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Brill's Contentious ID Card
pwackerly writes "The New York Times (illegal kidney sale required) is running a story on a private venture funded by the man behind CourtTV to sell ID cards that let you bypass security, both national (airports) and private (your business's lobby). Outside of the standard national ID concerns, now we'd have to worry about a terrorist stealing our super-secret ID from our wallet. Don't these people learn anything from reading 'Mostly Harmless?'"
Heres an artcle on the same subject at Reuters but without the need to register to view it. http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=te chnologyNews&storyID=3678908§ion=news
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
In fact, why don't we just forget this whole 9/11 thing, since it only affected about 3000 people and their families, and drop security alltogether?
Sounds good to me. Sure, 9/11 was a tragedy, but this security bullshit isn't going to help anything - by tunring a plane into a bomb, Osama and friends changed the rules of engagement. If you tried that today, the passengers would kill you before you touched down. 9/11 was a one-shot deal - the next attack will be something that we aren't protecting, like the power grid.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
It's already happening. At a few airports here on the West Coast (and I assume for the rest of the country) I've noticed that those flying first class get their own express line through security. For now, suck ticket holder still have to undergo the same security check as everyone else, but those who can affort a first class ticket already have preferential treatment and can avoid the multi-hour long security lines that plague airports during peak travel times.
Avoiding the security check altogether just seems like the next logical step for those who can afford it.
They didn't have to smuggle them. Pre-9/11, boxcutters were legal on aircraft, as were penknives, screwdrivers, etc.
They simply used the max allowable weapon they could get onboard.
Um, DBT/Choicepoint was hired before Katherine Harris took office, and they were hired by a Democrat named Ethel Baxtor.
Oh- and although the list was pretty inaccurate, the Florida law accounted for this and required each individual county election supervisor to verify the names on the felon list (many of them are democrats too!). Many counties ignored the list completely. In fact, when the USCCR held hearings on the Florida elections, they were unable to interview a single person that was incorrectly prevented from voting because of the felon list (A link of the dissenting opinion that supports this claim)
Since you seem to want people to back up their information with links, where were your links to back up your claims? Please use something better than a Greg Palast op-ed or a link to democrats.com.
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