I Feel Safer…How About You?

Not one, but two - that’s right, two five year olds are on the no-fly list. From BoingBoing:

A five-year-old boy was taken into custody and thoroughly searched at Sea-Tac because his name is similar to a possible terrorist alias. As the Consumerist reports, “When his mother went to pick him up and hug him and comfort him during the proceedings, she was told not to touch him because he was a national security risk.

Round one, yesterday. And today, this:

Saw the article you posted on Boing Boing about the five year old on the no-fly list. My son, also five, is on that same list and it’s a nightmare. Every time we fly with him, we can’t use the computer terminals to check in and the attendant has to call some never named government agency to make sure he’s not a terrorist. Some attendants joke it off but some are insanely serious about it. His seat always goes unassigned (even if it was assigned when the reservation is made) which always causes problems.

Everyone calls people crazy when they talk of a police state and encroachment on civil liberties. Well, here you go. You can keep your Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security. Let’s fix the real problem and quit meddling in the affairs of others, huh?