{"id":1069,"date":"2007-12-25T13:25:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T13:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/25\/dangerous-criminal-recounts-ca\/"},"modified":"2007-12-25T13:25:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-25T13:25:54","slug":"dangerous-criminal-recounts-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/25\/dangerous-criminal-recounts-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Criminal Recounts Capture at Third World Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A chain was fastened around my waist and I was handcuffed to the chain. Then my legs were placed in chains. I asked for permission to make a telephone call but they refused. So secured, I was taken from the airport terminal in full sight of everybody. I have seldom felt so bad, so humiliated and all because I had taken a longer vacation than allowed under the law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->Oh, wait, no, I got the information counfsued.  This was a 33 year old woman from Iceland with a minor visa issue shackled, jailed, and mildly tortured by Homeland Security officials at JFK Airport in New York.To be honest, I think the homeland security people at the airports to a much better job than was done in the old days, and I personally have not had a problem in many encounters.  But having said this, stories like the one reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2007\/12\/14\/europe\/EU-GEN-Iceland-US.php\">here<\/a> need to be investigated and exposed.  Or else.Or else what?  Or else US citizens are living in a police state.Oh, by the way, Erla, Lillendahl, the woman who was captured in the act of being a bourgeois shopper by Homeland Security, appears to be a friend of a blogger.  Don&#8217;t mess with bloggers, man. <a href=\"http:\/\/eggmann.blog.is\/blog\/eggmann\/entry\/389611\/\"> She recounts the whole story here<\/a> (the quote above is from this blog).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chain was fastened around my waist and I was handcuffed to the chain. Then my legs were placed in chains. I asked for permission to make a telephone call but they refused. So secured, I was taken from the airport terminal in full sight of everybody. I have seldom felt so bad, so humiliated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/25\/dangerous-criminal-recounts-ca\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dangerous Criminal Recounts Capture at Third World Airport<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-hf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}