I could change my last name, being married now, but I prefer to maintain the name Buckley. Why? Because it's MY name? Because I'm an artiste? No. Don't really care. Dye my hair all the time. Changing the name appeals to me, like a new cover assignment the ops department dispatches randomly altering life. So why not charge into my new cover and get that weird new sequence of letters after my other, boring, non-changing first & middle names?
Because both my father in law and my husband are on the TSA terror watchlist. Their names? Mr Paul & Mr Chris Johnson. Every Paul and Chris, and Robert, for that matter, Johnson, is a suspect. So fuck that. Bad odds. Got a common first name, too. I'm not getting searched every time I want to fly a fucking plane in this country. Well, let me rephrase: I'm not going to jeopardize losing civil rights any quicker than already done been losing 'em. It already BLOWS that since I rarely find cause to fly without my husband, I'm already in effect detained by the profound idiocy of somehow appointed security professionals. Chris, I point out, has it worse. He's the terror suspect according to the "Chris Johnson" threat you may have read about. My nieghbor works at Myopic Books. Her husband's name? Chris Johnson. A couple of weeks after Chris & I talked about putting on a play of McBeth we saw a poster for MacBeth being produced by Defiant Theatre. The director? Chris Johnson. That was creepy, but I still don't think he's got powers the government needs watch. Ooooo - maybe there's a Chris Johnson pulse in the pattern of the universe that draws them all toward eachother and when they all are finally gathered - then, then we will be glad that they weren't allowed to fly without a lengthly hassle.
This just posted on the TSA watchlist from alternet.org
"The Transportation Security Administration's secret no-fly list
includes some very unlikely terror suspects -- Bolivian president Evo
Morales, 14 of the 19 dead 9/11 hijackers, and every single person
named 'Robert Johnson.'"
link to article
In a reader comment: the airport security biz is hiring ex-USSR intel officials to assist in
the compilation of passenger information.