The title of this article is what attracted me to it. It really grabbed mine, and I'm sure that it would catch a lot of other people's attention. It's scary to think about the government asserting it's power in such a frivolous manner. I'm not saying that they shouldn't look out for potential Terrorists, but perhaps they should interview the person or do a better investigation of the suspect before they decide to do life altering things such as draining a person's bank account. The author, Jones, could have been evicted from her apartment, and been starving to death in the street from a month without any sort of income.
And the fact that she couldn't even find herself on the list of potential terrorists is also scary. It makes you think that the list could be fake, or exaggerated.
The author was hysterical throughout the whole article, remaining humongous about a very serious situation that happened to her. It brought a different type of perspective to the article. It made me laugh, many, many, many, times. For example: “Oh what? I wondered. OFAC. It rhymes with Oh-Tack, but you’ve got to watch how you pronounce it. Speak carelessly and the name sounds like just what you might say upon learning that you’ve been sucked into the ultimate top-secret bureaucratic sinkhole. It turns out, the bank informs me, that OFAC is a division of the U.S. Treasury Department that “reviews” transactions.” and also “Heidi [her landlord] is a Buddhist. I’m an atheist. Almost everybody on the list seems to be Muslim, including really dangerous-sounding guys like “Ahmed the Egyptian.” But I guess that to a truly committed and well-paid terrorist hunter, we must all look alike.” She has a great style of making things funny to make a point. The audience intended is a broad one, as she backs up everything with information to tell everyone whats going on. She uses short, sarcastic phrases to make the story, which is rather lengthy, move along at a nice pace. I think the main purpose of the article was really to inform the public about her experience with the overly paranoid government.
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