Transportation nightmares
Harrowing tale of encroachment on civil liberties, perpetrated by our Transportation Authority and other Federal ones. Basically, if your name is Dave Nelson, you are going to get frisked everywhere, anytime you try to travel by air.
What is most disgusting about this dumb measure - and that is what it is, nothing more than the clumsy footprints of enforcement of a bad law, is the policy and the arguments behind those: You can not get clearance once admitted, you can not get your name off the list, you can not get over the fact that the government entities that control your access to those facilities are not allowing you any kind of recourse, are completely unaccountable, and offer no reason for their actions. And woe onto you if you happen to be not a citizen.
This is a police state. Only we have been to busy watching the matrix to notice.
via Dan Gillmor