Saturday, October 17, 2009

Tell Congress to Rein in Government Travel Abuses

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The Department of Homeland Security is abusing its power. In America, we now have:

  1. A terrorist watch list with over one million names on it, growing by twenty thousand names per month.
  2. Security agents that seize laptops, cell phones, and PDAs as Americans enter the United States, with no suspicion of wrongdoing.
  3. Invasive airport scanners that let agents conduct virtual strip searches of passengers.

Traveling shouldn’t mean checking your rights when you’re checking your luggage. Tell Congress: it’s time to rein in travel abuses by the Department of Homeland Security.Or, read more.

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