"Before September 11, 2001, the no-fly list, which names people who are banned from boarding flights in or out of the U.S., contained 16 people. A leak revealed that that number had grown to 47,000 as of 2013. Most of those names were added after President Obama took office. The broader terrorist watch list maintained by the Terrorist Screening Center has an even more expansive scope; the estimated number of people on the list has ranged from 700,000 to more than 1.5 million, figures which include Americans and foreigners."So, what other constitutional rights do we think it would be cool to strip from people extrajudicially?
What can get you put on a terr'rist watch list? Commenting too frequently at WRSA? Linking to Mountain Guerilla?
ETA: To put a finer point on it...
"A lot of folks who are screaming to throw all Muslims on to terror watch lists are the same folks who were cheerleading for that assclown Amon Bundy and his band of dipshits. Little do they realize expanding secret lists of "enemies of the state" will be their undoing...." -A Facebook Commenter.
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