Posted on 01/14/2010 6:26:58 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
The Transportation Security Administration, under scrutiny after last month’s bombing attempt, has on its Web site a “mythbuster” that tries to reassure the public.
Myth: The No-Fly list includes an 8-year-old boy.
Buster: No 8-year-old is on a T.S.A. watch list.
“Meet Mikey Hicks,” said Najlah Feanny Hicks, introducing her 8-year-old son, a New Jersey Cub Scout and frequent traveler who has seldom boarded a plane without a hassle because he shares the name of a suspicious person. “It’s not a myth.”
Michael Winston Hicks’s mother initially sensed trouble when he was a baby and she could not get a seat for him on their flight to Florida at an airport kiosk; airline officials explained that his name “was on the list,” she recalled.
The first time he was patted down, at Newark Liberty International Airport, Mikey was 2. He cried.
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if he was a Muslim kid they wouldn’t touch him.
Yup, you nailed it. We are committing suicide by PC.
The article said he was padded down as a 2 year old. What kind of an idiot would pad down a 2 year old? Boy do I feel safe now.
Well, I somehow think that strangers touching a child is also against the "rules", and I would be Mr. Snap-Happy as discreetly as I could, but I most assuredly WOULD post those pictures everywhere I could think of.
These bullies need to be stood up to.
What kind of name is "Najlah"? Sounds like a heathen name to me. This may be the root of the problem: Mom is a muslim terrorist-in-waiting.
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