No Fly—No Work--No Damned Good
The Department of Homeland Security’s No Fly Program worked so well that Senator Ted Kennedy was grounded. No matter that he was standing right there in front of the airline personnel, white mane flowing, recognizably liberal, the computer said he was another Ted Kennedy on a terrorist-suspect list. The good senator has connections, yet it still took him nearly two weeks to get off the damned list.
Now here’s a thought. Maybe al Qaeda should stop calling their members Muhammad this or Saddam that and name their terrorist brothers after prominent Americans. Start with the House and Senate, then Hollywood stars, then run right down through the rock and country-western and hip-hop bunch. Tom Cruise al-Zarqawi or Willie Nelson al Aziz Awda. That ought to screw up the boarding arrangements across various American air carriers.
My point is that the Senate, in its wisdom, is recommending that the DHS ‘Basic Pilot Program’ should be expanded. In effect, Basic Pilot is a ‘No-Work’ instead of a N…