giandujakiss: Holy shit.

giandujakiss (

giandujakiss) wrote,
@ 2011-02-04 08:40 am UTC

Entry tags:	political-ish
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Holy shit.

Immigration officer fired after putting wife on list of terrorists to stop her flying home

An immigration officer tried to rid himself of his wife by adding her name to a list of terrorist suspects.

He used his access to security databases to include his wife on a watch list of people banned from boarding flights into Britain because their presence in the country is 'not conducive to the public good'.

As a result the woman was unable for three years to return from Pakistan after travelling to the county to visit family.

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	no subject hey_legousa 2011-02-04 02:31 pm UTC (link)
	Wait, I saw that headline on failblog. I hadn't read the part where it actually WORKED. WTAFFOMG!!!!!!!!111111111ELEVENTY!!!1DDDDDD: (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject giandujakiss 2011-02-04 02:34 pm UTC (link)
	I know, it's pretty horrifying. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject umadoshi 2011-02-04 02:35 pm UTC (link)
	...wow. Just wow. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject giandujakiss 2011-02-04 02:43 pm UTC (link)
	I know. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject such_heights 2011-02-04 03:13 pm UTC (link)
	What the fucking fuck. DDD: (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject giandujakiss 2011-02-04 04:05 pm UTC (link)
	Pretty much my reaction. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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florahart
2011-02-04 04:02 pm UTC (link)

...Cannot even formulate response. WTF. I mean, I have ~3874566345 problems with the whole terrorist watch list thing in the first place (generally, as applied in the US, but I suspect the usage is fairly similar), and I didn't think there were any more ways to make me feel less as though it were a good tool for improving safety. AND YET. Undetected until he applied for a promotion and the background check turned it up? WTF.

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	no subject giandujakiss 2011-02-04 04:04 pm UTC (link)
	Exactly - I mean, the system is infamously horrible in the US - names are incorrect and it's impossible to get off the list once you're on it. I don't know about how it works in the UK but it just shows how terrible the system is generally. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject yhlee 2011-02-04 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	!!! Holy smokes, that's awful. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject giandujakiss 2011-02-04 08:06 pm UTC (link)
	I know! It's like a perfect storm of misogyny and authoritarian-state paranoia and the suggestion of racism. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject saraht 2011-02-04 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	This is what people often don't get about excessive grants of power to government--the problem is very often not a Great Conspiracy to Create a Dystopia, the problem is that the petty and/or stupid minor officials who implement the measures at street-level will do abusive things for idiotic reasons. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject giandujakiss 2011-02-04 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	I know. And the stupid and abusive things will fall disproportionately on people who don't have a lot of power, so... (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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