The idiocy of the "terrorist watch list.

[trekgeezer]

Okay, I'm on a roll today, but this is last one.   This so called watch list is ridiculous.


http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/08/19/tsa.watch.list/index.html

[dean]

Wasn't there an episode of Boston Legal about this?

Either way, it's the stupidist system I've heard of.  Over one million people are on the list???  That's just plain insanity.  Surely the system can't be that hard to deal with, and I wonder what the statistics are for this list 'catching out' any terrorists, whether they be aged 5 or not... 

[trekgeezer]

Just read today that a federal appeals court says that people on the no fly list can sue TSA.


http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/watch-listed--1.html

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

Beinga  bit left  centrist, though I am quite conservative on the law and order front.  But no matter what DHS is definitely a  bad idea.  Frankly any govenment department with the words "Homeland" "Motherland" "Fatherland" etc is generally a red flag in my book.
Whoops... there goes my flying priveleges.
-Ed