Sooo, the terrorists win?? - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

pj67coll · #11 12-28-2009, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Chas H

What are the odds a person on that list has a name the same or similar to yours?
From "The Boston Globe"-
"The federal government has inflated the ``No Fly List" to 200,000 names. But the list has nabbed more members of Congress than it has terrorists. US Senator Edward M. Kennedy and US Representative John Lewis have been inconvenienced by it, and anyone named David Nelson is likely to face a major interrogation each time he flies. Federal officials make it very difficult to correct the list, thus tormenting citizens who are guilty of nothing more than having a name resembling a name suspected sometime by some government official."

If the list is meaningful I'd say pretty damm close to zero. Of course that would require discrimination and no doubt the government would rather choke on it's own multiculturalist crud than have a meaningful list.

Let me see now. If I were the official in charge I'd make damm sure that names like, oh hell I don't know, maybe, Suzie Michaels, or Johhy Dugood etc were ignored, while names like Abdullah Rahim, or Mohammed whatever the hell you like were taken seriously. And I'd venture to say the inconvenience to the vast majority of the public would be massively reduced while the actual usefulness of such a list as a security measure would be diametrically enhanced.

But we all know that won't happen now, don't we.

- Peter.