A Comment About

Tweaking the Terrorist Watch List

July 18, 2008 - 10:00 am - by John Stephenson
Debbie
2008-07-18 13:36:15

Sure there needs to be refinement of the process, but it’s a work in progress. I’ve been pulled over for ‘inspection’, and I’m certainly nothing like a terrorist in looks, name, or anything. But I was the 10th person in line, and so I was checked out. The guy in front of me could have been the next terrorist in looks and name, but was he pulled over? Nope, he was number 9 in line.

So the terrorist watch list has errors also. We have a very good friend, his family was from India, his name is Mohammed Ali Kahn.

He doesn’t speak any language except English, he runs a nice dinner club where our band plays sometimes. He laughs about traveling, being pulled over because of his name. But he doesn’t care, because AMERICA is HIS country, and he wants us to be safe.

His wife is white-bread Southern American, a physician, but she refused to take his last name when they got married because she did not want to end up on a watch list. Everyone to their own.

Nothing’s perfect.