Government Credit Report
I worked as a Contractor for TSA for a while but we all got laid off due
to lack of funding last November.
The government is getting ready to test a new risk-detection system that would check background information and assign a threat level to everyone who buys a ticket for a commercial flight.
The system, ordered by Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks, will gather
much more information on passengers. Delta Air Lines will try it out at
three unidentified airports beginning next month, and a comprehensive system
could be in place by the end of the year.
Transportation officials say a contractor will be picked soon to build the
nationwide computer system, which will check such things as credit reports
and bank account activity and compare passenger names with those on
government watch lists.
Advocates say the system will weed out dangerous people while ensuring
law-abiding citizens aren't given unnecessary scrutiny. Any comment?
Comparing names and photos is nothing new. The new thing IS checking
things like credit history. Where do they get off?! This is supposed
to "weed out dangerous people". WHAT "dangerous people"? Where is an
example of where a credit check would've prevented some threat from a
U.S. citizen? Let's say that my credit really stinks. Does this make
me unfit to travel to, say, a new job?!
This is just another weak excuse to expand Big Brother and a definte
case of a cure being worse than the disease. Before long, unless you
drive yourself across country, and pay in cash for gas and food, you
will be tracked. Any soul suddenly traveling a great distance without a
good excuse, even in their own car, will trigger a background screen. As
I said, "Vere are your pa-pers?!"