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A Million Terrorists, And You May Be One Of Them

The No-Fly list is being expanded again –will soon top 1m.  Are there really that many terrorists in the world?  The comments on this piece are revealing:

“…this ruined my career. I used to be a consultant with Accenture and travelled constantly, including internationally. Having to spend 6 to 7 hours every single week at special registration desks (in many cases for hour-long domestic flights) became so impractical given my 50 to 65 hour weeks that I had to quit and take a desk job…”

“I met a guy from the State Dept once that told me his job was inputing names on the ‘no fly’ type list. He told me he routinely included people from his life that he felt wronged him. Past girlfriends, teachers he never liked, even his landlord are no not allowed to fly. No amount of investigation will show why they have been denied, and good luck clearing it up.”

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