[LucyT]

The expansion would erase one of the last remaining differences between the US and a total police state; namely, the ability to travel internally without being under police surveillance.

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Many of the same methods that now restrict foreign travel will be used within America because the same agency will handle both: the TSA in its many manifestations. They might be called BASE agents or VIPRs (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response), like the ones who partnered with law enforcement in 2011 in Tennessee to conduct random "terrorist" checkpoints on highways. They may be the specially trained clerks who sell you a ticket . But TSA agents in whatever guise are coming to the highway, bus stop and train station you frequent.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

Thanks for the Ping, LucyT.

OT, but: Love your research on the NBC issue, sourcery. Outstanding work.