James Moore is an Emmy-winning former television news correspondent and the co-author of the bestselling, Bush's Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W. Bush Presidential. He has been writing and reporting from Texas for the past 25 years on the rise of Rove and Bush and has traveled extensively on every presidential campaign since 1976. There are times in which it is easy to be suspicious. We can get to that feeling fairly quickly if we even pay slight attention. I've been trying to get over this odd emotion for at least a year. I can't find any rationale for letting it go, though I want desperately not to have these thoughts.......... I made it a point to arrive very early at the airport. My reservation was confirmed before I left home. I went to the electronic kiosk and punched in my confirmation number to print out my boarding pass and luggage tags. Another error message appeared, "Please see agent." I did. She took my Texas driver's license and punched in the relevant information to her computer system. "I'm sorry, sir," she said. "There seems to be a problem. You've been placed on the No Fly Watch List." "Excuse me?" "I'm afraid there isn't much more that I can tell you," she explained. "It's just the list that's maintained by TSA to check for people who might have terrorist connections." "You're serious?" "I'm afraid so, sir. Here's an 800 number in Washington. You need to call them before I can clear you for the flight." Exasperated, I dialed the number from my cell, determined to clear up what I was sure was a clerical error. The woman who answered offered me no more information than the ticket agent. "Mam, I'd like to know how I got on the No Fly Watch List." "I'm not really authorized to tell you that, sir," she explained after taking down my social security and Texas driver's license numbers. "What can you tell me?" "All I can tell you is that there is something in your background that in some way is similar to someone they are looking for." "Well, let me get this straight then," I said. "Our government is looking for a guy who may have a mundane Anglo name, who pays tens of thousands of dollars every year in taxes, has never been arrested or even late on a credit card payment, is more uninteresting than a Tupperware party, and cries after the first two notes of the national anthem? We need to find this guy. He sounds dangerous to me." "I'm sorry, sir, I've already told you everything I can." "Oh, wait," I said. "One last thing: this guy they are looking for? Did he write books critical of the Bush administration, too?" http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/011006_world_stories.shtml#5
But as people are assuring us here on this specific forum. The patriot act and other facist new regulation have no consequences for the average american who has nothing to hide. This guy clearly is therefore not an american who has nothing to hide (but a terrorist) Who is next?
Funny story. The same type of thing happened to a 7 year old I think. Sucks for them, but these kind of errors supposedly can happen. If you are trying to say there is a connection between his political views and the inconvenience of being accidently mixed up on the list, than you are crazy, well not you specifically,but whoever started circulating this. The copy and pasted post seems to indirectly lean that direction, but truelly, again no proof to connect his views with being put on the list.
i assume you are refering to me. like i said i speak from personal experience. i also believe, no scratch that, i am positive that i would be one of the first people to know if the patriot act was being abused.
something is rotten in denmark, methinks. im surprised that i was allowed to leave the country, after all the anti-bush stuff i have spewed over the internet since 2000. *doesnt answer the door for the fbi*
He should have voted for Kerry during the last election. If he did, Mr. Moore wouldn't have this problem now.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Like someone has already said, there is no connection between his books subject matter and him being placed on the list. There are many authors who have bashed Bush to death, this is the first I have heard of who has been placed on the No Fly list. If you want an even more famous Bush-basher, read Al Franken's book The Truth (with jokes). Best political pundit out there, because he is at least funny when he bashes Bush.
Funny how he ignores anything elseit might have been. The suspect in question could be a lookalike, have performed identity theft in that region, or any number of things. Maybe they used to work in the same building, got to the same college, see the same psychatrist. Hell for all we know the terroist might have targeted James Moore and putting him on a plane would make too tempting a target. What I find particularly funny is there is no way to verify if this man is telling the truth. Due to the way the Freedom of Information Act works none of us could actually access the list. For all we know james Moore could be fabricating his misadventure in order to cause a media sensation. I am not blind to the possible abuses of the government, but I also do not trust a man who was paid to spin the facts either.
Maybe the entire Moore family is on the list! Doesn't Bush have another detractor of that name. Just a case of "the Moore the merrier"! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
