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Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist?

An anonymous reader writes: On Slashdot, we joke about it all the time: 'I did a Google search for 'pressure cooker' and I connected a bunch of times to the Tor network to download some Linux distribution .torrent files... I must be on some sort of watchlist now.' There have been news articles about people being questioned in airports and given special attention for being political activists. How can one determine is one is on a watchlist of some sort? Are there any Slashdot users who are knowingly on a watchlist? What sort of suspicious special attention have you received?

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  1. I've been watching.... by dohzer · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've had you on my watchlist for the last few months because your apartment is across the road from mine and you don't close your bedroom curtains at night. In case it matters, you're in the 10:25-10:35 time slot.

  2. Re:Look up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    All helicopters matter!

  3. Re: First Rule About Watchlists by MobSwatter · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're funny.

    You know what you get if you take a Nazi and cut off their balls?

    An Occupy protestor.

    You really have to take into consideration Hitler was played like a stratvarius just like our current political theater running around playing world cop digging a deeper deficit which indicates a very skilled organization potentially doing this for thousands of years which indicates first world government. Hitler was born of a devout Catholic Austrian woman and sponsored by Mussolini. Note the fall of the Nights Templar and rise of Mafia around the same time frame. Two distinct parts of history aligned both the banksters and them against the US. Declaration of Independence, formation of Illuminati and being instrumental in taking down Hitler. Proof is in the pudding.

  4. Re:Very easy if you fly, 3 letter code on ticket by WaffleMonster · · Score: 5, Funny

    "it's has the 3 letter code SSSS"
    I'm going to be a little skeptical of anything written by someone who can neither spell nor count to 4.

    After all these years of Slashdot's misleading headline and trolling torture I honestly thought I could see 5 S's on my boarding pass.

  5. Re:Board a plane? by Asgerix · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sikhs wear turbans, not Muslims

    Well duh! Of course Sikhs don't wear Muslims.

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