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   From: mazorj@erols.com   
      
   "JK in TX"  wrote in message   
   news:UClKc.5937$mL5.3436@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...   
      
   > Amen to that, John - I couldn't agree with you more.  I think it was   
   > absolutely PATHETIC for TSA to allow CAPPS-2 to be bastardized into a law   
   > enforcement net to catch people with outstanding parking tickets, and   
   other   
   > non-aviation related offenses.  I wouldn't be so opposed to using CAPPS-2   
   to   
   > alerting law enforcement of persons with arrest warrants for violent   
   crimes,   
   > but it is indeed a slippery slope!   
      
   Slippery indeed.  Airlines rightfully complained that they could be dragged   
   into acting as ersatz agents for the cops, and the ACLU had a solid point   
   when they objected to using airports as clearinghouses to separate the   
   innocent from the wanted.  So that function - even merely as an alert to the   
   cops - never should have been added to CAPPS 2, period.  Keep the terrorists   
   off the airplanes and screw the rest.   
      
   From the day they were created, TSA has been dominated by a hidebound law   
   enforcement mentality in their upper and middle echelons, which has created   
   zillions of problems in carrying out their mission.  By comparison, they   
   make the FAA look like free-wheeling, enlightened, minimalist regulators.   
      
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