{"id":43476,"date":"2014-07-10T18:46:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T00:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/when-suspicion-turns-to-a-permanent-record-of-suspicion.html"},"modified":"2014-07-13T10:45:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T16:45:36","slug":"when-suspicion-turns-to-a-permanent-record-of-suspicion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/when-suspicion-turns-to-a-permanent-record-of-suspicion.html","title":{"rendered":"When suspicion turns to a permanent record of suspicion"},"content":{"rendered":"
Also known as "Don't take pictures of stuff that a terrorist<\/i> might take pictures of" and "if you covert to Islam, nobody better catch you playing 'Flight Simulator'" — unless you want your name put onto a Suspicious Action Report (SAR) by some local law enforcement busy-body, sent to a "fusion center," and kept on record (flagging you as a "suspicious person" for thirty-odd years (at least).<\/p>\n

I would say that I feel much safer<\/i> that this sort of diligent suspcion-gathering-and-reporting is going on, except a GAO report notes that, despite tens of thousands of SARs filed, none has led to an arrest, conviction, or thwarting of a threat. But they have led to multiple homeland security interviews, travel checks and screenings, and other jollity.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Man Sues Feds After They Target Him for Photographing Rainbow Art | Threat Level | WIRED<\/a><\/p>\n

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Also known as "Don't take pictures of stuff that a terrorist might take pictures of" and "if you covert to Islam, nobody better catch you playing 'Flight Simulator'" — unless you want your name put onto a Suspicious Action Report (SAR) by some local law enforcement busy-body, sent to a "fusion center," and kept on … Continue reading “When suspicion turns to a permanent record of suspicion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33734,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/14\/take-a-bridge-picture-get-eyed-as-a-terrorist.html","url_meta":{"origin":43476,"position":0},"title":"Take a bridge picture, get eyed as a terrorist","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-May-13 8:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because why would anyone be taking pictures of bridges, if they weren't planning on BLOWING THEM UP? 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