"Judah" wrote in message
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The idea that an 11 month old baby is a terrorist is ludicrous, for sure.

But the woman says, "It was bizarre," Sanden said. "I was hugely pregnant,
and I was like, 'We look really threatening.'"

A pregnant woman can be carrying a bomb just like anyone else, even if she
doesn't know about it...

If the pregnant woman's name was the one on the "watch list", then impeding
their progress might have been warranted.

But when the name on the list matches that of an infant, it should be
obvious to even the dumbest government employee that the name on the list
refers to someone OTHER than that infant.

Frankly, of the many problems with this whole "watch list" thing, one is
that the government does not explain how a person's name winds up on the
list in the first place. Do they just pick names that sound like something
a terrorist has? Or does each name on the list correspond to a real person
of whom the government already has suspicions?

The former would be absurd (though certainly not outside the realm of
possibility in today's environment). But if the latter, the list should
also include an age, and possibly other descriptive elements (height comes
to mind). A person with the same name, but with *obviously* different
characteristic otherwise should be allowed to pass as though their name were
not on the list at all.

I think it's great, actually, that the TSA is stopping infants, and even
children, when their names are on the list. Idiotic behavior like this is
one of the best ways we have to getting the American public to understand
what a fiasco they have allowed to occur, and getting it fixed.

Pete