| From: | Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Party planning |
| Date: | 2005-08-10 19:22:19 |
| Message-ID: | 20050810192219.GC7189@wolff.to |
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On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:35:20 -0700,
Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
> (* = if you think that it's not a major and frightening hassle to visit the US
> these days, you clearly haven't traveled internationally for a while. As a
> US citizen, it took me nearly an hour of checks on the way back from Brazil.
> For actual foreigners, this is worse; one of the award recipients for the
> 2003 Oscars (a designer) was detained for 12 hours by the TSA. Here in San
> Francisco, we've noticed at 75% drop in international tourism.)
For a much worse case you can read about Maher Arar:
http://www.amnesty.ca/human_rights_issues/maher_arar_overview.php
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