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BoySetsFire
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 Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:04 am Post subject: air marshals put innocent folks on watch list to meet quotas |
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Marshals: Innocent People Placed On 'Watch List' To Meet Quota
Marshals Say They Must File One Surveillance Detection Report, Or SDR, Per Month
| Quote: | DENVER -- You could be on a secret government database or watch list for simply taking a picture on an airplane. Some federal air marshals say they're reporting your actions to meet a quota, even though some top officials deny it.
The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they're required to submit at least one report a month. If they don't, there's no raise, no bonus, no awards and no special assignments.
"Innocent passengers are being entered into an international intelligence database as suspicious persons, acting in a suspicious manner on an aircraft ... and they did nothing wrong," said one federal air marshal. |
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WheelsOfConfusion
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:48 am Post subject: |
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| So apparently it's not just the people who have the same name as a terrorist who can't fly now? |
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Billiam
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 5:50 am Post subject: |
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Wait, I thought our current government was against quotas? I'm so confused.
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WheelsOfConfusion
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| Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 9:45 am Post subject: |
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Terrorists aren't a minority.
Somehow. |
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Major Tom
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we won't be safe until everyone is listed as a terrorist...
...and then watched by a terrorist |
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Uncle Benny
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| I love quotas, it's sheer inefficency screams "exploitation". |
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The Eye Of The Watcher
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Anyone remember the guy they shot in the head? then the next day there was a media blackout?  Our Air marshals are awesome!
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Neraren
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Lose the sig, TEOTW. |
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andrew
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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Woah woah woah, let me go put on my surprise face.
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...  there we go. |
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Dusty
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| The Eye Of The Watcher wrote: | | Anyone remember the guy they shot in the head? then the next day there was a media blackout? Our Air marshals are awesome! |
oh yeah... its as if it has been wiped from my memory. didnt they say they were sorry or something?
the thing that scares me is that there is one on every flight. the fun part is figuring out who it is. :shifty:
oh yeah. "remember, remember the fifth of november." |
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CTrees
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Dusty wrote: | | The Eye Of The Watcher wrote: | | Anyone remember the guy they shot in the head? then the next day there was a media blackout? Our Air marshals are awesome! |
oh yeah... its as if it has been wiped from my memory. didnt they say they were sorry or something?
the thing that scares me is that there is one on every flight. the fun part is figuring out who it is. :shifty:
oh yeah. "remember, remember the fifth of november." |
I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't immediately remember that this was a reference to Guy Fawkes, though looking it up did lead me to learn that November fifth is the the feast of St. Dominator. |
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