When checking-in for a flight out of Sacramento International, Tom McClintock learned he was a terrorist. More specifically, McClintock learned he was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.

Except McClintock harbors no sympathy for the IRA and McClintock has never felt strongly one way or the other about the Queen of England. He hasn’t even visited Ireland, let alone waged a guerrilla insurgency for the independence of the Emerald Isle during the late 1980s.