Imagine That!
Wake up in your new studio apartment after an 8 hour flight from New York. You now live in a new country, a government you have signed a work contract with to give them your services for 24 months in return for a good salary package. You are excited about the possibilities and looking forward to giving your best. You start counting your blessings nice clean place to live seems like a safe place you met some very interesting expatriates they called themselves during the orientation with the company. Looking forward to SCUBA diving lessons in the Red Sea and the chance to travel to biblical sites and see sights that no tourist will ever get to see. Because this is a closed country NOT open to tourists. You pickup a copy of the International Edition of Newsweek Magazine on a trip to the old port city a few miles to the North. As you flip through the magazine on the company bus back to the industrial city that is your home for the next two years you notice some odd things.

Pages torn out, black magic marker strokes across parts of stories. What is this censorship! That is against the constitution! It is just wrong why I'll call my congressman NO Senator! HOLLY SHIT that means nothing here, I'm on my own.

A senario and shock that thousands of Americans discovered in Saudi Arabia during the boom days of the late 70's and early 80's I know because I was one of them.
- posted by Jamie Cowen @ 9:44 PM