Within the year, the new Transporation Securiry Administration will begin to do background checks on every airline passenger. You'll be issued a color-code: green, yellow, or red.
It's a textbook case of function creep. The TSA is not only targeting terrorists. but criminals of all kinds.
[U]p to 8 percent of passengers who board the nation's 26,000 daily flights will be coded "yellow" and will undergo additional screening at the checkpoint, according to people familiar with the program. An estimated 1 to 2 percent will be labeled "red" and will be prohibited from boarding. These passengers also will face police questioning and may be arrested.
…The system "will provide protections for the flying public," said TSA spokesman Brian Turmail. "Not only should we keep passengers from sitting next to a terrorist, we should keep them from sitting next to wanted ax murderers."
Thank goodness. This ought to put a stop to all those gruesome ax murders that are committed aboard commercial airliners.
