YouTube – Rahm Emmanuel to Disarm America.
Pretty incredible. The no-fly list is a pure instance of police-state rules. And notice how the war on drugs is invoked. Why shouldn’t it be? How else are we going to justify shooting down civilian aircraft and killing family pets with SS troops (happens all the time; argue with me about it in the comments and I’ll post the links).
Obama’s arrival is change from the Bush administration the way a baby is change from a pregnancy. He’s not a repudiation; he’s the ultimate end.
Interesting.
Part of me says that if even guys like Obama think Bush’s no fly list is a good thing, then maybe I need to consider it’s probably a good thing too.
Part of me is also disturbed that a guy like Emmanuel (who seems like a more authoritarian guy than Obama himself) thinks it’s a great tool for gun control.
I also wonder if Russel Tice is in fact, paranoid.
Hey look: wikipedia says “The No Fly List, sometimes called the terrorist watch list, is a secret list created and maintained by the United States government of people who are not permitted to board a commercial aircraft for travel in or out of the United States. It includes approximately 2,500 names as of October 2008.[1]”
Maybe Rahm is just going for symbolism….
How many people fly a plane in the US each year.
What percentage of them are stopped and aggressively searched because of 1) being on a list 2) some other reason (random check; irregular behavior on site)
Just asking. Is there data?