Posted on 03/19/2008 11:39:42 AM PDT by Nick Thimmesch
"One man went into a Glen Burnie, Md., Toyota dealership to buy a car, only to be told that a name check revealed he was on a U.S. Treasury Department watchlist of suspected terrorists and drug dealers. He had to be "checked for tattoos," he said, to make sure he wasn't the suspect.
An 18-year-old found he could not open an account to accept credit card payments for his fledgling technology consulting business because his name was similar to that of a Libyan official on the watchlist.
A former U.S. Navy officer who served in the Persian Gulf and whose father was killed in the Korean War when he was a child, found himself locked out of his PayPal account because his name was similar to one on the watchlist.
"What do I need to do to remove my name from this list?" the officer wrote to Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which compiles the list. He signed off, "An EXTREMELY insulted veteran of the U.S. Navy."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
In WWII they would have thrown him in a camp.
>>”One man went into a Glen Burnie, Md., Toyota dealership to buy a car, only to be told that a name check revealed he was on a U.S. Treasury Department watchlist of suspected terrorists and drug dealers. He had to be “checked for tattoos,” he said, to make sure he wasn’t the suspect.<<
I’ll be damned before I let a car dealer “check me for tatoos”
The comments are interesting:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031802971_Comments.html
A car dealership has terrorists watch lists ?!?!?!?!?
I have a curbside kool aid stand and I want one as well !
Where do I get the list ?
In Glen Burnie, AND in Dundalk, people without tattoos are the exception, not the rule.
Interesting that the names are missing. Did their names include Muhammed or Hussain?
“I can’t understand why the infidels keep harassing me every time I try to get on an airplane,” said Mohammed Jihad, 26. “The unfair treatment sometimes makes me so angry, I could explode!”
My name is Anglo-Saxon (Scottish, really, but whatever... definitely NOT Middle Eastern) and I wound up on one of those lists recently. Caused me difficulties every time I re-entered the country last winter, until one official noted that I was clearly not the person they wanted and he cleared me out of the system (or removed the flag, or did something else, because when I re-entered two weeks ago all was fine).
This is important.
LOL! In Dundalk you graduate from "hoskull" then go to "cawidge".
Dundalk has cawidge students? Their schools must have one hell of a grading curve....
LOL !!!
I agree: especially to those wrongly on any “lists”. WHen I fly these days (which is rare thank God), here’s what I do:
1) I wear rubber flip-flops, shorts (even in the winter) and a wife beater: that way I have little to search and I don’t have to do the shoe routine usually.
2) I carry only my ticket, my ID, occasionally my cell phone, and a few bucks cash (no coins).
3) I check ALL luggage.
4) I hold my arms in the air when going through the detector.
5) I keep my mouth shut and look directly at all TSA people giving orders.
6) I head right to the bar after stopping by the news shop to get reading & smoking materials (although you can smoke in a scant few airports in one of those death chambers where you don’t even really need to light a cig, just breathe the air) and get as drunk as possible.
7) Once on the plane, I pray to God to get us all safely wherever we are going and stay in my seat.
8) Once landed & deboarded, I pick up my bags and get the hell outta the airport ASAP.
Actually, in Glen Burnie, Dundalk, Thurmont, Emmitsburg and Hagerstown, girls who don’t have tramp stamps are protected under the Endangered Species Act.
My girlfriend’s brother just bought a new Honda Accord coupe and the dealership had to take pictures of his driver’s license and social security card, and submit them both to Washington to see if he was a terrorist!
Ed
Whoopee.
My name is Robert Scott. It is a fairly common name in this area, and many who share my name have criminal records and outstanding warrants. It doesn’t matter is your name is common on a watch list or an outstanding warrant list - it will cause a hassle.
Interesting? With a couple of exceptions it looked like a DU thread.
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