[VRWCmember]

Use your head. No one’s talking about stopping groups of tourists. The cops had more than a hunch but failed to follow through.

The point is that even though they may have had a reason to question him, that did not translate into a reason to detain him. The fact that his name showed up on the terrorist watch list is interesting, but it does not mean that the cops who questioned him should have done more, unless we intend to make it a crime for tourists to take pictures in our country.

[toddlintown]

Pre 9-11 mentality.

[El Gato]

The fact that his name showed up on the terrorist watch list is interesting, but it does not mean that the cops who questioned him should have done more, unless we intend to make it a crime for tourists to take pictures in our country.

If the policeman had gotten the information that he was on the watch list, and thereby suspected of terrorist connections, would *that* have been enough to stop and detain him? I say it would. You'd have established that he was not a citizen, and that he should not be in the country. That's enough to deport him at the very least.