Re:No-fly list takes legal hit
by jonnybgood on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @01:20AM
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The no-fly list is not about capturing or deterring a terrorist. Or at least not to deter in the way you may be thinking: blowing up a plane? It's about keeping an individual from traveling to a location with the intention to cause violence. For example, a radicalized American traveling to Somalia to join Al-Shabaab.
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Or to prevent annoying witnesses from testifying: http://boingboing.net/2013/12/04/dhs-stalls-no-fly-list-tria...
Re:No-fly list takes legal hit
by notimetorelax on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @01:33AM
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Who gets to decide who's radicalized and who's not? Some NSA or FBI agent? System cannot rely on that. Being added to the no-fly list should be a result of a court decision and nothing less.
Oh please. This line of logic can be abused such that for their own good, as preventative measure, all Muslims could be on a no fly list. And the great bit about that is that if Muslims cant fly it protects them from accusations of terrorism. Its for their own good, you see....
In fact, this logic completely justifies what the NSA are doing.
This probably works as a preventative measure about as well as banning criminals from owning guns.
So you drive to Canada or Mexico, and take a flight from there. Presumably someone who is radicalised enough to want to put their life on the line would just get more angry if faced with the no fly list.