Beware of Big Brother Web part three

The US government "has substituted the illusion of security for real security," said Barry Steinbach, director of the technology and liberty program at the American Civil Liberties Union. "We are fast approaching the midnight of a TOTAL surveillance society."
The struggle to find a balance between privacy and "national security" was one of the most contentious topics at the Montreal
Yet, Chertoff defended the US government's approach, saying it collects only a small amount of personal information that isn't highly sensitive nor personal. He did not elaborate on who makes those decisions...
"I think, actually, by focusing on the people who are the higher risk, we are then increasing privacy of the vast majority of innocent travellers," Chertoff claimed.
New rules requiring Canadians to now present passports or other secure identification before crossing the US border and the systematic collection of data from airline passengers are necessary to help officials quickly pin-point individuals who may be a threat, while still maintaining people's rights to privacy, he stated.
That may be true in-so-far as anyone dressed as a member of the Taliban, with bandoleers around his torso...and snarling "Death to America!" for all to hear...
"We have to develop body imaging technology that respects privacy but allows us to quickly, readily and with a minimum of hands-on intrusion to determine whether someone is carrying liquid explosives," Chertoff also stated. Just try and imagine the scenarios of high school drop-outs peering at all the bodies, chuckling and sneering at what they see as potential "weapons" let alone if a liquid or spray is "explosive"...yeah, right.
There are already many cases on record of US military personnel boarding hired passenger planes of being arrested for having their weapons...on their way to Irag. Chertoff said nothing about increasing the intelligence of those who will monitor or examine those innocent passengers...
However, several critics did take issue with Chertoff's assertions and his re-action to being questioned was one of shock, as in "How dare you question me!" Heinrich Himmler probably reacted the same way when asked about State Security controlling everything, everyone in the Nazi Reich...
"For all it's efforts to strong arm the rest of the world, the Bush administration has been ineffective in fighting the so-called war on terrorism," Steinhardt said. I would have added that it is not only a total sham, but the Bush administration are the real terrorists along with all those who back him and his war and the slaughter of the Iraqi peoples and yes, of even the US military personnel in a totally unjustifiable war to try and establish an american dominated planet empire in which everyone must submit to being a "democratic" slave, where everyone is disposable for the greater glory of the oil companies, Israel, Dupont, Monsanto etc., etc. etc.!