So if you are wrongly put on a watch list, how do you get off it? [View all]

[davidn3600]

I still haven't seen a single politician explain this to me.

There are people who get placed on these watch lists for no reason at all. People have been put on no-fly lists because they have the same name as a terrorist. So who do you go to in order to get this fixed? Because anyone who has wrongly been placed on a no-fly list...they will all tell you the absolute nightmare it takes to get off it.

To me, this is political theater what we are watching here. It'll never survive a constitutional challenge in the courts. And it shouldnt survive. This is a stupid idea where the government can put anyone on a list and restrict their rights without any due process. The FBI will not disclose who is on these lists. They will not tell you how people are put on them. And they don't explain how you get off. Yet you think its good idea to use this to restrict rights? That's insane. Imagine what the Republicans would do if they can restrict rights just by putting a name on a list.

It's insane.

No. I will not call my Senators or Representatives and tell them to vote for this. It's a bad idea. In fact, I will tell them to vote it down.

We all want "sensible gun control." But it needs to be Constitutional! You can't just say fuck the 5th amendment.