No Flying While In Debt
I read this with some amazement. The new Fed airplane screening process is going to use supermarket purchases, library records, and credit histories to red-flag around 1-2% of all people attempting to fly in the US. These hapless people will be denied “permission” to fly. This is some fucked up crazy shit right here. I guess you can add “Flying While Poor” to the “Driving While Black” discrimination panapoly.
An estimated 1 to 2 percent will be labeled “red” and will be prohibited from boarding. These passengers also will face police questioning and may be arrested … The TSA will check each passenger in two steps. The first will match the passenger’s name and information against databases of private companies that collect information on people for commercial reasons, such as their shopping habits. This process will generate a numerical score that will indicate the likelihood that the passenger is who he says he is. Passengers will not be informed of their color code or their numerical score. The second step matches passenger information against government intelligence combined with local and state outstanding warrants for violent felonies.
Kinda makes you want to stop using credit cards and libraries…
Greyhound… the choice of Al Qaeda!