"The new Transportation Security Administration system seeks to probe deeper into each passenger's identity than is currently possible, comparing personal information against criminal records and intelligence information. Passengers will be assigned a color code -- green, yellow or red -- based in part on their city of departure, destination, traveling companions and date of ticket purchase. "Most people will be coded green and sail through. But up to 8 percent of passengers who board the nation's 26,000 daily flights will be coded "yellow" and will undergo additional screening at the checkpoint, according to people familiar with the program. An estimated 1 to 2 percent will be labeled "red" and will be prohibited from boarding. These passengers also will face police questioning and may be arrested." <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&ncid=1802&e=2&u=/ washpost/20030909/ts_washpost/a45434_2003sep8> Charming. Now people face "arrest" (Washington Post story claim) for merely be tagged as a Red. Get tagged as a Red, perhaps based on "intelligence" like Usenet postings, mailing list activity, political activity, and airlines are ordered to bar use of their services. And arrest follows. I know the ACLU is already having a field day with this. I wonder what the charges justifying arrest will be? "Your honor, this man was flagged "Red" by our computers. We request one million dollars bail. He's a flight risk....cough." No wonder the airlines are facing bankruptcy. Except Big Brother is bailing them out, semi-nationalizing them (probably giving big pieces of control to Halliburton and other Bush crony companies...even Hitler was not this transparent). --Tim May Join the boycott against Delta Airlines for their support of the Big Brotherish "CAPPS II" citizen-unit tracking program. http://www.boycottdelta.org http://boycottdelta.org/images/deltaeyebanner.gif With our help, Delta Airlines may be joining United and US Air in the bankruptcy scrap heap.