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Date: 2001-11-03

Polizei sucht wieder Buecher


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Mit Marx im Gepäck ist man schon verdächtig, normal ist, wenn
die Polizei am Flughafen in Deinen Notizen liest. Die Sherrifs
haben weltweit Hochbetrieb und sie lassen das die Leute spüren.

Was für ein böses Klima über dem ganzen Westen liegt, kann man
an diesen beiden Beiträgen aus Declans Liste sehen.

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Tariq Ali: Karl Marx led to my arrest as a terrorist in Germany

30 October 2001

I was arrested at Munich airport at 7am yesterday. After one day of
interviews and book signings and two days spent at a Goethe
Institute seminar on "Islam and the Crisis", I was desperate for a
cup of coffee. I checked in and soon my hand luggage was
wending its way through the security machine.

No metal objects were detected, but they insisted on dumping the
contents of my bag onto a table. Newspapers, dirty underpants,
shirts, magazines and books tumbled out in full view. Since news
always reaches Germany a day after it has appeared in the US
press, I thought the locals might be looking for envelopes
containing powder in ignorance of FBI and CIA briefings that
Osama bin Laden and Iraq were considered unlikely to be involved
in the anthrax scare.There were no envelopes in my bag.

The machine-minder brushed aside the copies of the Sued-
deutsche Zeitung (SDZ), the International Herald Tribune and Le
Monde Diplomatique. He appeared to be very interested in The
Times Literary Supplement and was inspecting my scribbled notes
on the margin of a particular book review when his eyes fell on a
slim volume in German that had been handed to me by a local
publisher. Since there had been no time to flick through the
volume, it was still wrapped in cellophane. He grasped the text
eagerly and then, in a state of some excitement, rushed it over to
the armed policeman.

The offending book was an essay by Karl Marx, On Suicide. It was
the reference to suicide that had got the policemen really excited.
They barely registered the author, though when they did real panic
set in and there were agitated exchanges. The way they began to
watch me was an indication of their state of mind. They really
thought they had got someone. My passport and boarding card
were taken from me, I was rudely instructed to re-pack my bag,
minus the crucial "evidence" (the SDZ, the TLS and the offending
text by Marx), and I was escorted out of the departure area and
taken to the police headquarters at the airport.

On the way there the arresting officer gave me a triumphant smile.
"After 11 September, you can't travel with books like this," he said.
[...]
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=102144
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Novel Security Measures

A local man was kept off a recent flight because of a book he was
carrying.

by Gwen Shaffer

Everyone knows it is a bad idea to try and board a plane carrying a
box cutter, a flight manual written in Arabic, or a sack full of
mysterious white powder. But with ultra-tightened airport security,
a book could also prevent you from boarding that plane.

No kidding. It happened just last week in Philadelphia.

Neil Godfrey arrived at Philadelphia International Airport around
9:30 a.m. on Wed., Oct. 10. His brother's girlfriend dropped him off
with plenty of time to spare before his 11:40 a.m. United Airlines
flight. Godfrey was on his way to Phoenix, where his father lives.

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