The TSA No-Fly Watch List Catches Journalists as Well as Terrorist Suspects

Planning on writing critical things about Pres. Bush, the idiots he's appointed into the most powerful positions in America, and all the multiple cases of incompetence or competently executed mistakes designed to line the pockets of rich Texans? Do you fly semi-regularly? Be afraid. Be very afraid. Unless you want to wind up on the TSA watch list which will make your trip to the airport a living hell.

To put it simply, this ain't no Schindler's List. Whereas having your name on the list for Schindler meant life, having your name on the TSA no-fly watch list could meant far, far worse. The greatest print journalist in the world today because of her incessant and fearless disclosures that the emperor has been been strutting around the past seven years in an invisible flak jacket, Naomi Klein, found out she was on the TSA no-fly watch list. The only way she was able to discover this was when after being harassed at airport security for no definable reason for the thousandth time she asked one of those involved why this always occurred every time she tried to fly in America. Apparently, she managed to tag one of those TSA people who realize what a ridiculous waste of time and money the watch list instituted by the Bush administration really is because he engaged in a security breach that probably has cost him his job by now: he told Klein she was on the list.

Now, there seem to be two separate and distinct TSA watch lists. There is one that is said to contain at least 40,000 names of people believed to genuinely be terrorist threats. Interestingly, this list contained the names of several of the 9/11 hijackers...several years after September 11, 20001. This more expansive list also includes several people currently residing in jail, nuns arrested for acts of civil disobedience twenty-five years ago, and names like Robert Johnson. (You have to wonder just how many men named Robert Johnson have been pulled away from the security line and taken to some cold metal room for absolutely no reason whatever.) If you regularly expose the idiocracy we've been living under for the past seven years, you probably won't wind up on that list.