How long is the mysterious "no-fly" list that the US Government passes on to airlines? Well, according to one source, there are 80,000 names on it, and it's managed by the Department of Homeland Security...home of some of the most incompetant people in Government service today (think: Mike Brown & Co.).
A watchlist of possible terror suspects distributed by the US government to airlines for pre-flight checks is now 80 000 names long, a Swedish newspaper reported on Thursday, citing European air industry sources.
The classified list, which carried just 16 names before the September 11 2001 attacks in New York and Washington had grown to 1 00 by the end of 2001, to 40 000 a year later and now stands at 80 000, Svenska Dagbladet reported.
Given what the 9/11 commission just reported out, it's apparently easier to make lists than say, do anything, other than bitch about how inconvenient the Fourth Amendment and the rest of the Constitution are with respect to the Patriot Act.
Some bunch of security-conscious folks running the show, eh? Naaaah, just morons, half-wits and greedheads. And that's just the 1600 Crew...
Gotta wonder how many new-born infants are still on that list...more than one, I'm sure.
posted by Jo Fish on 12.08.05 at 02:13 PM
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Yeah, really! Like I just wrote the them and said, "Like, I wanna withdraw my application for inclusion on the list." Like, I mean, it used to be, like, soo cool but now, like, everybody's on it so what's the point?
posted by: BroD on 12.08.05 at 09:13 PM [permalink]
But remember, we must protect the nation from the evils of, err, ah, washed up singers like Cat Stephens and his Voice of Mass Destruction, or we'll all die!
80,000? Does anyone really believe we have 80,000 terrorists in this country? While there are probably a few of legitimate concern, I have this gut feeling that many are on there because they disagree with this administration. Protest the screw-up in Iraq will get you on it (but pro-Iraq War is okey dokey). As the environmentalist/nature writer Edward Abbey said, "The FBI probably has a file on me a mile thick. If they didn’t I’d be insulted!”
Relax, Ray. The authorities know that 80,000 figure has some errors in it. Choice Point is working on refining that list, and producing a more accurate list. Even as we speak they are working through registered voters' lists obtained from the various states, and deleteing Repubs and Indies from the lists in order to create a more accurate no-fly list.
