Want Lower-hassle Airport Screening? Just Give the Government Your Biometric Data— Security Theater Has Always Been a Ruse for Getting You to Willingly Give Up Your Biometric Data

The New World Order (international bankers) wants these biometric products in place for one reason and one reason only. As you may have guessed, it has nothing to do with your personal security. It's all about control. Since the primary goal of the NWO is to enslave the people of the world and to do so with most of those people being basically unaware of their enslavement, biometric identification works perfectly into those plans. By making it ubiquitous and, of course, for “your safety,” they can manipulate the populace into consent. Then, using these systems, they can track, monitor, and control the masses. If anyone steps out of line or threatens the NWO matrix, they can close down their biometric identifiers and make it impossible for their enemies to continue functioning in society. In the end, that is what biometric products are all about — when it comes to non-voluntary compliance with their use — control and enslavement. - TruthIt.net, Electronic National ID Cards and a Cashless Society, July 2006

28 More Airports Will Test Lower-hassle Screening

February 8, 2012

AP - A new passenger screening program to make check-in more convenient for certain travelers is being expanded to 28 more major U.S. airports, the government said Wednesday. There will be no cost to eligible passengers, who would no longer have to remove their shoes and belts before they board flights.

The airports include the three used by hijackers to launch the terror attacks in September 2001: Washington Dulles International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and Boston's Logan International Airport.

The Transportation Security Administration's program, already in a test phase in seven other airports, is the Obama administration's first attempt at a passenger screening program responsive to frequent complaints that the government is not using common sense when it screens all passengers at airports in the same way.

Under the new program, eligible travelers have the option to volunteer more personal information about themselves so that the government can vet them for security purposes before they arrive at airport checkpoints.

"Good, thoughtful, sensible security by its very nature facilitates lawful travel and legitimate commerce," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.

The program works this way: Participating travelers will walk through a dedicated lane at airport security checkpoints. They will provide the TSA officer with a specially marked boarding pass. A machine will read the barcode, and travelers deemed "low-risk," will likely be allowed to keep on belts, shoes and jackets and leave laptops and liquids in bags when being screened.

Not everyone is eligible to participate in the program, which is already being tested at airports in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Minneapolis-St. Paul. Eligible travelers are some of those who participate in American and Delta airlines' frequent flier programs, as well as travelers in three other trusted traveler programs run by the Customs and Border Protection agency, which do charge fees to participate. About 336,000 passengers have been screened through the program since the testing began last year, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

By the end of 2012, the government expects select passengers in frequent flier programs for US Airways, United and Alaska Airlines to be eligible to participate. The program is expected to be operating in Reagan National Airport near Washington, Salt Lake City International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and Chicago's O'Hare International Airport by the end of March.

"We are pleased to expand this important effort, in collaboration with our airline and airport partners, as we move away from a one-size-fits-all approach to a more intelligence-driven, risk-based transportation security system," said TSA chief John Pistole.

Pistole has said he hopes to eventually test the program at all airports and with all airlines around the country, but that might take years.

The program is expected to be operating in these airports by the end of 2012: Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Charlotte Douglas International Airport, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, Denver International Airport, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Honolulu International Airport, New York's LaGuardia Airport, Lambert-St. Louis International Airport, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, Puerto Rico's Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, Orlando International Airport, Philadelphia International Airport, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Pittsburgh International Airport, Oregon's Portland International Airport, San Francisco International Airport, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Florida's Tampa International Airport and Alaska's Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.

TSA Registered Traveler Program - Biographic and Biometric Information Required

July 26, 2008

About.com - The Transportation Security Agency's (TSA) Registered Traveler Program (RT) offers flyers who are willing to undergo -- and pass -- an exhaustive security background check with the most convenient and hassle-free path to the airplane possible under today's airport security procedures.

What You Get

Once program applicants have passed a TSA-conducted security threat assessment (STA) in order to "confirm that they do not pose or are not suspected of posing a threat to transportation or national security," and paid the $28-a-year fee, registered travelers can expect special treatment at participating airports, including:

• Special express security lanes dedicated to RT members;
  
• special on-airport services like concierge service for luggage, and parking privileges; and
  
• discounts for services and concessions.

What You Give

Applicants for the Registered Traveler Program are required to provide both biographic and biometric data needed for TSA to conduct the security threat assessment. The security threat assessment includes checking the applicant's identity against terrorist-related, law enforcement, and immigration databases maintained by TSA.

At the airport screening checkpoint, RT participants verify their status in the program through biometric verification technology, including fingerprint and retinal scanning. They then verify their identity by comparison of their boarding pass against a government issued photo ID.

Five airlines and 16 airports are currently participating in the Registered Traveler Program. TSA hopes to add more airlines and airports in the future.

The RT program is open to all U.S. citizens, lawful permanent resident aliens or nationals of the United States.

The Registered Traveler Program is a cooperative effort between the TSA and private sector vendors. The TSA sets the qualification standards, conducts the threat assessment background checks and oversees the program. The TSA's private sector partners take care of member enrollment, check-in identity verification, provision of the various on-airport services and marketing.

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