{"id":173123,"date":"2015-08-15T01:17:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T01:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=173123"},"modified":"2015-08-15T01:17:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T01:17:10","slug":"governments-predictive-judgments-land-innocent-travelers-no-fly-list-without-meaningful-redress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/governments-predictive-judgments-land-innocent-travelers-no-fly-list-without-meaningful-redress\/","title":{"rendered":"The Government&#8217;s &#8216;Predictive Judgments&#8217; Land Innocent Travelers on the No Fly List Without Meaningful Redress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the movie\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00A2FSXHK\/?tag=slatmaga-20\">Minority\u00a0Report<\/a>, Hollywood depicts a future Washington, D.C., in which people are arrested by a special police force called Precrime, based on predictions that they will commit murders in the future. These predictions are not based on science, but on near-infallible psychics. Precrime asks for deference from judges, and gets it.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"pullquote\">The U.S. government\u2019s reliance on \u201cpredictive judgments\u201d to deprive Americans of their constitutionally protected liberties is no fiction. It\u2019s now central to the government\u2019s\u00a0defense\u00a0of its no-fly list.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s preventive policing model achieves a form of perfect safety, which is appealing: The number of murders goes down to zero, terrible tragedies are averted, and the federal government considers implementing Precrime nationwide. Until things go horribly wrong. Even in Hollywood, there are major issues with a crime prevention system that presumes future guilt without the ability to prove innocence.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government\u2019s reliance on \u201cpredictive judgments\u201d to deprive Americans of their constitutionally protected liberties is no fiction. It\u2019s now central to the government\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/sites\/default\/files\/field_document\/251%20Defendants%20Cross%20Motion%20for%20Summary%20Judgment_0.pdf\">defense<\/a>\u00a0of its no-fly list\u2013a secretive watch list that bans people from flying to or from the United States or over American airspace\u2013in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/cases\/latif-et-al-v-holder-et-al-aclu-challenge-government-no-fly-list\">challenge <\/a>brought by the American Civil Liberties Union.<\/p>\n<p>Court filings show that the government is trying to predict whether people who have never been charged, let alone convicted, of any violent crime might nevertheless commit a violent terrorist act. Because the government predicts that our clients\u2013all innocent U.S. citizens\u2013might engage in violence at some unknown point in the future, it has grounded them indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2015\/08\/14\/governments-predictive-judgments-land-innocent-travelers-no-fly-list-without\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the movie\u00a0Minority\u00a0Report, Hollywood depicts a future Washington, D.C., in which people are arrested by a special police force called Precrime, based on predictions that they will commit murders in the future. These predictions are not based on science, but on near-infallible psychics. Precrime asks for deference from judges, and gets it. The U.S. government\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-173123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-politics","9":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}