| And this is "suspicious as hell" because ... why? Your points #1 and #3 were true even before he had the background checks for both working at an airport and for a global entry card. Why should they not be suspicious before, but be enough now to change his status? How many other people meet those three criteria? Are you sure you aren't selecting these three criteria post hoc? For example, after the Madrid bombing an Oregon lawyer was arrested on suspicion of being involved. Quoting http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5053007/ns/us_news-security/t/fbi-... : > As additional evidence in support of Mayfield’s arrest, the FBI pointed to Mayfield’s attendance at a local mosque, his advertising legal services in a publication owned by a man suspected to have links to terrorism, and a telephone call his wife placed to a branch of an Islamic charity with suspected terrorist ties. > They also noted that Mayfield represented a man in a child custody case who later pleaded guilty to conspiring to help al-Qaida and the Taliban fight U.S. forces in Afghanistan. The FBI seems to have thought that lawyer was "suspicious as hell", but wouldn't have started looking at him if the fingerprint hadn't been wrongly identified as being his. I believe you are doing the same - thinking that someone is guilty then looking for things that confirms your suspicion, without considering how the process itself biased your answer. Without a background rate, which includes other criteria you might come up with for other people, you can't really know if those three criteria really are suspicious. As someone with odd behaviors, I don't know how to interpret your #3. It sounds like people who don't conform to what you think of as normal are not to be trusted. The practices like not shaking hands with women are, as the article says, common to people from Mali. The reason for his wardrobe choice is also not that uncommon; it's called "dressing for success." Many people do it. Also, others dress up for different reasons. http://mashable.com/2015/08/08/black-men-dressing-up-police/ points out that some black men deliberately dress in a suit because it's physically safer and it deflects prejudice. This practice is over a century old. How unfortunate that you might find this "odd behavior" done to avoid suspicion itself suspicious. What do you consider to be an "odd place"? The only named travel was to Germany, for a conference. How is that odd? Am I odd for having traveled to Africa? Does that make suspicious in your eyes? |