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SvennoJ on 17 December 2014
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BraveNewWorld said:
SvennoJ said:

Yup, the world is a better place without people like Mahar Arar. Not.
http://www.democracynow.org/2006/9/19/canadian_inquiry_finds_torture_survivor_maher

We're dealing with fear mongering, on all sides.

It sucks terribly for people who are innocent but his own judgement wasn't very good.

Syrian born, flying in from Tunisia, stopover in NY a little over a year since 9/11.

Not the smartest thing to do. Anyone flying in from that part of the world at the time would have heavy tabs kept on them. You have to look our for yourself, don't trust anyone else to do it for you.

Blame the victim?
But yeah, don't trust the US government to do their homework.

I guess the Blackstone formulation doesn't apply anymore these days.
25% of those held as part of the EIT/Torture Program were in fact completely totally innocent of any involvement with al Qaeda or terrorism including Khalid al Masri whose life was destroyed in the process and Gul Rahman who died of hypothermia due to the stress position and sleep deprivation techniques used on him.

All that extra surveillance doesn't do you any good either
http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/blog/youll-never-guess-how-many-terrorist-plots-the-nsas-domestic-spy-program-has-foiled
just one (out of 227) conviction came out of the government's extra-controversial practice of spying on its own citizens. And that charge, against San Diego cab driver Basaaly ­Moalin, was for sending money to a terrorist group in Somalia. There was no threat of an actual attack.