TSA's Grip on Internal Travel is Tightening

[Editor’s Note: The following post is by TDV contributor, Wendy McElroy]

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is tightening its grip on domestic travcel. I don't mean the random, unpredictable security checks at bus, subway and train stations which already exist. I mean a coordinated and systematic police control of internal travel within America. Groundwork is being laid.

APPLICATION TO MAKE U.S. INTO AN AIRPORT SCREENING ZONE

The application was tucked away on page 71431 of Volume 77, Number 231 of the Federal Register (November 30). It was surrounded by soporific references to forwarding “the new Information Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA).”

The application for funding from the TSA constitutes a preliminary step toward systematically expanding TSA's authority from airports to highways and almost every other means of public travel. The expansion would erase one of the last remaining differences between the US and a total police state; namely, the ability to travel internally without being under police surveillance. The total police state you experience at airports wants to spill into roads and bus stops, to subways and trains. Or, rather, the TSA wants to solidify and spread the fledgling and erratic presence it already has.

The official request reads, “TSA's Highway BASE program [Baseline Assessment for Security Enhancement] seeks to establish the current state of security gaps and implemented countermeasures throughout the highway mode of transportation by posing questions to major transportation asset owners and operators.” An example would be an owner and the employees of a long-haul truck company. The application continues, “Data and results collected through the Highway BASE program will inform TSA's policy and program initiatives and allow TSA to provide focused resources and tools to enhance the overall security posture within the surface transportation community.”

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Much, much more at the link with numerous source material links.

Shades of the Soviet Union's internal passports. What's sad is that this has been coming for a long, long time. The enemy withing has been very slow and patient 'hiding all their actions in plain sight' , in other words the information is there but you have to know where to look to find it. Sadder yet, by the time it's all enacted many will accept this as necessary for their safety from 'terrorists'.

It all started with a DO NOT FLY list. But that was a BUSH initiative under the TSA that he sanctioned. The more time passes, the more I grow to dislike President Bush.

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It all started with a DO NOT FLY list. But that was a BUSH initiative under the TSA that he sanctioned. The more time passes, the more I grow to dislike President Bush.

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"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."

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-- Ben Franklin

Words almost fail me.

Once upon a time . . . there was a dream . . . a nice fantasy . . . an experiment

called America . . . land of the mostly . . .

wellll the somewhat . . .

wellll . . . the delusionally presumed . . . slightly . . . free.