when i saw this article i had a few reactions. i ll be totally honest and say that my first was, this is not good. i wondered if i had been duped by someone who it turned out was a cryptojihadi in waiting all along. my second reaction was that even if the story was true, and maybe it was, the point about the basic constitutional unfairness of the no-fly list still stood. i mean, if the government has enough to charge someone, they should charge him. but putting someone on the secret list that curtails their movement and rights without recourse is pretty clearly unjust. and in fact, it just so happens that s precisely the argument that basically everyone on the right has been making for the last week in response to calls to ban people on that no-fly list or the government terror list from purchasing guns. and my third reaction was skepticism. it does seem kind of weird that someone would take his wife and daughter to go join isis. and why was only pajamas media reporting it and reportin
allowed to fly home and visit his mother. now, this new article cited u.s. and turkish officials to say that long had been arrested earlier this month near the turkey-syria border as members of an isis cell. when i saw this article i had a few reactions. i ll be totally honest and say that my first was, this is not good. i wondered if i had been duped by someone who it turned out was a cryptojihadi in waiting all along. my second reaction was that even if the story was true, and maybe it was, the point about the basic constitutional unfairness of the no-fly list still stood. i mean, if the government has enough to charge someone, they should charge him. but putting someone on the secret list that curtails their movement and rights without recourse is pretty clearly unjust. and in fact, it just so happens that s precisely the argument that basically everyone on the right has been making for the last week in response to calls to ban people on that no-fly list or the government terror lis
by someone who it turned out was a cryptojihadi in waiting all along. my second reaction was that even if the story was true, and maybe it was, the point about the basic constitutional unfairness of the no-fly list still stood. i mean, if the government has enough to charge someone, they should charge him. but putting someone on the secret list that curtails their movement and rights without recourse is pretty clearly unjust. and in fact, it just so happens that s precisely the argument that basically everyone on the right has been making for the last week in response to calls to ban people on that no-fly list or the government terror list from purchasing guns. and my third reaction was skepticism. it does seem kind of weird that someone would take his wife and daughter to go join isis. and why was only pajamas media reporting it and reporting it with unnamed officials? also, turkey isn t exactly a bastion of justice and due process. it s a place that had detained a vice journalist on