Reply #95: Honk if you love someone who lobbied for the Big Brother "no fly" list.

[stickdog]

CAPPS II provides the US federal government with a full profile on every innocent citizen without making us ONE IOTA SAFER.

Successful US citizen hijackings of US domestic flights HAVEN'T HAPPENED FOR 30 YEARS. And no US citizen passenger has EVER destroyed or crashed a passenger plane. So why are we trying to protect against something THAT ISN'T A THREAT? Because Clark & his neocon buddies IMAGINE that this threat is real and/or relevant?

Meanwhile, CAPPS II helps organized terrorist groups by letting them know in advance what risk level the US government puts on their members in which ticket purchasing conditions -- giving real terrorists a BETTER chance of evading enhanced security and succeeding.

But I'm sure Clark can justify this trade off. See, the CAPPS II no-fly list is not just a convenient excuse to foist Big Brother Total Information Awareness on an unwittingly trusting population. No, sir. See, it's a rational trade off in a world ruled by Clark's fantasies of James Bond villain super-terrorists.