A new government report says there are now more than three quarters of a million names on the U.S. government's terrorist "watch list," raising concerns the list may be becoming too large.
This is what is wrong with keeping lists. They get too cumbersome to be any good.
And how did this list get so long anyway? Is someone sitting at a desk just picking random names and throwing them on this list to justify Homeland Security personnel?
Can there really be this many terrorists? What criteria is needed to get on this list? Or, rather, these lists?
One group, the Government Accountability Office said the list is 755,000 people. Another group, the Terrorist Screening Center said the list is 300,000 people. Senate Homeland Security Committee says the number is 860,000. That is quite a discrepancy in numbers.
Boy, the 300,000 people who are on all three lists must be really worried.
Doesn’t it seem there needs to be a better screening method in place before everyone decides to make up their own lists? I can’t help but think that with such a large number the government must be racial profiling. Once again, the different government offices don’t talk to each other, they overlap their duties, they all come to differing conclusions. What the hell is our tax dollars paying for? We already knew we wasn’t getting our monies worth but this is ridiculous.
Aren’t Republicans the guys that keeps spouting off about a centralized government and cutting back on waste? Well this is a clear indication that this is not the case.
This government is out of control with all of its security departments each with their own list.
It seems the terrorists who stuck the Twin Towers achieved one goal, they got the U.S. so paranoid of another attack that we put everyone on a list and spend untold millions of dollars to watch them and create more bureaucratic departments to do so.
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