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No fly lists
With regard proposals to turn persons listed on terrorism watch lists into prohibited possessors, this story is but one of many:
"There are about one million names on the combined government watch list for airline travelers, according to the Public Education Center, a Washington DC-based non-profit group that tracks airline security. However, the problem is that even the government admits that most of those people shouldn't be on the list.
Unfortunately for investigative reporter Ana Garcia, she is one in a million, and has been on this list for several years, and can't get removed. Whether it's at the curb, online or at the kiosk, problems checking-in persist for Garcia and many other Americans who have been erroneously placed on the watch list.
"A list full of mistakes," Joe Trento of the Public Education Center said of the government watch list."
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The son of one of my colleagues (born in Tennessee to Native southerners...) is on the no-fly list, and has been since he was 8.
Poor kid. Can't go anywhere without leaving an extra hour or two for the airport hassle.
You get on the list because of something you did, said, or thought, or else didn't do, didn't say, or didn't think. What exactly that was, of course, is secret.
This goes directly to my theory that there is a new Constitution being used by the government. (They're obviously not operating under the old one, and they need some rules so they don't just kill each other.) What exactly is in the New Constitution, of course, is secret.
I think we'll see the New Constitution unveiled in my lifetime.
Hotel California..strike up the band!
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
this could be heaven or this could be hell
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...
Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the hotel california
Any time of year, you can find it here
Her mind is tiffany-twisted, she got the mercedes bends
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget
So I called up the captain,
please bring me my wine
He said, we haven,t had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...
Welcome to the hotel california
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
They livin it up at the hotel california
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis
Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said we are all just prisoners here, of our own device
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
relax, said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!
Can you recall the last time the government achieved 99 percent accuracy in anything?
I can't recall a time when they were even 50% accurate.
The NFA Registry is 100% accurate. The BATF said so in court many times.
Oh. Never mind.
I have a fond hope that someone, somewhere, knows how to get names on the list and quietly, carefully, is working through a list submitting names like "Charles Schumer" "Rahm Emmanual" "Barbara Boxer" and many, many others.
Sure, a lot of those folks won't know they're on the list until they try to fly commercial and that won't happen for who knows how long, but the list entry will be there, waiting for its day....
Sweat deal! Nothing like taking away your rights with not even no due process but only a suspicion that you might commit a crime.