Does being on DU mean you're stopped by Airlines like Nancy McLaughlin?

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Does being on DU mean you're stopped by Airlines like Nancy McLaughlin?

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/01/06/d1.cr.watchlists.0106.html
January 6, 2005

Air Travel: Who's Keeping an Eye on Her?

By Tim Christie The Register-Guard


Nancy McLaughlin says she's being watched. Every time she flies, the 51-year-old Creswell grandmother gets pulled aside, searched and patted down ``thoroughly'' - too thoroughly, she says - by Transportation Security Administration agents.

The last straw came when she took her 9-year-old grandson to Eugene Airport on Sunday so he could fly back alone to his home in Reno, Nev. Airport screeners were going to search McLaughlin, until they realized she wasn't flying. So they searched her grandson instead.

They had him take off his shoes, his belt, his coat. They searched his backpack and his lunch box. They looked inside his sandwich, McLaughlin said.

Nancy McLaughlin, 51, says she is always singled out of line at the airport for especially thorough searches. When she took her grandson to the airport, he was searched, too.<snip>

McLaughlin said she's not shy about writing to the government and members of Congress, and she's a member of the "Democratic Underground," a Web site dedicated to political commentary and satire. And that may explain why she could have ended up on the list.

McLaughlin said she doesn't pose a security threat, so it's possible this is a case of mistaken identity - that there's another Nancy McLaughlin out there who is on the government's list. If so, she's in good company. Carlos Garcia, superintendent of the Clark County School District in Las Vegas and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., are among the travelers who have found themselves pulled aside and patted down repeatedly when they fly.

McLaughlin, a secretary at the Springfield Utility Board, was still fuming days after her grandson, Quentin Ramirez, was searched at the Eugene Airport. Quentin, she said, was "shocked and afraid."

"Why on God's earth are they searching kids?" she said.

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1. It's my tesla coil FREEPER crystalizer...

that keeps getting me stopped. Or it could be my hair.