FAST Redress Act of 2009 – birth of the “Fly List”
This almost writes itself!
We all know of the utter stupidity of the TSA’s Terrorist ‘watchlist’ (and I won’t rehash the arguments here). People caught on it include:
- anyone with the name David Nelson
- infants, dead people, celebrities, US politicians
- Jim Robinson, former head of the Justice Department’s criminal division
- Sam Adams – aged 5 (at time of writing)
… and many more…
Of course in “Stating The Bleedin’ Obvious 101″ any eedgit learns that a name based watchlist is about as useful as a mans tit… and as a real insult to our intellegence they add (in their hilariuosly titled blog page “Myth Buster“):
TSA doesn’t have a watch list
and
TSA is a customer of the Terrorist Screening Center, a component of the FBI (…) responsible for (the) list
But call a spade a spade – if you’re turfing me off a flight on the basis of a list I don’t give a bollix who’s list you’re using.
So what happens if you find out your on a list? Well up to now not very much. Apparently it takes about 1 to 11/2 months and that is only because the ACLU sued for citizens to have the right to do so. But enter The FAST Redress Act of 2009 which obliges the Homeland Security secretary to
- establish a “timely and fair” process of appeal and redress,
- (create) an Office of Appeals and Redress, and
- maintain a “comprehensive cleared list” of people who have been inappropriately included on terror watch lists or databases
Ladies and gentlemen – THE FLY LIST!!!
Now I wonder who will be charged with maintaining yet another list for the Department of Homeland Security? Let’s hope the responsibility isn’t given to the fuckwits who create the necessity for the Fly List in the first place!
