[Asclepius]

When "administrative (in)efficiency", as you so disarmingly put it, consistently characterises innocent folk as terrorists whe have a loss of political freedom.

If consistency is your evaluative criterion, then your argument fails on its face and your problem is one of basic reasoning skills. Someone having the same exact name as an Arab terrorist is a special case, hardly evidence of consistently characterizing anyone of anything. And, in this case, the no one was "characterized"; rather, he was simply misidentified, and therefore inconvenienced (allowed to go on his way once the mistake is verified etc).

So where's the political issue, old person?

[ArrogantBustard]

Asif Iqbal, a Rochester, New York, management consultant, must get FBI clearance every Monday and Thursday when he flies to and from Syracuse for business. Iqbal can't get off a government watch list because he shares the same name as a suspected terrorist.

Here's your consistency, sonny-boy. Must be too many big words in that sentence for you. When Bureacratus Maximus can't figure out once and for all that "Asif Iqbal, of Rochester, New York", who is not a terrorist, isn't the same person as "Asif Iqbal, of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba" who is an incarcerated terrorist, that is more than mere "inconvenience". That's constraining his right to travel in order not to inconvenience BM.

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