One of the best-known U.S. senators says he has been misidentified as someone on a terrorism watch list at airports in recent months.
Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts told the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday that the problem started in March.
He said some airline agents refused to sell him tickets because his name appeared on a "no fly" list. Mr. Kennedy said in each instance, a supervisor eventually recognized him and allowed him to get on the plane.
He said the misunderstanding persisted even after Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge personally intervened.
The Washington Post quotes a high-ranking administration official as saying the name "T. Kennedy" has been used as an alias by someone on the list of terrorists. The senator is commonly known as "Ted" Kennedy.
Well, Ted's done enough damage to the country to qualify as a terrorist.
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Why are they preventing Ted Kennedy from getting on a plane when they should be preventing him from getting in cars? Especially around rivers.
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Joe wrote:Why are they preventing Ted Kennedy from getting on a plane when they should be preventing him from getting in cars? Especially around rivers.
Don't you know, drunken irishmen are the most dangerous things around?
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"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
"Nuclear Power in the United States has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car."
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
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Pu-239 wrote:"Nuclear Power in the United States has killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car."
Who said that? Or is it an urban myth?
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I'm studying for the CPA exam. Have a nice summer, and if you're down just sit back and realize that Joe is off somewhere, doing much worse than you are.
A friend of my uncle's. Actually it may be false if you count everyday work accidents that happen to occur at nuclear power plants, but that's nitpicking.
ah.....the path to happiness is revision of dreams and not fulfillment... -SWPIGWANG
Sufficient Googling is indistinguishable from knowledge -somebody
Anything worth the cost of a missile, which can be located on the battlefield, will be shot at with missiles. If the US military is involved, then things, which are not worth the cost if a missile will also be shot at with missiles. -Sea Skimmer
George Bush makes freedom sound like a giant robot that breaks down a lot. -Darth Raptor
The Kernel wrote:It makes you wonder: what exactly is the recourse for people who accidentally get put on the terrorist watch list who aren't Senators?
I believe proper procedure is to bend over and take it up the tailpipe.
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
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