Due process? What due process?
That is, if you are on the “No-Fly List”, because you are known as maybe a possible terrorist, you cannot buy a handgun in America.
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If you’re on that “No-Fly List”, your access to your right to bear arms is cancelled, because you’re not part of the American family, you don’t deserve that right. There is no right for you, if you’re on that terrorist list.
Holy crap… “…maybe a possible terrorist…” – no court, no trial, no due process, no defense, no prosecution, nothing. If your name somehow ends up on the “No-Fly List”, your rights no longer exist, just like the five-year-old who somehow ended up on that list, just like multiple individuals who just happen to be named “Robert Johnson“, just like liberals who have complained about the “No-Fly List” since its inception, just like Representative Lewis, just like Senator Kennedy, just like countless other people mistakenly added to an ineffective, costly program.
What is that, you say? You want to find out if you are on this list? Sorry, it is secret.
And you could be added to it for a variety of reasons that you will never really discover, and you can only be removed by the agency that added you. Oh, and the TSA does not have to tell you which agency added you. There is no oversight, there is no trial, there is no judge, there is no jury, there is just some federal agent, seeing your name tied to something, and adding it to the list. It might not even be you they are adding, but rather just your name (as in the cases of the Robert Johnsons).
And just because you are on this list, your Constitutionally-protected rights are somehow null and void? Frak that gos-se.
(In a rare instance of “good news”, the FAST Redress Act of 2009 passed the House earlier this month. This bill, if it makes it past the Senate and President (which seems unlikely, given the President’s aide’s desires to use the “No-Fly List” in the place of actual courts of law), would allow and appeal and redress process for people erroneously placed on the “List”. Unfortunately, it does not entirely do away with the list, and anyone who has any knowledge of interactions with the government can profess to just how insanely difficult it is to get federal officials to admit they are wrong.)
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