Posted on 09/11/2009 7:23:02 AM PDT by Sensei Ern
Check your sources.
Thank You George W. Bush for the CRAP you introduced to this country post 9-11.
He has even been certified by the Transportation Security Administration to carry a weapon into the cockpit as part of the government's defense program should a terrorist try to commandeer a plane.
But there's one problem: James Robinson, the pilot, has difficulty even getting to his plane because his name is on the government's terrorist "watch list."
That means he can't use an airport kiosk to check in; he can't do it online; he can't do it curbside. Instead, like thousands of Americans whose names match a name or alias used by a suspected terrorist on the list, he must go to the ticket counter and have an agent verify that he is James Robinson, the pilot, and not James Robinson, the terrorist.
"Shocking's a good word; frustrating," Robinson -- the pilot -- said. "I'm carrying a weapon, flying a multimillion-dollar jet with passengers, but I'm still screened as, you know, on the terrorist watch list."
The American Civil Liberties Union estimates more than 1 million names have been added to the watch list since the September 11 attacks.
The FBI, which manages the Terrorist Screening Database, disputes that figure. It says that there are about 400,000 actual people on the list and that about 95 percent of those people are not U.S. citizens. Watch how three people found themselves on terror watch list
"There's going to come a point in time where everybody's on the list," Robinson said.
Since airing a story this summer about how Correspondent Drew Griffin began getting told he was on the watch list -- coincidentally after he wrote a series critical of the TSA's Federal Air Marshal Service -- CNN has received dozens of e-mails and iReport submissions from viewers who also have found themselves on the watch list.
It turns out that three people named "James Robinson" found their names on the list in early 2005. iReport.com: Do you think your name is on the list?
Besides the airline pilot, there's the James Robinson who served as U.S. attorney in Detroit, Michigan, and as an assistant attorney general in the Clinton administration;
The third-grader has been on the watch list since he was 5 years old. Asked whether he is a terrorist, he said, "I don't know."
Though he doesn't even know what a terrorist is, he is embarrassed that trips to the airport cause a ruckus, said his mother, Denise Robinson.
Denise Robinson said that no one in the government even told her her son is on the watch list but that it wasn't hard to figure out. Checking in at curbside three years ago, the family was told they couldn't get boarding passes and were hustled to the ticket counter.
She said the ticket agent made a number of phone calls and kept asking which among her husband and two sons was James.
"And all of a sudden he says, 'How old is he?' " Robinson recounted. She said she responded numerous times, "He's 5."
The agent handed them paperwork and refused to tell them what the problem was but urged them to fill out the forms. The documents were Department of Homeland Security paperwork to get off the watch list.
Not knowing which of the three might be targeted, she sent in the required documents for the entire family -- and got back one letter, addressed to James.
Congress has demanded that the TSA and Homeland Security fix the problems with the list that are making travel so difficult for so many Americans. Prominent lawmakers, including Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy and civil rights leader-turned-Georgia congressman John Lewis, also have encountered watch list difficulties.
The source was private email. The news is that they named someone as being on the list. The other news being that they are taking gun rights away for something less than suspicion.
So a “Jim Robinson” cannot check in at airport security, but a “Barack Hussein Obama” can still ...... oh, nevermind, im kinda tired,,,,
Oh it is news see post # 23. It is all over google as news.
LOL nice blame Bush try... but it is the whacko Holder and Napolitano that have not a freaking clue what they are doing.
Exactly and he is 8 years old, a pilot and an attorney.
Could you help me out here, with a direct link to the article? I’m having trouble finding it and I would like to link to the source, rather than to FreeRepublic, in our local newspaper.
Private email is generally not a good source to post from if you haven't checked the sources.
Just sayin'.
shi’ite
Once the Second Amendment "right" was infringed by denying guns to ex-felons the rest was inevitable. Just keep it up and the only ones to have guns will be the criminals who don't obey the law anyway.
Alan Gottlieb and SAF (Second Amendment Foundation) is a good group. They put on a gun rights policy conference each year that is very reasonably priced.
There's bills that are introduced each year that want to put the "no-fly" list and apply it to guns as well. There's no movement on it, but it is one we need to watch for, because that is something that may get the mushy middle on board.
Eva, i copy pasted what I received and I was asking folks on here to validate it, because like you I did not find anything by Google. Maybe we need a class on search composition?
Son, Yes, I totally agree, but if it were (and appears to be) true, it would be news. I was asking for the validation. I needed to check a topic and it seemed more news than anythign.
With all that this tyrannical fraud and his demonic minions have done to date, what on earth would make you disbelieve it???? Check to see if such a bill is pending in the Congress? Call Lautenberg’s office. There are lots of things you can do to validate this. And furthermore, it makes perfect sense. Obama will do ANYTHING against the people of the United States to maintain power and RULE with an iron fist. Dis-arming you makes perfect sense. This Fascist pig has a lot more than this in store for you.
In fact, I can’t believe how much the American public has put up with so far. I truly believe that this guy has the suspension of the 2010 elections already figured out. He will see to it that there is a manufactured crisis, will institute Martial Law and suspend the elections. NO WAY will he allow the type of Rats he’s got behind him now in the numbers that he’s got them, to be removed from office and replaced by Conservatives who will not go along with him. Without a huge uprising, you now have a DICTATOR, for the forseeable future. CO
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