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
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Subject: "US to Monitor All Travel..."
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 01:21:30 -0500
From: barlowss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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. [...]
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