Homeland Security is making me angry!

In My Humble Opinion
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So, I’m going on a cruise in a couple of weeks (yay!) and we were told that we should go to this site and complete a “FunPass” (“Satisfy all governmental information requirements”) Mkay, no problem.

So, you have to pick your reservation code and sailing date and whatnot. Then I have put in my full name, ssn, permanent address and phone number. Oooh-kay. I feel kind of icky now, but I put it in.

Next, you enter your full passport information. What? But I’ll have to show that when I sail, so no biggy. And I already gave all my personal info, so here ya go.

Finally, I have to enter in all the flight information for my flight home - airline, departure time, flight number, the works. What the hell is this?

I think this has something to do with CAPS II system they’re implementing - eventually, everybody that flies is going to be doing this (I’ve seen articles on The Register, but I can’t find them now)

For the record, I went ahead and did this, even though I hate it. I’m not angry enough to ruin my vacation to make a point. So besides non-complience, is there anything I can do to stop this ridiculousness? How do you guys feel about this?

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Sucks.

And it’s not like their going to use any of this information. It is COMPLETELY useless. It is a waste of time.

First of all, given the volume of information I doubt they are really paying the thousands upon thousands of individuals needed to sort through this info for verification.

So it is of no use to PREVENT terrorism.

If you are a terrorist and plan on blowing somethign up, you are going to LIE on this questionaire like there’s no tomorrow.

So it doesn’t help much after the fact.

It’s just another way for these people to look like their doing something so as to make sure they keep receiving their nice fat paychecks at the end of the week.