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To: Alighieri who wrote (43976)	11/8/2017 10:54:40 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By i-node Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 355556

The no fly list is a list where anyone can be added on vague suspicion. There is no due process, no need for even a preponderance of evidence. A one year old child was on the list. A marine returning from Iraq was prevented from boarding a flight home because someone else with his same name (and not a rare one - Daniel Brown) was put on the list. Ted Kennedy was apparently delayed at airports because of the list. More here en.wikipedia.org

To: Alighieri who wrote (43976)	11/8/2017 11:29:23 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 355556

>> We couldn't even get the two sides to come together on legislation to keep people on the no fly and other suspected bad guys lists from buying guns....NRA is not the problem? NRA looks just like AARP or the rest to me. Groups of people banding together to influence their interests. One is as bad as the other. From my perspective, the entire concept of government over-regulation is wrong-headed, because I do not see very much our government does well other than the military industrial complex, which is insanely expensive. And I seriously doubt you can provide examples of well functioning major federal programs because I've never heard anyone come up with one to date.