[IP] Your papers please, says the 9/11 commission
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From: Jim Warren <jwarren@xxxxxxxx>
Date: July 30, 2004 9:14:19 PM EDT
To: "Dave Farber: ;Declan McCullagh" <declan@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: fwd: Your papers please, says the 9/11 commission
Note that this is from the arch-conservative Washington Times (not some
commie pinko liberal rant <grin>). Geee ... even the law'n'order
conservatives don't seem to like the police-state that Ashcroft and
this administration (and now, the myopic 9/11 Commission) have been so
intent on creating.
--jim
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040727-103447-4298r.htm
The commission recommends federal standards for identification
documents, such as driver's licenses; greater information sharing
among government agencies and the private sector; and greatly enhanced
border and internal transport security.
In a suggestion that has set off alarm bells among civil liberties
advocates, the report calls for the U.S. border security system to "be
integrated into a larger network of screening points that includes our
transportation system and access to vital facilities, such as nuclear
reactors."
"That could be a recipe for a system of internal checkpoints that
would treat people traveling within the United States in the same way
it treats those crossing its borders," said Greg Nojeim, associate
director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington office.
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