Bill Scannell sez, "CAPPS II may be dead, but its evil step brother 'Secure Flight' will live if we don't complain loudly enough. If something isn't done soon, the passenger records of over 54 million Americans will be handed-over to the TSA by the airlines. The time to file your comments is now. We've built an interface that links directly into the 'Secure Flight' comments database. Deadline: 25 October."
To the Department of Homeland Security, you are no longer an American, you are a potential terrorist. Unless immediate action is taken by you, anyone who flew on any airline in the United States during the month of June 2004 will have a government dossier opened-up on them.
In order to test a new Orwellian airline security program called 'Secure Flight', the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration will force the airlines to turn over all their their passenger's travel records — which include everything from credit card numbers to whether a kosher meal was requested — from June of 2004.
If this test isn't stopped, there will be little left to stop the TSA from running checks on everyone who flies. 'Secure Flight' will make our country less like the America we grew up in and more like Communist East Germany circa 1974. All patriotic Americans must work to make sure this invasive, unconstitutional program never comes to fruition. Homeland Security needs to stop treating ordinary American citizens like criminals.
