Believe it or not it’s a question on the pre-clearance form for travel to the US: ”are you or have you ever been a member of a terrorist organisation” - I always wondered what the rationale for that was

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wongarsu 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's easier to deport people for lying on their immigration form than for having been a member of a terrorist organization

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kozziollek 2 hours ago | parent [-]

But to prove lying you would have to prove being a terrorist anyway...

	▲	alpinisme an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		No, being a member of a “terrorist organization” and the government allows itself latitude in defining that. It’s much easier to associate someone with an organization than to show personal acts of terrorism.
	▲	direwolf20 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Member of a terrorist organization. Did you protest for Palestine action? Then you're a member of a terrorist organization, and they don't have to prove you did any terrorism or planned any terrorism. It's a form of thoughtcrime.

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ndriscoll 7 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It could probably be part of the premise for a gag in a hypothetical Liar Liar 2 after Jim Carrey haphazardly finds himself mixed up in one 30 minutes earlier in the movie, so there's that.

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Scoundreller 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I liked the “have you been in contact with someone with Ebola” questions the kiosk used to ask people entering Canada.

I’m like, uhhhh, I dunno, maybe? A little late to inform me that I was supposed to be asking/testing everyone.

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mschuster91 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I always wondered what the rationale for that was

One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. An easy way to keep communists out of the country.

And we've seen how easy it is to expand that list with "antifa" groups just recently, with antifa groups in Germany having to deal with their banks closing their accounts because the banks were afraid of getting hit with retaliation in their US business.