“Being a middle-aged white woman is kind of like having civil rights, but not really an adequate substitute.”
Yes. Exactly, and I'll add being a US citizen to that list. It's an illusion of safety. The government is largely getting away with this kind of behavior because it is going after the Usual Suspects ™ -- people like Maher Arar, who even if he isn't a terrorist is guilty of looking like one -- and thus comforting the general population with the belief that the only people who are suffering the effects are the ones who "deserve" it. Right now the only safety most of us have, going through an airport or about our daily lives, is that the odds are dramatically in our favor, because the current administration has shown over and over that it has neither restraint nor shame. Yes, I'm sure it is arguably legal and Constitutional, just like that charming memo on torture that went around a while back. A government that actually needs to *make* that legal argument is one that has lost sight of what the Constitution is all about.
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