On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 12:12:16PM -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 10:44:50AM -0800, Tim May wrote: > > I don't know if this is your reason for expecting not to fly > > commercially again, but for anyone who thinks trains will somehow be > > exempted from the national security police state, think again. > > Right. One Democratic "anti-terror" proposal would link police to Amtrak > databases: http://www.politechbot.com/p-02715.html > > Even before Sept 11, Amtrak was sharing passenger info with the DEA > for drug prosecutions: > http://www.politechbot.com/p-01909.html > > Come on, folks -- Amtrak is a federal government entity. It will be in the > vanguard of the next big push to advance the national security state.
Of course. I have no doubt whatsoever that we'll soon see checkpoints at every entrance and exit to all cities where they search the cars and passengers. It's only a matter of time. And probably require "visas" to travel anywhere, or at least pre-trip filing of "travel plans." -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com
