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>The T.S.A. has emphasized its goal of giving 25 percent of all passengers lighter screening by the end of next year, meaning they can keep their shoes and jack
by JonSkeptic 13y ago
>The T.S.A. has emphasized its goal of giving 25 percent of all passengers lighter screening by the end of next year, meaning they can keep their shoes and jackets on, wait in separate lines and leave laptop computers in their bags. But travelers who find themselves in the higher-risk category can be subjected to repeated searches.
So if we are good Citizens, we will be rewarded. Only bad Citizens have something to hide and they will be molested for it.
Somehow this does not comfort me at all.
- fibbery 13y agobad citizens and brown people...
- malandrew 13y agoWorse yet, I was under the impression that only citizens that have been arrested and fingerprinted had their fingerprints on file. Now with this, they are creating a reason to get a completely law-abiding citizen's fingerprint on file. We've been successful in avoiding a national ID system, but it looks like one is now being implemented via the TSA under the guise of a "convenience program" that you are coerced into participating in by increasingly making your live a living hell if you don't. It would be valuable to bring something like this to the attention of the NRA, because they are one of the few groups that does a lot of work to prevent a national ID program and centralized databases of biometric markers.