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Codename Section
09-02-2014, 07:52 AM
This is where America is headed and it's thanks to neocons and progressives, so ...thanks.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/09/01/federal-agent-thinks-dad-taking-picture

Federal Agent Thinks Dad Taking Picture of Daughters Is Sex Trafficking (http://reason.com/blog/2014/09/01/federal-agent-thinks-dad-taking-picture)

Every summer for the past 14 years, Jeff Gates has taken a picture of his two daughters hugging on a ferry boat as they travel to their summer home on the Jersey Shore. This year, as he was completing the annual ritual, a stranger came up to him and said, “I would be remiss if I didn’t ask if you were okay.”

He was talking to the daughters. It took a minute before Gates realized what the stranger meant by the comment. As he recounts in The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-was-taking-pictures-of-my-daughters-but-a-stranger-thought-i-was-exploiting-them/2014/08/29/34831bb8-2c6c-11e4-994d-202962a9150c_story.html):


At first none of us understood what he was talking about. His polite tone and tourist attire of shorts, polo shirt and baseball cap threw us off. It took me a moment to figure out what he meant, but then it hit me: He thought I might be exploiting the girls, taking questionable photos for one of those “Exotic Beauties Want to Meet You!” Web sites or something just as unseemly. When I explained to my daughters what he was talking about, they were understandably confused. I told the man I was their father. He quickly apologized and turned away.

Gates and his wife had adopted the girls from China, making the Gates a mixed-race family. Should that automatically set off warning signals? Gates thought no. So, after a time, he tracked the man down and confronted him:



I walked outside to where he was standing and calmly said: “Excuse me, sir, but you just embarrassed me in front of my children and strangers. And what you said was racist.”


The man didn’t seem at all fazed. He replied: “I work for the Department of Homeland Security. And let me give you some advice: You were standing there taking photos of them hugging for 15 minutes.”


And there we have it: He's from Homeland Security. He is paid by the government to suspect the very worst at all times and butt in.


When the government is telling Americans that we should be on guard against everyone, everywhere, at all times ("If you see something, say something"), it might start to seem plausible—likely, even—that a sex trafficker would take photos of his sex slaves, in public, for 15 minutes. In reality, of course, that's absurd

Animal Mother
09-02-2014, 08:04 AM
What do you expect from a nation with a Department of Homeland Security? They passed that through while everyone was shitting their pants and posting flag stickers on their cars.

donttread
09-02-2014, 08:40 AM
This is where America is headed and it's thanks to neocons and progressives, so ...thanks.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/09/01/federal-agent-thinks-dad-taking-picture

Federal Agent Thinks Dad Taking Picture of Daughters Is Sex Trafficking (http://reason.com/blog/2014/09/01/federal-agent-thinks-dad-taking-picture)



Not sure its racist but its troubling.

Chris
09-02-2014, 08:47 AM
Here I thought HLS was created to protect us from terrorists not spy on us.

Adelaide
09-02-2014, 09:19 AM
That's an odd observation to make, nonetheless to voice it. There are so many families that aren't 'traditional' and so many foreign adoptions... but I don't think it's just because of the DHS or because the man was DHS. I think we've been programmed to assume the worst.

CreepyOldDude
09-04-2014, 05:16 PM
This is where America is headed and it's thanks to neocons and progressives, so ...thanks.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/09/01/federal-agent-thinks-dad-taking-picture

Federal Agent Thinks Dad Taking Picture of Daughters Is Sex Trafficking (http://reason.com/blog/2014/09/01/federal-agent-thinks-dad-taking-picture)



Did the guy flash a badge, or just claim to be a DHS agent?

CreepyOldDude
09-04-2014, 05:18 PM
That's an odd observation to make, nonetheless to voice it. There are so many families that aren't 'traditional' and so many foreign adoptions... but I don't think it's just because of the DHS or because the man was DHS. I think we've been programmed to assume the worst.

Well, DHS is the tasked with investigating and prosecuting human trafficking. So, if the guy really was a DHS agent, he'd come to view anything even just a bit off through very dark lenses, indeed.

Peter1469
09-04-2014, 06:23 PM
When I travel overseas alone I get questioned at the entry point. They act like a single male can't travel without some sort of bad intention. The last time I went to London they wanted proof of when I was leaving. I have never shown that in all my travels. I didn't tell them that. Just played dumb and they let me go.