One Strike Against No Fly List; More Scrutiny To Come 213
New submitter MickyTheIdiot writes "The Jurist reports: 'A judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon ruled Wednesday (PDF) that those placed on the U.S. government's no-fly list have 'a constitutionally-protected liberty interest in traveling internationally by air, which is affected by being placed on the No Fly List.' The plaintiffs in the case are 13 U.S. citizens who were denied boarding on flights over U.S. airspace after January 2009.' Judge Anna Brown hasn't ruled on the constitutionality of the No Fly List yet, and has instructed the attorneys involved to present a roadmap for deciding the remaining issues. However, she has acknowledged that the No Fly List is a major burden to those on the list and they have the right to get that status reviewed."
Re:Umm is there a way to tell if you are on the li (Score:3, Funny)
I believed I could fly
I believed I could touch the sky
I thought about it every night and day
Just board a plane and fly away
I believed I could soar
Now agents are running through that open door
I believed I could fly
I believed I could fly
I believed I could fly
Re:Come on, you jackbooted apologists... (Score:4, Funny)
The power to fly, at the time of the Constitution, belonged only to a small minority of the people: witches. If the founders had been asked whether they wished to extend the power to fly to everyone, what should their answer have been? "Sure, let's all be witches"?
Or would they have affirmed the right of witches to be left alone in the sky without interference? Would they have seen that as the prohibited establishment of a state-supported religion?
Note to the "agencies": I accept piecework mocking the sincere concerns of my fellow citizens for their freedoms, thereby helping diminish their resistance to your superb safe-keeping of our insecurities.