Now I get it....... you are an open borders kind of guy... sorry, but security at the borders IS a function of the government. If your past is shady, if the people you associate with are shady (by your own admission, and out of curiosity, who were these people? Were they known terrorists?) people, then you will be detained. I have no problem with this, as this is a constitutional duty of our government.
Like I told my kids, guilt by association is a reality. If you go to shady places and hang with shady people, you will eventually find yourself in trouble.
You were not detained because of your conservative blog. You were detained because of the people you chose to associate with.
You caused your own problems. Get over it. And change the people and organizations you choose to associate with.
I side with the border patrol on this one.
Okay Joe Fonebone, I get it now. You say that I am shady. Did I say shady or did you just come to that intelligent conclusion yourself? I was detained because of the people that I associate with? You mean congressman? Peacemakers? How about NGO organizations helping those in need? Wow, shady people. I should obviously be ashamed of myself!!
You side with the border patrol because you do not know any better and you chose to believe what you cannot obviously see. I think they call people like you, Pharisees, right?
the problem with what you wrote is there is absolutely not one fact in it. Just a bunch of conjecture and judgement, without even an ounce of factual data. I call that the “cattle effect”. So.... Moooooooo.
The reason the government gets away with things, is because of people like you, who find it okay to justify their behavior regardless of the overall consequence to basic humanity. I call what happens to people like you late in life, a paradigm crash. If you ever get there.. it is scary. That is the day that you realize that the blinders you wore, however effective in making you sleep better at night, made most of what you did in your life, worthless.
Let me take a minute and tell you about you though Joe... Lets see how close I get. You are ego-centric, probably taught from a young age that only the strong survive. You probably are in middle management, but more than likely worked at the same job for many years, maybe even retired from one of the first jobs you had. You had the same job for most of your career and took the traditional track moving up. Always played it safe, and when conflict struck, you screamed and hoped it would be enough to intimidate others to walk away.
You are judgmental, because you want to hide in a place where you control what others see... a place like, the internet.
Joe, I am not going to tell you that I am a boy scout, but I am going to tell you that if I associate with shady people, you should be afraid, because they are the people YOU would call leaders. Most of them have kept you safe at night, served their country, and never complained.