An American Lion

Don't put me on the terror list

This seems completely and utterly out of hand:

Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation's terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list.

During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that 1,600 people qualified for the list because they presented a "reasonable suspicion," according to data provided to the Senate Judiciary Committee by the FBI in September and made public last week.

FBI officials cautioned that each nomination "does not necessarily represent a new individual, but may instead involve an alias or name variant for a previously watchlisted person."

Or it could mean that someone is nominating their nemesis, their crazy neighbor, or someone they think might be in the Irish Republican Army to be on the terror list. What's Mrs. Kravitz been up? Oh, she's been nominating everyone on her block for inclusion on the terror list.

There cannot possibly be that many terrorists. We'd have daily and weekly terror attacks if that were the case.