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Don't go shopping at the Crossgates Mall in Albany, NY if you oppose the war. They're arresting people for wearing t-shirts with such radical slogans as "give peace a chance".

Screening your credit report before you get on a plane is the newest "theory" in "preventing" terrorism. Of course, the head of the Transportation Security Administration claims such screening "is no threat to privacy". (For a laugh: their motto is apparently "Freedom of Movement".) They of course have no information on their site readily available; searching their site on "CAPPS II" brings up little more than press releases.

As

meta has mentioned, check out the Boycott Delta site, and see what you can do to assure that fliers won't find their credit histories damaged due to repeated "hits" from airlines.

Besides that, what the heck does your credit history have to do with whether or not you're a potential terrorist? If you're late on a couple payments, does that put you at risk of being pegged as a terrorist? What if you're unemployed? Or does it go the other way- is a clean credit history a red flag? (Note that they're not planning to tell us, either!)

Have you ever gotten copies of your credit history? I have, in preparation for getting a mortgage. Everyone I know who's checked their report has discovered errors. Yet the government thinks it's great idea to have Experian/TRW, Equifax, and TransUnion be the final say in whether we're allowed to travel!

Wonder what kind of campaign donations those firms made over the past several years- because you know there's a fee getting paid for each report run and somebody's going to be making a shitload of money off this.

More information on CAPPS II:
privacyactivism.com
underreported.com
Federal Computer Week ("It's just a credit check...")
Wired
National Consumer Coalition Privacy Watch