I can certainly see that there should be no scrutiny whatsoever of that exemplary program making us all safe, the TSA. Afterall, I feel much better knowing that they have had an 8 year old Cub Scout on their terror watchlist pretty much from the time he was born.
Michael Winston Hicks’s mother initially sensed trouble when he was a baby and she could not get a seat for him on their flight to Florida at an airport kiosk; airline officials explained that his name “was on the list,” she recalled.
The first time he was patted down, at Newark Liberty International Airport, Mikey was 2. He cried.
After years of long delays and waits for supervisors at every airport ticket counter, this year’s vacation to the Bahamas badly shook up the family. Mikey was frisked on the way there, then more aggressively on the way home.
“Up your arms, down your arms, up your crotch — someone is patting your 8-year-old down like he’s a criminal,” Mrs. Hicks recounted. “A terrorist can blow his underwear up and they don’t catch him. But my 8-year-old can’t walk through security without being frisked.”
But the best part about this government “success” story? They continue to lie about it.
Myth: The No-Fly list includes an 8-year-old boy.
I don’t know. I still don’t feel safer with the Keystone Kops on the case, even if they are majoring in Kwality with a capital “K”. Maybe they should add some Brownie Scouts and a few ladies of the Red Hat Society to their list of those singled out for special scrutiny. Can’t ever be too careful, you know.
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Well, while I don’t doubt the kids name was on the list, I do think the aggressive body searches of the kid fall into myth making.
I’m sure you’re more happy that Ted Kennedy (I think it was Ted) used to be on the list as well as other prominent people. I think Joan Rivers was on the list.
Question is, would it trouble you if the eight year old’s name had been Mohammed Adbul Mohammed? Better safe than sorry … gotta focus on those young recruits! 😉
Well, while I don’t doubt the kids name was on the list, I do think the aggressive body searches of the kid fall into myth making.
Yes, as someone who had a TSA screener get so “up close and personal” with my prostate when I had to fly back to Michigan for my Dad’s funeral a few years ago that I walked away thinking that I should have been receiving at least a phone call from the screener if not a second date, I’m sure that his mother made it up. Because the government would never compound a stupid error by doubling down in any fashion. Just ask anyone who ever said something unkind about the government…then got audited. Repeatedly.
I’m sure you’re more happy that Ted Kennedy (I think it was Ted) used to be on the list as well as other prominent people.
Considering that the Swimmer made it his life’s work to be extraordinarily generous with other people’s money, and quite likely committed treason for personal gain, I am quite fine with him being treated as someone who is a threat to this country’s citizens.
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/08/28/ted-kennedy-and-treason
Question is, would it trouble you if the eight year old’s name had been Mohammed Adbul Mohammed? Better safe than sorry … gotta focus on those young recruits!
R, as an assistant Den Leader and parent to a fourth year Cub Scout, I can tell you if your hypothetical 8 year old was a Cub Scout, its likely that he would have the nickname “Moe”, and have a better understanding and appreciation of America, citizenship, and yes, that wretchedly oppressive symbol, the United States flag than 90 percent of adult leftists have. And he’d be better behaved.