Are YOU on the List?

John Anderson of Minneapolis, [now 7] was first stopped at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in 2004, when his family took him for his first airplane ride to Disney World. "We checked in at the ticket counter, and the woman said in a stern voice, 'Who is John Anderson?' " says his mother, Christine Anderson. "I pointed to my stroller."

Her son is allowed to fly. But because his name is flagged, his family cannot print out a boarding pass for him online and he must check in at the ticket counter so an airline official can see that he's a child. (U.S.A. Today)

This stuff frightens me. The Department of Homeland Security has become as dangerous to American citizens as the Gestapo was to the people in Europe during the Nazi years. Did you know that it took an Act of Congress to get Nelson Mandela, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, off the list? Or that Senator Edward Kennedy remains on the list, as do Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, and James Moore, author of Bush's Brain, a book critical of the Bush administration?

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Hmmmmm… I wonder if I am on the list—of course, after this post, I probably will be!

ADDENDUM—Just Received from The Washington Post:

U.S. May Ease Police Spy Rules

The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years…

Read the entire story HERE.