I Feel Safer. Really. Pass the Duct Tape.

It's official. Ted Kennedy is a terrorist. I am neither kidding nor making this up. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) was put on the "no-fly" list and a ticket agent in Washington DC, proving that there is no racial profiling and not even a senior senator gets preferential treatment in airport security, denied him boarding on a plane from Washington to Boston.

As comforting as it is to find out that no one is above suspicion, this defies logic. If someone actually thought Ted Kennedy was a terrorist, is a U.S. Airways shuttle really the place he could do the most damage? Maybe, and I'm just guessing here, he might be more threatening to our homeland security on, say, the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he is the ranking member of the Seapower subcommittee and also sits on the Personnel subcommittee. How stupid do we think the terrorist organizations are that they would infiltrate the US Senate so that they could use their double agent to take down a puddle jumper over Maryland?

According to this AP article,

Kennedy says it took three calls to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to get
his name stricken from the list. The process took several weeks, in all.

Kinda makes you wonder what they think people should do when they are on the no-fly list in error and do not have the luxury of just calling up Tom Ridge and getting it fixed.