Art and Style | December 01, 2008 | 10 comments

To prove he is NOT a terrorist -professor puts life online

source: http://www.mercurynews.com/crime/ci_11103605

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Hasan Elahi has spent most of the past six years trying to prove that he isn't a terrorist. This is odd in a way, because during that time no one has ever said publicly that the San Jose State University assistant professor is a terrorist. Except Hasan Elahi.

While re-entering the country following a trip to Africa in 2002, Elahi says he was accused of stockpiling explosives for al-Qaida in a Florida storage locker. And though he was released following nine hours of intense questioning, he has been attempting ever since to disprove that he is the most malign threat to civilization of the post-Sept. 11 world.

Elahi says he is still fearful that he could be dragged off an airplane and taken to the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay. So Elahi reasoned that if he was fated to live under a perpetual cloud of suspicion anyway, he would turn his Kafkaesque existence — every waking, quaking moment of it — into "surveillance art."

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10 comments // To prove he is NOT a terrorist -professor puts life online

  • goingforawalk
  • kur_zyr
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      kur_zyr  

    • This is old news, but it applies today more than ever, and is an excellent satirical take on the effects on innocent individuals of the current american political climate.

    • 3 years ago
  • bansheewail
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      bansheewail  

    • I was under the impression that the "burden of proof" was on the court. I thought that they had to prove "beyond the shadow of doubt" that you were guilty and then that you would be "judged by a jury of your peers". Oh crap, my bad. This is a post 9/11, post-Constitution, Post-Bill of Rights, post-Geneva Convention world. What was I thinking? We still have the Millitary Commissions Act, though. Thanks, George!

    • 3 years ago
  • cantucwearebrothers
  • purplefox
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      purplefox  

    • A very interesting idea, and quite a clever way of satirising the current climate of suspicion based often on racial and religoius profiling in the US. Thanks for the post.

    • 3 years ago
  • Tayllerand
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      Tayllerand  

    • If I was him I will leave the US and will never comeback, who needs this BS..is a waste of time ,energy and money.
      I know the goverment have to keep in eye on foreigners but not to go insane , because if they do then the terrorist acomplished their goal.
      The funny thing is that the goverment is not telling the american people how many arabs are helping to fight the war on terror.
      Who do you think is helping the goverment to translate from arabic to english language?.

    • 3 years ago
  • abbym0308
  • Stradius
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