Watchlist
Remember, politicians want to restrict your movement and ability to buy weapons if your name is on a terror watch list. But since we’ve had one senator and now one prosecutor on the list, I don’t think list has a lot of credibility.
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July 15th, 2008 at 10:05 am
It doesn’t need credibility. Credibility is beside the point. All it needs is sufficient force behind it.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:32 am
C’mon. I’m pretty sure Teddy Kennedy *is* a terrorist, and would you want that drunk out and about with a gun?
July 15th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Security Bruce Schneier wrote about the many problems in how the watch lists are constructed, maintained, and (ahem) policed.
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2005/12/69712
Cliff’s Notes version: it’s exactly what you’d expect when a bunch of government agencies play “let’s make sausage” :-p
July 15th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
lets see… a senator and a lawyer on the list. in a way it might be the right direction.
July 16th, 2008 at 7:36 am
The watch list isn’t policed. The real problem is that the list is “secret.” You can’t view it or even question it if you happen to get bumped off a flight because of it. Teddy got his name off the list because he had substantial political muscle that none of us have.
Since you can’t see the list, you can’t know if there is an issue, and you also can’t file suit to get off the list or go through any legal means to correct it.
That list is a complete piece of crap and should be specifically limited in any use for anything related to criminal investigations or verification of legal status for things like purchasing firearms.