Posted by
Billy on Thursday, January 14, 2010 12:01:42 PM
Travel is a hassle for an 8-year-old Cub Scout from New Jersey.
That's
because Mikey Hicks shares the same name of a person who has drawn the suspicion
of the Homeland Security Department.
His mother tells The New York Times
she sensed trouble when her son was a baby and she couldn't get a seat for him
at a Florida airport. She says airline officials explained his name "was on the
list." (
Boy, 8, on terrorism
watch list... )
He was patted down as a 2-years-old at Newark Liberty
International Airport.
The newspaper says the boy's name appears to be among 13,500 on the "selectee"
list, which sets off a high level of security screening.
(This is why the way we are checking people at the airport's is so silly. We will let the Christmas Day Bomber who is on a watch list but a young boy at the age of two and eight has trouble when he takes a plane. This is one of the reasons this nation is in danger of another attack. )