Okay, who other than Ron Paul thinks this, and the thousand other bizarre security “enhancements” directed at the American public, are a *bad* idea, and should be discontinued immediately?
Seriously, do we *need* facial recognition of all US citizens, and to track all their movements, and to keep their DNA on file, and to monitor all their communications, and to have their entire medical history available instantly to the government, and for several government and private agencies to amass huge dossiers about them, and to have their homes and persons searched without warrant, and to have checkpoints put up at random, and to have the TSA at all public events physically searching people, and to have national biometric ID cards, and biometric passports, and to fear *detention* without trial by the military, and national gun registration by indirect and sneaky means, etc., etc., etc.?
When is it enough?
If we’re going to have an economy as poorly managed as during the time of Jimmy Carter, we should have the security of that period as well.
All this heightened security is insanely expensive paranoia and voyeurism that accomplishes nothing other than dehumanization and that faceless bureaucrats feel more in control of everyone else. For the citizenry it is just an oppressive, totalitarian waste.
Which should be dispensed with.
They want all this because they can never be sure who will emerge as a threat to the system, and want to be able to create a compete dossier on anybody (including a complete list of associates) on zero notice.