Yay, incompetence!

[lederhosen]

Via RISKS: "Some federal air marshals have been denied entry to flights they are assigned to protect when their names matched those on the terrorist no-fly list..."

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[fluffy-cloud.livejournal.com]

*head desk*

[quatranoctal.livejournal.com]

"Following an anonymous tip-off, several passengers with a first name beginning with 'E' were refused passage onto a New York-Los Angeles flight. Sadly, due to case sensitivity the flight was hijacked by the resurrected author, e.e. cummings."

Looks like I'd have trouble flying into Australia...

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Friedrich

Ugh, Wikipedia has more info on Feloni than I ever wished to know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feloni

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

The saving grace of the Surveillance Society is that the people doing the surveillance are no good at it (I have a story about this involving SWAT teams and a brother of mine that I would rather not share in quite so public a forum). It's not as good as having actual freedom, but the effect is nearly the same.