Question of the Day: What’s the Point of the No-Fly List, Anyway?

By Robert Farago

Later tonight, President Obama will speak to the nation from the Oval Office, addressing Americans’ concerns about Islamic terrorism (although he’s sure not us that term). The Commander-in-Chief will call for more gun control, most probably recommending that Congress “close the terrorist loophole.” That’s the ability for citizens on the TSA’s “No-Fly list” – run by your good friends at the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) – to exercise their natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. The list’s lack of due process or accountability notwithstanding. I’d like to know why the list exists in the first place. Specifically . . .

Why shouldn’t a suspected terrorist be able to fly on a plane?

The airplane’s anti-ballistic cockpit door is closed and locked. The (ostensibly) TSA thoroughly disarms and checks everyone who flies, confiscating deadly shampoo bottles and X-raying exploding shoes. We also have [drunk, depressed, sleep-deprived, corrupt] U.S. air marshals on board selected flights. Isn’t the No-Fly List’s existence an admission that airplane security is a failure? Maintaining a No-Fly List for suspected terrorists is the same thing as saying “a clever terrorist could …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns