Oh please.
Everybody is at risk everytime they get on the plane. The only way to be absolutely safe is not to fly.
DHS doesn't need my information. It doesn't need yours, or anyone else's. It's none of their business if I'm not breaking the law. If it does need it, they can always go to court and get a subpoena for it and then arrest me if I'm that much of a threat. If giving them your info makes you feel better, go ahead.
Giving the information to DHS just creates additional risks while not doing anything for safety. Especially if that information is in the hands of government contractors like Choicepoint. If DHS really wanted to prove to people that they had their acts together, the no fly list would be a good start. That list alone shows they can't even get it right with what they have now. And they want MORE information? That's just asking for a disaster.
There is a such thing as too much information. And if you've ever done intelligence work (and I'm guessing you haven't), you'd know that most of it is useless and it's only a small portion that is actually useful. Yet it all must be gone thru. The government barely has enough resources (and in a lot of cases, I'd argue not enough) to do the job it's tasked to do. Adding 300 million people to it will overwhelm the system and then things REALLY won't get done.
Adding 300 million people to a database and all that information is just asking for trouble. Most of it will never be sorted thru, be littered with errors and inconsistencies. And we still won't be safer.
It's nice that you have faith in your government. Having been on the inside, I don't.
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