Wed, 2008-08-20 14:07 — DCblogger
Data From Checkpoints To Be Kept for 15 Years
The federal government has been using its system of border checkpoints to greatly expand a database on travelers entering the country by collecting information on all U.S. citizens crossing by land, compiling data that will be stored for 15 years and may be used in criminal and intelligence investigations.
Why do I get the feeling that the Republicans are preparing to close the border? Get the feeling the emigration numbers are beginning to worry them?
»
- DCblogger's blog
- Login or register to post comments
Front page
Comments
The real crunch will come...
... when "implied" consent is extended to mean license plate recognition capture and storage at state borders. They're starting this up in Manhattan. Then you have internal passport control, like Czarist Russia.
Fortunately, it's all legal, otherwise somebody'd have to go to Congress and get the Democrat leadership to legalize it retroactively.
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
Why should we care?
We'll all be in camps by then, learning to love the New Order
------------------------------------------------
“When someone engages in divisive behavior, any resulting division is their responsibility” - Melissa McEwan