Originally Posted by michaelchertoff
And how exactly will you make this date back 15 or 20 years?
And what, exactly, do you suggest we do to people who don't have a 20 year credit history?
Rather than answer each similar observation, I just point out that you guys are all so willing to bet so many people's lives on your assumptions..
Have you ever driven a car? Statistically, you're putting a lot more people in danger by doing that than anyone here is doing by saying that someone shouldn't need a 20 year credit history to be allowed to use commercial transportation.
Can you explain in specific terms what you think DHS needs our library records, tax returns, credit histories and lists of telephone calls? What will they do with this, and why do they need it? Do you think that we should be "allowed" any privacy at all?
But you are so concerned about your right to not have this information available to DHS that you will merrily put everyone at risk.
Rights and security need to be balanced. Things that add little to security but violate rights, liberty, privacy and freedom of hundreds of millions of Americans are bad.
East Germany kept extremely detailed records on at least a quarter of it's relatively small population. Much more detailed that the US could ever hope to keep on the American population. They were absolutely stunned by the fall of communism, too. All that digging, spying, facism and repression, and they still had no idea what was going on.