Re:No-fly list takes legal hit
by jandrewrogers on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @02:40AM
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Same story here. I was often delayed by 45 minutes or more. Basically, I as a native-born American citizen with no criminal record (and ironically, worked for the DoD at one time), could not board a plane without the express permission of the government such that I was delayed while waiting for that permission. Everyone I was traveling with was allowed to go on, I was stuck behind. It was a real source of difficulty for me for a few years. At some point it went out of sight, though I still received special treatment at the border for a while.
Consequently, I have a pretty negative view of the "no-fly" lists. Anyone sufficiently dangerous to put on the list is sufficiently dangerous to be arrested. Anything short of that is an obvious lack of due process.
Same here, lasted around 2005-08 for me. Completely non-transparent. My name was put on some kind of list without my knowledge (it's a common name), and I was repeatedly delayed every time I tried to fly. Nobody would actually acknowledge anything or give me information about what I could do about it, even though it was pretty obvious what the reason was.
Fortunately, sometime in '06 or '07 I received information on how to remove oneself from the list by filling out a form. I can't recall if I found it independently or if it was given to me by an airline agent, but a few months after turning that in I no longer had to deal with the list again.
Perhaps, I should have actually fought against it as well, but in my case it was always just due to the happenstance of having the same name as someone on the list.