There were so many concepts in this chapter that I had never really thought about. Safety, security, and rights. Like I mentioned before, this chapter confirms the fact that they thought Marcus was guilty and had something to hide. One of the DHS people even said “convince us that you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.” I think that is absurd. Why should Marcus have to prove this? What probable cause do they have for searching him and taking his belongings and then locking him in a cell? What I thought was even worse, was they were only going to allow him to give one thing a day for 3-4 days and then he’d get privileges. They weren’t even trying to set him free. They really thought he, a 17 year old, could pull off one of the worst terrorist attacks to date.
Esprit d’escalier is described at coming up with a witty remark too late. It is from the French and they “call it the staircase wit, indicating that one thought of that perfect retort on his or her way out.” http://wordsmith.org/words/esprit_d_escalier.html
I thought it was so weird that Marcus had to sign documents that pretty much said he was detailed voluntarily and was submitted to voluntary questioning. I mean, can you really call what they did voluntary? They were holding him hostage and dangling things over his head to get him to cooperate. That doesn’t seem voluntary to me.
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