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The most obvious is CAPPS II, the program that demands your name, SSAN, address when you buy an airline ticket - so they can check about 14 databases, including your credit rating. Have you bought a money order for $3K or more, if so - it was reported to the Feds. This intrusiveness has nothing to do with preventing terrorism.

As someone else said, a journey of 1,000 miles starts with the first step. I don't want to see the 4th Amendment eroded any further.

You've read that poem about 1st they came for the Jews... and I wasn't a Jew. then they came for me... but no one was left to object.

How far must it go until YOU feel threathened ??

Wow! Is that what have you so upset? Because the airlines want to check you out. I have nothing to hide. Let them check away.

Again, with the money order...

And it has everything to do with the war terror.

Yes, I know all about the Jews in Germany. But, I don't think we are any where close to Nazi Germany, nor do I think we are headed in that direction.

How far must it go until YOU feel threathened ??

When I FEEL THREATENED, I will let you know.

The most obvious is CAPPS II, the program that demands your name, SSAN, address when you buy an airline ticket - so they can check about 14 databases, including your credit rating.

Hmmm...from the DHS website:

CAPPS II will authenticate the identity of passengers by checking the passenger name record - including full name, home address, telephone number and date of birth - against commercial databases. In addition, a risk assessment will be done by checking passenger names against government databases.

No SS # required.

Bank and medical records will not be used, nor will information regarding an individual's creditworthiness.

Bank/Credit records will not be used.

CAPPS II Fact Sheet

Have you bought a money order for $3K or more, if so - it was reported to the Feds.

The limit is $10,000 not $3,000:

A financial institution and any “nonfinancial trade or business” must file a report concerning a transaction (or series of related transactions) in excess of $10,000 or more in currency.

Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing This intrusiveness has nothing to do with preventing terrorism.

Oh really now...you didn't type this with a straight face did you?