The Daily Kos writeup below refers to this Washington Post story: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/22/AR2005112201700.html It's a reasonable worry (though I wonder if the Daily Kos folks would be as vocal if a Democratic administration had done this). I wrote this article last year that discussed the problems of governmental overreaching in the case of SARS: http://www.reason.com/hod/dmc041703.shtml -Declan -------- Original Message -------- Subject: "US to Monitor All Travel..." Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:21:30 -0500 From: barlowss <barlowss@private> Here's a very interesting discussion at http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/11/22/22254/031 US to Monitor All Travel, Detain at Will (WaPo) by FredFred [Subscribe] Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 08:02:54 PM PDT this story in tomorrow's wapo gives me the shivers. If you recall, in the name of "national security" we got the patriot act, something that gave the government unprecedented powers to spy on and detain citizens of the united states. Meanwhile, nothing was actually done as far as improving security at our nuke plants, chemical plants, cargo terminals, railways, etc., and the feds won't reveal what information they have gathered even in statistical aggregate, even to the Congress which is supposed to provide oversight. Now, the government, in the name of "fighting epidemics" wants to track the comings and goings of every single US citizen traveling.... more below the break. [...] _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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