Terror Watch List Swells to More Than 755,000

rdavison writes "According to a USA Today story, the terror watch list has swollen to 755,000 with 200,000 people per year being added since 2004. Adding about 548 people daily every day of the year does not seem to lend itself to a manual process with careful deliberation given or double checking being done for each person added. It seems to suggests that data is being mined from somewhere to automatically add names to the list."

Comments

Using Automated Lists of suspected

[amcdiarmid]

Democrats:

Step1)Add all of the Democrats to a list of Terrorists
Step2)Make it illegal for those on the Terrorist Watchlist to vote
Step3)Profit ;)

Re:Let's resolve to keep our freedom.

[sjaguar]

I agree that we probably spend too much money preventing terrorist acts. Maybe if we work on our relations with "terrorists", we will lessen the threat.

Re:Except that it worked?

[Riktov]

The previous administration had recieved 36 terror convictions. The current? 1. Yes, read that number, 1. Our "new laws" have managed to actually decrease the number of convictions of terrorists.

In other words, under the previous administration (at least) 36 terrorists were able to commit their acts before being caught and convicted...

Re:New Ad Campaign

[Ant P.]

Or the RIAA. They fit the textbook definition of terrorist quite nicely.

Re:Thank god for the TWL !

[Un pobre guey]

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

And Libertarianism is the practice of making sappy analogies and metaphors and trying to convert them into public policy.