drip .. drip .. drip ..

Your American democracy is slowly dripping away.
They track everyone's phone calls, everyone's e-mails, they have a million cameras, and now:
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U.S. tracking citizens' border crossings: report
Wed Aug 20, 2008 

8:32am 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has been using its border checkpoints to collect information on citizens that will be stored for 15 years, raising concern among privacy advocates, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials said the collection is part of a broader effort to guard against terrorist threats, the report said, citing a Federal Register notice the agency issued last month.

[You all read the Federal Register, don't you? That's where you evidently can keep track of your independence.]