On youtube recently, a video of  Congressman Rahm Emmanuel (D-IL) speaking on May 15, 2007 at DC’s annual Stand Up For a Safe America, sponsored by the Brady Center for Gun Control letting citizens know that, should they wander onto the government’s no-fly lists, they’ll be unable to purchase a hand gun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vp7f1QKYmg.

Note: In September 2007, the Inspector General of the Justice Department reported that the Terrorist Screening Center ( an FBI run group that consolidates terrorist watch list information) had over 700,000 names  (on April 2007), with the number growing by over 20,000 records on average per month.

Note:  this US Dept. of Justice report indicates over a million names.

http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/plus…

And commentary from the ACLU:

http://www.aclu.org/privacy/spying/wa…

 Comment:

You do  know that you could get on those no fly lists for some very minor reason. Especially now that practically everything you said on the phone or on the ‘net has entered the government’s data base with every prospect of staying there forever.

This means, in effect, that any citizen could be disarmed forcibly without having done anything to warrant it – on some mere technicality, on a  suspicion of wrong doing, or worse yet, for no reason but bureaucratic imbecility — as in this infamous case noted by BoingBoing:

“A five-year-old boy was taken into custody and thoroughly searched at Sea-Tac because his name is similar to a possible terrorist alias. As the Consumerist reports, “When his mother went to pick him up and hug him and comfort him during the proceedings, she was told not to touch him because he was a national security risk. They also had to frisk her again to make sure the little Dillinger hadn’t passed anything dangerous weapons or materials to his mother when she hugged him.”

Rahmbo  – you should have stuck to plie-ing and pirouetting.

But if you haven’t forgotten how to do it, I suggest you take a grand jete into the nearest body of H2O.