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Title: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: twyacht on January 14, 2010, 07:02:05 PM
Unreal.. Red Tape at its finest.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34855425/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/?GT1=43001

They still don't get it....
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: Big Frank on January 14, 2010, 08:29:36 PM
Typical bull$h!t.
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: Timothy on January 14, 2010, 08:34:12 PM
Hardened criminal mastermind!  No doubt!
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: Big Frank on January 14, 2010, 08:36:02 PM
He dropped a bomb in his diaper the first time they screened him.  ;)
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: Timothy on January 14, 2010, 08:38:27 PM
Do they have a cub scout merit badge for homemade recipe C4?
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: twyacht on January 14, 2010, 08:43:30 PM
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."

Sounds like the TSA utilizing blanket gov't mandates that of course are B.S.

No differentiation between an 8 year old, and a clear description of another with the same name that I'm sure is somewhat taller....

They think "unionizing" the TSA will make it better...

Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaazzzzeeeeeeee

Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: Timothy on January 14, 2010, 08:49:31 PM
Herein lies the reason I go out of my way to avoid air travel.  I have nearly ten pounds of metal in my body, it would be a complete clusterf*@k to go through airport screening.

This kid's family should sue the living daylights out of the TSA for terrorizing their son!  I think I would have been arrested myself if they did that to my kid...
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 14, 2010, 09:49:03 PM
 A recent newspaper column, I think it was Fronna the Frump, or what ever, Talked about how "Profiling" is just SO ineffective, she went on with 2 examples of middle aged white guys who blew up air liners. She had to go back to the mid 60's for her examples. She neglected to mention that the last terrorist act in America carried out by a guy of European descent was the OKC bombing 15 years ago, every other terrorist act against America since 1970 has been carried out by Muslim men 20-40.
I think Profiling might not be perfect, but it's better than the Keystone Kop Movie they have now.
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: bulldog75 on January 15, 2010, 05:39:26 AM
No doubt.
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: MikeBjerum on January 15, 2010, 07:30:09 AM
They can name someone, the can catch everyone with the same name, but they can't manage to put a birthdate with the name  ???

I'm not against a certain level of screening, but at some point you need to turn on the "brain switch" and know who you are screening ... idiots  >:(
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: ratcatcher55 on January 15, 2010, 09:07:19 AM
You all are missing the threat.

The boy is a member of an elite paramilitary organization: The Cub Scouts

He fits the profile at DHS ;D

Wolverines!!!
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: Walter45Auto on January 18, 2010, 02:56:51 PM
They can name someone, the can catch everyone with the same name, but they can't manage to put a birthdate with the name  ???

I'm not against a certain level of screening, but at some point you need to turn on the "brain switch" and know who you are screening ... idiots  >:(

Even a APPROXIMATE AGE would suffice. ::)
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: billt on January 18, 2010, 03:22:28 PM
Just wait until they get their hands on the health care system !  Bill T.
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: alfsauve on January 18, 2010, 04:08:02 PM
Technically he isn't on the "no fly" list, but on the "selectee" or "watch" list.  Semantics, I know, but in the bureaucrat's minds that's what counts.

However, please note that no government organization lists any of the "real" terriorists (other than the obvious, publicly known ones) on these "terrorists" lists.  They don't want to tip their hand and let the terrorist know that we know who they are.  So the list, is somewhat useless to begin with.     It's all for show.
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: tt11758 on January 18, 2010, 05:21:05 PM
A recent newspaper column, I think it was Fronna the Frump, or what ever, Talked about how "Profiling" is just SO ineffective, she went on with 2 examples of middle aged white guys who blew up air liners. She had to go back to the mid 60's for her examples. She neglected to mention that the last terrorist act in America carried out by a guy of European descent was the OKC bombing 15 years ago, every other terrorist act against America since 1970 has been carried out by Muslim men 20-40.
I think Profiling might not be perfect, but it's better than the Keystone Kop Movie they have now.


Tom, you and I have been TRYING to get on that list without success, and yet they go after THIS little shit?!?
(http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp225/tt11758/wtf-cat.jpg)
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: Johnny Bravo on January 19, 2010, 12:25:39 AM
I guess you can't be too careful when it comes to the cub scouts? DUMB ASSES!!!!!
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: tombogan03884 on January 19, 2010, 12:25:58 AM
 I won't fly commercial, I'm holding out for Air Force 1  ;D
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: tt11758 on January 19, 2010, 01:13:08 PM
I won't fly commercial, I'm holding out for Air Force 1  ;D


You always did prefer "public transportation", didn't you?  ;D
Title: Re: Tell Me The System Works! 8 Year Old Cub Scout On Terror Watch List.
Post by: twyacht on January 19, 2010, 01:34:00 PM
I won't fly commercial, I'm holding out for Air Force 1  ;D

If you ever want to re-institute the Presidential Yacht, I have some suggestions... ::)

It will be "pirate" proof...and have some, well let's just say "effective" countermeasures.... ;)

and no it's not a Navy warship....although.... ;D