[Don Joe]

Oh, boy.

It’s worse than I thought.

Not only is DHS behind this, but, they want to use it as model legislation for the rest of the country.

Where’s the outrage? Where’s the NEWS coverage? (So far, the Village Voice and one Op-Ed in the NYT seems to be it! Hey, Rupert — can’t you cut at least a minute or two from the nonstop celebrity gossip BS “news”, and endless babbling about the endless polls that no one gives a damn about — to devote to coverage of a REAL story?)

Read, contemplate the implications, and feel ill:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/30/opinion/30omullan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[secretagent]

Indeed, one could consider not having any permits at all, even for those designed to detect terrorist attacks. And instead the legislation should focus on reporting procedures that would keep false alarms from snowballing into panic. That, after all, is what proponents say the purpose is.

That's putting it mildly, but I agree.