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The problem with the no fly list is you don't have to be charged or convicted of anything to be put on it and from what I read it is very hard to correct mistakes and get off it. Inacent until proven guilty is a dying concept in this country. -
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison
The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87 (Pearce and Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)Comment
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Ted Kennedy was on it. There are DHS employees on it. The Feds can't take away your rights for only being a suspect. That's why it won't "fly".Comment
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The way the no-fly list is created and managed is bizarre to say the least. I used to do a LOT of international travel for work, and I saw plenty of co-workers get hauled off to the closed-door interrogation rooms. We could never figure out what would have triggered that. The best we could come up with is that we're in the software security industry, and the term "bomb" is used all the time in communications to refer to malicious computer code.
If talking on the phone and sending emails related to their work duties in the software security field caused them to get on someone's scrutiny list, then I think that list has no place keeping those same law-abiding citizens (and believe me, they are law-abiding professionals with US Gov security clearances...) from passing a background check.
I do agree with the concept of background checks in principle, but only if the data being used for the background check is good.Comment
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