Coming up: color-coded passengers

[Theophylact]

Courtesy of Big Brother.

Precautions in the name of air security are about to taken to a level unimaginable in the United States only a few years ago.

The Washington Post reports the Bush administration is expected to order as soon as next month the first step in setting up databases on all air passengers, to be used to color-code each air traveler according to his or her potential threat level.

Passengers coded red would be stopped from boarding; yellow would mean additional screening at security checkpoints; and green would mean an only standard level of scrutiny.

Airlines and airline reservation companies would reportedly be forced to turn over all passenger records to U.S. government officials, who struck out in a trial program was based on voluntary surrender of airline industry data.

Not a single airline agreed to turn over data voluntarily.

Better hope you're not yellow or red. And how will you know what it's based on?

The American Civil Liberties Union, on its web site, objects to CAPPS II, saying it would make every American suspect, lacks due process protections for people who are unfairly labeled, is based on judgments made in secret, and would be easy for terrorists to circumvent.

[John Prophet]

I got on a plane once in greece....if they would have had color coded passengers I wonder what I would have been....I was struggling to fill out my customes paperwork because of the night before (well, like 1hr before, lol..the plane left in the early hours)....anyway..what would the code be for "too drunk to fill out his own paperwork and will pass out hard and you'll have to personally wake him up to get him off the plane at the next stop to refuel" lol.

Maybe colored pink with purple polka dots.

[jynxedu]

and they will prolly give the politicians gold or silver.

Should be black so they can sit near the can...