AP: 4 Year Old on Gov't No-Fly List

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10725741/

HOUSTON - Edward Allen’s reaction to being on the government’s “no-fly” list should have been the tip-off that he is no terrorist.

“I don’t want to be on the list. I want to fly and see my grandma,” the 4-year-old boy said, according to his mother.

Sijollie Allen and her son had trouble boarding planes last month because someone with the same name as Edward is on a government terrorist watch list.

“Is this a joke?” Allen recalled telling Continental Airlines agents Dec. 21 at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport. “You can tell he’s not a terrorist.”

She said it took several minutes of pleading and a phone call by the ticket agent to get on the plane to New York.

Allen, a Jamaican immigrant, said workers at La Guardia Airport were even more hard-nosed before their Dec. 26 flight home. She said a ticket agent told her: “You’re lucky that we’re letting you through instead of putting you through the other process.”


:hide: “You’re lucky that we’re letting you through instead of putting you through the other process.” :patriot: :yoiks:

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Jeez, nice attitude there from La Guardia

[FogerRox]

2. K n R

[K-W]

3. The no-fly list is rediculous.

I found out I was on it recently. I have a common name so I guess it was inevitable.

[katinmn]

4. I feel so much safer now!

:shrug:

[linazelle]

5. Thread on same topic from yesterday: here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x62976