Tim Black – Don’t Cry For No Fly List Trumpers

They are particularly authoritarian – you can’t find out if you’re on one until you try to fly, and there’s no due process. It’s punishment without a trial or a chance to be heard.

Remember Ted Kennedy made the no-fly list . . .

https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/politics/no-fly-mistakes-cat-stevens-ted-kennedy-john-lewis/index.html

From the Fifth Amendment:

No person shall be … deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;

In today’s world, doesn’t the no-fly list deny liberty to travel freely?

No fly lists are totalatarian BS and domestic terrorism against the population, and it seems usually political. What right is there to keep supposedly free people from traveling to their destination? More fascist bullying.

These weren’t people mad about stimulus checks or lacking money if they could afford to fly to DC in the first place.

That huge crowd of stirred-up people seems like an extension of the Tea Party, which always seemed initiated by Rich Folk behind the scenes, maybe Kochs. I remember that Dick Armey was caught funneling money to them. The idea was to have a front of people from here, there, everywhere in the sticks babbling about The Constitution and such, while pretty much being in sync with people like House Rethugs pushing the country radically rightward. The term “astroturf” I think was coined to mean fake grassroots.