US Muslim placed on no-fly list is unable to see his ailing mother
Despite never having been charged with any crime, an Air Force veteran is effectively exiled from his own country
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/05/muslim-no-fly-qatar
I know I talked about easing up on police state posts, but it will probably be a while before my outrage has diminished to the point where stuff like this can be ignored. A US citizen, who is also a 10 year US military veteran, is mysteriously put on the no-fly list (but, as the article points out, he is still OK to be on a cruise ship and is ‘welcome’ to enter the US at any time as long as he doesn’t fly (and the legal fine point that I am quite sure is how the government keeps it from being overturned)) and now can’t return to his own country. How idiotic is that? Of course, our government won’t allow anyone to challenge the list because if there were any rational decision making regarding names on the list then clearly the bad guys could use that rational process to get themselves off the list and then, gasp! fly on a plane. Clearly that would be less effort than getting forged travel documents under another name, right? Fucking morons!
