Not U.S. CNN mind you, what possible interest would American citizens have in this story? No, CNN International - which I might add is now just one web site instead of CNN Asia and CNN Europe. I guess the marketing guys in Atlanta wanted to start consolidating the "message," or something.
Anyway, I won't harp too much on this case. It's already extremely evident that the U.S. government, and the Department of Justice in particular, is far from infallible. I posted this story only so it might become even more clear to everyone that every government agency - and I do mean EVERY agency - is at the end of the day nothing more than an over-funded Department of Motor Vehicles.
Any of you who've ever had to rely on the DMV for anything understands exactly what I'm saying here. Would you allow your local DMV broad new powers of investigation and enforcement? Of course not. Why would you trust such authority to incompetents? Well, that's exactly what's happened here - except instead of the DMV it's the FBI.
I'm not criticizing anyone for wanting to pull Mr. Bond aside, and ask him a few questions (Although, I'm sure at least one FBI moron asked for an autograph). If his identity was stolen, and FBI suspected something was wrong - good on them for checking it out. But what isn't noted in this article is the fact that Mr. Bond was
detained for 10 days before anyone so much as asked him his name.
I don't have many people in my family who've been able to manage to live to Mr. Bond's age - and of those none were ever so privileged as to be able to go on a wine tasting tour in South Africa - but to imagine any of them spending three weeks in prison because of a bureaucratic error makes me sick.
Will heads roll for this? No. And it's that much more of a disgrace to our country because of it.
Labels: border security, fbi, media, patriot act, tsa
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