Thanx for the ping. I have story after story of complete nightmares for people who are mistakenly placed on this list and can’t get off. And if it is a simple data base why bother removing anyone especially a Paky who was just in Pakistan? Hmmm
why bother removing anyone especially a Paky who was just in Pakistan?
0baga, a tea bagger, has a soft spot for Pakies. He had a Poking Paky boyfriend stuck to him on the well-known couch picture! You never know, a homo ordering a dyke to ease up on Pakies? LOL! I'm just kidding. I don't believe they reached that point, but I wouldn't be astonished as to how perverts think.
“Thanx for the ping. I have story after story of complete nightmares for people who are mistakenly placed on this list and can’t get off. And if it is a simple data base why bother removing anyone especially a Paky who was just in Pakistan?”
Excellent question. My wife and I had/have been on the no fly list. My sin is a common first name and an even more common Celtic/Anglo Saxon surname. So about 3 million of us are/were on that list because one of triggered something.
My wife apparently got on the list for two reasons. Her mother was in terminal stages of Alzheimer’s, and my wife had several quickly scheduled flights to fly back to the mid west. Also, she and her brothers and many cousins ended up with a first name which came from ancestors, they didn’t know or ones they didn’t care about. So they went with their middle Name and abbreviated the first one. After 9/11 that caused severe problems as the name on their birth certificates didn’t match their SS#s, drivers licenses and passports if they had one.
I drove the TSA people up the wall when I found out. I made a folder like a sales brochure. I had a copy of my birth certificate, a copy of my family tree going back to pilgrims and before pilgrims and with some native American blood, watchers of the immigrants from the old world. I had a copy of my military discharge, Naval Security Group clearances and a White House duty station in case the cold war got hot. I had a copy of my pre 9/11 passport.
A kind TSA lady informed me to carry my current passport or a copy and the copy of the old pre 9/11 passport. I never had a problem after that. After my wife straightened out her SS#/name on her driver’s license and got a new passport using the first name she didn’t like. Her problems disappeared when she showed both passports.