bike21
9-5 Ruins Lives
True...slippery slope and all :bandit:
Colgan pilot grounded by terrorist watchlist
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True...slippery slope and all :bandit:
myron96
Well-Known Member
I had the same problem as well when I was flying...Its funny though because when you get to the airport and cut through the security line when your working no one says a thing..Its only when you have to check in because you cant do it online or at a kiosk that the fun starts....Its always great when you get a new gate agent who has the look of ####ting their pants when the hit comes up cause they dont know what to do.. But like someone else said, I often have to end up walking them though it, tell them which key to press, which page my name is on, and how to enter in the dob so that it will say no exact match y/n...etc what a pain in the ass...But then when you get to work, you walk up get your release and go fly and nothing stops you, no one has to clear you off any list..What a flawed system.. But unfortunetly there is little you can do since your name matches someone on the list....Their is a link you can go to at the TSA website to fill out an online form and then mail a form in to supposedly start the process but 2 years later and I am still on the list.. Also, I heard a rumor that the airlines were going to be getting a system to remove employess off the list, but dont know what happened with that either.. Well good luck and enjoy having to get to the airport earlier then you ordinatrliy would just to get cleared off some bs list...
germb747
Well-Known Member
Yea, me too. I'm not taking this incident involving 9 American Eagle planes lightly.
tonyw
Well-Known Member
Don't count on it.
Ted Kennedy made the watch list.
Yes, that Ted Kennedy. The senior Senator from Massachusetts.
He wasn't allowed to board until an airport supervisor got him on the plane.
And then it took weeks and several phone calls to Tom Ridge, who was then the head of homeland (in)security, to get him off the list.
So, if a sitting US Senator can get on the watch list and it takes weeks for him to get off it, what odds do you give to your average American being removed from the list?
There are nearly a million Americans on the list right now.
SpiraMirabilis
Possible Subversive
Ted Kennedy has killed in the past, though. 
Henri Pablo
Well-Known Member
... first I thought 'here you go, throw it on iPod and enjoy deadhead trip', but then realized, this could qualify you for 'the list' if they catch you with it:
http://www.archive.org/details/George-Orwell-1984-Audio-book
http://www.archive.org/details/bravenewworld
http://www.archive.org/details/George-Orwell-1984-Audio-book
http://www.archive.org/details/bravenewworld
greaper007
Well-Known Member
My brother in law said he was going to go as the scariest thing he could think of for Halloween. He came up with "The Patriot Act."
bike21
9-5 Ruins Lives
So while sipping my coffee this morning, I was watching a great TV show on the History Channel about Star Wars and the parallels to our own everyday lives. George Lucas did a great a job with mythology and modern themes for symbolism. Scary how these little things such as the "Patriot Act" can go so far...
"You are either with us or with the terrorists" G.W. Bush
"You are either with us or with the terrorists" G.W. Bush
n57flyguy
Well-Known Member
You are a traitor and with the Rebel Alliance
bike21
9-5 Ruins Lives
I will never come to the Dark Side! Noooooo!
Chief Captain
Well-Known Member
Like which ones? Like Doug said, it's now a police state...
Firebird2XC
Well-Known Member
No UNION. With an operational delay consideration, both pilots have problems that affect the company.
One has a Union to tell the company where to stick their ideas about the situation. One doesn't.
kellwolf
Piece of Trash
We'll be hangin together, then. Between my outspoken-ness (is that a word?), my reading choices and my research into other religions, I'd be surprised if I wasn't on some list already....
fo4ever
Well-Known Member
Ya beat me to it Tony, my thoughts exactly!
If a Senator, especially one as well known as Ted Kennedy has trouble getting his name off the list, woe to the average law abiding American.
Thus the trouble with "lists".
I can hear David Bowie now......This is not America...
Cruise
Well-Known Member
You are sir, nooo worries, you are! The VA farm boys in black suits will be stopping by the hacienda to deal w/ the likes of you. Standby!
kellwolf
Piece of Trash
You are sir, nooo worries, you are! The VA farm boys in black suits will be giving stopping by the hacienda to deal w/ the likes of you. Standby!
I'll be sure to have a game of COD4 running while playing as either the terrorists or the Soviets when they bust down my door. That'll seal the deal.
