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Electronic tracking: new constraint for Saudi women
France 24 ^ | 11/22/12 | AFP

Posted on 11/22/2012 12:53:30 PM PST by Nachum

AFP - Denied the right to travel without consent from their male guardians and banned from driving, women in Saudi Arabia are now monitored by an electronic system that tracks any cross-border movements.

Since last week, Saudi women's male guardians began receiving text messages on their phones informing them when women under their custody leave the country, even if they are travelling together.

Manal al-Sherif, who became the symbol of a campaign launched last year urging Saudi women to defy a driving ban, began spreading the information on Twitter, after she was alerted by a couple.

(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 666; electronic; saudi; tracking; women
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1 posted on 11/22/2012 12:53:36 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum
there is absolutely nothing wrong with Saudia Arabia...

So long as you love the 7th century.

CC

2 posted on 11/22/2012 1:00:31 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (who, me??)
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To: Nachum

Here is the joke. TELL my wife what to do. The punchline. TELL me she can’t.


3 posted on 11/22/2012 1:02:42 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Nachum
Using the poor to do their bidding is their means to gaining power.

Approved by San Fran Nan Pelosi, the Secretary of State, and the DemoRatic Women's Caucus, the equipment will soon have optional upgrades to punishment collars escalating to explosive devices for the repeatably disobedient.

Available online from IDivorceTheeThreeTimes.com

4 posted on 11/22/2012 1:04:29 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Nachum; Navy Patriot
Pardon, ignore the first line, selected incorrect clipboard item.
5 posted on 11/22/2012 1:07:34 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Nachum

The democrats will use this in the future to track all of us. Now we see why liberals/democrats/socialists love Islam so much.


6 posted on 11/22/2012 1:52:21 PM PST by Democrat_media (limit government to 5000 words of laws. how to limit gov Quantify limited government ...)
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To: Nachum

Insecure men, they all seem to have Wee Willie disease.


7 posted on 11/22/2012 2:03:54 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment,a Matter of Fact,Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: Nachum

Music to read this thread by...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHzOOQfhPFg


8 posted on 11/22/2012 2:22:51 PM PST by PGalt
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To: Nachum

Why not just implant tracking devices on them and track them all over the country?


9 posted on 11/22/2012 2:26:57 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer; Nachum

What do you think the move to put the RID chips in students in some schools is a begining of? As well as the tracking of cars by advanced versions of Onstar and similar systems.


10 posted on 11/22/2012 3:39:37 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Nachum

OMG ....

Reminds me of a movie just can’t recall exactly....


11 posted on 11/22/2012 4:04:35 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Democrat_media
The democrats will use this in the future to track all of us.,/I>

They're already doing this with chips for school kids so they know exactly where they are and if they cross the school border. They also do it with their "free" student laptops.

12 posted on 11/22/2012 5:39:19 PM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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