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       I believe this EGP is being monitored by the US Government Secur
       ity Forces
       By: SHL Date: August 4, 2019, 11:07 am
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       I know this sounds Orwellian, or bizarre or maybe crazy, but I
       think this site is being monitored at some low level by secret
       US agents, whose names the US will not reveal, to see what is
       being said here about US politics and especially the current
       administration.
       I know most will think I‘m just being crazy anti-US Steven
       again, but this is real sh*t that us going on right now with
       increased intensity and no one knows about it because the inner
       working of it are top secret.
       The US has what is called Secondary Security Selection („SSSS“).
       I had heard about it once, but didn‘t pay much attention to it.
       Under this program, the US is the only country in the world to
       do this, and it only applies to flight to the US (not from the
       US going abroad). According to the US Transportation Security
       Administration TSA, neither it nor the airlines will publish the
       criteria that are used when boarding passes are issued to
       identify passengers who will be given extra screening or be
       denied boarding planes to the US altogether. This applies to
       people with ALL passports, US passports included.
       „Critics of the George W. Bush administration, including Sen.
       Edward Kennedy, Rep. John Lewis, feminist Naomi Lewis, peace
       activists Father John Dear and Sister Virgine Lawinger, Center
       for Constitutional Rights, lawyers Barbara Olshansky and Nancy
       Chang, and Green Party activists Nancy Oden and Doug Stuben have
       been pulled aside for enhanced screening, leading activists to
       believe that some selectees were being harassed for speaking out
       against government policies.“
       This is essentially a US government „Watch List“ and no one in
       the government is permitted to name who is on the SSSS list or
       why:
  HTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_Security_Screening_Selection
       I just managed to get back to the US from Berlin yesterday by
       way of an overnight in Iceland. I had no problem boarding the
       flight from Berlin to Reykjavik. In Berlin I got the usual email
       saying I could check-in online and print out the bordering pass
       to Reykjavik only This is normal.
       But, while in Iceland I received no such email pertaining to my
       onward flight from Reykjavik to Seattle. I thought it odd, but I
       didn‘t pay much attention to it.
       I did a self check-in at the airport at Keflavik (which is
       Reykjavik‘s international airport) and got the boarding pass but
       didn‘t really look at it. Before I went through security, an
       official looked at my passport briefly and asked to see my
       boarding pass, so I said „sure.“ He glanced at the boarding pass
       and started asking all these unusual questions: „where was I in
       Europe?“ I just said „the whole month in Germany.“ He asked why
       I was there and who did I talk to? Who did I visit, friends,
       relatives? Did I go to other countries within the EU?  What did
       I do while in Germany? Did anyone pack my bags for me or ask me
       to carry anything for them?“ Of course I just asked no, and he
       smiled and said, „Oh all no‘s. That’s to the answer I guess. You
       can go ahead.“
       I thought the questioning was strange, because I had never
       experienced this before in Iceland with a boarding pass to a US
       bound flight.  I went through security, no problems. But when we
       were bordering, there are these several little gates you have to
       scan your boarding pass bar code through to open the door. The
       lights on almost everyone else’s doors went green and the door
       opened. My boarding pass didn‘t work for some reason. It kept
       denying me entry, and illuminating red. At first I thought the
       gate was defective so I tried others. No others worked and kept
       flashing red. So I asked a person working there what was wrong.
       He took one look at my bordering card and said „the lady and
       gentleman down this end of this hallway would like to speak with
       you.“ So I walked down the hall and showed the lady and guy my
       boarding card and said it was defective. And I showed my US
       Passport. They smiled and looked at my boarding pass and said,
       „No sir. The US government has asked that we especially screen
       you before allowing you to board a plane to the US. Please
       following this gentlemen into this small room.“ So I followed
       this dude into this room. He told be to unpack everything, take
       all the electronics out of their cases, take my shoes off, a
       Soviet Style shake down. He ran this alcohol smelling tape over
       my forehead, legs, and belt section, and stuck it into this
       machine. The machine kept saying „ negative.“ He swabbed all the
       insides of my luggage with something that looked like a test
       strip, and ran it through this machine looking for explosives.
       It too all came back saying „negative.“ He carefully examined my
       shoes, inside and out, shaking them. He also ran an explosives
       test strip over them and put it in the machine. And the machine
       said „negative.“ Then he stamped something on my boarding pass
       and said I could go. But I had to collect up everything up and
       repack my carry on stuff.
       I read this was part of what I had heard before as the US
       government‘s Secondary Screening Securing process (SSSS). This
       is for terrorist suspects, and for those who oppose the US
       government, or who say they hate the US government. It’s for
       anyone they think are „suspicious.“ Everyone with certain
       passports have to go through this automatically, from places
       like North Korea, Cuba, the Sudan, Iran- those kinds of places.
       But everyone is subject to it potentially. Even US Passport
       holders.
       I thought I was flying to Moscow in 1973 or something. What a
       horrible experience, all thanks to the US government.
       We all know the US government monitors all internet use (Snowden
       proved this), so I think this board gets a little (maybe not
       much) US secret surveillance, probably low level, but I have
       said some anti-US things in the past, which might explain why I
       am on some secret US government „watch list“, whenever I try to
       enter the US, since I have never posted anything online that was
       anti-US except here, or even mentioned anything like that in
       person to someone else.
       I‘m surprised they didn‘t confiscate my Erick Honecker book. I
       wish I had been wearing my DDR lapel pin or had packed a big
       former East German flag in my carry on and said, „Now. That’s
       what I believe in. Tell that to the US government.“
       This is scary stuff and the US is a scary country with power all
       over the world you could never imagine. They won‘t even tell you
       what they are up to or the power they have. They can hack any
       computer system they want in a matter of seconds, no matter what
       security you try to put in. They can do whatever they like.
       The US spies on and incarcerates more of it‘s own citizens than
       any country in the world and for longer prison sentences than
       any country in the world under inhumane conditions.
       I‘d recommend those not needing to urgently, avoid to travel to
       the US. It’s not a safe or free country.
       I feel like going home and hanging my DDR (former East German)
       flag out the window.
       So, I am now on a secret US government „watch list“. They‘ll let
       you leave, no problem, but coming back watch out. They could
       have denied my entry into the US carrying a US passport! Imagine
       that? Watch out if your boarding pass looks like this (note the
       SSSS printed at the bottom):
       [img width=300
       height=300]
  HTML https://i.ibb.co/BgD0zQG/AD34541-B-0502-42-C2-8-BC8-8-DC879-E12-A84.jpg[/img]
  HTML https://ibb.co/p3DY0MQ
       Even with a US passport they can deny you the right to return.
       #Post#: 18875--------------------------------------------------
       Re: I believe this EGP is being monitored by the US Government S
       ecurity Forces
       By: Aliph Date: August 4, 2019, 11:22 am
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       Frsnkly SHL do you believe in what you have written? Do you
       think that the 17 people who occasionally log in here and write
       something are so important for the US security? Isn't that a bit
       pretentious?
       #Post#: 18876--------------------------------------------------
       Re: I believe this EGP is being monitored by the US Government S
       ecurity Forces
       By: Aliph Date: August 4, 2019, 11:28 am
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       However I believe that Italki participates in collecting
       information about his 3 millions subscribers and hands them over
       to those who develop their social credit system. I am happy not
       having any plans to visit China and not having any family there.
       #Post#: 18877--------------------------------------------------
       Re: I believe this EGP is being monitored by the US Government S
       ecurity Forces
       By: Aliph Date: August 4, 2019, 12:06 pm
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       What you describe about the questions they asked you are routine
       questions in airports such as Ben Gurion in Tel Aviv or
       elsewhere you can be randomly chosen for a closer check up.
       Unfortunately I went through other so called security checks
       with a bottle of water in my purse that nobody noticed.
       #Post#: 18878--------------------------------------------------
       Re: I believe this EGP is being monitored by the US Government S
       ecurity Forces
       By: SHL Date: August 4, 2019, 12:11 pm
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       [quote author=Sofia link=topic=1300.msg18875#msg18875
       date=1564935773]
       Frsnkly SHL do you believe in what you have written? Do you
       think that the 17 people who occasionally log in here and write
       something are so important for the US security? Isn't that a bit
       pretentious?
       [/quote]
       I think it‘s foolish to underestimate the US government. It’s a
       monster of enormous power and can do anything it wants and get
       away with it. Civil liberties are all but dead in the US.
       #Post#: 18879--------------------------------------------------
       Re: I believe this EGP is being monitored by the US Government S
       ecurity Forces
       By: Nikola Date: August 4, 2019, 2:27 pm
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       I think we should all sleep on it.
       #Post#: 18881--------------------------------------------------
       Re: I believe this EGP is being monitored by the US Government S
       ecurity Forces
       By: NealC Date: August 4, 2019, 3:04 pm
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       There are only three S words in the name of your government
       protocol, yet there are four S letters on your boarding pass.  I
       think you were not investigated by the infamous Secondary
       Security Selection, but by the Secret Secondary Security
       Selection, which of course is far worse.  I am going to publicly
       disavow all knowledge of your existence.
       To combat obvious US Government surveillance of this forum I
       propose one of either of the below responses.  We can use what I
       will call "Response G", which is to type in capital letters:
       "Hey (US) Government, if you are reading this, why don't you go
       **** yourself?" .  Which we all know, is a pretty serious
       challenge and could bring the full force and power of Uncle Sam
       down on the whole operation.
       OR
       You can read this link,
  HTML https://travellingtheworld.boardingarea.com/2014/12/ssss-boarding-pass-mean/<br
       />and find out SSSS was not printed on your boarding pass by the
       US government, or the TSA, but rather by your airline.  That
       would mean you are not interesting enough to be considered a
       threat by the government, but are instead a more run of the mill
       liberal wacko.
       It looks like Iceland Air finds you a suspicious character.  Who
       would have thought that of little Iceland?  Personally, I think
       it is the lawyer thing.
       #Post#: 18883--------------------------------------------------
       Re: I believe this EGP is being monitored by the US Government S
       ecurity Forces
       By: NealC Date: August 4, 2019, 3:14 pm
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       Oh and Steven, the US Government doesnt give a shit that you
       hate them. You arent even armed!
       #Post#: 18885--------------------------------------------------
       Re: I believe this EGP is being monitored by the US Government S
       ecurity Forces
       By: Aliph Date: August 4, 2019, 4:42 pm
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       [quote author=NealC link=topic=1300.msg18883#msg18883
       date=1564949649]
       Oh and Steven, the US Government doesnt give a **** that you
       hate them. You arent even armed!
       [/quote]
       Wait Neal! Don’t suggest crazy things!
       #Post#: 18891--------------------------------------------------
       Re: I believe this EGP is being monitored by the US Government S
       ecurity Forces
       By: SHL Date: August 4, 2019, 6:53 pm
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       [quote author=NealC link=topic=1300.msg18883#msg18883
       date=1564949649]
       Oh and Steven, the US Government doesnt give a **** that you
       hate them. You arent even armed!
       [/quote]
       Well Neal, the Icelanders love me. I’m sure the US Government
       was behind this. See, this is a US program for people traveling
       to the US. No other country dreamed up this.
       The US tells the airlines they have to do this, or they will get
       fined for letting an SSSS person fly to the US without screening
       them. So, where do the airlines get the names to screen? You
       know it has to come from the US government, or the CIA or some
       weird secret department. These foreign air carriers don’t know
       anything about their passengers or care (as long as they get
       paid). It would be a waste of time for the airlines to just
       randomly pick people out of hundreds and thousands of
       passengers. You know the CIA is behind this and is supplying the
       names. It’s your own government doing this Neal.
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