July 02, 2008

Keepin' us safe, yesiree!

I had no idea Nelson Mandela was on the terror watch list until just now, when I spotted this report that he was being removed by a bill today.

South Africa's apartheid government had designated the ANC a terrorist organization during the group's decades-long struggle against whites-only rule. Its members have been barred from receiving U.S. visas without special permission, and the bill Bush signed will lift that requirement, State Department spokesman Tom Casey said.

Just "wow." Just thinking about the enormity of the uselessness of that list (those lists?) makes me tired.

Posted by binky at July 2, 2008 12:43 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Homeland Insecurity | International Affairs


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