{"id":3246,"date":"2010-01-17T13:18:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T21:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/17\/tsa-goons-nab-cub-scout\/"},"modified":"2010-01-17T21:10:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T05:10:44","slug":"tsa-goons-nab-cub-scout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/17\/tsa-goons-nab-cub-scout\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA Goons Nab Cub Scout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leave it to Federal Agencies, like the Transportation Security Administration, to embody the epitome of political correctness gone wrong . . .<\/p>\n

From the NRA-ILA<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sleep Easy, America — Feds’ Terrorist Watchlist Nabs Cub Scout<\/strong><\/p>\n

tsa-goons.jpg<\/a>As we’ve reported before, Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), encouraged by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, wants to prohibit anyone on the FBI’s terrorist watchlist from possessing a firearm. Yet, the list and its criteria are secret, and Lautenberg’s bill would criminalize the exercise of a constitutionally protected right while denying a person the opportunity to clear himself of accusations in a fair and open hearing before a court of law. Even today, thousands of people who aren’t terrorists cannot prevent the list from misidentifying them, causing them delays and embarrassment when trying to board commercial aircraft. <\/p>\n

It’s one thing when an adult gets the run-around at an airport, because he or she has a name identical or similar to someone the FBI is watching. As the American Civil Liberties Union has pointed out, the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) “automatic selectee” list — its list of people who are not permitted to board an aircraft without being given the once-over by the agency’s machines and uniformed, latex-gloved personnel — is based on people’s names, not on physical factors like age. <\/p>\n

But when the system is so unorganized that it cannot distinguish a kid from a terrorist, what\u2019s going on here? Yesterday, the New York Times reported that for the last six or seven years, one of Lautenberg\u2019s constituents — eight-year-old New Jersey Cub Scout Michael \u201cMikey\u201d Hicks — hasn\u2019t been able to get on a plane without being patted down like your average neighborhood hubcap thief with his palms on the hood of a police cruiser and a nightstick between his legs. Repeatedly mistaken for someone on the FBI\u2019s terrorist watchlist since he was two years old, Mikey\u2019s encounters with the federal government have consisted of, as his mother puts it, \u201cUp your arms, down your arms, up your crotch, someone is patting your 8-year-old down like he\u2019s a criminal.\u201d [more<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, don’t you feel safer?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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