reason to be paranoid: a personal experience," the piece, apparently by an arab man named ali kemal, told of him being stopped upon entering the us and interrogated by a government agent. after allegations of involvement with various muslim groups, which kemal denied, the agent produced imc and other posts, which kemal says he always posted pseudonymously. he was eventually allowed to enter, to find that his family traveling with him had also been questioned, including his daughter who was asked if he had ever touched her inappropriately. this appears to represent concrete evidence of tactics of the increasingly impudent "national security" apparatus, whereby posters to 'suspect' sites are monitored for objectionable opinions, and are continually under threat of future legal action- stymieing freedom of speech, and diminishing democracy. the story is here: http://www.indymedia.org:8081//front.php3?article_id=93834&group=webcast some of the comments are interesting too... what do you think? best, [Anonymous] ps- please keep me anon; thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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