They’re on it because they have the same name as a terrorist or someone with terrorist ties. And what is the horrible experience these people have to go through because of our need for an abundance of caution? They can’t print out a boarding pass online and, God forbid, they have to check in at the counter at the airport.
Yeah, that sounds more horrible than being hijacked and flown into a building.
15,000 want off the U.S. terror watch list
More than 15,000 people have appealed to the government since February to have their names removed from the terrorist watch list that delayed their travel at U.S. airports and border crossings, the Homeland Security Department says…
“To leave individuals in this purgatory is un-American,” says Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., who says she’ll introduce legislation to try to streamline the process. [Purgatory! Ha!]
In February, the TSA launched the Traveler Redress Inquiry Program, a one-stop shop for people to appeal links to the watch list, which flags anyone with potential ties to terrorism. The list has more than 750,000 names…
John Anderson of Minneapolis, who turned 6 on July 4, is among those who have been inconvenienced.
He was first stopped at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in 2004, when his family took him for his first airplane ride to Disney World. “We checked in at the ticket counter, and the woman said in a stern voice, ‘Who is John Anderson?’ ” says his mother, Christine Anderson. “I pointed to my stroller.”
Her son is allowed to fly. But because his name is flagged, his family cannot print out a boarding pass for him online and he must check in at the ticket counter so an airline official can see that he’s a child.
Considering we constantly ask Muslims to put up with extra security issues, the least someone with a name that matches a person of concern can do is try to cope with not being able to print a boarding pass online. Obviously we’ll find solutions, but if this is the extent of your inconvenience, stop complaining, we’re at war here.
And that is just it Tammy, “We are at war here”.
Why is it that you and I know it yet the majority refuse to ‘get it?’
Suck it up America!
Heh.. try being also-known-as the ‘Local Malcontent’, and scheduled to fly out of Dallas to Boston early on a springtime Sunday morning in 2006.
I could tell ya some tales.
I could care less if I was on a watchlist if all it included was standing at a counter a little bit longer. What I have a problem with is if I am on some terror watch list because my name is close to some real terrorists name and now my rights are infringed upon.
There is a terror watch list that has 3/4 of a million peoples names on it in Washington. The Gov’t won’t say whose names are on it. How they got on the list or how you can get off the list.
Does that seem right?
If your name is on the list you cannot own a gun legally to defend yourself!
So because your name is on a list your 2nd Amendment rights are stripped from you without DUE PROCESS.
That is really wrong!!!
So being on a list can be a very bad thing potentially…..