U.S. to Push Airlines for Passenger Records
Ok, let's take a look at this idea. Would ANY of the 9/11 hijackers have been caught under a plan that checks their background? Only if the flagged list was a list of all Arabs. So why is the government SO adamant about collecting HUGE amounts of data on us, and making it more difficult for us to travel? Perhaps so they can catch OTHER criminals in ways that we NEVER would have allowed prior to 9/11. The question is, why are we allowing it POST 9/11 when it clearly would do nothing to prevent other attacks (terrorists generally have squeaky clean backgrounds and records).
Despite stiff resistance from airlines and privacy advocates, the U.S. government plans to push ahead this year with a vast computerized system to probe the backgrounds of all passengers boarding flights in the United States. [Washington Post: Front Page]