ACLU Watch List Counter

[LaStrega]

Terrorist Watch List Nears One Million

It wasn’t long after 9/11 that we began hearing from Americans who were having problems getting on airplanes because, they were told, their names were on terrorist watch lists. In typical Bush Administration style, these systems had been roughly thrown together with little thought for questions of guilt or innocence or fairness to those unfairly targeted.

In the years since, our nation's out-of-control watch lists have received a lot of terrible publicity, such as when famous people like Sen. Ted Kennedy or Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) got trapped on them, or when 60 Minutes discovered that the list included the president of Bolivia, dead people, and dozens of common American names like Robert Johnson and John Williams. Despite all this publicity, and the problems faced by thousands or millions of frustrated innocent American citizens, the problem has not gotten better. In fact, it has gotten even worse.

Based on numbers contained in a report issued by the Inspector General of the Department of Justice, the watch list is growing by 20,000 records a month — and now exceeds 917,000 people. And it’s growing by the minute — a growth that you can view in real time on our new page, which displays a rolling, real-time counter showing how many names are on the list, according to that DOJ report.

Watch List Counter

[liberal_rxstudent]

1. Why don't we just

have a f*&king list with every single name that has been registered with the SSA (hehe..damn Americans..{Bush cackle}) then we could throw in a few "exotic" sounding names for good measure. All in the name of (pseudo-)security. Hey, we're all on a list together. MUST be safe to board. How idiotic. This seems-- F*&ked up and truly ridiculous!!! Makes me not want to set foot on a plane anytime soon, and not for fear of the plane being hijacked or blown to smitherines- but because I want to avoid contact with these fools at all costs :mad:

[LaStrega]

3. ain't it though ...

fucked up that is

x(

[Preston120]

2. Isn't that what fascism all about?

You expect Fairness in a Fascist State? Talk about terrible Publicity, but you don't see a list. We have secret courts, political arrests and convictions. With spying so common, I'm surprised their Terrorist List isn't longer.(George Washington, Paul Revere, Sam Adams, Nathan Hale all were called terrorists by the British Crown. You could be in good company)

[LaStrega]

4. "You expect Fairness in a Fascist State?"

Naw ... fairness took a flying fucking leap out the window long ago. :banghead: