(Boylove News Articles) - Homeland Security's Assault on Travel: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
(21 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Box1 start}} | {{Box1 start}} | ||
{{Box1 start}} | {{Box1 start}} | ||
[[File:DHS-CBP-MONTAGE-2.jpg|center]] | [[File:DHS-CBP-MONTAGE-2.jpg|500 px|center]] | ||
<center>''How America's sex laws endanger | <center>''How America's sex laws endanger you, your children's and everyone's freedom of movement as travelers are routinely detained, interrogated, searched and harassed by the Department of Homeland Security in a systematic effort to erode the foreign travel rights of American “registered sex offenders” (and regardless of the outcome of the International Megan's Law bill now before Congress).'' | ||
By David Kennerly | By David Kennerly | ||
June 22, 2014 | |||
<small>©2014 David Kennerly</small> | <small>©2014 David Kennerly</small> | ||
Line 15: | Line 16: | ||
{{Box1 start}} | {{Box1 start}} | ||
Companion piece to: | Companion piece to: “[[DEAD END: The International Megan's Law's Assault on Everyone's Freedom of Travel]]” | ||
<center>'''“HOMELAND SECURITY'S” ASSAULT ON TRAVEL:''' | <center>'''“HOMELAND SECURITY'S” ASSAULT ON TRAVEL:''' | ||
''How America's sex laws endanger | ''How America's sex laws endanger you, your children's and ''everyone's'' freedom of movement as travelers are routinely detained, interrogated, searched and harassed by the Department of Homeland Security'' | ||
'''by David Kennerly'''</center> | '''by David Kennerly'''</center> | ||
Line 44: | Line 45: | ||
One need not advocate the random harassment of Muslims or of non-white travelers, by any means, to be puzzled by this apparent incongruity, especially when one considers that the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA were created ''particularly'' to guard against terrorist threats and with an unapologetic policy to ''actively profile'' those thought to be Muslim. | One need not advocate the random harassment of Muslims or of non-white travelers, by any means, to be puzzled by this apparent incongruity, especially when one considers that the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA were created ''particularly'' to guard against terrorist threats and with an unapologetic policy to ''actively profile'' those thought to be Muslim. | ||
Apparently, one can reasonably infer that there is one type of “terrorist” which Homeland Security finds more threatening than Al Qaeda; that is the aging, registered sex offender whose sole conviction, decades earlier, for a same-sex offense with a minor (with no allegations of force or coercion) whose position within his industry (representing American products) necessitates international travel and which brings him into frequent contact with its Customs and Border Patrol agency having passed through Customs, literally, many ''dozens'' of times. | Apparently, one can reasonably infer that there is one type of “terrorist” which Homeland Security finds more threatening than Al Qaeda; that is the aging, registered sex offender whose sole conviction, decades earlier, for a same-sex offense with a minor (with no allegations of force or coercion) whose position within his industry (representing American products) necessitates international travel and which brings him into frequent contact with its Customs and Border Patrol agency having passed through Customs, literally, many ''dozens'' of times. | ||
Line 73: | Line 70: | ||
While being questioned in that zone, you are not informed of your Miranda Rights because, frankly, the agents don't have to. Yet anything you say to them can be used in a court of law to convict you. Innocent, even completely ''inconsequential'', misstatements can result in serious criminal penalties for providing “false reports” to law enforcement. <ref> Immigrants Deserve Basic Miranda-Like Warnings When Arrested - http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/02/28/immigrants-deserve-basic-miranda-like-warnings-when-arrested</ref> | While being questioned in that zone, you are not informed of your Miranda Rights because, frankly, the agents don't have to. Yet anything you say to them can be used in a court of law to convict you. Innocent, even completely ''inconsequential'', misstatements can result in serious criminal penalties for providing “false reports” to law enforcement. <ref> Immigrants Deserve Basic Miranda-Like Warnings When Arrested - http://immigrationimpact.com/2013/02/28/immigrants-deserve-basic-miranda-like-warnings-when-arrested</ref> | ||
You can be held indefinitely and asked all manner of deeply personal, even insulting questions which are completely irrelevant to your recent travels. They can threaten you with arrest, tell you they're sending a search team to your house, and lie that they have evidence against you of a crime and try to convince you that your encounter with them represents the perfect opportunity for you to confess unless, of course, you want to spend the rest of your life in prison. <ref>“ACLU: Know Your Rights When Traveling” https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/know-your-rights-when-traveling</ref> | You can be held indefinitely and asked all manner of deeply personal, even insulting questions which are completely irrelevant to your recent travels. They can threaten you with arrest, tell you they're sending a search team to your house, and lie that they have evidence against you of a crime and try to convince you that your encounter with them represents the perfect opportunity for you to confess unless, of course, you want to spend the rest of your life in prison. <ref>“ACLU: Know Your Rights When Traveling” https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/know-your-rights-when-traveling</ref> | ||
Line 82: | Line 78: | ||
The same, often nightmarish, “secondary inspection” treatment which Poitras has come to expect from US-CBP, has been the rule for anyone on the sex offender registry upon their return to the United States, now for more than a dozen years. But this same extraordinary treatment, once reserved primarily for sex offenders, suspected drug couriers or those with Arabic names has become, more recently, routine for many others, journalists, civil liberties attorneys, whistleblowers, libertarians, advocates of drug decriminalization, antiwar and human rights activists.<ref>“Laura Poitras, Journalist and Documentary Filmmaker”, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras</ref> | The same, often nightmarish, “secondary inspection” treatment which Poitras has come to expect from US-CBP, has been the rule for anyone on the sex offender registry upon their return to the United States, now for more than a dozen years. But this same extraordinary treatment, once reserved primarily for sex offenders, suspected drug couriers or those with Arabic names has become, more recently, routine for many others, journalists, civil liberties attorneys, whistleblowers, libertarians, advocates of drug decriminalization, antiwar and human rights activists.<ref>“Laura Poitras, Journalist and Documentary Filmmaker”, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras</ref> | ||
Foreign sex offenders attempting to visit the U.S. may be shocked to learn that, when they can be identified by CBP as such, they will be barred entry to the United States and will be getting on a return flight much sooner than they had hoped, having never been allowed past immigration in the destination airport. | Foreign sex offenders attempting to visit the U.S. may be shocked to learn that, when they can be identified by CBP as such, they ''will'' be barred entry to the United States and will be getting on a return flight much sooner than they had hoped, having never been allowed past immigration in the destination airport. | ||
Our lawmakers claim, with a straight face, that this is to guard against the “sex trafficking” of American kids, a claim difficult to reconcile with their assertion that American sex offenders' purpose in traveling abroad is to “traffic” kids in the “developing nations”, who are said to be vastly more vulnerable to child prostitution than those at home. | Our lawmakers claim, with a straight face, that this is to guard against the “sex trafficking” of American kids, a claim difficult to reconcile with their assertion that ''American'' sex offenders' purpose in traveling abroad is to “traffic” kids in the “developing nations”, who are said to be vastly more vulnerable to child prostitution than those at home. | ||
While hard data is difficult to come by (being that it would be coming from government) it is widely known that, for a number of years since an agreement was established between those English-speaking countries known as “The Five Eyes”, i.e. the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, sex offenders from those countries attempting to visit other of those countries were, in most or all cases, refused entry. | While hard data is difficult to come by (being that it would be coming from government) it is widely known that, for a number of years since an agreement was established between those English-speaking countries known as “The Five Eyes”, i.e. the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, sex offenders from those countries attempting to visit other of those countries were, in most or all cases, refused entry. | ||
It may have been this “Five Eyes” model of cooperation and the network which makes its implementation possible upon which International Megan's Law, and the many equivalent such laws which are beginning to propagate worldwide, is based. Interpol is now seen to be the visible organizing force behind this global push to implement Megan's Law amongst all of the countries who are a party to it, some 190 different nations. | |||
It may have been this “Five Eyes” model of cooperation and the network which makes its implementation possible upon which International Megan's Law, and the many equivalent such laws which are beginning to propagate worldwide, is based. Interpol is now seen to be the ''visible'' organizing force behind this global push to implement Megan's Law amongst all of the countries who are a party to it, some 190 different nations. | |||
If “International Megan's Law” is enacted, there will be far fewer registered sex offenders subjected to the extreme levels of scrutiny that has been their “Welcome Back to the United States!” for a number of years now, as articulated on signs typically found in the passport control lanes for returning American citizens. Instead, they will simply never be allowed to leave home in the first place.<ref> “Can a registered sex offender renounce US citizenship? What are the pros/cons?” http://www.lawqa.com/qa/can-registered-sex-offender-renounce-us-citizenship-what-are-pros-cons2</ref> | If “International Megan's Law” is enacted, there will be far fewer registered sex offenders subjected to the extreme levels of scrutiny that has been their “Welcome Back to the United States!” for a number of years now, as articulated on signs typically found in the passport control lanes for returning American citizens. Instead, they will simply never be allowed to leave home in the first place.<ref> “Can a registered sex offender renounce US citizenship? What are the pros/cons?” http://www.lawqa.com/qa/can-registered-sex-offender-renounce-us-citizenship-what-are-pros-cons2</ref> | ||
Line 95: | Line 92: | ||
''"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.” Charles de Montesquieu'' | ''"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.” Charles de Montesquieu'' | ||
==Notes== | |||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
Line 102: | Line 99: | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[ | *[[Portal:Boylove News Channel/Reform Sex Offender Laws]] | ||
[[ | *[[International Megan's Law]] | ||
==External links== | |||
*[https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44284820/HOMELAND%20SECURITY.pdf “HOMELAND SECURITY'S” ASSAULT ON TRAVEL (original pdf)] | |||
[[Category:News]] | *[http://tomocarroll.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/techno-tethering-globalises-oppression/ Techno-tethering globalises oppression (Heretic TOC)] | ||
{{Template:Navbox David Kennerly}} | |||
{{Navbox RSOL organizations|collapsed}} | |||
[[Category:Boylove News/Reform Sex Offender Laws]] | |||
[[Category:News articles by David Kennerly]] |
Latest revision as of 15:22, 2 January 2022
See alsoExternal links |