This Time They've Gone Too Far...

[Carrie]

"Civil liberties groups are objecting to a government plan for a new system that would check background information and assign a threat level to everyone who buys a ticket for a commercial flight. "

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/28/...ain542315.shtml

"The system, ordered by Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks, will gather much more information on passengers than has been done previously. Delta Air Lines will try it out at three undisclosed airports beginning next month, and a comprehensive system could be in place by the end of the year. "

You have got to be KIDDING me.

This reminds me of two quotes:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
--Benjamin Franklin


And
"When Hitler first came to power, he was afraid. So he took a list of everybody who had a gun. Then he was still afraid, so he made the people afraid. 'Give me your guns and I will protect you,' he said and the people listened. They gave him their guns and turned in anyone who wouldn't cooperate. But Hitler was a small man and he was still afraid. He thought someone could still hurt him. He passed another law that said you couldn't carry anything that could be a weapon, not even a pen... but that wasn't enough because he had a lot of fear and thought that anybody could hide a weapon in their pocket and no one else would know. So he passed another law that said no one could walk down the street with their hands in their pockets, even in winter when it was very cold. But even that wasn't enough-- the next law he passed said that anyone walking down the street had to have their hands behind their back! That way, everyone was completely at the mercy of the police. (Expletive deleted), they already had their hands ready for the handcuffs."
--Deborah Horton, quoting her father, who was a Holocaust survivor