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Conscripting immigration enforcers

lundi 6 août 2018 à 02:00

The UK's "hostile environment" has conscripted teachers, doctors, landlords, even charities for the homeless into immigration enforcers.

The government replaced the word "hostile" with "compliant", to try to duck the criticism. I see no reason to follow that right-wing act of political correctness.

Fracking in Mexico

lundi 6 août 2018 à 02:00

President AMLO says he will ban fracking in Mexico.

Hooray! Let's hope we can do it in the US, too.

Reduced security screening

lundi 6 août 2018 à 02:00

The TSA is considering ending security screening of passengers on flights in small "regional" planes.

One of the criticisms cited in the article is mistaken — the TSA says that passengers connecting from a small plane to a larger one would be screened at the connection airport.

Given how inefficient the TSA is at finding weapons in passengers' baggage — reportedly it misses most of them — I don't think this would put passengers in much danger. A terrorist that wants to kill 60 people could do that in a subway car.

Deporting military spouses

lundi 6 août 2018 à 02:00

The US deportation thugs have now been ordered to deport spouses of military veterans.

The person cited in this example is being punished for a paper she was tricked into signing many years ago. The deportation thugs are still doing that sort of thing now.

Activists in Salafi Arabia

lundi 6 août 2018 à 02:00

Salafi Arabia has arrested many human rights activists, and some are accused of "terrorism".

It is common practice to use laws supposedly intended for "terrorism" against dissidents.