Traveler screening won't invade privacy [BS Alert!]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) --The head of a controversial airline passenger-screening program sought to ease concerns that the government would scrutinize travelers' financial and criminal records before letting them board.

While the Transportation Security Administration will hire private data aggregators to confirm travelers' identities and screen out possible hijackers, the agency will not view credit records, traffic violations or other personal data, Admiral James Loy said.

ANTI-TERROR ÜBER ALLES

The mythical "freedom versus security" tradeoff is a false choice.

The 911 attacks did not occur because Americans have too much freedom.

They occurred because terrorists were able to gain access to the cockpits of hijacked aircraft.

Instead of equipping all commercial aircraft with doors which could actually be used to keep hijackers out of cockpits, Washington created an Orwellian monster named the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and hired tens of thousands of minimum-wage Gestapo to root through the underwear of airline passengers and arrest/prosecute those who object.

Simply setting foot in an airport is now considered to be a terrorist act.

The fact that the TSA created a national airport police force without ever addressing the cockpit-door scandal is damning evidence that their mandate has nothing to do with protecting anyone.

The true mission of the TSA is to turn America into a police state.

Airports are the incubators.

The statists want to condition us to accept the idea that probable cause is dead and they can search our houses, our hard drives and our persons and demand to see our papers at any time.

Boycott the airline industry and its airport/POW camps now, or live in a national POW camp later.

I've been boycotting since March 2002. That was the last time I found myself being "profiled" by TSA (by the way, I'm 5'1", 105, blond and female over 40) as I observed suspicious looking males scooting by the so-called security, I had to hand over my high heeled sandles twice, be patted down because I was wearing an underwire bra, then go through the same thing all over again just prior to boarding.

That did it for me. I'll drive or stay home before I'll go through that again.

No wonder the airlines are going belly up and I can't say that I feel sorry for them after the way they were treating their regular customers before 9/11.

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