Terrorist watch list follies, and my time in the TSA's Constitution-free zone

Terrorist watch list follies, and my time in the TSA's Constitution-free zone: "To sum up, if you run afoul of the nation's 'national security' apparatus, you're completely on your own. There are no firm rules, no case law, no real appeals processes, no normal array of Constitutional rights, no lawyers to help, and generally none of the other things that we as American citizens expect to be able to fall back on when we've been (justly or unjustly) identified by the government as wrong-doers."

(Via Schneier on Security.)