Journal Jeremiah Cornelius's Journal: Baby, 18 months old, ordered off plane at Fort Lauderdale 13
Profiled for no-fly, at 18 months. Why? 'Cos Jersey-girl mommy wears a headscarf.
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Profiled for no-fly, at 18 months. Why? 'Cos Jersey-girl mommy wears a headscarf.
AMERICA WINS!
Actually, I support this (Score:2)
Can we put everyone below the age of 2 on no-fly lists?
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Are you a parent? ;-)
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Actually, yes I am, but my one and only turns 20 this year (holy shit, I'm old!), so nyah!
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I am also a parent, and I absolutely support putting everyone under 2 on a no-fly list.
There have been babies that I wanted to see on a "fly-out-the-door-at-18,000 ft" list.
When I had to fly with my baby daughter, now 23, I used to put her in a crate on the roof of the airplane. She liked it up there! The wind in her face and all. One time, I had a few too many cocktails on the airplane (they used to give them out free back then) and I forgot her on the roof of the plane when I made a connecting flight.
At every turn... (Score:2)
...we demonstrate a complete lack of common sense in this country. *sigh*
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We? You're in the Federal government? WE don't demonstrate a lack of common sense, bureaucrats do (whether government bureaucrats, airline company bureaucrats, phone company bureaucrats... I think one of the requirements of working for any large organization in any position of power requires a complete and utter lack of common sense, or at least the ability to disregard it.
Let's see, should I pat down this elderly cancer patient or risk losing my job? Hmm...
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I agree, but only to a point. By we I mean more than just governmental types. We've got zero-tolerance policies that are rigidly enforced and opportunistic people that go looking for the smallest of reasons to stir the pot (and look for the support of bureaucracy to justify their motives which many times are based only on feelings rather than a sense of doing the right things - the story that prompted the original JE being a case in point). We have
Ahem (Score:2)
Potentially there is more to the story, eh?
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It was on the network news this morning. That report said that the airline made a mistake and it was caused by a "computer glitch".
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Right.
Pull the other one. "Glitch".
The scarf and the surnames were not involved.
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I've found that "computer glitch" means "somebody fucked up and we're blaming the computer."
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Because that's how you feel, after flying them...
They ARE the "GoDaddy" of airlines.