That response is deeply fucked.

It also gives further evidence to the fact that most people simply want to live a good life, and are happy to give power to any authority that can promise them that. The thinking here is: the government created the no fly list to catch bad guys, these are bad guys, why aren't they on the list?

My fear with all this is that we all think Snowden was great because it put a spotlight on this stuff. But the reality is Joe Average is perfectly ambivalent and powers in the government can use that to push this far beyond secret programs ostensibly created to protect us from terrorists.

I tell people I work for Booz | Allen | Hamilton, and the vast vast majority outside the beltway don't recognize the name at all.

Using the no fly list for this is moronic...

However connecting a civilian police wanted fugitives registry / arrest warrant list to the airline booking system actually sounds like a good idea... The kind of good idea that's so obvious I thought it was already done decades ago.