Canadian no-fly list to stop 12 year old terrorists

Posted by ScruffyDan on June 19, 2007 at 7:06 pm | Comments (1) | Trackbacks (0)

As many as 2,000 people have secretly been declared security threats by government officials, including CSIS and the RCMP, and will be denied airplane boarding passes as a result of the Canadian no-fly list that went into effect yesterday.

Critics say the list must be scrapped because it jeopardizes fundamental human rights to privacy, liberty and the freedom of movement.

That’s 2000 people that have not been charged with a crime, who are no longer able to travel by air. If they are threat to security they should be charged, and convicted. So much for innocent until proven guilty.

The US no-fly list has had some embarrassing failures, but the Canadian regulations have gone one step further:

Canada will become the only country in the world to require 12-year-olds to show identification to board an airplane under new security rules that come into effect on Monday.

Will this make us safer? Probably not; there are many workarounds to the list, and many ways to simply bypass the whole security screening process, and gain access to restricted areas.

This list as all about the illusion of safety, not real safety.
Do you feel safer now?

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Sorry Dan. Without an ID, how is the boarding agent supposed to know whether the little boy wearing sneakers listening to his iPOD is really not Al Zarqawi, born 1973?

What I don’t get is why they’re not allowed to fly.. If the name and date on the no fly list matches the individual attempting to check in, why not just put them through a more scrutinizing security check?

Comment by Steve on June 20, 2007 @ 5:14 pm