[HN Gopher] Comedians sue over drug search program at Atlanta ai...
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       Comedians sue over drug search program at Atlanta airport
        
       Author : glitcher
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2022-10-11 19:52 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Arrath wrote:
       | FTA: "Those 402 stops resulted in three reported drug seizures:
       | about 10 grams of drugs from one passenger, 26 grams of
       | "suspected THC gummies" from another, and six prescription pills
       | without a prescription from a third, the lawsuit says. Only the
       | first and third person were charged.
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       | Those 402 stops also yielded more than $1 million in cash and
       | money orders from a total of 25 passengers."
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       | Sounds like a government sanctioned shakedown operation with a
       | thin veneer of the drug war to explain it. Sickening. Civil
       | forfeiture must stop.
        
         | lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
         | You already touched on it but something that's always in the
         | back of my mind when it's "because drugs" is that the excuse
         | given doesn't even hold its own merit. The implication always
         | seems to be that they're criminals (the dehumanization effect
         | here is strong) and you're supposed to stop thinking critically
         | now. It's incredibly frustrating to me how effective this is
         | with a large population of people.
        
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