"They do not know how they got on the list. They cannot get off the list." The default description of the Surveillance State is "Orwellian". But in a recent po

"They do not know how they got on the list. They cannot get off the list." The default description of the Surveillance State is "Orwellian". But in a recent post for the Atlantic, Rebecca Rosen argues that "Kafkaesque" is much closer to the mark. The arbitrary, inscrutable, and inescapable nature of the No Fly List encapsulates this character perfectly. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/why-should-we-even-care-if-the-government-is-collecting-our-data/276732/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/why-sh...