The latest news in the makes-me-wanna-scream category for sheer idiocy in government: turns out the no-fly list, which now lists nearly a million names, similarity to any one of which can make it difficult or impossible to board a plane, also keeps federal air marshals from boarding planes.
Now, let's just assume that the whole no-fly setup wasn't a complete and utter cock-up to start with, and let's assume that there could be people of good will who believe a system of that nature could actually do anything to hinder terrorists. I think even those people would have to admit that when a plane takes off without federal air marshals on it because those marshals were denied boarding privileges because their names are similar to some alias of some suspected maybe-terrorist in East Outer Brazil in 1960, something is Very Wrong.
But of course the government says nothing is wrong. The system is working exactly as it is meant to work. And so the only alternative for any thinking individual is simply to tear out what hair you have left and hope the next president might not be a moron, and that it might help.
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