I hate to link to Fox News but sometimes the story is more important than the source:
WESTLAKE, Ohio – Alyssa Thomas, 6, is a little girl who is already under the spotlight of the federal government. Her family recently discovered that Alyssa is on the “no fly” list maintained by U.S. Homeland Security. […]
Dr. Thomas and his wife were made aware of the listing during a recent trip from Cleveland to Minneapolis. The ticket agent at the Continental counter at Hopkins Airport notified the family. “They said, well, she’s on the list. We’re like, okay, what’s the story? What do we have to do to get off the list? This isn’t exactly the list we want to be on,” said Dr. Thomas.[…]
… Alyssa just received a letter from the government, notifying the six-year-old that nothing will be changed and they won’t confirm nor deny any information they have about her or someone else with the same name.
“She’s been flying since she was two-months old, so that has not been an issue,” said Alyssa’s dad. “In fact, we had traveled to Mexico in February and there were no issues at that time.”
No more airplane trips to visit Grandma for you, you little jihadist.
A friend of ours was similarly surprised when attempting to board a flight to Ireland. Rose had never heard of the other Rose Dugdale.
Alert airline personnel tased the six-year-old.
She must have asked for a yellow cake for her birthday, and the people eavesdropping misunderstood and thought she had asked for yellowcake.
Shw must be one of those kids always screaming in the back of the plane.
Early in the TSA screening process, we weren’t allowed to do curbside baggage check-in at the outset of one trip. We were told that the system said we had to go to the ticket counter so that they could verify the identity of our daughter traveling with us.
Our daughter was four years old at the time.
It really bothers the hell out of me that judges don’t have the authority to take people off of the no-fly list. There should be a judicial process to get people onto the no-fly list to begin with, but there really should be some ability to get people off of it!
Obviously, a bunch of bureaucrats sitting in cubicles can’t scrub the no-fly list of every ridiculous entry, so airlne customers really, truly need to be able to appeal to a judge to say “Yo! Get the six-year old OFF the gol-durned list!”