This Is What America Has Come To: Trump Supporters Kicked Off Planes Is Becoming A Thing

Written By BlabberBuzz | Thursday, 14 January 2021 04:30 PM
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This Is What America Has Come To: Trump Supporters Kicked Off Planes Is Becoming A Thing

Conflicts involving supporters of President Trump who seem to have been prevented from boarding flights or forced off airplanes after the Capitol invasion are not the consequences of passengers being placed on the government’s no-fly list.

Videos began surfacing on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter on Jan. 7, the day after Trump supporters attacked the Capitol. The videos show men and women at airport terminal gates exploding in a rage after learning they will not be permitted on a flight, probably back home.

While the videos have not been verified to be real, there is a misunderstanding that the government barred them from boarding flights.

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That is not right, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

“The people in those videos who are complaining that they have been removed from their flights are being removed by the airline. If they were on the No Fly List, they would not have been permitted to get to a gate or board an aircraft,” TSA wrote in an email.

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Legislators on Capitol Hill have called for the rioters to be blocked from jet setting home or anywhere else in the near future. House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, called for Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri to be put on the list because of their actions in leading congressional attempts not to confirm the election. The country's largest flight attendants union has also backed the idea. How does acting toward challenging the election's results have any relation to flying?

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The no-fly list was formed in 2003 to give counterterrorism, immigration, and border agencies a way to give information about known and suspected terrorists. Anyone on the list has been recognized as a person who “may present a threat to civil aviation or national security from boarding a commercial aircraft that traverses U.S. airspace.”

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Only one agency moderates who fits on the list. The FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center maintains the Terrorist Screening Database, which includes the terrorist watch list.

People cannot be instantly added to the list, as the public incorrectly thought last Thursday. A national security agency needs to nominate someone to be a recognized threat who the FBI should consider preventing commercial air travel. Then the National Counterterrorism Center decides if the information on a nominee is reliable. Someone who poses a legitimate danger may be planning or have conducted an act of terrorism "with respect to an aircraft, the homeland, U.S. facilities or interests abroad, or is a threat of engaging in or conducting a violent act of terrorism and is operationally capable of doing so,” the FBI criteria state.

The nomination is moved on to the Terrorism Screening Center, which then analyzes it and makes the final decision on whether to add that person to the terror watchlist.

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