Rahm Emanuel: “If you're on that no-fly list, your access to the right to bear arms is canceled... (felons, county)

[tablemtn]

The no-fly list is a sprawling mess. One problem is that the list includes "aliases" of "potentially dangerous" individuals. This includes very common names like "David Nelson," "Gary Smith," "John Williams," and "Robert Johnson." Some of those names were suspected aliases of 70's-era radicals who are now dead. The list is so gigantic that it is fundamentally useless to law enforcement, since it contains so many false-positives, and since an actual terrorist on the list would almost certainly fly under an alias anyway.

[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by karfar

If you had read my post, you would've noticed that I specifically wrote if it was NOT a mistake

That would still be entirely unconstitutional, to strip people of rights without being convicted of a crime.

[FinkieMcGee]

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

That would still be entirely unconstitutional, to strip people of rights without being convicted of a crime.

*tortures a bunch of dudes on a distant island...*

[BigJon3475]

Originally Posted by CharlottePirateFan

So how do you get placed on the no-fly list?

If you wrote Nobama on the internet, you're in!

[delusianne]

Originally Posted by FinkieMcGee

*tortures a bunch of dudes on a distant island...*

Originally Posted by BigJon3475

If you wrote Nobama on the internet, you're in!

[BigJon3475]

Like all other technologies it was spawned off of military intentions

USSR launches Sputnik, first artificial earth satellite. In response, US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA (http://www.arpa.mil/ - broken link)), the following year, within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military

ARPANET - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) developed by ARPA of the United States Department of Defense during the Cold War, was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet.

[karfar]

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

That would still be entirely unconstitutional, to strip people of rights without being convicted of a crime.

I think I'm starting to get the picture w/you. Anything that may hinder getting your paws on a gun, you cry foul. However, if it's someone's basic right to privacy or equal rights for whatever reason, you could care less. Gotcha.

[parfleche]

my dauhter was put on the no fly list for having two last names. her moms and mine. does this mean no deer hunting this fall? also she is getting married and taking his name too.i'm starting to worry

[cobolt]

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

That would still be entirely unconstitutional, to strip people of rights without being convicted of a crime.

The Gumbint already killed the Constitution when they decided to target a group of people and retroactively punish them with taxes. This sets the precident. If they get away with it (no public outcry) then they sit in their nice little offices and think "next."

[minibrings]

IF the no-fly list was really accurate I can see why anyone on it should be forbidden from bearing arms or flying on planes. But it is so inacurate. I have a friend with a common Anglo-Saxon first and last name and he is on the list and has trouble every time he boards a plane (so why have a no fly list as he is allowed?.. but I digress)! I bet someone named John Smith is on that list and all other John Smiths are flagged.