It’s easy to assume the no-fly list is meant for terrorists. Time and again, though, measures supposedly meant for use against terrorism turn out to be used against ordinary Americans. A total lack of due process is typically a giveaway to intentional abuses, like when Sen. Kennedy was put on the list the day after he backed out of a deal with the Bush White House on an education bill. Measured by results, reprisal against imagined internal enemies is more what it’s about than stopping terrorists too stupid to use a fake name or get the kind of fake ID high school kids get all the time.
It’s easy to assume the no-fly list is meant for terrorists. Time and again, though, measures supposedly meant for use against terrorism turn out to be used against ordinary Americans. A total lack of due process is typically a giveaway to intentional abuses, like when Sen. Kennedy was put on the list the day after he backed out of a deal with the Bush White House on an education bill. Measured by results, reprisal against imagined internal enemies is more what it’s about than stopping terrorists too stupid to use a fake name or get the kind of fake ID high school kids get all the time.
The 99%,in my way of thinking, is who they see as the real enemies.