Comedy | January 14, 2010 | 47 comments

Meet Mikey Hicks, 8, on US Terror Watch List

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/nyregion/14watchlist.html

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"The Transportation Security Administration, under scrutiny after last month’s bombing attempt, has on its Web site a “mythbuster” that tries to reassure the public.

“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.”

It is true that Mikey is not on the federal government’s “no-fly” list, which includes about 2,500 people, less than 10 percent of them from the United States. But his name appears to be among some 13,500 on the larger “selectee” list, which sets off a high level of security screening.

At some point, someone named Michael Hicks made the Department of Homeland Security suspicious, and little Mikey is still paying the price. (His father, also named Michael Hicks, was stopped for the first time on the Bahamas trip.)"

FYI: The underwear bomber was a complete set-up in order to get naked body scanners at airports. They were signed, sealed and ready to be delivered months and even years ago. They just needed the event that would send the masses calling for their rights to be further violated in the name of safety.

Eyewitnesses, including Kurt Haskell and others have stated that they witnessed the Nigerian being led through security by a well-dressed man and was being videotaped the entire flight. The man even told the airport agents in Copenhagen that he was a Sudanese refugee and they do this all the time (cut lines w/o going through security). LOOK IT UP!!!!!!
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