Glenn Greenwald: "Detaining My Partner: A Failed Attempt at Intimidation"

[muriel_volestrangler]

241. Hang on, you're the one still stuck in the middle 20th century

You said "there's no good reason for this individual to have been hauling all those electronic gimcracks through Heathrow airport", like someone who last travelled before the invention of laptops or cellphones.

"He could have read the docs that print with the ticket, for example."

What does that even mean? For example of what? What has the ticket to do with being detained for 9 hours under the 2000 Terrorism Act, and having your property confiscated for 7 days?

"Yes it's a huge pain, no I don't endorse it, but anyone who's flown in the last decade could have told this fellow that he was asking for trouble."

What is a huge pain? We know that it is extremely rare for anyone to suffer this. No, most people who fly do not have this happen to them.