Registered Traveler Program Open For Business

storem writes "Enrollment into TSA's Registered Traveler program started yesterday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Frequent flyers are given the opportunity to sign up for a fast-track system using biometrics to identify themselves. It seems this is pretty much the same system tested in Europe in the s-Travel program. There frequent flyers carried their biometric identifiers (fingerprint & iris) with them between airports on a smart card (privacy reasons)."

Comments

Re:Here's an idea

[andyt]

"...shouldn't we concentrate more on doing things to make mad people NOT want to blow us all up?"

Like caving in to extremist demands?

... yes. Yes that is exactly what he is saying here. As long as you equate "not acting in a way that pissed off most of the planet" as an extremist demand.
Which, alas, many in the current administration seem to do...

Re:Here's an idea

[meadowsp]

You do realise that George Bush also gets his instructions to kill bad people direct from God as well.

Not to mention the US Generals who believe they're on a holy mission against Muslims.

Re:No, you don't burn down mosques

[Moraelin]

History is a funny thing. The same Europe, circa 1930, shows what happens when you're willing to bend over and waive your rights in exchange for immediate short-term benefits.

E.g., to some Germans it must have looked like a great trade to support a dictator, in exchange for stabilizing the economy. Next thing you knew, millions of Germans were marching to death camps, or were tortured by the Gestapo. Not just German citizens of other nationalities, which already was evil. If you look at some pictures from those camps, a _lot_ looked like the nazis' retarded "super-human" ideal, but ended behind barbed wire anyway.

That's the problem with giving a retard a blank cheque to do whatever he pleases. Soon he might well please to get rid of you.

That's why the consititutional rights and liberties keep governments in check. Because a government can be a good thing, or can be worse than all terror groups put together. Look at nazi Germany or Soviet Russia: the many millions of their citizens they killed and the terror they maintained among their own citizens far surpass what all terror groups put together did.