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Homeland Security

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Americans have a right to move about without fear of being groundlessly stopped by law enforcement. As far as we know, that constitutional right applies to all Americans, not just the minority who live far removed from the nation's borders.

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Instead of protecting the traveling public, these checkpoints primarily serve as exercises in obedience training through dominance games along public highways. While such suspicionless enforcement tactics are commonplace in 3rd world dictatorships, t

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NYtimes.com

The plane, which can go 260 miles per hour and fly as high as 50,000 feet, can stay aloft for 18 hours. The first missions, designed to help spot people crossing the border illegally or avoiding ports of entry, are expected to start next month.

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Wired

(The Tale of the Two Towers - US and Israel) On the U.S.-Mexico border, the American government has been trying, with limited success, to set up a string of sensor-laden sentry towers, In Israel, they've got their own set of border towers.

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AfterDowningStreet.org

They won’t tell you who put you there, and they won’t take you off either. That has to be done by the agency that reported your name—the one they won’t identify to you. It’s straight out of Kafka.

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Rawstory.com

"Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) has been chosen to serve as secretary of the vast and troubled Department of Homeland Security for President-elect Obama," Politico's Mike Allen reported late Wednesday night. "

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A documentary included this FEMA interview that put its director of communications in the HOT SEAT. Note how he answers the questions. (From 2006)

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What “standardized automated data” will be collected? And what is to stop the agency from collecting all data from all individual travelers and keeping track of it in massive database? After all, it has only been a couple months since the last time T

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Rawstory.com

"Secure Flight is a critical tool that will further improve aviation security and fix the major customer service issue of watch-list misidentifications, a frustratingly common occurrence for travelers under the existing airline-based system,

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The Supreme Court gave the Border Patrol an inch in Martinez-Fuerte after ruling against them on three separate occasions in the 1970's. Not to be deterred however, 32 years later the Border Patrol has taken that inch and stretched it well over a

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The ease with which someone can circumvent the watch lists illustrates the utter futility of identity-based security programs as a whole. Rather than waste time and money, and needlessly sacrifice liberty in the process of conducting this security th

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