No-fly list nearly keeps 7-year-old from flying

Perhaps the biggest treasonous Nazis in America are the ones who sneer about opponents having a "pre-9/11 mentality" and use 9/11 as an excuse to violate innocent people's rights. It's treason because it lets the terrorists win.

But this treason lobby still looms large at the Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Justice. The TSA and the DOJ are the purveyors of the hated no-fly list, a malevolent obstacle to zillions of Americans and others who happen to have a name that is too similar to that of an alleged terrorist.

That so many innocent people have been affected makes you wonder what the Bush regime's definition of a terrorist is. Because how can there even be so many terrorists - domestic or foreign - that so many people have the same name? When I think of terrorists, I think of 3 Nazis hiding with dynamite in some exurb getting madder and madder at PBS over some show it aired 15 years ago. I didn't know there were billions and billions of terrorists like the TSA and DOJ claim.

Seven-year-old Michael Martin is a typical Florida youngster. But in the past few years, he's run into trouble with the airline racket on 3 different occasions. The reason? His name is the same of that of someone on the no-fly list. Most recently, it happened when his mother took him on a flight to Baltimore and the kiosk failed to provide a boarding pass.

The TSA claims that children being on the list is just a "myth." But this may as well be a lie. The TSA's list is supposed to include detailed information about each person on it, which should eliminate a harmless child from being confused with a terrorist - yet it doesn't.

The airlines are just as guilty (big surprise), because they're supposed to be responsible for automatically taking children off the no-fly list. Yet they don't do it.

The TSA's website is supposed to include a lengthy form for air travelers to fill out so they can receive a "cleared letter" that lets them fly. Um. Uh. Wuh. Ah. Huh? What's this about "innocent until proven guilty" again? The burden of proof (sigh) is supposed to be on the TSA, not the traveler.

The Freak Rethuglic thought police never gets it, because they're the ones who are always saying, "That's the price you pay for freedom, lib." What freedom? America has less freedom now than at any other point in my lifetime, yet for some reason this "price" keeps going up. If there was so much freedom these days, innocent people wouldn't be barred from flying over some bogus government list.

Where's the lawsuits? The boy in this story isn't the first person to be wrongly impeded by the no-fly list. I guarantee I would sue if it happened to me.

(Source: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/sfl-flbnofly0724nbjul24,0,2509059.story)