I read today on one of the major websites (CNN, BBC, one like that) that the official position of the TSA is that children under 2 should not be barred from boarding airplanes even if their name is on The List - but yet the TSA has also received official complaints of precisely that involving children as young as six months.
So... is it overzealous TSA screeners? Is it airline personnel (who also play a role in denying boarding to suspicious characters)? Is it just plain too much "cover my ass" in the local water supply?
It's fucking stupid, any way you cut it.
Infants with terrorist names forbidden flying
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Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.- Malcolm Reynolds, Captain of Serenity, which sums up my feelings regarding the lawsuit discussed here.
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Sheesh, Don't you know? These terrorists are recruting younger people every day! 
Seriously, what the hell?
Seriously, what the hell?
Brains!
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I'm talking about a trained monkey."-Darth Wong
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Dakarne wrote:I'm glad that I'm not an American, no offense intended, because I wouldn't like to live in a country which hires people incapable of independent thought.
I can't imagine that these people actually know the meaning of a real blacklist. I mean: Who bans a child from travelling because they share names with a 17+ year old TERRORIST...
Fucking idiots.
Fucking moron.
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Couldn't they hypothetically have a baby swallow a bomb, like sick sadistic bastards, and use it to smuggle the explosive in? It's a morbid possibility, one that even Islamofundies might not stomach.
Still, that has nothing to do with the current scenario; just a thought.
Still, that has nothing to do with the current scenario; just a thought.
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If I had been on the desk and what was written was that I was not to let this name aboard I would not let them on. Yes its stupid & ridiculous but you never know how stupid or ridiculous your senior is.
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I wrote this:The British Avengers fanfiction
"Yeah, funny how that works - you giving hungry people food they vote for you. You give homeless people shelter they vote for you. You give the unemployed a job they vote for you.
Maybe if the conservative ideology put a roof overhead, food on the table, and employed the downtrodden the poor folk would be all for it, too". - Broomstick
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My question is why aren't they getting their pants sued off and asses litigated by big burly lawyers named Bubba?
WE, however, do meddle in the affairs of others.
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