this is happening to many children around the united states. some of the children are not so lucky as this one, the unlucky ones get harassed horribly. one mother was told that she couldn't even touch her 5 year old son because they had to verify that he wasn't a terrorist.


Edward Allen's reaction to being on the government's "no-fly" list should have been the tip-off that he is no terrorist. "I don't want to be on the list. I want to fly and see my grandma," the 4-year-old boy said, according to his mother.

Sijollie Allen and her son had trouble boarding planes last month because someone with the same name as Edward is on a government terrorist watch list.

"Is this a joke?" Allen recalled telling Continental Airlines agents Dec. 21 at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport. "You can tell he's not a terrorist."

She said it took several minutes of pleading and a phone call by the ticket agent to get on the plane to New York.

Allen, a Jamaican immigrant, said workers at La Guardia Airport were even more hard-nosed before their Dec. 26 flight home. She said a ticket agent told her: "You're lucky that we're letting you through instead of putting you through the other process."

The Transportation Security Administration's "no-fly" list was established immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to prevent people who may have terrorist ties from boarding commercial flights.

"I know the government is trying to protect because of the terrorist attacks, but common sense should play a role in it," Allen said. "I don't think he should go through the trouble of being harassed and hindered."

TSA regional spokeswoman Carrie Harmon said the agency tells airlines not to deny boarding to children under 12 or select them for extra security checks even if their names match ones on the list.

"We do not require ID for children because there are no children on the list," Harmon said. "If it's a child, ticket agents have the authority to immediately de-select them."

Continental spokesman Dave Messing said Thursday that the airline would not discuss its security policies.

Other people with common names who have encountered "no-fly" list problems at airports include Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., and actor David Nelson from "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet." Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., has said he had to make several calls to federal officials before his name was separated from the one on the list.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/01/05/national/a111845S48.DTL

here is the link telling about the 5 year old boy's horrifying experience.

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/09/tsa-searches-detains.html

I'm thinking this is going pretty far overboard. What do they think? all children are like Stewie Griffon on Family Guy?

This is sad that they think kids are terrorists now...

right? when are people going to wake up and see that we are being duped? the problem is that not everyone gets to see everything that is happening at once. if everyone in america could sit down together and see a complete list of actual, factual policies, and their effects,of what's being pushed right under their noses, it would be a severe shock to most of them. you would hear things like this "oh my god, i didn't know they were doing that!!!". this list would take longer than most people could stand to look at it. people would actually be sick.

it's those evil zionist ticket agents

no it's not. but it is evil zionist policie makers, you bet on that. by the way, do you even believe that there is a group called the zionists in our government?

That just struck me funny today..

go ahead, yuck it up, i just don't think it's funny when children get detained at an airport for being terrorists.