Rahm Emanuel, if you are on No Fly List, No Gun!

(Take a look at this video and decide for yourself what the people in charge really think about you and your guns . . . )

May 15, 2007 Congressman Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) speaking at DC’s annual Stand Up For a Safe America event sponsored by the Brady Center says if your name is on the terrorist no fly list you should not be allowed to own a gun.

Why are there so many names on the U.S. government’s terrorist list?

In September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center (the FBI-administered organization that consolidates terrorist watch list information in the United States) had over 700,000 names in its database as of April 2007 - and that the list was growing by an average of over 20,000 records per month.

By those numbers, the list now has over one million names on it. Terrorist watch lists must be tightly focused on true terrorists who pose a genuine threat. Bloated lists are bad because: * they ensnare many innocent travelers as suspected terrorists, and * because they waste screeners’ time and divert their energies from looking for true terrorists.

Other Links:

1. U.S. terrorism watch list tops 1 million
2. Airport Gestapo: How Bush’s No Fly List is Making Americans Unsafe
3. Are You On the Terror Watch List? Good Luck Getting Off It