Abstract: The Framers of the U.S. Constitution would not approve of any system that permits the government to collect information on every citizens¿ movements, or demand that they provide personally identifying information merely for moving about the country. Nor does the new climate of terrorism since 9/11 justify the regulations. The reinforcement of cockpit doors and the adoption of new cockpit security protocols is all that was needed to prevent the seizure of commercial airliners by terrorists for use as guided missiles. Securing the passengers is already accomplished by metal detectors and x-rays which are anonymous searches and do not permit government to collect the personally identifying information that is called for by these regulations. If government has done its job by sufficiently insuring that commercial airliners have reinforced cockpit doors and where it is conducting metal detection and x-ray examination of passengers to insure that they are not armed, the proposed regulations will not add any appreciable quantity of security while constituting an enormous invasion of personal privacy on the millions of air travellers who are committing no crime whatsoever. Many of the new provisions wherein government has asked individuals to give up personal privacy and certain personal liberties for the sake of ¿security¿ are unneccesary and are going down the wrong path to find security. If the government wants to provide more security for its citizens,it should reconsider some of its foreign policy objectives that motivate people to fly planes into buildings. And not because people fly planes into buildings, but because it is the right thing to do.
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Thomas J. Hillgardner
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