Historian Ilan Pappe was detained in Detroit airport on Monday and asked if he was a Hamas supporter, whether he views Israeli action in Gaza as genocide, who his Arab and Muslim friends are in America, and what his solution is to the “conflict.”
He is 70.
This is the USA patriot act in action. It expanded search and surveillance powers of federal law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, statutes related to telephone privacy and electronic communications, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
How in the fuck was some TSA hourly employee asking these questions? Were they personally Fox News fans swinging their big authority dicks around, or was it a script from someone given a government directive?