39: The No Fly List Is A Nightmare

(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) The FBI threatens to put innocent people on the No Fly List unless they agree to become unpaid FBI informants spying on their (also innocent) communities. Why? Because the FBI pretty much guarantees that random, erroneous, overinclusive, islamophobic nominations to the No Fly List will be approved, and since the process is cloaked in secrecy, there wasn't a clear way to stop them. Until now.

Fikre v. FBI (2013) and Tanzin v. Tanvir (2020) are only two of many cases challenging the No Fly List’s erroneous overinclusion and the FBI’s islamophobia. Learn about more:

• https://www.aclu.org/cases/kashem-et-al-v-barr-et-al-aclu-challenge-government-no-fly-list
• https://www.aclu.org/cases/chebli-v-kable-lawsuit-challenging-placement-no-fly-list

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0:00 - Intro

1:12 - Case begins

4:11 - YONAS FIKRE v. FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (2013) (SCOTUS Opinion 2024)

4:35 - The FBI threatens Muslim citizens with the No Fly List

9:16 - SCOTUS does something correct for once

12:31 - WHAT IS THE NO FLY LIST?

15:02 - What CAN’T you do on the No Fly List?

15:54 - Everything goes back to 9/11, y’all

21:05 - OPAQUE, OVER-INCLUSIVE, INACCURATE

23:00 - Islamophobia in our FBI (pretends to be shocked)

23:27 - Kyle Rittenhouse, Jan 6ers, etc. = "white Christians" = not on the No Fly List...?!

30:26 - Watchlists are…QUOTAS?!

31:51 - WHAT????????!!!!!!!

36:04 - How can we respect the Watch Lists?!

39:32 - More cases pending (like TANZIN V. TANVIR (2020))

42:20 - REB’S REBUTTAL

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