The government's terrorist watch list has swelled to more than 755,000 names, according to a new government report that has raised worries about the list's effectiveness.
The size of the list, typically used to check people entering the country through land border crossings, airports and sea ports, has been growing by 200,000 names a year since 2004. Some lawmakers, security experts and civil rights advocates warn that it will become useless if it includes too many people.
"It undermines the authority of the list," says Lisa Graves of the Center for National Security Studies. "There's just no rational, reasonable estimate that there's anywhere close to that many suspected terrorists."
The exact number of people on the list, compiled after 9/11 to help government agents keep terrorists out of the country, is unclear, according to the report by the Government
Accountability Office (GAO). Some people may be on the list more than once because they are listed under multiple spellings.
This is what 31 billion dollars buys us? That is what we spent on "Homeland Security" last year.
I have to wonder how many of us are on that list? You know, people who dare to challenge the governments judgement and choices. Are we the enemy too?
Because as you know,"If you are not on the side of the President, then you are on the side of the terrorists".
Why don't we start a movement and see how many of us can make the list? ;)
ReplyDeleteWe could sell tshirts: I Made the List!
there is nothing funny about this. I am on the List, I have been on the No Fly list for a long time , since 2004..maybe even before then....but 2004 for sure....full name and married and unmarried....the whole sha-bang...
ReplyDeleteBut I think what the hell we should go ahead and make tshirts - just all wear them....and then some of us would not feel so lonely....
the trick would be to see if they LIST- matches the NO FLY, or Voting problems or people that have been removed from the Roles...and ALSO HOW many are Activists or DEMS or bloggers ????
( gee if they keep upping it - they could change it enough to change the electioons couild n't they "???)