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Old Mar 16, 2003 | 7:34 pm
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I will fight this tooth and nail. It is an outrageous invasion of privacy. See lively discussions In The News.

Summary of reasons to be against:

1. other countries will start doing this to you -- requiring all this info when you want to travel there. Do you want to provide all this info to countries like Singapore, China, just to name a few? Nothing against those countries but you get the point.

2. what will they do with this info? "Trust them" -- yeah right.

3. this will create virtual borders within the USA. Perhaps in the near future you will be stopped from travel if you owe child support, have warrants for things, and so forth.

4. There is no limit to what this could do in enforcing the strictures of a totalitarian state. Freedom of travel and freedom from the government monitoring your travel is a fundamental right.

5. If you can't travel or you are harrassed every time, you will never know why. There is no recourse, no appeal. The algorithms used are secret. If you are red, you are SOL and nothing you can do about it.
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