Here is a story that has to make you feel good about our nation’s airport security screening system.

Mikey Hicks, an 8-year-old Cub Scout from Clifton, N.J., pictured at right, has a hard time traveling because he shares the same name of a person who has drawn the suspicion of the Homeland Security Department.

His mother tells The New York Times she sensed trouble when her son was a baby and she couldn’t get a seat for him at a Florida airport. She says airline officials explained his name “was on the list.” He was then patted down as a 2-years-old at Newark Liberty International Airport.

The newspaper says the boy’s name appears to be among 13,500 on the “selectee” list, which sets off a high level of security screening. Transportation Security Administration spokesman James Fotenos says the agency will cross-check names with birth dates and gender in the coming months.

Yeah, that would be a good idea. Although I guess you can never be too careful about a pint-size terrorist posing as a Cub Scout. And you thought there was a lot of red tape for Pinewood Derbies.