Buoyed by the overwhelming success of its terror-threat alert system, the Bush administration is planning to start color-coding American citizens:
The Washington Post reports the Bush administration is expected to order as soon as next month the first step in setting up databases on all air passengers, to be used to color-code each air traveler according to his or her potential threat level.
Passengers coded red would be stopped from boarding; yellow would mean additional screening at security checkpoints; and green would mean an only standard level of scrutiny.
There’s more:
Airlines and airline reservation companies would reportedly be forced to turn over all passenger records to U.S. government officials, who struck out in a trial program was based on voluntary surrender of airline industry data.
Not a single airline agreed to turn over data voluntarily.
Good for the airlines. Things are starting to get out of control in our terror state. People need to challenge the war on civil liberties.