CelticBear’s Musings

I mean, there’s worse things the American Gestapo could be compared to than the KGB, right? I mean, there’s “Gestapo” for one…

♦ Finnish folk band find a rude airport welcome

Perhaps the most damning comment on the incident was delivered by [J. Karjalainen] who was strip-searched. On a couple of occasions prior to 1991, he was detained by the KGB and interrogated. Compared to the ICE agents here in the Twin Cities, the KGB operatives, he says, “at least acted like human beings. Not a bunch of animals.”

Don’t forget, world travelers, that if you need to travel near or around the U.S., there are international travel agencies that are actually marketing and promoting their services an the best way to avoing stepping foot on American soil!
♦ “W”: The new swastika; “U.S. border”: The new Iron Curtain.

In other news, the KGB could’ve only wished for this kind of domestic spying on citizens:

♦ AT&T’s guilt-by-association algorithm for finding “terrorists”

I want to boycott AT&T and all their subsidiaries and cousin corporations–not so much because of any message it’d send (and I would send a strongly worded letter as a message as well), but because I want to be out of their realm of data collection!