Veterans being put on the no-fly list

[Nordic Fire]

...“Examples of new data sources would be DoD files for military service histories or VA files for lists of persons who have been declared mental defectives.”

TSA spokesman Darrin Kayser did not have an immediate explanation for the apparent contradiction late Friday but said he would look into it.

The prospect of a return of secret codes that could amount to a blanket flight ban against troubled veterans upsets John Terzano, vice president of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation.

If it’s true, Terzano said, “This is a really, really shameful thing. Veterans do get traumatized by war, of course. But for all their pain and sacrifice, to have the government looking over their shoulder and putting their names in a database is unconscionable.”
"Mental defectives"?! Send people off to war and then treat them like garbage... nice :-*$

Click here (http://www.cq.com/public/20051209_homeland.html) for full article.

[a_very_ex_STAB]

Big Brother is watching

[Apathy]

Big Brother is watching

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b101/apathy18/orlybus.jpg

[Beppo]

Then again, people like Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma City bomber), Hussein Mohammed Farrah (Warlord Mohammad Farah Aidid's son and current "president" of Somalia), and John Allen Muhammad (the Washington, DC-area "Beltway Sniper") served honorably in the US military.
Service to one's nation doesn't automatically equal upstanding character, and there are many in the military who could be considered "mentally defective" without having ever been to a war zone.

[Thor]

"Presumption of innocence n. a fundamental protection for a person accused of a crime, which requires the prosecution to prove its case against the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt. This is opposite from the criminal law in many countries, where the accused is considered guilty until he/she proves his/her innocence or the government completely fails to prove its case."

If a psychiatrist hasn't put a red label on someones file, that person should be treated with respect. Especially if that someone has served his country well.

[ABNINF]

Just because you're mentally troubled doesn't mean you're gonna snap and go crazy.Most former military have a high standard of self-control. I think this would be a gross injustice to soldiers that have served their country, and have a few issues after that.