Your papers please, says the 9/11 commission

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>
Date: July 30, 2004 9:14:19 PM EDT
To: "Dave Farber: ;Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com>
Subject: fwd: Your papers please, says the 9/11 commission

Note that this is from the arch-conservative Washington Times (not some 
commie pinko liberal rant <grin>).  Geee ... even the law'n'order 
conservatives don't seem to like the police-state that Ashcroft and 
this administration (and now, the myopic 9/11 Commission) have been so 
intent on creating.

--jim

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759



> http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040727-103447-4298r.htm
>
> The commission recommends federal standards for identification 
> documents, such as driver's licenses; greater information sharing 
> among government agencies and the private sector; and greatly enhanced 
> border and internal transport security.
>
> In a suggestion that has set off alarm bells among civil liberties 
> advocates, the report calls for the U.S. border security system to "be 
> integrated into a larger network of screening points that includes our 
> transportation system and access to vital facilities, such as nuclear 
> reactors."
>
> "That could be a recipe for a system of internal checkpoints that 
> would treat people traveling within the United States in the same way 
> it treats those crossing its borders," said Greg Nojeim, associate 
> director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington office.

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