Are you allowed to fly in the United States or Europe anymore? Most of us will not know until we try. Read this from Capital Hill Blue. Some 80,000 people, including Senator U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., U.S. Rep. John Lewis D-Ga., and even actor David Nelson from The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet are on the list.
Once you are on the list, you will not be told why and you cannot get off (unless you are a Senator.)
No reason for you to be on the list? Tell that to Edward Allen of Houston, Texas. Or to his parents. Edward is four years old and was stopped along with his mother when they tried to board of plane over the 2005 Christmas holidays.
The problem isn't so much that some people should not be allowed on planes. The problem is that the reason you were placed on the list is secret and there are no procedures for correcting obvious errors.
But this is the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld administration. Secrecy and tyranny are their reason to exist.
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