Further Adventures in Homeland Security

Filed in National by on September 14, 2008

How to get yourself off of the No Fly list:

Change your name.

Don’t know how smart it was for this guy to advertise his workaround, but if you are on the list and have the right legal fees and some time, here’s your solution.

How safe are you feeling? Sheesh, these are supposed to be the grownups in charge?

h/t BoingBoing

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  1. liberalgeek says:
    September 14, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    jeez, this is complete stupidity. First to have no method of appealing your no-fly status is idiocy (and the Democrats are supposed to be bad at bureaucracy?!?!?). Then to have the moronic system be so easily foiled? I bet that terrorists have never thought of changing their name.

  2. anon says:
    September 14, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    One thing though: Do NOT change your name to “Mohammed.”

  3. mike w. says:
    September 14, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    This whole thing is really a joke. If terrorists wanted to attack us they could find a way, and they’d be stupid to try anything via air travel again.

  4. pandora says:
    September 14, 2008 at 7:55 pm

    Agreed. Now give me my rights back!

  5. mike w. says:
    September 14, 2008 at 8:19 pm

    Silly Pandora – Once you let .gov restrict them it’s hard to get them back. Why else do you think I’m against “common-sense restrictions” / “reasonable restrictions?”

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