I've always been really disappointed when I mention that this happened and people either go "what?" or "it's not that important."
AMERICAN. CITIZENS.
They can hold you indefinitely. No. No one will know that you're there, they can do this all secretly. And the government has picked up every day citizens for seemingly innocuous actions that only in retrospect look threatening (one woman, an author writing a fictional novel about life in the middle east, had her home ransacked, her research and computers taken away, because the library thought there was something off about all the research she was doing on the middle east and reported her).
And. And. Just. Augh. This alone makes me want to move to another country. I should not be afraid of my own government violating my human rights in such a fundamental way. Especially not a country that's all about free speech!
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AMERICAN. CITIZENS.
They can hold you indefinitely. No. No one will know that you're there, they can do this all secretly. And the government has picked up every day citizens for seemingly innocuous actions that only in retrospect look threatening (one woman, an author writing a fictional novel about life in the middle east, had her home ransacked, her research and computers taken away, because the library thought there was something off about all the research she was doing on the middle east and reported her).
And. And. Just. Augh. This alone makes me want to move to another country. I should not be afraid of my own government violating my human rights in such a fundamental way. Especially not a country that's all about free speech!
Nope, can't have an educated electorate, nope....