Life On The No-Fly List
by Naomi Wolf, Chelsea Green Publishing
Activists are not being beaten. But they are sometimes intimidatingly detained and released.
http://ga3.org/ct/y720pgF1hRV6/
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Government terrorism lists are a holiday turkey
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
11/25/09
As the holiday travel season rolls around again, the government’s terrorism watch list and no-fly list get ever more bizarre. Of course, for starters, the list has always been unconstitutional, because the government does not have probable cause to believe the vast majority of those on the list have committed a crime (otherwise they could arrest them outright instead of just banning them from flying on airplanes). The FBI’s terrorism watch list, from which the smaller no fly-list is derived, has 1,000,000 people listed, but according to officials, only a mere 400,000 of them are real people — the rest are aliases. Whew, I was getting worried there for an instant. Wait a minute, 400,000 is still a whopping number. An amazing 1,600 people are added to the terrorism list per day, merely on the much lower standard that they present ‘reasonable suspicion’ of being terrorists...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2668
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=no-fly+list
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terrorism+watch+list
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unconstitutional
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
Activists are not being beaten. But they are sometimes intimidatingly detained and released.
http://ga3.org/ct/y720pgF1hRV6/
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Government terrorism lists are a holiday turkey
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
11/25/09
As the holiday travel season rolls around again, the government’s terrorism watch list and no-fly list get ever more bizarre. Of course, for starters, the list has always been unconstitutional, because the government does not have probable cause to believe the vast majority of those on the list have committed a crime (otherwise they could arrest them outright instead of just banning them from flying on airplanes). The FBI’s terrorism watch list, from which the smaller no fly-list is derived, has 1,000,000 people listed, but according to officials, only a mere 400,000 of them are real people — the rest are aliases. Whew, I was getting worried there for an instant. Wait a minute, 400,000 is still a whopping number. An amazing 1,600 people are added to the terrorism list per day, merely on the much lower standard that they present ‘reasonable suspicion’ of being terrorists...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2668
From Information Clearing House
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=no-fly+list
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terrorism+watch+list
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=unconstitutional
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
rudkla - 14. Sep, 14:16
