Reading this story, my initial thought is - is there more to it? If indeed the US Border Agency does this, then why have we not heard more stories about this? And if this is the first case, then the future is very very scary.
The agent gave her a signed document which stated that “system checks’’ had found she “had a medical episode in June 2012’’ and that because of the “mental illness episode’’ she would need a medical evaluation before being accepted.
If ever there was a story where "see attached" was appropriate, this is it.
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Kakfa, meet Orwell.
Reading this story, my initial thought is - is there more to it? If indeed the US Border Agency does this, then why have we not heard more stories about this? And if this is the first case, then the future is very very scary.
There have been more stories: http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/canada/story/1.1034903
The agent gave her a signed document which stated that “system checks’’ had found she “had a medical episode in June 2012’’ and that because of the “mental illness episode’’ she would need a medical evaluation before being accepted.
If ever there was a story where "see attached" was appropriate, this is it.
Maybe we need a crowd-funded effort to re-write novels like 1984 to make them more believable, and by that I mean far more terrifying.
Indeed. I would call Orwell prescient, but he was just extrapolating from his own personal experience in Spain.