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Re:FBI Checks Wrong Box, Places Student on No-Fly List by Natsu on Thursday February 06, 2014 @11:18PM (#7194774)
When I look at this, I understand why mistakes happen. Checking the wrong box, ok, someone could easily do that. What I don't understand is why the system reacts so harshly to double-down on an obvious mistake rather than simply fixing it and preventing the whole thing from being an issue?

Surely that would be easier than years of litigation, no?

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Re:FBI Checks Wrong Box, Places Student on No-Fly List by busterarm on Friday February 07, 2014 @12:26AM (#7194957)
The US government never admits to being wrong. The only way to overcome a confrontation with the US government is to get a newer bill signed into law, at which point you can protect other people from the same adversity but the government will pretend the past never happened and you won't get any kind of amelioration of already-wronged wrongs.
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