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I'm not. The raw emotion controlling the interrogating 'official' is not reassuring to me at all. Also, "live round"? Really?

• petenixey 16y ago
  I used the term "live round" rather than "bullet" in deference to the other comments on the page. The emotion is unfortunately part of the process. An interrogation is designed to unsettle someone, it's not a process of uncovering evidence, an audit; it requires shaking the fruit down from the tree. Had he been interrogated in such a manner for simply being muslim or Afghani I would have been saddened but in the context these questions were apparently merited. Either you bring paraphernalia associated with terrorism and accept the consequences or you leave them behind. Expecting to bring those things back from Afghanistan and just walk through is ridiculous.
  • davidcuddeback 16y ago
    > Expecting to bring those things back from Afghanistan and just walk through is ridiculous. My reading of the story has the CBP agent pulling him aside solely on the fact that he visited Afghanistan and Pakistan. They did not uncover the other items until they thoroughly searched his pack while already in the interrogation room. Edited to add (from the story): "Once inside the room, the Officer began to inspect the contents of my backpack."
  • djacobs 16y ago
    Emotion is not appropriate, regardless of what they claim their "rationale" is. Clearly they weren't using reasoning here, so I don't think the emotion was planned or well-intentioned. The questions were not merited at all, from my reading of it. Candy, bullet without a gun, a musing about US citizenship. Nope, no merit.