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Originally posted by Watchtower
I was watching the news last night, and they were talking about a computer program that the government is installing that will classify everyone who travels based on algoritms (naturally, they will be secret since if they were otherwise they would be easily defeated), and will put them into red (can't travel by air), yellow (additional screening) and green (travel freely) categories. I can't tell you who will be affected, because, of course, that is secret, but I can tell you that some portion of the American public is going to be denied the right to travel by air based only on suspicions.
Even if you do not accept the idea that infringing on one person's rights (simply because they are, as you say, a "suspect") infringes on all of our rights, this strikes me as a fairly serious invasion of civil rights for a large number of people.
And this is just an offhand example from the last 24 hours.
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When you want to get on an airplane, you have to agree to a search that is entrusive as the security wants to be. They can body cavity search you if they want. So there is some lower level where you WILL be subject to additional search. You can't be bothered by this. Some people MAY be barred entirely? Until I see this actually happen, I can't see it as erosion. How often do you think they'll do this?
