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Post by pumpkinette on Jan 9, 2010 17:53:29 GMT
Thanks in advance for your help! aclu.orgThen go to Action Alerts Then go to Tell Congress: Rein in DHS Travel Abuses Traveling shouldn't mean checking your rights when you're checking your luggage. Yet, more and more, the Department of Homeland Security is asking Americans to sacrifice their privacy for an illusion of security. I urge you to introduce legislation to protect the civil liberties of travelers and conduct vigorous oversight. Please: 1. Require reasonable restrictions on the use of whole body imaging. According to press reports whole body imaging is currently being employed in airports across the country. This technology produces strikingly graphic images of passengers' bodies. Those images reveal not only private body parts, but also intimate medical details like colostomy bags. That degree of examination amounts to a significant -- and for some people humiliating -- assault on the essential dignity of passengers that those in a free nation should not have to tolerate. 2. Overhaul the broken terrorist watch list. Last year, the terrorist watch list surpassed one million names, and it is growing at over twenty thousand names per month, according to reports by the DOJ Inspector General. Congress needs to rip this list up and start again. It should be limited to actual terrorists. Innocent travelers need a way to get off the watch list and real checks and balances if DHS is non-responsive. It's time for some sanity when it comes to security. Yet, in addition to the above abuses, DHS reserves the right to look through any laptop or electronic device crossing the border. DHS has shown that it cannot be trusted to protect the civil liberties of Americans. That's why I am counting on you. Please take action to protect the rights of your constituents.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2010 17:57:56 GMT
Alternatively, take the train!
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