The TSA and the No-Fly list

Another Wired article, Nun Terrorized by Terror Watch talks again about the TSA no-fly list.

It’s a terribly dramaticized account of how, of all people a nun has been basically tagged as a possible terrorist because her last name matches the supposed alias of some possible terrorist.

While I appreciate that the article was written to sound just so damn unfair, it does underscore what I dislike about the current TSA setup. The no-fly list is a poorly set-up, ridiculous inconvenience that can, at its worst, force someone to change their job and live with a criminal record for something as simple as their last name.

That’s blatantly unfair, and the US government needs to realize that while security measures are understandable, arbitrarily picking people (with no option for reversal) and assuming, for the sake of airline travel, that they are terrorists is unacceptable. What happened to innocent until proven guilty?