Senator Blacklisted by No-Fly List

sig writes "Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) was turned down for a flight from Washington, D. C. to Boston because his name turned up on the TSA No-Fly list. He eventually got on a flight, but was again denied on his way back to D.C. It took 3 weeks of calls to Tom Ridge and the Department of Homeland Security for the ordeal to get straightened out. But what are ordinary citizens supposed to do if the Secretary of Homeland Security won't take their calls?" There's also a New York Times story.

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Re:Our gov't at work

[illtud]

The Florida voter registration records fiasco before the last US presidential election was because of the same reason; removing people from the voter registration list based on names (and not even the whole name, but a few of the first letters, dumber than dumb), and some other criteria that practically ensured multiple people would match the criteria, when only one should.

Stupidity or design? You don't have to be a signed up member of the tinfoil brigade to suspect that removing a whole lot of black (highly likely to vote democrat, if they vote) electors from the list could have been the motive.

Re:Answer.

[gorbachev]

Dude, with all the additional truck stops they had on major New York thruways you'd be better off with flying.

They've set up an impromptu truck stop on southbound I-95 before New York City. It's been there for about 2 - 3 weeks now and creating massive traffic jams. The traffic was already bad, but now instead of a three 2 mile delays, you have one massive 15 mile delay. It's great. Hope they find a lot of terrorists.

Of course, since they're only stopping trucks nothing is preventing a terrorist driving a Escalade packed with explosives right past the damn truck stop all the way to New York. All they're achieving is aggravating the people who have to commute past that truck stop every day.