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Homeland Stupidity

Hey, want to get pissed off? Come on, of course you do. Read on. You know how we all feel so much safer now what with the fantastic Department of Homeland Security heading up all those agencies protecting us from terrorists and other scumbags who want to get in? (Not to forget the genius behind that color-coded threat chart thingy. Excellent safety measure thought up there, and so pretty, too!) But were you aware that some 83 immigrants have died (tallied thus far, anyway) while being detained by the DHS for interrogation? I had no idea, until I happened to be reading some of the deceased's post mortem stories today. Blood boiling and even scary. This recent example , though, of border protection gone terribly awry is the one that most notably caught my attention and made my ears blow steam. A brief synopsis of the sequence of events follows: - Michael Tony Futi was born in January of this year at a hospital in American Samoa , by birthright an American national if not quite rea...