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"Where are these devices for entering Congress or the Whitehouse if they are so safe?" Jackpot. Part of the trouble is that the policy makers don't have to swa

"Where are these devices for entering Congress or the Whitehouse if they are so safe?" Jackpot. Part of the trouble is that the policy makers don't have to swallow their own medicine. They have private jets and political connections that place them above their own laws. It's not even that they are "above" the law. They simply write laws that won't involve them.

CWuestefeld 16y ago
As much as I enjoy picking apart irrational government actions, you're stretching it here. For example, (deceased) Senator Ted Kennedy claimed to have been on the list and detained at airports. See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/No_Fly_List#False_positives_and_other_controversial_cases https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/No_Fly_List#F... : In August 2004, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) told a Senate Judiciary Committee discussing the No Fly List that he had appeared on the list and had been repeatedly delayed at airports. Of course, he was eventually able to get his name off the list, something that few mortals are able to accomplish.
- dkokelley 16y ago
  The fact that he was able to remove himself from the list seems to validate my argument. The senator was able to appeal directly to the Homeland Security Secretary. From the article: Recognizing that as a U.S. Senator he was in a privileged position of being able to contact Ridge, Kennedy said of "ordinary citizens": "How are they going to be able to get to be treated fairly and not have their rights abused?"
  - tibbon 16y ago
    I'm still shocked over this incident overall. The fact that someone wouldn't be able to identify Teddy by sight, let alone his voice is shocking. Let alone, if you go to your supervisor they didn't know.
- koenigdavidmj 16y ago
  Yeah, there's also the tricky bit for the TSA that it's a particularly nasty felony to interfere with a Congressman's duties.

CWuestefeld 16y ago

As much as I enjoy picking apart irrational government actions, you're stretching it here. For example, (deceased) Senator Ted Kennedy claimed to have been on the list and detained at airports. See https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/No_Fly_List#False_positives_and_other_controversial_cases https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/No_Fly_List#F... : In August 2004, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) told a Senate Judiciary Committee discussing the No Fly List that he had appeared on the list and had been repeatedly delayed at airports. Of course, he was eventually able to get his name off the list, something that few mortals are able to accomplish.

dkokelley 16y ago
The fact that he was able to remove himself from the list seems to validate my argument. The senator was able to appeal directly to the Homeland Security Secretary. From the article: Recognizing that as a U.S. Senator he was in a privileged position of being able to contact Ridge, Kennedy said of "ordinary citizens": "How are they going to be able to get to be treated fairly and not have their rights abused?"
- tibbon 16y ago
  I'm still shocked over this incident overall. The fact that someone wouldn't be able to identify Teddy by sight, let alone his voice is shocking. Let alone, if you go to your supervisor they didn't know.
koenigdavidmj 16y ago
Yeah, there's also the tricky bit for the TSA that it's a particularly nasty felony to interfere with a Congressman's duties.