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- my name is rob adams and i am on the no fly list. i have tried for the last two years to get off....to no avail. as a traveling businessman, it is slowly killing my desire to work.
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- I think the correct descriptive acronym for this is:
SNAFU
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We are so proud of you hissteps4u. Carrying the burden of freedom for all of us.
If we had more people like you on the list, the check in lines at the airport would go so much faster.
All of you heroes would just step out of line being so brave and selfless while you pay for our freedom.
Thanks again.
Oh by the way, your attitude is what%u2019s allows a corrupt or inept government to succeed in making policy that cause all of us to loose our freedoms..
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- Well Done G.Walking-LiarBush, you have succeded to instill fear in the heart of Americans. If this is what freedom means for you, well, we don't want it... We want real freedom, we don't want the witch hunt type of freedom as it's been well said by jw218389.
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- hissteps4u, to watch you say:
"I simply know to tell the ticket agent in advance that I am on the List and wait my turn to get cleared. The price we pay for our freedom."
is just so counter-intuitive that I had to register to point it out.
What you're saying is that taking away our freedom to freely circulate the country until we prove that we're not someone on a arbitrarily created government list is the price we have to pay for freedom. That is, of course, ridiculous and our founding fathers are probably rolling in their graves right now.
Let's be clear about what we're trading--freedom for a little bit of temporary safety.
Now don't get me wrong. I like safety, but I don't favor the idea of putting myself in a jail cell because I might get myself killed in a car accident.
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- hissteps4u, to watch you say:
"I simply know to tell the ticket agent in advance that I am on the List and wait my turn to get cleared. The price we pay for our freedom."
is just so counter-intuitive that I had to register to point it out.
What you're saying is that taking away our freedom to freely circulate the country until we prove that we're not someone on a arbitrarily created government list is the price we have to pay for freedom. That is, of course, ridiculous and our founding fathers are probably rolling in their graves right now.
Let's be clear about what we're trading--freedom for a little bit of temporary safety.
Now don't get me wrong. I like safety, but I don't favor the idea of putting myself in a jail cell because I might get myself killed in a car accident.
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- Is Mark Foley on the "No Open Fly List?" :-)
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- I suspect, as was the case with so-called "Red Scare" that anyone that opposes the GOP is on the No-Fly List... I know many Move-On.org members who have been banned despite being otherwise OUTSTANDING Americans....
Can anyone say," political witch hunt?"
BUSH Hater= Supporter of The Bill of Rights = No Fly List! God save America from Bush!! - Reply to this comment
- blah blah blah ........ big deal if the names are still on the list......... maybe old Steve is working off an old list........ I think we should be more concerned if the names WEREN'T on the list........ better safe than sorry. CBS why don't you have Steve work on something more important........ like ........ find out what classified secrets Sandy Berger stuffed in his pants and shirts...... that had to do with 9/11....... and why he stole them..... and what did they say.......... OH YEAH stupid me ......he's a DEM and exempt from questioning.
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- hissteps4u: How do you blame congress for this rather than the executive branch? It is the responsiblilty of the executive to execute administrative functions. That's why they call it the "executive".
Though I'm not a Bush fan, I don't blame Bush for this one - its beneath his pay grade, so-to-speak. The real responsibility lies with the heads of the CIA, FBI, etc.
The only role that congress plays here is for funding (which they clearly did, to the tune of $144 million according to the article) and oversight, which they have NOT done since Bush has been elected.
However, blaming the congress for lack of oversight is alot like blaming a referee for not calling a foul. The player is responsible for the foul, not the ref.
At least if all of the poles are right we might have a new set of refs in Washington that might call a few more fouls. - Reply to this comment
