KIDS? ON MY PLANE?
Jan. 10th, 2008 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM [via BoingBoing]: TSA officials at SeaTac detain and search a 5-year-old kid whose name turned up on its no-fly list.
Obviously, the trouble was that the kid had the same name as some grown-up. But you have to wonder at what kind of mentality it takes to look at the name, look at the kid and instead of thinking, “Obviously a case of ‘same name as’, let him pass,” you think, “I’d better check him out – them terrorists are clever little fuckers.”
SOME BACKGROUNDER
1. This isn’t even news – the no-fly list has had babies on it since at least 2005.
2. The no-fly list also has dead people on it, and Ted Kennedy, but not the names of actual dangerous terrorists, because that’s classified.
3. Getting off the no-fly list is really, really not easy, though now it only takes maybe a month, rather than forever like it used to. And actually they don’t remove yr name, they just add you to another list that says, “This particular Robert Johnson is okay.”
No fun,
This is dF
Obviously, the trouble was that the kid had the same name as some grown-up. But you have to wonder at what kind of mentality it takes to look at the name, look at the kid and instead of thinking, “Obviously a case of ‘same name as’, let him pass,” you think, “I’d better check him out – them terrorists are clever little fuckers.”
SOME BACKGROUNDER
1. This isn’t even news – the no-fly list has had babies on it since at least 2005.
2. The no-fly list also has dead people on it, and Ted Kennedy, but not the names of actual dangerous terrorists, because that’s classified.
3. Getting off the no-fly list is really, really not easy, though now it only takes maybe a month, rather than forever like it used to. And actually they don’t remove yr name, they just add you to another list that says, “This particular Robert Johnson is okay.”
No fun,
This is dF
