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Old Aug 24, 2011 | 12:12 pm
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Originally Posted by OldGoat
"...Senior policy analyst at the Center for Health and Homeland Security Vernon R. Herron told MSNBC that your official travel document "will not only have information as to who you are and where you have traveled, but it will also ... allow government officials to track your travel not only in the air, but your daily travels to work, grocery stores and social events." In the future the "government will detain passengers who have traveled to places that are suspicious in nature" once they enter an airport..."
Even considering the current state of hysteria in the country I just cannot imagine that anything like this would ever be legal. In fact, if it wasn't August 24th I would think this was an April Fools Day joke.
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