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Congress to Test Air Screening Program
unassimilatible writes "The Transportation Security Administration said Wednesday it will order airlines to turn over passengers' personal records in the next couple of months to test a computerized passenger screening program that could keep dangerous people off airlines, reports Yahoo/AP. The Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System, or CAPPS II, would rank all air passengers according to the likelihood of their being terrorists. Suspected terrorists and violent criminals would be designated as red and forbidden to fly. Passengers who raise questions would be classified as yellow and would receive extra security screening. The vast majority would be designated green and allowed through routine screening. But some say the project would violate privacy rights, while others are concerned it would cost the private sector too much money. The Air Transport Association, the trade group for major airlines, has come up with seven 'privacy principles' that it says the government should follow in implementing CAPPS II."
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020 IF $race="arab"
030 THEN x=1;
040 END;
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You are going on a commerical airliner owned by a corporation. You have no expectation of privacy. I say go for it, it sounds like a sensible plan. I would automatically do a +1 threat rating on all Muslims myself. I know, *gasp*, its not PC - but thats the reality of the moment. The group with the highest threat on an airline is Muslims.
No, you would be marked as a higher risk because of your presumed Muslim background. This is as it should be, it is only logical. I know that upsets you, but thats life.
I know, let's stop pissing everyone off. The US needs to mind it's own business and stop pushing itself on every other country. Here's a place to start:
Stop funding Israel until they can play nice with others. Remember, antizionism is not the same as antisemitic.
Stop supporting the Al Saud family regime.
Stop "Plan Colombia". The more successful drug prohibition efforts are, the more money that the FARC gets.
Did you even know that the first two points were major reasons why 9/11 happenned? Bush was too busy hiding in a hole crying "they hate freedom" to mention that part. There are many, many people that have little complaint with US citizens while hating the US Govt.
The US is one of the few countries that has the legal means to fix these problems. I say lets fix them and we won't need CAPPS I or II.
"And a voice was screaming: 'Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?'" - HST
you've got it wrong. put down your 2nd year Psych textbook and quit spouting all the high-sounding language like you're an intellectual. understand 1 thing:
-we would leave them in peace
-they don't want to leave us alone
the terrorists want to kill all the other people in the world that don't agree with their brand of radicalism (99% of the world?). we just want to kill the terrorist motherfuckers (less than 1% of the world). we were willing to let them live but they won't leave us in peace.
therefore, we are justified in our need to protect ourselves. if I found someone breaking into my house, where I live with my wife and baby daughter, I ain't giving them a Get-Out-Of-Jail FREE card. they made that choice, now they're paying the price.
1 dead terrorist = 1 less scumbag polluting the gene pool
I'm good with numbers -
Since terrorism (in the 9-11 sense) is a response to U.S. tyranny elsewhere, ending the tyranny would end the terrorism.
Bullshit. Terrorists (in the 9-11 sense) hate America not because of what we have done wrong, but fundamentally who we are and what we have done right. They hate us for our freedom of religion, separation of church and state, freedom of speech, secular government, liberal society and equality of the sexes. Al Quaeda will not be satisfied with anything short of an American Theocracy.
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