How many of the 80,000 on the "watchlist" oppose Bush policies?

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US terror watchlist 80,000 names long

AFP – December 9, 2005

A watchlist of possible terror suspects distributed by the US government to airlines for pre-flight checks is now 80,000 names long, a Swedish newspaper reported, citing European air industry sources.

The classified list, which carried just 16 names before the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington had grown to 1,000 by the end of 2001, to 40,000 a year later and now stands at 80,000, Svenska Dagbladet reported.

Airlines must check each passenger flying to a US destination against the list, and contact the US Department of Homeland Security for further investigation if there is a matching name.

The list contains a strict "no fly" section, which requires airline staff to contact police, and a "selectee" section, which requires passengers to undergo further security checks.

Some 2,000 passengers checking in at Stockholm's Arlanda airport have had to be cleared with the US authorities because of name matches on the "selectee" list this year, although none was prevented from boarding, Svenska Dagbladet said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051208/pl_afp/usswedenattackstravel

[Wilms]

1. Gee, DU has about 80,000 members.

Just sayin'. :scared:

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4. LOL!*

Remember, they are the ones engaging in snooping and illegal surveillence, not us.

[daleanime]

2. What-Bush believes in political payback?

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

[shance]

5. Political payback? An interesting term for those trying to protect

the country from those that are abusing it.

[acmejack]

3. And this clown is a Judge!

Charles S. Haight, a federal judge in Manhattan, ruled that the dangers of terrorism were "perils sufficient to outweigh any First Amendment cost."

Oh, yeah? Not what wiser men than Judge Haight have thought!

"They that can give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt

"Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety." -- Daniel Webster

"The privacy and dignity of our citizens being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a life." -- Justice William O. Douglas

"Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties." -- Justice William Brennan