Necrometer wrote:maybe I can rephrase: I take it that the ideological point of her silence is that they don't have any reason to hold her and there's no evidence she's involved in anything illegal, so they're holding her unjustly, so regardless of who she knows, it's unreasonable that she's being held until she testifies
the point is that: no matter who you are or who you know, if you do perfectly legal things you could still end up detained indefinitely if you consume "free speech" that rubs the government the wrong way
I thought you were still ragging on her for resisting to testify that she doesn't know anything, not that it was stupid they were holding her since that's what she'd do anyways. Carry on.
I'm red-flagged at the border. Last time I walked thru seatac I was literally given a red flag to put in my passport like a bookmark, and every security checkpoint I was directed to a desk with a red flag on it. They actually said "build any bombs lately?" when I walked up to one of those desk. Why am I red flagged? Years ago, I played in a punk band. End of fucking story. I've never even had a traffic ticket, on the Canadian or American side of the border. I've been handcuffed and thrown in cells for hours at a time trying to go to shows in the states. It is FUCKING STUPID.