
01-16-2008, 11:53 AM
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I gotta' say, I like the way this guy thinks...
I appreciate the way this guy thinks. I relate to the "Go with the flow" mentality, then... when they least expect it, and from a direction they're not looking... cram it down their throats....
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Hiding in Plain Sight
Once an FBI suspect, Hasan Elahi now does the FBI a favor by monitoring himself every minute of the day.
By KEVIN SITES, SUN JAN 13, 8:23 PM PST
What would you do if you were suspected of a crime that could send you to a jail cell in Guantanamo Bay for untold years?
When it happened to Hasan Elahi, he decided to put his life online, for all to see.
The 35-year-old Rutgers University art professor was born in Bangladesh but raised in America. He was flying back home to the U.S. in 2002 when he was stopped at immigration and led to a detention facility in the Detroit Airport.
Elahi was asked about a storage unit he had once rented in Florida. The FBI had gotten a tip that it had been packed with explosives, and that an Arab man had fled from the area the day after the 9/11 attacks.
The tip ended up being false ("Never mind that I'm not an Arab," Elahi notes), but it took him nine lie-detector tests and six months to clear his name. When the FBI finally told him he was no longer a suspect, he requested a letter from them saying exactly that.
But, he says, the FBI refused: Because he was never officially charged, there was also nothing to officially clear. Instead, the agency gave him a phone number and told him to call if he had any more troubles coming in and out of the country.
Shaken by the experience, Elahi started calling the FBI preemptively, telling them of his travel plans, where he would be going and when he would be flying home. But as time went on, Elahi considered how absurd the process was — and upped the ante. He started sending the FBI email and even uploading time-stamped photos of his movements.
He eventually created a website, trackingtransience.net, in which those photos were automatically posted to a map, creating a visual tracking device of where he was at any time.
Elahi saw the act as protection, protest and art, flooding the web with so much information — photographs of every meal, every airport, and even public urinals that he used — that the very density of it all, while public and available for everyone to see, created a new sense of anonymity. He was hiding in plain sight. And while the photographs give away his location, they never include himself — only his point of view.
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http://potw.news.yahoo.com/s/potw/59...n-plain-sight/
So, when life hands you lemons... make lemonade. Or more aptly... When the FBI hands you lemons, make lemonade and then force feed it to them. They should've simply given him a letter instead of stonewalling him. Nevertheless, he's a smart guy for figuring out an outlet to vent that's quite legal... and very ironic.
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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)
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