IP: Amtrak 'Sharing' Information With D.E.A. (fwd)

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
>Subject: Amtrak 'Sharing' Information With D.E.A. (fwd)
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu (David Farber)
>
>Big Brother Rides the Rails.
>
>
>X-URL: 
>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/15/weekinreview/15BOXA.html?pagewanted=print
>
>April 15, 2001
>
>Amtrak 'Sharing' Information With D.E.A.
>
>Something to think about next time you decide to ride the rails:
>Amtrak has acknowledged that one of its ticketing offices has been
>"sharing information" about passengers with the Drug Enforcement
>Administration, and then taking a 10 percent cut of any assets
>seized from drug couriers.
>
>..................
>
>
>------
>You can't fly without an "approved" ID. If you drive, and you're
>a minority, watch out in NJ. The trains are now covered. That
>leaves walking, but wasn't no less than Matt Blaze stopped for
>being Carless in California?
>
>So much for that pesky BoR thing.
>
>
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