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May 22, 04, 10:05 am
Wired Article (http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,63563,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1)
"Four Alaskans filed a legal challenge Friday to the federal government's proposed new airline passenger-profiling plan, charging the program could prevent ordinary Alaskans from being able to travel to their state capital.
The complaint asked the court to prohibit the U.S. government from issuing a secret order compelling airlines to turn over passenger data to the Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening System, or CAPPS II. They said the order essentially would impose secret laws on Americans without giving them the right to challenge them in court."
Excellent. Any government agency that issues such secret laws should be disbanded and its leaders deported to a country that thrives on secret laws.
"Four Alaskans filed a legal challenge Friday to the federal government's proposed new airline passenger-profiling plan, charging the program could prevent ordinary Alaskans from being able to travel to their state capital.
The complaint asked the court to prohibit the U.S. government from issuing a secret order compelling airlines to turn over passenger data to the Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening System, or CAPPS II. They said the order essentially would impose secret laws on Americans without giving them the right to challenge them in court."
Excellent. Any government agency that issues such secret laws should be disbanded and its leaders deported to a country that thrives on secret laws.