Fortress America mans the ramparts

[Steve Schear]

><http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storyprint.cfm?storyID=3559809>
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>New Zealand Herald Online - Newspaper
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>Sunday April 11, 2004
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>[An American flight crew member (left) is photographed and fingerprinted
>with by an immigration official. Picture / Reuters]
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>  Fortress America mans the ramparts
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>  10.04.2004  - Travellers to the US face fingerprinting and being
>photographed. CHRIS BARTON investigates if terrorism is reducing us all to
>numbers
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>  I am not a number, I am a free man!"
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>  So cried "Number 6" (Patrick McGoohan) in the 1967 cult TV classic The
>Prisoner as he fled Rover, the sinister white balloon that patrolled The
>Village - sort of Shangri-La meets the Gulag - in which he was contained.


>  Otago University computer security and forensics professor and
>cryptography expert Hank Wolfe, who is also an American citizen, sees
>liberty under threat. "If you look at America I don't think it's the land
>of the free, home of the brave any more. It's more appropriately called
>Fortress America."
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>  Wolfe is also scathing of steps taken post September 11 to protect
>airports. "It's not real security. This is eyewash security. This is for
>public consumption so that people think that they are doing something."

Several years ago, on this list I belive, I coined a word to describe such 
foolery - securisimilitude.

steve