Aug
28

The 7 Year Old Terrorist

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7 year old terrorist This apparently is the face of a terrorist, but as you’ve probably guessed already, the FBI and airport security can’t wrap their minds around it, either.

When this boy, John Anderson (who goes by Jack), was just two years old, his family was told by airport security that he could not fly on a plane to take a trip to Disney World because he was on the terrorist watch list. Two years later, the family was stopped again by airport security over the exact, same thing.

Obviously a database that was created merely to put American citizens in a constant state of fear so we submit to government ruling a lot more tame than we would normally, is doing something a little wrong to make a red flag go up when a two year old is brought to an airport and security won’t let him fly because who knows if he has relations with Al Queda.

Because the database, made by the FBI after the September 11th attack and a Government Accountability Office report said the watch list “enhanced U.S. counter-terrorism efforts.” Yes, it definitely enhances U.S. counter-terrorism efforts…by assuming we all must be terrorists. Okay, not all of us, just 400,000 of us. With 400,000 people on this watch list, I am willing to bet that there are many people who are either too young to be considered “terrorist threats,” which was the case here, or people who have no reason to be placed on such a list to begin with.

Five years after finding out this little boy was considered a terrorist, since he was not promptly removed the first time the family was stopped at the airport, it makes me very weary of the integrity of the list (obviously) and also of how well this list is being monitored. It seems as soon as a “Bob Smith” is added, no Bob Smith in America is allowed to cross a border or board a flight and the wrong combination of factors are coming up within this list that really does affect more than just 400,000 singular people who may or may not be considered a threat to America. This list affects 400,000 names that affect most people with that name. There needs to be a better way to go about doing something like this, since we obviously can do very little from stopping the government from taking our rights and liberties we like to say that we have from right under our feet. This is no longer a case of conservatives being able to say “Well if you don’t have anything to hide then it is perfectly fine for the government to spy on you using every form of technology in existence.” It is now a case of everyone being affected by a corrupt, sneaky and malicious government that like I said earlier, it is making its citizens live in a constant state of fear.

Terrorists are the new Satan–”Don’t do that, you’ll go to hell!” is so easily translated to “Don’t do that, don’t say that, don’t talk to that person because they will think you’re a terrorist.” It’s the newest form of brainwashing while the government slowly shifts us into a totalitarian government. Terrorism is the new “red scare,” nothing more and just like then, no one is safe.

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