16 June 16
No Fly, No Buy?
Our nationâs highly secretive âNo Fly List,â was created in response to the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks in NYC. It is maintained by the mysterious âTerrorist Screening Centerâ (TSC), ostensibly organized under the FBI, but about which little is publically known.
Standards for getting on the âlistâ are unknown. Who is on the âlistâ is unknown, and the procedure for getting off the âlistâ is also unknown. There is apparently no appeal process, and no one even knows whom to call. There is never any explanation, nor notification, nor warning, nor âdue processâ in any form.
Those on the âlistâ are prohibited from boarding any commercial airliner, and therefore are unable to participate fully in the American economic system. Weâre told the âlistâ contains 50k names.
The separate âTerrorist Watch Listâ (TSDB), also maintained by the FBI, contains over two million names. Presumably, all on the âNo Fly Listâ are also on the TSDB.
In the wake of the Orlando shooting of last Sunday, many are now suggesting that all those of the âNo Fly List,â and the TSDB, also be automatically prohibited from buying guns.
What worries many, including me, is that the sleazy BHO Administration has openly âpoliticizedâ virtually every federal agency that is supposed to be exempt from politics, from the CDC to the DHS!
So, what happens when innocent Americans who write âletters to the editorâ of newspapers critical of the Administration, or who openly support opposing political campaigns, or who are members of the NRA and other organizations, or religions, venomously hated by the Administration, go into a gun retailer and discover that they are, without any explanation, suddenly and indefinitely prohibited from purchasing a gun?
Democrat Senator Joe Manchin of WV sadly lamented on this very subject yesterday:
â… âdue processâ is what’s killing us right now.â
Yes, our âinconvenientâ right to due process, so important to our nation’s Founders, is now getting in the way of this Democratâs wet-dream of a utopian police state!
When âdue processâ can be casually bypassed with regard to our Second Amendment Rights, the same logic will be quickly applied, by liberal Democrats (with the tacit approval of spineless âRepublicansâ), to our First and Forth Amendment Rights too!
In 1938, when Nazi troopers kicked-in doors of the homes of unarmed Jewish families, and precipitously dragged them off to âre-educationâ camps, always with no explanation, no warning, no âdue process,â and no means of appeal, it was piously justified in terms of ânational security.â Jews all found themselves on the âNo Fly Listâ and âTerrorist Watch Listâ of the era!
Most never lived through it!
âFoolish liberals, who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it’s not an individual right, or that it’s too much of a public safety hazard, don’t see the danger in the big picture. They’re courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don’t like.â
Alan Dershowitz
/John