Asylum-Seeker Turned Away Thanks to Wikipedia

Posted by Ty Colfax - Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:32 AM

From the "You've got to be kidding me file:" A woman's asylum petition was rejected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after they consulted Wikipedia and found that a document she possessed called a Laissez-passer (French for "let pass") was not adequate to prove her identity. Lamilem Badasa was subsequently deported back to Ethiopia.

A US Circuit Court overturned a ruling by the Board of Immigration that said it was okay for the DHS to use a user-generated-and-edited web site to determine threats.

This just in: The Department of Homeland Security has outfitted all of their outposts with Apple IIes, and shiny, new rotary pencil sharpeners in an effort to keep up with changing trends in computing and communications.

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Tags: Internets Culture, Lowlife, Other People's Misfortune

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Posted by cogadh - Wednesday, September 3, 2008 10:48 AM

Oh... my... gawd.

I live in a country run by idiots.

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Posted by something1337 - Wednesday, September 3, 2008 11:03 AM

Hmm... so I can create a wikipedia page naming myself King of America and use that as proof that I rule the country?

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Posted by Druidblue - Wednesday, September 3, 2008 11:34 AM

Wow that's scary. I'm a subject matter expert on quite a few different topics and glancing at them on Wikipoopia they are FULL of errors, lies, bias and all sorts of incorrectness.

If you believe a word you read from there, you are a fool of the highest caliber.

And with the "nazis" that control things over there, if you try to be nice and take your valuable time changing things, it just gets immediately undone back to the errors, lies and bias. Why bother?

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Posted by travelmaps - Wednesday, September 3, 2008 12:37 PM

well of course theyre too lazy and stupid to do any actual investigation. they aren't getting any money from that. now god forbid you go 3mph over the speed limit. $$$ the government is only interested in how to make money. when over 70% of the police force happens to be TRAFFIC COPS... i tend to take the government considerably less seriously. i mean oh yeah vote yes on anything involving police! it's the right thing to do! they "fight crime"!

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Posted by Zero_Master_Beta - Wednesday, September 3, 2008 2:48 PM

Yeah... I agree with you all on this one guys because seriously.
Are these the people that made high school text books?. All lies that are in a cheap-o book. Every last one of them!.
Even with cogadh, its true, sad to say.

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Posted by n1tr0 - Saturday, September 6, 2008 7:02 AM

@Druidblue
to keep changes on wikipedia you have to have an account and site your sources and stuff

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