Welcome to the East

[brianbeemer]

Isn't it strange. For many many years we in the free world looked in horror at all the stories of 'citizens' reporting their fellow citizens to the authorities of the Eastern Bloc countries and the punishments handed out to the transgressors or dissenting citizens by the same authorities for the most minor of crimes.
It would seem that we in the so-called free world are heading the same way. You cannot make jokes that might offend anyone. Our email and phones are routinely monitored. Cameras are everywhere, even talking cameras now, so the operator can tell you off. And apparently there are 657 different public bodies who can legitimately ask for transcripts of any calls/texts/e.mails you may have sent.

I think I'll join Borat in Kazakhstan....

[jzeiler]

Yup. I learned the other day you can't even say the word "bomb" while in the screening line at the airport. The guy in front had a small fabric cooler with ice packs and smoothie like juce in tupperware containers. They told him he had to check it or toss it and he commented about why he couldn't bring it aboard. I unthinkingly told him " Because it could be a liquid bomb". I almost got thrown out of line for saying that. I really hate flying now!