What due process?
This again. So, we have this terrorist watch list. I don’t know how you would know you were on it unless you were detained at an airport. Now, there’s a push to ban people on this list from purchasing guns. Now, no one (except terrorists) wants armed terrorists. But, from what I have read, most people who are on the list are usually guilty of having a similar name to some other person. And, of course, being put on this list doesn’t require a conviction or due process of law.
In other news, anyone else find it frightening that we keep such lists?
April 30th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
You can’t read too much into that. Lautenberg is famous for shit like that. This is the same guy who wanted to suspend nation-wide gun sales when the Terrorist Threat Level was 2 or higher. (Its been 3 or higher since it was unveiled several years ago).
That would have been a defacto nation-wide ban on gun sales. Even if the threat level did manage to make it all the way down to ‘1’ (the lowest level on the scale) gun sales could be banned again at the whim of the DHS chief.
April 30th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Lautenberg’s a kook.
April 30th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Because remember, the “No-fly” list is a list of people who we consider so dangerous that we can’t trust them to board a commercial flight, yet so benign that we don’t have enough evidence to ship them off to Guantanamo