Disappeared News

The Transportation Safety Administration is about to hold public hearings on a system that will require the TSA to clear you to fly whenever you or an airline tries to print a boarding pass. Yes, we've arrived at that point.

This rule proposes to allow TSA to ... receive passenger and certain non-traveler information, conduct watch list matching ... and transmit boarding pass printing instructions back to aircraft operators.

This Thursday, September 20, TSA will hold public hearings on their ¨Secure Flight Plan,¨ which will put the American public, even on domestic flights, in the same position that ancient Japanese commoners found themselves—unable to leave the place they lived unless they had an approved passport issued by the feudal government.

Details are in this article: The Nightmare of DHS´s *Secure Flight* [Hat tip to the Progressive Review News].

Yes, the system will control domestic flights, and no, you can't find out if you're in it or why.

The article describes how to file comments in the docket for this proposal. In short, you can go to the web page and enter docket number TSA-2007-28572.

I've wondered if filing a comment could put you on the TSA list. No, ignore that. Just file your comments.

Also from today's Progressive Review News:

Fascism doesn't start with concentration camps...That's where it ends. -- Jon Bishop

We need to somehow stop all this before we get to that point.