And Now… The Terrorist White List
February 9th, 2009Via: Wired:
The House overwhelmingly adopted legislation this week mandating the creation of a new kind of terrorist watchlist: a database of people who aren’t terrorists, but are routinely flagged at airports anyway.
The U.S. government maintains a list of about a million names of suspected terrorists that is crosschecked with passenger names ahead of airline boarding. The list has been dogged for years by sloppy name matches that have ensnared innocent travelers, children, prominent politicians and government officials, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ secretary of education and all men named David Nelson.
Under the new plan, approved late Tuesday 413-3, innocent victims of the terrorist watchlist must prove to the Department of Homeland Security, through an undetermined appeals process, that they are not terrorists. They would then get their names put on what the legislation calls the “Comprehensive Cleared List.”
The legislation is another attempt to assist wrongly flagged passengers and would supersede the troubled DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry Program, which has been criticized for being slow or unresponsive to flier complaints.
The FAST Redress Act, if approved by the Senate, requires the government to report within 240 days on its progress in implementing the new list.
yes this another great one from those within the beltway who, except for maybe Senator Ted Kennedy, don’t have a clue as to the inconvenience and hardship this Big Brother system, run and designed by dual citizenship American/Israeli’s who are so effing paranoid, and know that their friends in the security business are making money off of this TERROR SYSTEM just can’t get over the facade of terrorism. This list is a PIECE OF CRAP.So is all of the other bullshit at the airports, the Internet, and our phones.
Where’s the effing vampire ALREADY? Barnabas Collins is so dead already. Where’s the bomb? Anyone who points out the potential for real terror is sidelined (Valerie Plame.
Hmph. If there was a real terrorist threat the neocons would be the targets. I can’t remember where I read that but its not an original idea. Think about it it though. If a neocon doesn’t need protection and not one has been offed, well then, is there REALLY A TERRORIST THREAT? I’ll bet my Wheaties there’s not a reason in the world for all of this effing effing NONSENSE. Except for maybe the bottom line of a gazillion companies who thank the events of 9/11 for being their rainmaker.
And here I thought the burden of proof always fell on the accuser, not the accused. You know, “innocent until proven guilty” and all of that.
My mistake. I forgot we’re all guilty now.
/sarcasm