Nazis put 4-year-olds on no-fly list

How out of control and unprofessional are the iron-shoed hooligans who the Bush regime has put in charge of our safety?

Recently, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, a 5-year-old boy was roughed up by federal agents because he happened to have a name that was remotely similar to an alias used by someone on the no-fly list. (The no-fly list is considered by Nazis to be their Bible.) The boy was taken into custody and searched thoroughly, and his mother was told he was a national security risk.

If this ordeal isn't cause for a lawsuit, what is?

Were the agents too stupid to see that the 5-year-old was clearly not the person on the no-fly list? I'm assuming the list contains vital information about each person listed, like age and height, so if the agents couldn't read numbers, that's their problem. Maybe they should have had their faces adjusted. I guarantee you that if I was the parent of a 5-year-old who was victimized like this, there would have been hell to pay.

This isn't the only incident like this recently. Another 5-year-old boy endures similar hassles for having the same name as a no-fly list entry. If his parents take him on a trip, they can't check in using the computer terminals, and some government agency has to be called to clear him. The airlines will not even assign him a seat because he's on the list.

He's been on the no-fly list at least since he was 4. Unless this ridiculous list is abolished, he'll face a lifetime of harassment and getting bumped from flights if ever wants to fly. And it's liar Bush's fault - and of the airlines for going along with it.

What's worse is that the Transportation Security Administration lies about children being on the no-fly list. Its so-called Myth Busters webpage claims, "No 8-year-old is on a TSA watch list." This story proves that is an outright lie. Or maybe not, because the kids in this story aren't 8 - they're 4 or 5.

Then again, this is the same TSA that detained a man in Milwaukee because he wrote "Kip Hawley is an Idiot" on his bag full of toiletries. The TSA then lied about the man being combative. The sheriff's deputy who was summoned to the scene said he was not combative at all.

If America finally elects a President who's worth a damn, maybe all this corruption, dishonesty, and unprofessionalism will grind to a halt. It's hard to see anyone who's actually likely to be elected not scrapping the preposterous no-fly list for good. With the bad luck America has had in recent presidential elections, however, the possibility of getting another idiot in charge is always there.

(Source: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/09/tsa-searches-detains.html;
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/10/another-fiveyearold.html;
http://www.cbs8.com/story.php?id=66072;
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/28/idiot.baggie)