I am going to destroy America. No, totally, for srs

[Triple Zero]

Trip would make a fine addition to the Meetrack.

Yeah he would.

I'm curious. Do I want to know?

What kind of addition?

This kind?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Trip would make a fine addition to the Meetrack.

Yeah he would.

I'm curious. Do I want to know?

What kind of addition?

This kind?

Can't see, so don't know.

[Golden Applesauce]

Latest seems to indicate that the authorities were "tipped off" about the pair.  Which is a little better than DHS monitoring all the tweets (although Eris knows they're trying), but means that we're already at the "retards reporting insufficiently serious tweets to the DHS" stage.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/01/30/u-k-tourists-deported-due-to-tweet-about-destroying-america/

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Latest seems to indicate that the authorities were "tipped off" about the pair.  Which is a little better than DHS monitoring all the tweets (although Eris knows they're trying), but means that we're already at the "retards reporting insufficiently serious tweets to the DHS" stage.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/01/30/u-k-tourists-deported-due-to-tweet-about-destroying-america/

HAW HAW!  TOLDJA!

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Latest seems to indicate that the authorities were "tipped off" about the pair.  Which is a little better than DHS monitoring all the tweets (although Eris knows they're trying), but means that we're already at the "retards reporting insufficiently serious tweets to the DHS" stage.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/01/30/u-k-tourists-deported-due-to-tweet-about-destroying-america/

Im going to assume it was an enemy of his who was out for revenge. I refuse to believe that people that stupid are capable of operating a computer.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Latest seems to indicate that the authorities were "tipped off" about the pair.  Which is a little better than DHS monitoring all the tweets (although Eris knows they're trying), but means that we're already at the "retards reporting insufficiently serious tweets to the DHS" stage.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/01/30/u-k-tourists-deported-due-to-tweet-about-destroying-america/

Im going to assume it was an enemy of his who was out for revenge. I refuse to believe that people that stupid are capable of operating a computer.

Optimism reigns supreme!

[Cain]

Latest seems to indicate that the authorities were "tipped off" about the pair.  Which is a little better than DHS monitoring all the tweets (although Eris knows they're trying), but means that we're already at the "retards reporting insufficiently serious tweets to the DHS" stage.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/01/30/u-k-tourists-deported-due-to-tweet-about-destroying-america/

Im going to assume it was an enemy of his who was out for revenge. I refuse to believe that people that stupid are capable of operating a computer.

Rebuttal in two words: Youtube.  Comments.

[Triple Zero]

It was mentioned in comments elsewhere that "tip-off" can actually mean anything, including a system like carnivore flagging tweets, a machine going PING, a worker drone writing a report about it, causing a small bureaucratic papershuffling, and when it arrives at the TSA it's a "tip-off".

Or any other similar scenario up to and including the manual moronicity mentioned.

[Scribbly]

This is what will happen if you staff your border security exclusively with ultraparanoid retards. Of course I'm given the impression that that description would apply to, what, 99.99% of you population? I guess it's inevitable. And also very hilarious. I wonder how long until every facebook and twitter update is treated as a serious terrur threat 

This isn't about anyone thinking this man is a real threat, being ultraparanoid or anything of the sort.

This is about sending a message. That message is: We Are In Charge. Dissent Will Not Be Tolerated.

And the best way they could think of sending out that message was by licking a window and peeing in their pants like little girls?

Or, looked at a different way, causing the guy to waste his vacation, the price of the tickets, endure an immediate return flight AFTER spending an afternoon in a crappy little room being harassed by customs agents.

This.

A friend of mine is planning a holiday in the US. He has to go and plead his case to the ambassador because he has a DUI charge. He needs to prove that he is a trustworthy soul who can be trusted to set foot on sacred American soil.

Shit like this is about reinforcing the message that they can and will deny you entry to the country for any reason they damn well please. Hopefully in my friend's case, this discovery will only cost him an afternoon rather than a day + a buttload of money.

...that's utterly ridiculous. Seriously? A DUI was reason enough to go, "NAWP NOT ALLOWED"?

Dunno yet, I'll let you know after his interview.

UPDATE: He has been turned down. He didn't tell me what the exact rationale given was, but yup. He'd planned to go travelling across the US with his girlfriend, not any more.

[Prince Glittersnatch III]

Meanwhile, in Canada

A casual text message to work colleagues encouraging them to "blow away" the competition at a trade show allegedly plunged a Muslim man into a terrorism probe.

Telecommunications sales manager Saad Allami says the innocent message, aimed at pumping up his staff, has had devastating consequences on his life.

The Quebec man says he was arrested by provincial police while picking up his seven-year-old son at school. A team of police officers stormed into his home, telling his wife she was married to a terrorist. And his work colleagues were detained for hours at the U.S. border because of their connection to him.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Meanwhile, in Canada

A casual text message to work colleagues encouraging them to "blow away" the competition at a trade show allegedly plunged a Muslim man into a terrorism probe.

Telecommunications sales manager Saad Allami says the innocent message, aimed at pumping up his staff, has had devastating consequences on his life.

The Quebec man says he was arrested by provincial police while picking up his seven-year-old son at school. A team of police officers stormed into his home, telling his wife she was married to a terrorist. And his work colleagues were detained for hours at the U.S. border because of their connection to him.

WE'RE CONTAGIOUS! 

[Freeky]

I don't want it anymore.  I don't want it.

[Luna]

Meanwhile, in Canada

A casual text message to work colleagues encouraging them to "blow away" the competition at a trade show allegedly plunged a Muslim man into a terrorism probe.

Telecommunications sales manager Saad Allami says the innocent message, aimed at pumping up his staff, has had devastating consequences on his life.

The Quebec man says he was arrested by provincial police while picking up his seven-year-old son at school. A team of police officers stormed into his home, telling his wife she was married to a terrorist. And his work colleagues were detained for hours at the U.S. border because of their connection to him.

WE'RE CONTAGIOUS! 

What did I tell you about sneezing across the border?  NOW look what you've done...

[Cain]

Gosh, who could've predicted using simple flagged words and phrases on an automated system on social networking sites would produce so many false negatives?

Apart from anyone with half a brain, of course.

[Xooxe]

I should probably eat this cake I have before the authorities discover that it's the bomb.

Also, I've been trying to track this film down for ages now - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Cannon_Incident

[Never mind. Just found the whole thing with English subs on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ1biX4AJn8 ]