05/31/07: Has any government agency considered hiring employees

with some degree of mental acuity? Or are we all doomed to perdition? No wonder the border is a fucking sieve with civil servants like this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18960857/

ATLANTA - A globe-trotting Atlanta lawyer with a dangerous strain of tuberculosis was allowed back into the U.S. by a border inspector who disregarded a computer warning to stop him and don protective gear, officials said Thursday.

The unidentified inspector explained that he was no doctor but that the infected man seemed perfectly healthy and that he thought the warning was merely “discretionary,” officials briefed on the case told The Associated Press.

The inspector ran Speaker’s passport through a computer, and a warning — including instructions to hold the traveler, don a protective mask in dealing with him, and telephone health authorities — popped up, officials said. About a minute later, Speaker was instead cleared to continue on his journey, according to officials familiar with the records.

Responses to this message:

• Well, obviously the traveller wasn't an Arab. Mal_Content
• It's all Canada's fault. They let him into the country. RidingFool

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