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Jan. 12, 2006 Howdy, it's been awhile but I've been nesting in my new home with a baby on the way, you know, the happy housewife thing. What I want to write about though happened back on August 1, 2005 and it's kinda funny. I had to pick my husband up, who was a Navy Ensign, at the airport. A privilege for service member spouses is to be able to get a gate pass and pick their service member up at the airport. I handed over my military ID to the counter person at Delta Airlines. I waited, waited and waited for my pass to the gate. The person typed in my information, then went back to talk to a supervisor. I got my pass but with an explanation I did not expect. He told me that I, a house wife who lives on a military base, is on the "NO FLY LIST". He also told me I could go to the gate because I was not flying. How did this happen? I have no clue, maybe it's a case of mistaken identity. Maybe it's because I hate the Patriot Act and the free groping that happens still to women by airport security. I have on this site written about some things that the Bush administration would not like but I'm no threat to national security. So why write about this months after it happened? I'm writing about this subject because the Patriot Act has been extended. I'm writing about this because this has not only affected myself but millions of my fellow citizens of the United States of America. My husband and I were talking about this today and I told him I now understand how the Jews felt when given their "Star of David" by the Nazis. The "Star of David," was supposed to be a sign of shame, but it also made it easy for the Government to round up it's "enemies," and do it quickly when the "liquidation" of the Jews and others began. I am not suggesting that the government intends to round up all the millions of people that it is currently spying on, preventing from flying, and keeping lists of... but the strongest weapon of those who keep these lists is the idea that we will be ashamed to be on the list, that if we admit we are on it, we admit to doing something wrong. But in a nation founded on free speech, when the government starts putting you on a list for saying the wrong thing, it is an honor to be on a list.
Those who have been put on lists, spied upon, or had
thier freedoms stripped-and their supporters-should
step forward, find some way to wear the government's
ire openly, perhaps we should voluntarily put on the
"Star of David", before something like it is forced
upon us.
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