Grinch Democrats Won’t Let This Santa Off The “No Fly” List

By Bob Owens

Anti-gun Democrats and the mainstream media are continuing their attempts to ban the sale of firearms to hundreds of thousands of American citizens placed on the “no fly” and terror watch lists for vague reasons or no reasons at all, including this gentle Tennessee veterinarian.

Dr. Patrick Stephen Hackett is a veterinarian — not a terrorist.

Try explaining that in the airport security line.

Hackett, a lifelong resident of the Knoxville-Oak Ridge area, was named Outstanding Practitioner of the Year in 1992 by the Tennessee Veterinary Medical Association. He serves as president of the Humane Society of the Tennessee Valley.

He’s on the no-fly list.

Hackett has never been arrested and never traveled to the Middle East or other centers of terrorist activity, but he found out more than a decade ago he’s on the federal watch list because he shares the same name as notorious Irish Republican Army terrorist Patrick Joseph Hackett, who was jailed in the 1970s for planting bombs in Britain.

The difference should be easy to spot. The terrorist is missing an arm and a leg — blown off when a bomb exploded prematurely — while the Knoxville veterinarian has all his limbs intact.

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Source:: Bearing Arms