Via Don
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is tightening its grip on
domestic travcel. I don't mean the random, unpredictable security checks at
bus, subway and train stations which already exist. I mean a coordinated and
systematic police control of internal travel within America. Groundwork is
being laid.
Application to Make U.S. Into an Airport Screening Zone
The application was tucked away on
page
71431 of Volume 77, Number 231 of the
Federal Register (November
30). It was surrounded by soporific references to forwarding "the new Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)."
The application for funding from the TSA constitutes a preliminary step toward
systematically expanding TSA's authority from airports to highways and almost
every other means of public travel. The expansion would erase one of the last
remaining differences between the US and a total police state; namely, the
ability to travel internally without being under police surveillance. The total
police state you experience at airports wants to spill into roads and bus stops,
to subways and trains. Or, rather, the TSA wants to solidify and spread the
fledgling and erratic presence it already has.
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