{"id":233,"date":"2004-09-21T21:44:21","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T04:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=233"},"modified":"2004-09-21T21:44:21","modified_gmt":"2004-09-22T04:44:21","slug":"how-far-do-we-have-to-take-this-absurdity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/21\/how-far-do-we-have-to-take-this-absurdity\/","title":{"rendered":"How far do we have to take this absurdity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/09\/21\/plane_diverted_over_.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><I>WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine on Tuesday when it was discovered passenger Yusuf Islam &#8211; formerly known as singer Cat Stevens &#8211; was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country, federal officials said.<\/p>\n<p>United Airlines Flight 919 was en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made between a passenger and a name on the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration. The plane was met by federal agents at Maine&#8217;s Bangor International Airport around 3 p.m., Melendez said.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Department spokesman Dennis Murphy identified the passenger as Islam. &#8220;He was interviewed and denied admission to the United States on national security grounds,&#8221; Murphy said, and would be put on the first available flight out of the country Wednesday.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/P\/PLANE_DIVERTED?SITE=AP&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">The Associated Press ; by Leslie Miller ; Sept. 21 2004 11:21 pm EDT<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Boing Boing: WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine on Tuesday when it was discovered passenger Yusuf Islam &#8211; formerly known as singer Cat Stevens &#8211; was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country, federal officials said. United Airlines Flight 919 was en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made between a passenger and a name on the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-wtf","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-3L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}