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CryptoCat Developer Questioned At US-Canadian Border
Dangerous_Minds writes "ZeroPaid is documenting some comments made by an encrypted chat developer who was interrogated at the U.S. border recently. According to the CryptoCat developer, border guards confiscated his passport and interrogated him about the application he developed. Most notably, he commented, "The interrogator (who claimed 22 years of computer experience) asked me which algorithms Cryptocat used and about its censorship resistance.""
The US government had nothing to do with 9/11. It was, in fact, a perfectly executed, movie-style, master terrorist plan.
Protesting in a way that results in a fine is not something you are supposed to do at all--(of course it could be a problem if they are unjustly fined for something they didn't actually do, but it doesn't sound like that's the problem you're describing). I have little sympathy for the idea that these elderly people have to avoid doing things that they're not supposed to be doing at all anyway to avoid being deported.
A fine is not a fee. You don't pay a fine and get permission to perform one illegal protest, any more than a company which paid the fine for illegally dumping chemicals has actually purchased permission to dump the chemicals, or a rapist who's put in jail has retroactively purchased, with his jail time, the right to commit one rape. A fine is a punishment and the activity for which you are punished is prohibited; it doesn't become okay because you've paid the fine. If you're thinking "their children can protest if they pay the fine, why can't they", you're thinking about it the wrong way.