Brickbat: Youthful Offender

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A 4-year old boy from Alameda County, California, is one of 18 defendants suing to have their names taken off of the federal government's terrorist watch list. The boy, identified in court papers only as Baby Doe, has been on the list at least since he was seven months old. His parents say they have not been told why he was placed on the list.

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[Adans smith]

'His name is a killing word'.

[Thrackmoor]

Muad'Dib!

[Ted S.]

Because fuck you, that's why.

[straffinrun]

Put a baby on the terrorist watch list and watch him grow up to hate government. Their logic of putting him on the list seems flawless.

[Agammamon]

Its why we bomb weddings.

[Notorious UGCC]

[diaper joke deleted]

[Adans smith]

No shit?

[Radioactive]

that full diaper could be a WMD!!!

[Agammamon]

His parents say they have not been told why he was placed on the list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precrime

[Libertarian]

Sen. Schumer once sat next Baby Doe, who was crying, on a flight out of Dulles. He called the TSA. Yada, yada, yada, terrorist watch list.

http://nypost.com/2009/12/16/s.....one-bitch/

[neoteny]

"trying to score cheap political points"

Who isn't?

[JeremyR]

Maybe because he's been confused with the former ruler of Haiti?

But the reality is that if you have the same name as a terrorist, apparently you end up on the watch list. I was reading a story about an veterinarian with an Irish name who was on the list because there was an IRA member with that name (and I guess they have to play like the IRA hijacked planes and flew them into buildings)

[Adans smith]

Peter King?

[Ted S.]

[THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE]

[Fist of Etiquette]

Interesting. Doe doesn't even sound like a terrorist name.

[Libertarian]

Sounds like a deer. A female deer.

[Adans smith]

Maybe he's a itsy bitsy spider

[Radioactive]

no doubt a ray of golden sun to his parents.

[Agammamon]

D'Oh!

[Adans smith]

Doe sounds like dough,slang for money,money is used to buy chemicals,chemicals to build bombs.

[Libertarian]

Which brings us back to "d'oh!"

[Radioactive]

all ways me, me me with you isn't it?

[Suthenboy]

If Bob Smith, John Anderson, Jane Jones, or David Brown ever commit a terrorist act the airlines will be out of business. Would they also put every combination of those names on the list?

That is some ham-handed incompetence. What idiot came up with the idea of casting such a wide net?

[Radioactive]

you know who else cast a wide net? or was that a wide stance?

[Suthenboy]

The Apostle Peter?

[Michael Ejercito]

But President Obama was complaining that people on this watch list were able to buy firearms.