Letters to the Editor
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I had a bad experience along these lines
Recently, I was detained as a terror suspect by local police, photographed, my car was illegally searched, and my camera and documents were confiscated. That episode - I later learned - triggered an FBI response network. I was taking photographs of NJ oil refineries that were to receive subsidies under a bill then pending before the legislature. I had testified in opposition to the bill.
About 10 days later - after I posted the photographs and analysis on my blog at NJ's largest newspaper - investigators from Homeland Security knocked on my door as part of an investigation of me. Here are the innocuous photo's the zealous Homeland Security folks were looking into:
Oil refineries subsidized by Corzine global warming bill
http://blog.nj.com/njv_bill_wolfe/2008/01/oil_refineries_subsidized_by_c.html