Government Terror Watch List Protects Us from the Living Dead
Tuesday August 12, 2008
In the event that Saddam Hussein and 14 of the 19 hijackers who participated in the September 11th attacks rise from their graves, we can take comfort in the fact that they would be detained at the airport according to documents discovered by 60 Minutes and reported on by the ACLU.
Other targets of the government's one-million-strong terror watchlist:
Related: Can Ethnic Profiling Be Constitutional?
Other targets of the government's one-million-strong terror watchlist:
- At least four members of Congress: Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Reps. John Lewis (D-GA), Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), and Don Young (R-AK).
- Anyone named Gary Smith, Robert Johnson, or John Williams.
- Hundreds of thousands of ostensibly random people, including countless U.S. citizens, who happen to have common Arabic names.
Related: Can Ethnic Profiling Be Constitutional?
Comments
Tom, just a note. The count of records on the watch list includes aliases. A single individual may have used dozens, even hundreds of known aliases. People who use aliases will often create fake dates of birth, even attempt to apply for passports under each alias. So a new “record” is created for every alias, date-of-birth, passport and other identifying information created by watch listed suspects. The base number of individuals, excluding aliases, is about 400,000, according to the FBI. About 95 percent of them are not U.S. citizens and are not even located in the United States.
Not to say this makes the list any more useful at all, just to clarify the numbers.
Thanks!
Robert
no offense Robert but atleast them government is trying to protect us, yeah people can do all that stuff you just listed but the FBI could probably track them down and they would be able to if that person was fake or real. no offense