"You can go up to LA or San Diego and you're going to find folks who do the same for the same pay or sometimes higher....I think people confuse professional guarding with the tower guards and they think, 'Oh my gosh, how can a guy in red shorts sitting in a tower earn that?' We're not talking about those individuals".
And the planting there was more challenging logistically: Staff members with the Horticultural Society and New Yorkers for Parks were told to avoid wearing hunter green and orange, which inmates wear, so as not to confuse the guards.
The car's red license plate, apparently a forgery, was intended to confuse security guards and make it easier to gain access to the road that leads to the embassy building, the police said.
Listed at 6 feet, 190 pounds, Trey Burke will not be confused with point guards like Syracuse's Michael Carter-Williams, who is 6-6 and 185, or Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart, who is 6-4 and 225.
Mr. Masri was seized on Dec. 31, 2003, as he entered Macedonia while on vacation; border security guards confused him with an operative of Al Qaeda with a similar name.
Mr. Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, was pulled off a bus at the Macedonian border on New Year's Eve in 2003 after guards confused him with an operative of Al Qaeda who had a similar name.
The colonized subject, Fanon writes in "The Wretched of the Earth" (1961), "is constantly on his guard: confused by the myriad signs of the colonial world, he never knows whether he is out of line.
He was convicted and sentenced to death in Israel, only to be freed in 1993 after it turned out that he most likely had been confused with a guard at Treblinka, the camp at issue in that case.
Mr. Cruz, 60, who barely recalls that he is in prison for killing someone who sold him fake cocaine, grew confused and resistant when guards tried searching him.
