Obviously all terrorists are named Johnson, Williams, Jones or Smith

And must go through innumerable security checks. And if cleared, they cannot get a gold star or an ID that clears them, but must go through innumerable security checks forever. Because they must feel the heavy hand of freedom and patriotism crushing down upon them to remind them that 9/11 changed everything.

Via Bryan at Why Now?, Dave Johnson of Seeing The Forest:

I can't check in online anymore, and can't use the machines at the airport. When I finally got through the line to the check-in counter I was told that "Dave Johnson' is "on a list" now.

Fortunately it is someone with a different birthday they are looking for, and I can get a boarding pass after showing my ID. But this is the second time this happened, and it s a major hassle having to wait in the line for the check-in counter. And it will,of course, happen every time I fly from now on. There are probably a LOT of people named Dave Johnson who have to go through this.

Strange how dealing with decades of terrorism in Europe hasn't crushed their citizens though....

But then again, they didn't need the excuse of 9/11 to attack a sovereign country either.