Transportation officials say CAPPS II...The system, ordered by Congress after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, will gather much more information on passengers than previously...The nationwide computer system, which will check such things as credit reports and bank account activity and compare passenger names with those on government watch lists...'This system threatens to create a permanent blacklisted underclass of Americans who cannot travel freely,' said Katie Corrigan, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union." This is like the society in the Stallone movie Demolition Man, where big groups of people are forced to live underground because they don't have the required government permits.
Yes, I can see what its coming to You insert your card at the gas pump and a Clint Easteood type voice snarls-- do you feel lucky--Punk??? If you have a good fico score you get the sweet feminine voice---have a nice day!! pb
Re: Re: Blacklisted Americans who can't fly Yep scores 620 and up = $1.59 gal. Below that $3.75 gal. After all, if you have bad credit, your insurance rates are higher, because you tend to make more claims, therefore your foot must be buried in the accelerator, causing lower mile per gallon averages. Isn't that FICO logic?
Re: Re: Blacklisted Americans who can't fly And below 550 you just have to walk because they won't sell you gas at any price except from bootleggers. "But my wife is having a baby right now! I got to get her to the hospital." They tell you that's tough. You will just have to backpack her there. No gas for you. On top of that you don't have the credit to buy a decent car so that smokey old gas hog is just polluting our cities. Maybe, maybe not. Seems more like idiot logic FICO score driven.
Re: Re: Blacklisted Americans who can't fly Um, so why not simply pay cash! As for thge airline security - unless you have spent the last 10-15 years making open ended reservations/flights to areas of the world that are in constant termoil like the Middle East (journalists?), or you have a habit of paying with a different type of credit card for every flight that you make, then you have nothing to worry about. If you fall into the aforementioned criteria, you have something to worry about.
Re: Re: Re: Blacklisted Americans who can't fly You're right. Who cares if the govt. continually violates the Constitution for ALL americans in the name of "national security". . . . Again, I propose they just issue nat'l id cards to every citizen so that they can track everyone's movements and activities so that we never have to worry about terrorists, criminals, or evil ever again. . . .
Re: Re: Re: Re: Blacklisted Americans who can't fly 1940'S~~~HITLER'S GERMANY~~~"PAPERS PLEASE" (no probable cause necessary)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Blacklisted Americans who can't fly Exactly! but who needs SS soldiers when we have computers, satellites, and "smart chips" to do all the work.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Blacklisted Americans who can't fly JUST WALKIN' DOWN THE STREET~~"NATIONAL HOME-LAND SECURITY ID CARD PLEASE" "What did I do?" "I just got out of bingo" "National security" "I gotta' go pick up my 4 year-old grandson at daycare" "Ok, I'll go with you, we need to check his id card, and all the other kids at the daycare too" IT IS NOT FAR FETCHED~~IT WILL HAPPEN!!!
Re: Re: Re: Re: Blacklisted Americans who can't fly WORTH REPEATING!!!!!! "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." --Benjamin Franklin
Re: Re: Re: Re: Blacklisted Americans who can't fly If anything can be repeated George will do it. (LOL)
Re: Re: Re: Re: Blacklisted Americans who can't fly Welcome to the age of information. Did you watch minority report? Decent movie. Should watch it, its definitely chock full of future-reality
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Blacklisted Americans who can't fly Even more alarming is to read "1984" by George Orwell. I remember reading it in 1984 and thinking how improbable it all seemed. Well i have read it since then and been exposed to "certain" things and realize not only was the book prophetic but we are seeing it come to fruition here and now.
