The "Terrorist Watch-List" is now up to 860,000 people and has LOTS of mistakes!

[Up2Late]

That's the report, in a nut-shell, from NPR today. One of the guys on the list (and in this report) is a former "Foreign Services Officer, a.k.a. From the U.S. State Department!

House Panel Weighs Terrorist Watch-List Problems

by Pam Fessler

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All Things Considered, November 8, 2007 · The House Homeland Security Committee
had a hearing Thursday about problems with terrorism watch lists, the security
alerts that are supposed to stop suspected terrorists from getting on airline
flights or crossing U.S. borders.

Some travelers have run into trouble because their names are the same as or
similar to entries on the list.

Government officials told the House committee that they are aware of the
problems and are working to fix them.

(Audio at link) <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16126304>

[Hissyspit]

1. I would imagine it's MOSTLY mistakes. n/t

[Up2Late]

3. Yup, and it's almost impossible to get you name off of it too.

I'm just glad I have a very un-common name.

[sce56]

4. Yep started by that mistake the Extreme Court made back in Dec 2000

And I'll bet a lot of us plain old people here on DU were mistakenly put on it also due to our mistaken beliefs that our government is run by Liars Crooks and Mafia Families.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Remmeber in 2000 there were only 26 people in it

random detainment and release is a classic tool of a police state and lists are used for that purpose

[Up2Late]

5. I wonder if Senator Ted Kennedy is still on it?

He was one of the first well know people I heard of, back in about 2003, who was on the list by "mistake."
(By "mistake" I mean, I bet they put him on the list on purpose, just to f*ck with him)

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Last report he managed to get out of it

and went back in...

It's all about message and intimidation

[lligrd]

6. And We Know Who 110.412 Of Them Are. nt

[Hekate]

7. Big Brother is Watching You, and I'm guessing there's about a hundred thousand DUers on the list...

...if it's that comprehensive. Plus all the Catholic nuns, Quakers, and such.

At least we'll be in good company in the gulag.

Are these fascists insane?

Hekate

[JDPriestly]

10. Why would they put the names of pacifists on the list? That's ridiculous.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Read Naomi Wolf

Pacifists, labor organizers and student leaders, as well as reporters are part of the usual suspects in a fascist shift.

[Hekate]

14. Pacifists are highly suspect in time of war, & in militaristic societies at all times....

Of course it's ridiculous. It's abominable. It's obscene. But it is also true.

The cops and the feds watch who attends peace marches, vigils, peace meetings in church basements, you-name-it. If you gather in a public place, they take photos.

One of my late mother's cousins has been a Franciscan nun for 50 years, but both the Denver police and the FBI had her on a list because of her anti-nuke and pro-South American refugee activities.

I'm sure she looks highly dangerous and subversive to the likes of George W. Bush.

We at DU have pretty much known for years that the feds have the capability of capturing and sifting our emails and other electronic communications -- and now it has finally hit the news that AT&T helped them actually do it.

Btw, Hi Agent Mike!

Hekate

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. I may not be Catholic

but my lord my admiration to your aunt

Franciscans have ended in the shit list of many police states for DECADES.

Oh and FUCK HOOVER

[Richard Steele]

18. Dude, the FBI has the QUAKERS on its frickin "watchlist".

We have a WAR-BASED economy. Our Military budget
is bigger than the rest of the world's combined.
We've had a major war, on average, every TWENTY YEARS
since this nation was founded by violent insurrection.

WE ARE A WARLIKE PEOPLE.

Pacifism is unAmerican, and therefore suspect. :(

[aquart]

8. Destroy it.

[JDPriestly]

9. There is no way that the U.S. has 860,000 terrorists.

I assume this list contains mostly names of people who are not American citizens. Most of the names on the list must live in foreign countries. That is a huge list.

[Art_from_Ark]

11. You mean like the 5-year-old boy,

the elderly Chinese lady and the Welsh insurance salesman who tried to fly on Air France in December 2003?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO401A.html

[Hekate]

15. Hi, Agent Mike!

:hi: :yourock: :hi:

Hekate

[cuke]

17. My brother is on the list

He now knows to vaseline his anus before he leaves for the airport

[sasquatch]

20. Really? Why?

[cuke]

23. He makes WMD's

Weapons of Mass Delectation (aka "ice cream")

[Up2Late]

22. LOL! Hey! Good Idea!

...those D-Cell Mag-Lights can really get uncomfortable, I bet Vaseline would help a LOT!:rofl:

[ck4829]

19. K&R

[Oilwellian]

21. Anyone who has signed a petition.....probably on the list

Close to a million people on the terrorist watch list? My my, Al Qaeda sure has grown. :sarcasm: