The go-fly list for terrorists

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If America’s homeland security policies were subject to truth-in-advertising laws, the “no-fly” list would be known around the world by its right and proper name: the “go-fly” list. As in: Go right ahead, jihadists, and fly our planes... [snip]

... at federal counterterrorism centers, “watch list” means putting the names of dangerous operatives into massive databases — then idly watching potential bombers waltz through our airports and onto our tarmacs while grandmas and grade-schoolers and war heroes patiently pass through a gauntlet of wands, checkpoints and screening obstacles, ...

... the Christmas Day 'fruit-of-the-boom' plotter and had been on the counterterrorism radar screen for his radical jihadi threats (which had been reported by his father to U.S. embassy officials in London).

But the young, single, rootless Muslim extremist with suspicious travel patterns — ding, ding, ding, ding, ding — did not meet the 'watch-list standards' for even being placed it onto the second-tier “secondary screening" list... [snip]

By contrast, beleaguered 8-year-old Mikey Hicks of Clifton, N.J., still can’t get off the selectee list after years of ridiculous harassment while traveling on family vacations... [snip]

A command-and-control government that squanders its time and our money taking over businesses it has no business running — health insurance, auto manufacturing, banking, student loans — is a government neglecting its most fundamental mandate: providing for the common defense.

The warped priorities of the Obama White House imperil us all.

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