The Transportation Security Administration…has on its Web site a “mythbuster” that tries to reassure the public.

Myth: The No-Fly list includes an 8-year-old boy.

Buster: No 8-year-old is on a T.S.A. watch list.

Meet Mikey Hicks,” said Najlah Feanny Hicks, introducing her 8-year-old son, a New Jersey Cub Scout and frequent traveler who has seldom boarded a plane without a hassle because he shares the name of a suspicious person. “It’s not a myth.”

Michael Winston Hicks’s mother initially sensed trouble when he was a baby and she could not get a seat for him on their flight to Florida at an airport kiosk; airline officials explained that his name “was on the list,” she recalled.

The first time he was patted down, at Newark Liberty International Airport, Mikey was 2. He cried.

After years of long delays and waits for supervisors at every airport ticket counter, this year’s vacation to the Bahamas badly shook up the family. Mikey was frisked on the way there, then more aggressively on the way home.

“Up your arms, down your arms, up your crotch — someone is patting your 8-year-old down like he’s a criminal,” Mrs. Hicks recounted. “A terrorist can blow his underwear up and they don’t catch him. But my 8-year-old can’t walk through security without being frisked…”

On the way home last Friday, Mikey’s boarding pass showed four giant red S’s at the airport in Nassau. “Oh, random screening,” Mrs. Hicks said…Mrs. Hicks said she wanted to take pictures of her son being frisked but was told it was against the rules.

The worst kind of bureaucrat is the robot whose artificial brain can’t see beyond obeying “The Rules”. There is nothing more important in their diminutive lives than The List.




  1. Badcam says:

    I’ll see you your 8 year old

    …and raise you a 2 year old…

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10620568

  2. Rick Cain says:

    I wouldn’t trust any child that is a member of a paramiliary organization like the cub scouts. All they do is sit around, learning skills that prepare them for the end times.

  3. ECA says:

    #31,
    CUB scouts ISNT the cub scouts from 30-40 years ago..

  4. Expert Samurai says:

    STOP FLYING! Make a stand you spineless consuming zombies!

    If you stop flying the airlines will hurt and there is no way they will let that monster fall to the ground.

    Every $ you spend is a vote for how you want the world!

    So every $ spent supporting the TSA (and any other BS group) is a vote for harsher security!

    WAKEUP!

    If you really understand what is going on you will change your ways!


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