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Turning on each other in the throes of paranoia
This has probably already hit other peoples' journals by now, but anyway:
A passenger sitting next to Henry Rollins on a flight (from New Zealand to Australia) reported Rollins to the Australian anti-terror police as a potential terrorist, because Rollins was reading Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia. Rollins received a letter informing him of this, apparently saying that the government knew it was probably "idiotic", but they do follow up all tip-offs.
The thing that scares me here is that people are dobbing in each other to a secret police who then have sufficient grounds to spy on you. Yeah, I know, I know, if you're not doing anything wrong, then you don't have anything to worry about, I've heard it before.. but I still don't like the apparent fact that people are turning each other in based on nothing more than the books they are reading.
It's really not a good look.
I hope that anonymous passenger is feeling stupid by now.
(Thanks to Jason-WINOLJ for the link)
A passenger sitting next to Henry Rollins on a flight (from New Zealand to Australia) reported Rollins to the Australian anti-terror police as a potential terrorist, because Rollins was reading Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia. Rollins received a letter informing him of this, apparently saying that the government knew it was probably "idiotic", but they do follow up all tip-offs.
The thing that scares me here is that people are dobbing in each other to a secret police who then have sufficient grounds to spy on you. Yeah, I know, I know, if you're not doing anything wrong, then you don't have anything to worry about, I've heard it before.. but I still don't like the apparent fact that people are turning each other in based on nothing more than the books they are reading.
It's really not a good look.
I hope that anonymous passenger is feeling stupid by now.
(Thanks to Jason-WINOLJ for the link)