John Lewis, ‘no fly, no buy’ crusader, once on terror watch list himself

Rep. John Lewis

Rep. John Lewis, the Democratic lawmaker from Georgia at the heart of the call for fellow gun-control advocates to continue their sit-in on the House floor and call for Speaker Paul Ryan allow a vote on Second Amendment crackdowns, was once himself the victim of a Transportation Security Administration mistake that placed him on a terror watch list – the very same list he now wants used to determine who can legally buy firearms.

The “no fly, no buy” list is one provision being pushed by Democrats right now as a sensible gun-control measure, as part of their staged sit-in on the House floor.

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Opponents argue such lists, headed by bureaucrats, are rife with potential for errors, not to mention unconstitutional.

And mistakes have been made. Among the names wrongfully added to the list in the past were then-Sen. Ted Kennedy in 2008, and Fox News pundit and Weekly Standard writer Stephen Hayes, in 2014, as WND has reported.

But according to a report from CNN from 2004, Lewis himself – the lawmaker on the left-leaning side who’s taken the reins in the gun control sit-in stunt – was once on an airline watch list.

Specifically, CNN referenced Kennedy’s listing and then wrote, in August 2004: “A second lawmaker said Friday that he’s been subjected to extra security at airports because his name appears on a list designed to prevent terrorists from boarding planes. Rep. John Lewis … has been stopped 35 to 40 times over the past year, his office said.”

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And Lewis tried numerous times to have his name removed from the list, but to no avail.

“Lewis contacted the Department of Transportation, the Department of Homeland Security and executives at various airlines in a so-far fruitless effort to get his name off the list, said spokeswoman Brenda Jones. Instead, Lewis got a letter from [TSA] that he can present to ticket agents indicating he has cleared an identity check with the agency,” CNN reported then. “But the letter warns he might still be subject to extra security checks before being allowed to fly.”

The CNN report also said another man named John Lewis contacted the office of Rep. Lewis, saying he had been mistakenly placed on the watch list and requesting help from the congressman’s aides to get his name removed.

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This same list is what Lewis and other Democrats are now fighting to have used as a gun-control measure – that those who are targeted for extra scrutiny at the airports are automatically banned from buying firearms.

As Mediaite noted, in reference to Lewis and the sit-in, “that puts an interesting spin on things, no?”

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