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Kennedy has company on airline watch list
CNN News ^ | Friday, August 20, 2004 Posted: 7:18 PM EDT | Ted Barrett

Posted on 08/20/2004 7:15:26 PM PDT by tomball

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Edward Kennedy is not alone.

A second prominent lawmaker said Friday that he's been subjected to extra security at airports because his name appears on a list designed to prevent terrorists from boarding planes.

Rep. John Lewis, D - Georgia, a nine-term congressman famous for his civil rights work with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has been stopped 35 to 40 times over the past year, his office said.

Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on border security Thursday that he's been stopped several times because his name appeared on an airline watch list.

Lewis contacted the Department of Transportation, the Department of Homeland Security and executives at various airlines in a so-far fruitless effort to get his name off the list, said spokeswoman Brenda Jones.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; johnlewis; noflylist; tedkennedy

1 posted on 08/20/2004 7:15:26 PM PDT by tomball
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To: tomball

So? They are listed as backers or members of subversive terrorist organizations.

They deserve to WALK --- the plank preferably.


2 posted on 08/20/2004 7:17:16 PM PDT by steplock
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To: tomball

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A young Sen. TED KENNEDY in Vietnam-1965

http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
(See next to last Photo)

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3 posted on 08/20/2004 7:19:28 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE
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To: tomball
Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on border security Thursday that he's been stopped several times because his name appeared on an airline watch list.

Yeah, but they only stop him long enough to get all the tiny little liquor bottles off the plane.

4 posted on 08/20/2004 7:19:43 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all)
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To: tomball

No Clintons????


5 posted on 08/20/2004 7:21:36 PM PDT by Fintan (I don't need to know what it looks like to know what it looks like.)
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To: tomball

Last night on his radio program on WABC New York, Mark Levin speculated that it may have a "no drunk" list that caused problems for Kennedy.


6 posted on 08/20/2004 7:21:57 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: steplock

They should also have Kennedy on a DO NOT DRIVE LIST (especially over Bridges).


7 posted on 08/20/2004 7:24:58 PM PDT by alkuhn (Bush '04 America cannot afford 2 more Johns in the White House)
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To: alkuhn

And a DO NOT SERVE list.


8 posted on 08/20/2004 7:26:24 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: tomball

I seem to remember something about Senator Swimmer adding a clause to some immigration legislation awhile back that specifically prohibited agents from asking foreigners about associations with terrorist organizations. Maybe someone out there has a better memory of old Teddy-no-pants' record.


9 posted on 08/20/2004 7:28:05 PM PDT by EricT. (Join the Soylent Green Party...We recycle dead environmentalists.)
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To: tomball

Rightfully so. Both rats. Make them drive to and from Washington. That way, they will have less time to screw up our country by voting stupidly.


10 posted on 08/20/2004 7:30:45 PM PDT by b4its2late (John John Kerry Edwards change positions more often than a Nevada prostitute!!!)
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To: tomball

Why are these terrorists using the names of prominent Democrats?


11 posted on 08/20/2004 7:33:05 PM PDT by xrp
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To: tomball
The Lifeguard flies commercial? Gee, I guess times really are bad....
12 posted on 08/20/2004 7:34:08 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Vietnam veteran against Jean-France Kerry.)
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To: ALOHA RONNIE

Nice photoshop skills. How'd you get Senator Kennedy so thin?


13 posted on 08/20/2004 7:34:46 PM PDT by xrp
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To: tomball

Did John Lewis kill someone too?


14 posted on 08/20/2004 9:37:33 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: tomball

Our local talk radio station ran a story on U-Boat Teddy put on the list. I laughed so hard I began to swerve.

"awwnd if you elect old teddy again and ajfskjasjsdsad sdfasdfkl sdkfjasdf;k..." -- Rush Limbaugh's audio of the Kennedy '96 Rally for Clinton.


15 posted on 08/20/2004 9:45:51 PM PDT by sully777 (Our descendants will be enslaved by political expediency and expenditure)
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To: xrp

"Like camels of a feather..."


16 posted on 08/20/2004 11:56:23 PM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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To: ALOHA RONNIE

"...SP/4 Ronald W. Guyer standing with a visiting young Senator TED KENNEDY at 1st Cav Div HQ October 1965..."

Key word: VISITING...sort of like KFairys "visit" of only 4, countem', 4 months!


17 posted on 08/20/2004 11:59:20 PM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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To: Terridan

"So are the Days of Our Lives" ???


18 posted on 08/21/2004 12:04:26 AM PDT by xrp
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To: xrp

Ha! As the stomach turns....
;)


19 posted on 08/21/2004 12:54:32 AM PDT by Terridan (God help us send these Islamic Extremist savages back into Hell where they belong...)
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