I forgot being fingerprinted when I was drafted into the Marines back in '69, but you still beat me.
Wah!
And a girl beat me too!
Double wah!
Excuse me while I go and sulk.

I didn't feel the least bit listless this morning.
Hey, how come I don't get a video?

Let me think... twice in the service for my clearances, two times for my work, once for a job application at a defense contractor (passed the clearance but didn't get the job as they closed up shop), once by the local sheriff for my CCW, and a final one for my current position... plus I have another coming up to take some training. My pawprints are all over, and my file is probably a foot thick. Do I lose sleep over it? Not really. If they want to know something all they have to do is ask, and if they decide something I did is illegal ex post facto, thats all she wrote anyway.

Says the spider to the fly...

I wonder how they count those on multiple lists?

Just once or does it increase our rating?

It must be me... feeling a bit listless today... :)

Okay, I am at work and checking in occasionally and I just noticed that. I mean...I meant to do that...play on words...least-list.

All the better to round up the patriots...

Impressive!

May I have a side order of lisp with that list please? :)

That is astonishing! Some government agency was actually keeping track of what books were checked out, and flagged it, and reported it to the FBI? Do you mind me asking how long ago this was?

actions of this nature ARE causing the economic activity of the country to grind slowly to an ultimate halt. those charged with keeping these records are just citizens and do not show any capacity to think. when all is said and done at some point in the NOT TO DISTANT FUTURE and the country comes to a standstill they will ask what is wrong and if someone says that your are a part of the problem because you never learned to think but just acted as an automaton and took orders. you could tell them they should have read Atlas but they wouldn't have understood it. a long slow death for the USA is underway.

Perhaps getting a copy of your fingerprint card from the FBI is a way to certify yourself as a card-carrying human being.

That is a great story. Thank you for the image. One of the writers on this list should use a story like this as a bit in a novel.

Jan

One of the lessons from "Atlas Shrugged" was that the government makes violators out of people so that it can control them. You aren't free if you have some kind of potential criminal charge hanging over your head - real or otherwise.

Pfft! I've had an FBI file since 5th grade. Apparently, I checked too many books out of the library that had an Atomic Energy theme, and were considered 'unreadable' for the average 10 year-old.

One evening a pair of agents came to the house to determine if I was acting as front for someone else. After about an hour of quizzing me to determine if my interests were genuine, they admonished me about using the phones to waste people's time and preventing them from doing their jobs to talk with me. I countered with how much time I spent learning the subject to ask questions that those people wanted to, or were at least willing, to answer for a kid on the phone. I was sent to bed.

Two years later I was the 'pet middle-schooler' in the physics department at Fairfield University, doing 'experiments' with their argon-ion laser.

A mish-mash of statistics. Yes it is wrong to criminalize students. However that is not related to 1 in 3 being on the FBI records.

"According to the U.S. Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights, 260,000 students were reported, or “referred” in the official language, to law enforcement by schools in 2012, the most-recent available data. "

260,000 and not ~a million (1 in 3).

All it takes is being out of favor with someone who knows someone with political pull. The FBI and IRS are being used for political purposes and have been for years.

I have heard that line before and I don't buy it. Innocent people should not be investigated on period.

Wouldn't want to encourage use of judgement, would they? The ejukashun system frowns on such things.

I've been fingerprinted and cleared five times by as many jobs. Can anyone beat that? Nyah! Nyah!

Zero tolerance = zero common sense. I got that from an editorial in The Birmingham News several years ago and have used it repeatedly since, at times just letting the statement stand alone, in comment sections all over the Internet.
Accounts of stupid adults overreacting with kids due a rule some twit wrote down goes on and on and on.
Back around when I was in the third grade, I was during recess playing cowboy (due to old young John Wayne kinda movies on afternoon TV) and pretending my hand was a busy gun all the time. But that was back in the 50s when teachers were allowed to use their own common sense.

what about all the Dept of Justice scandals? What about Gibson Guitars? what about illegal searches and seizures? What about martial law during the Boston bombing? What about the IRS tea party and conservatives scandals? what about reporters being bugged? Clearly you can be and people are considered criminal when they are not.

Very suspicious ... (sarcasm)
I wish they had done such a serious investigation into those connected to Waco and prosecuted the perps instead. Perhaps they wouldn't have had to investigate you.

You really think that?