Another American Airline Admits Giving Passenger Data To Military

It doesn't matter how much data they collect on people. Being a suicide bomber is a one way ticket. There will be no repeat offenders. No data collected can predict nor prevent someone who wants to die for a cause.<p> All that will happen is the privacy of millions of citizens will be 'McCarthyized'.<p> <p>---<br>"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme" Mark Twain

I could not agree more.

As well the Osama gang has proved to be rather good at finding holes and exploiting them. They will just find other ways to do what they want to achieve. If that means coming in cargo containers or small boats along the long coast of the Pacific, then they will.

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If there was ever a time for Canadians to become pushy - now is the time - for time is running out on this nation called Canada.

Yup.

Also, nuclear arms could be smuggled in on a container ship, a dirty bomb could be brought in on a suitcase....

Why didn\'t NASA use their employees for \"passenger information\" if the info needed to develop the technology was so benign? Or, why not just fabricate passengers and data? Why did they need the actual passenger information?

They can\'t put enough lipstick on that pig.

<P>Right you are, Doc. <P>Worse, the airlines have become a battlefield. September 11 was just one of many incidents--Lockerbie, Air India, etc--which mulitiplied the risks of flying. Bush has done everything his administration can think of to make sure everyone is a target and suffers, at the very least, the inconvenience of his paranoia without any real improvement in security. On the other hand, the quality of service--from the numerous long line-ups every time you fly to the little bags of junk food which have replaced meals--has shown a spectacular decline. <P>I personally find the boycott of Coca-Cola thoroughly meaningless. It's probably been more than ten years since I even wanted a Coke. But I would probably spend in the tens of thousands of dollars in air fare--maybe more--in the next decade. Boycott air travel? You bet. Under the circumstances, I'd rather take a bus or a train. Or not go. If I'm going to fly, I'll go to Inuvik. <P>No doubt about it, I'm a bit of a crank about things like that, so I was surprised last week to hear several other people saying similar things. Bush's "victories" on self-selected battlefields like Afghanistan, Iraq, even Israel and the Occupied Territories look like misbegotten stalemates-in-progress or worse. But battle by battle the air travel battlefield has been a loser from September 11 forward. If Bush is going to run around in military garb, he needs to learn how to tell the difference between winning and losing.

Bring back the passenger trains, east to west& north-south, in Canada, let\'s see this country from coast to coast and up north. Forget the airlines, sheeesh you won\'t catch me on a plane to go anywhere, not because I am afraid to die, I don\'t want to live like a prisoner in my own country! I don\'t want to be strip searched, fingerprinted etc, \'cause I don\'t look right to someone, I am caucasian, but I have freckles, so who knows what they might think my heritage really is???? Do you think the colour code would be polka-dot?