VirusHead

Ok, I’ve been on pins and needles all night (and freaking out a bit), but my hubby finally has been released from detention at the Atlanta airport.

It turns out that the only thing he shared with the person they were looking for is his very common name.

The guy didn’t have the same birthday. He wasn’t even an American.

Sigh.

So now, I’ve talked him into taking the expensive cab ride home.

No way is he riding the MARTA subway train at night, not as tired as he is. The last time, he had to deal with one guy who showed him a big ugly knife and said he was hungry. He just needs to get home. He’s been traveling for 24 hours.

Here’s the fun part. He can look forward to detention anytime he travels now.

I’d really like to know what this other guy was wanted for.

I got a suggestion from a relative in law enforcement and government that we could talk to an FBI agent and perhaps get some form of bone fide so that he doesn’t have to go through this every time he travels now.

He hasn’t eaten or slept. I’m going to make a meal right now…

He’s been detained. Detained at the airport.

It seems that they are looking for someone with the same name.

A common name. A very common name. The kind of name that makes it difficult for people to find him on the internet because of the sheer overabundance of information about people with the same name.

It’s one a.m. his time. He’s tired and has a raging headache.

We talked briefly, and he just has to wait there until they can somehow confirm with the federal government that he isn’t the person they are seeking.

On a Sunday night. On Veteran’s Day.

They have all his id. His Georgia license even has his fingerprint encrypted onto it. How long can it take? How much information do they have on the guy they seek?

Poor, poor hubby.

I wonder how long this will take.

I wonder how incompetent they really are.

Could this turn into a nightmare?

I know he’s not the person they are looking for, and yet I so distrust the government anymore that I’m actually getting pretty stressed out.

He’s probably too tired and annoyed to be thinking much about the various scenarios that have begun to invade my thought process. I mean, what rights do we have anymore?

Really, what can I do?

So he’s detained, and I wait.

After Aletta’s wedding, I drove to Foxboro, Mass. to see my college and post-college roomie Maria.

And I’m an idiot. I didn’t take her picture. That was a big mistake, since she looked fantastic. I do have a photo from last November, though:

We sat up and talked for a little while and then I settled into an airbed (I love these airbeds) in her living room. I slept very well, and when we woke up in the morning I was all ready to go. Maria, her sweet sister Clara and I sat around for a bit then Maria and I went off to get breakfast. I had eggs benedict at a nice little restaurant in the center of Foxboro.

It was far too little time to spend, but that’s all I had. I hit the road toward the Boston airport. The drive was fine – even the tunnel – and I turned in my car and picked up the bus for the airport. I was there a bit early; after my previous travels, I wasn’t taking any chances about missing my plane.

I had some coffee, picked up a new key-chain, and smoked far too many cigarettes outside the terminal.

I had some time to think and to reflect upon what this week of freedom and love has really meant to me.

I feel energized and grounded.

The week was magickal. Butterflies and birds followed me. It was a glimpse of the deeper life that I’ve been missing lately.

Gratitude to the cosmos. Thanking you, fervently, for the taste of happiness.

Maybe it can get to be a habit.

Man Allegedly Taped Boys Using O’Hare Rest Rooms
From Steve Miller, Chicago, WBBM Newsradio 780/CBS 2

WBBM Newsradio 780’s Steve Miller reports the man accused is Jesus Manuel Cano and is 50 years old. A Jehovah’s Witness minister, say police in Middletown, New York. Cano is in jail in New York. He is charged as a pedophile there.

Middletown Police Detective Sergeant Jerry Mishk says investigators have seized four computers from Cano’s home – at a Jehovah’s Witness farm.

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Cano had a video recording labeled “O’Hare” that allegedly included images of children in public bathrooms, Mishk said. And Mishk says Cano had a videotape that apparently was shot inside O’Hare rest rooms.

CBS 2 reports Middletown police say Cano allegedly used his own video camera to take images of himself in the nude and then print them with his phone number in hopes of luring young boys for sex.

Police say the first alleged incident took place on June 17 when Cano allegedly called an 11-year-old victim to his car to give him a naked picture of himself. Police say Cano then asked the child to meet him at another location for sex.

One week later, another alleged incident took place, but the victim’s parents called police.

Police say they found beer, condoms and an ointment of some sort inside Cano’s blue Nissan. Inside, they also found an alleged trail of perversion stretching from Chicago all the way to the Caribbean.

Police say photos of an unidentified teen in sexual positions were discovered, along with videotape that police say Cano shot at O’Hare Airport as he followed boys and men into the bathroom with a hidden camera to tape them as they used urinals. Cano allegedly targeted six or seven bathrooms for six or seven hours at a time.

When arrested, police found a church identification card on Cano. The church confirms his position as a minister, but had no further comment.

See the Silent Lambs website for more details on the Cano case.

Video Report from WCBS-TV New York