So your "defence" is basically that you think there were only a few citizens that were treated as second class, and because the AP was covering it, it must be false ?
No, my defense(that's how we spell it in the colonies) is that a simple situation got out of hand because people caught attitudes and were probably less than cooperative. I don't know which "side" did it first. But this happens in America and can be easily resolved, after all, people only lost their heads figuratively, didn't they? I never suggested that the AP story was fals, you did, I inferred that they were pushing it in an attempt to embarass the president by proxy, as they have in many other "Non-stories".
How about this instead - 30 citizens,(were they ALL citizens? They dress in traditional clothing which may make any reasonable person suspect their citizenship.) who had commited no crime (The 19 monsters of 9/11 were innocent of crimes, too, yet everyone wonders why the weren't stopped. Because the ACLU would have cried "PROFILING!" and allowed them to go free.), were LIED to at the border and taken aside by agents who assured them it was just a random check. After showing their documents(and complaining loudly about doing so), they were then held until they also submitted to photos and prints, being told they would be arrested if they attempted to leave. They are checked with metal detectors. They are never informed what they were suspected of. They are finally released, and some are given veiled warning that they better keep their nose clean, we are watching you.(And since September 11, 2001, they have lived in a vacuum? Or perhaps they have the bunker next to yours? NEWS FLASH RS: this ain't the America you grew up in. There are people out ther that believe the same things that this group does who wpould like nothing more than to wipe us -AMERICA: The Great Satan - OUT. Until these "peaceful Muslims" in the US and Canada, and other parts of the free world come out and CONDEMN the actions of the Islamofascist, they are all suspect - NOTE: I said SUSPECT, NOT GUILTY.)
Could the government plant their prints somewhere ? Might they keep their mouths shut and NOT speak out ? (That's right the evil American Government is trying to frame poor innocent Muslims. Maybe they'll plant the prints on the Capitol, and then burn it down. And you say you're NOT a Muslim apologist?)
When did submitting quietly to Government agents become celebrated here at FR?