Glen Greenwald's partner detained at London airport Greenwald is the guy who's been doing a lot of reporting on Snowden's NSA whistleblowing. They detained his partner for several hours on the grounds of questioning him about terrorist ties, but instead grilled him on the NSA reporting Greenwald is doing for the Guardian. The fact that being related to someone shining light on where governments are overstepping their bounds is considered a tie to terrorism shows just how far off track they are from protecting us against actual terrorists and how antithetical they are to our freedom.
Yup, been watching it on the twitter all day. The UK is apparently in a race to see whose government can go creepy fascist the quickest. On another note let's imagine that President Romney or his Limey equivalent had a gay journalist detained for nine hours.
I'm wondering whether this will cause any change in the hearts and minds of those who love both big government and gays - particularly those of the 'social justice' persuasion - or whether they will celebrate this as government recognizing and affirming the validity of a homosexual relationship.
I don't know, things seem to be in flux. Just the other day the WaPo posted an interview with an NSA official, after the White House tried to get them to completely scrap the text in favor of a heavily edited, administration approved narrative. The great thing was that the paper posted the White House coercion right alongside the real interview. Glen Greenwald has been making great sport of calling out "progressive" news sources that tow the party line on Snowden. Especially NBC. I think some of them are starting to realize what side of the fence they're on if they continue deferring to authority.
And you jump right to the anal probing. See, this is why people make jokes about you being in the closet.
They also confiscated all of his electronic equipment, including his mobile phone, laptop computer, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and game consoles. And to add to the alarm that this should generate, over 97 percent of interrogations under Schedule 7 last less than one hour. One in 2,000 people retained are kept for more than six hours. Miranda was kept for the full nine. The House of Commons is in recess, so they can't be questioned there, but the UK government need to answer for this.
