From: Bill Scannell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 2:45 PM Subject: Re: Email on your BoycottDelta ?
In response to Delta Air Line's utter lack of concern with the privacy of
their customers demonstrated by their participation in a test of the CAPPS
II system, a Delta disinvestment campaign has been launched at:
http://www.boycottdelta.org .
The idea of citizens having to undergo a background investigation that
includes personal banking information and a credit check simply to travel in
his or her own country is invasive and un-American. The CAPPS II system
goes far beyond what any thinking citizen of this country should consider
reasonable.
I believe a big part of the motivation for CAPPS II is to get access to more and more of the credit and banking information. People have to travel, and if by traveling they have to consent to having their bank information turned over to Big Brother, guess who benefits?
CAPPS II is just one of the input sources for Total Information Awareness, the computerized realization of Orwell's worst nightmares.
I expect the same sort of "voluntary mandatory" waiver of privacy rights will soon be happening with driver's licenses, gun purchases, and even enrollment in schools.
"No, you don't have to sign this waiver authoring the Department of Homeland Security to examine your bank accounts, your credit card purchases, your Customer Courtesy Card purchases at grocery stores, your video rental records. You are free not to sign the waiver. And we are free not to give you a driver's license. Driving is a privilege granted by the state, not a right!"
"If you don't sign this waiver, your child cannot be enrolled at Winston Smith Elementary. You don't want terrorist children in our school, now do you?"
And so on.
I've already created a .sig to use for my support of this boycott.
May Delta Airlines be the next turkey to declare bankruptcy!!
--Tim May
Join the boycott against Delta Airlines for their support of the Big Brotherish "CAPPS II" citizen-unit tracking program.
http://www.boycottdelta.org http://boycottdelta.org/images/deltaeyebanner.gif
With our help, Delta Airlines may be joining United and US Air in the bankruptcy scrap heap.
