5 Million on Terror List

[JackieO]

U.S. security agents have a master list of five million people worldwide thought to be potential terrorists or criminals, officials say. "The U.S. lookout index contains some five million names of known terrorists and other persons representing a potential problem," Brian Davis, a senior Canadian immigration official in Paris, said in a confidential document obtained by the Sun.

Names on the list are compared against those applying for visas or on flights travelling to the U.S.

Anyone whose name is on the list is questioned or banned from entering the U.S. -- as passengers were on two British Airways flights to Los Angeles two weeks ago.

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/TorontoSun/News/2004/01/20/318488.html

[aquart]

1. Five MILLION????????????????????????

Define "representing a potential problem."

I'd really like the criteria for that one.

Is that like, "We thought they were thinking about eventually getting some WMDs so we invaded their country and destroyed their infrastucture and killed thousands of their men, women, and children"?

[Minstrel Boy]

2. Five freakin' million?

I haven't tried to enter the US for three years. If I haven't made this list, I'll be sorely disappointed.

[methinks2]

3. So . . . . . .

. . . when bad people travel to the US they never use assumed names or id's or wear disguises. I feel safer already! :dunce:

[Fovea]

4. If that number were vaguely correct

We would be so very, very f**ked.

BTW. If you are on this list, and denied entrance into the US,
can you sue?

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. They need to make that 5 million and one

They left off George W. Bu$h.

[daleo]

6. Incredible

I wonder if posting on DU gets you put on it.

This may end up being the justification for invading Cuba - they will need to expand Gitmo over the entire island, to squeeze 5 million in.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. At least the weather is good there most of the year

and Cuba does have some beautiful beaches.

[PaDUer]

17. Probably every

one who's attended a march or protest is ON that list..No wonder they put up those cameras and have their goons present everywhere..

[0007]

20. I'm sure most websites are monitored by big brother

and some protested and activist are watched.

[young_at_heart]

8. I have to have another glass of wine!

Is the the average or normal or what?

[damnraddem]

13. OK, that's it!

Onto the list you go!

[young_at_heart]

15. I'm happy to be there!

I'm a 64 year-old terrorist...(formerly an elementary school teacher) who really wants to see the country she has known for so long, come back!

[LifeDuringWartime]

9. does this include US citizens?

i guess thats what the color-coded thing will be for.

[Zhade]

10. Okay, so when's the Fundamentalist ChristianNacht going to happen?

Five MILLION.

You have GOT to be kidding me. It takes over five months just to COUNT to five million. How the hell would they investigate this many people?

Or will they just not bother with investigating? Straight to Gitmo?

Our country has gone completely and utterly in-fucking-sane.

[ConcernedCanuk]

11. time to get those "suspect" shirts - a kiosk at every airport maybe ??

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Yup yup -

available right HERE

[damnraddem]

12. How many Americans are on that list?

How many of US will go onto that list, as it approaches 50 million names?

[Skidmore]

14. Well, that does it...they'll have to hold onto the

death penalty and the PAI & II. You can't possibly hold that many people in all of our prisons combined if there were a serious crisis. Gitmo isn't big enough. Maybe that's why we're so anxious to make sure Castro makes an exit quickly.

[demconfive]

25. At some point they'll figure out....

...that its easier to make a non-terrorist list. Everybody not on the list will be considered a terrorist.

[AliceWonderland]

16. "Thought to be potential terrorists or criminals"

What the hell does that mean, anyway?

[pinniped]

18. Probably people who own more than a few firearms are on the list...

Those gun loving BULLshyt supporters will definitely be pissed if this is the case.

[0007]

21. ....and where one lives, may be a factor!

[JCMach1]

24. Precisely, I'm screwed...!

No doubt I (and my family) will be put on permanent YELLOW alert. That's what happened to us on the plane trip over. Did you know they separate you from your children while they search them!!!?

Mine are 5 and 8...

[Dirk39]

19. They're too moderate...

These U.S. security agents aren't electable.
I have about 6 billions potential terrorists on my list.
Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[MattNC]

22. one of my professors

(white male) is on the list.

[Dirk39]

23. I'm not a terrorist...

I'm one of those "representing a potential problem".
Reserve a cage for me in your concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay.

Shut them down,
Dirk

[Voltaire99]

26. Old J. Edgar would be proud

I strongly doubt there are even 500 terrorists in the world.

This is what a security state does, however. It makes lists. It relishes having enemies. Keep saying nasty things about our Glorious Leader, and you'll be on an official list, too, sooner or later.

[OldEurope]

27. LOL! That´s good news!

The more names they have on their list, the sooner the whole system will collapse under it´s own mass.

:evilgrin: