Security and the Culture of Fear
Posted by Christopher Smith
So, CBS managed to get their hands on the “No Fly” list. It has 44,000 unique names (quick: if there are 44,000 terrorists out there, can you really believe that fighting “them” in Iraq means there aren’t any left in the US?), some of which are so ridiculously common that undoubtedly they cover thousands of innocent would-be travellers.
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