Texas oil refineries, a White Van, and Al Qaeda

[alan]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Trei, Peter wrote:

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-cypherpunks at minder.net
> > [mailto:owner-cypherpunks at minder.net]On Behalf Of Thomas Shaddack
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 3:48 PM
> > To: Justin
> > Cc: cypherpunks at minder.net
> > Subject: Re: Texas oil refineries, a White Van, and Al Qaeda
> > 
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> > 
> > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Justin wrote:
> > 
> > > HOUSTON (Reuters) - Law enforcement officials said on 
> > Monday they are
> > > looking for a man seen taking pictures of two refineries in 
> > Texas City,
> > > Texas.
> > 
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> > 
> > The person in question was just somebody with a weakness for 
> > industrial 
> > architecture.
> 
> Indeed. Among the endless variety of things people do with
> their spare time are trainspotters and planespotters. This
> seems to be more popular in Britain than in the US, but
> I wonder if even over there people who park themselves near
> airports railway statiions, obsessively noting the arrival
> and departure of each vehicle, attract the attention of 
> security?

Maybe the Patriot Act can get struck down because it violates the 
American's With Disablities Act.  It discriminates against 
obsesive-compulsives.