Posted on 07/14/2008 7:49:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A watch list of suspected and known terrorists, compiled by the US authorities, has ballooned and contains more than one million names, the American Civil Liberties Union said Monday.
The ACLU said it derived that figure from a Justice Department report on the FBI's Terrorist Screening Center, which consolidates terrorist watch list information.
The Center "had over 700,000 names in its database as of April 2007 and that the list was growing by an average of over 20,000 records per month," according to a report by the Justice Department Inspector General, the rights group said.
"By those numbers, the list now has over one million names on it," the ACLU said in a statement.
Among those on the watch list are deceased people, such as former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein who was hanged in 2005, decorated war veterans, and US Senator Ted Kennedy, the ACLU said.
Nobel Peace Prize winner, former South African president Nelson Mandela, was also on the list until an act of Congress removed his name -- the only way, according to the ACLU, to get off the list.
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Just exactly how many members does the ACLU have?
Among those on the watch list are deceased people, such as former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein who was hanged in 2005,Got no problem with that
decorated war veterans,John Kerry? No problem with that, either
and US Senator Ted KennedyHow could any American have a problem with that?
Nobel Peace Prize winner, former South African president Nelson Mandela, was also on the listThe only problem with that, is this:
until an act of Congress removed his nameNow, if Jack Murtha, Dick Durbin, and the editorial and reporting staff of the NYT and WaPo aren't on the list, then we've got problems.
Hilarious!
Watch out, the bogeymans coming!
Are they counting different spellings of Arabic names? Usama, Osama...
not sure, nowhere near a million I don’t think,, , I was thinking Code Pink for a second , they’re pretty tiny tho., MoveOn has a sizeable chunk of roiling vitriol as membership.
Plague rats...(and that’s what *every* ACLU member is, from Ruth Mengele Ginsburg on down.) LIE.
I once heard they had about 4,000 affiliated shyster rats among their Communist Fifth Column ranks.
Figure an adult pool of about 180 million.
There are very few Americans or others in America desiring to blow us all up. So, the million number sounds about right to me.
That is 55 ten/thousandths of the available pool if my 180 million figure is close.
In other words, it's a model government agency.
P.J. O’Rourke’s list has them beat, hands down...(yes, you’ll have to research this one)
The problem is what can you do to get off the list if you accidentally are placed on it?
The average citizen can’t do anything. I mean I read a story on here about a Air Marshall that was having a hell of a time just doing his job because his ame was on the list (it was a different guy, but the system always flags him). Get some overzealous TSA baggage checker and they ‘see a gun!’ and damn, it becomes a real bad day. (Yes I know they can get on the planes and be checked at other spots in the airport.)
Mandela brought racist marxism to South Africa, but him back on the list.
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