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Old Aug 12, 2006 | 2:27 pm
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boondoggie
 
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Originally Posted by bdschobel
Good grief, are you serious? Setting aside for the moment all the legitimate concerns about an intrusive police state, how about the opportunities afforded by identity theft? Just kill some upstanding citizen and assume his identity. Problem solved, right? Not all that hard to get an ID in his name, and it might take forever for the "authorities" ( ) to learn that he's dead, if ever.Bruce
Read my post. I never said I was in favor of this, just that it looks like it's inevitable.

Anyone have any other ideas? Keeping "things" off the planes won't work, there will always be a way around it. They'll have to get around to keeping the terrorists off the plane.
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