TSA plans to conduct a domestic Registered Traveler program.

http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/01jan20051800/edocket.access.gpo.gov/2005/E5-7407.htm

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TSA plans to conduct a domestic Registered Traveler (RT) program
nation-wide in 2006. This program is designed to positively identify
individuals participating in the program as registered travelers via
advanced identification technologies, for the purposes of expediting
those passengers' travel experience at the airport security
checkpoints, and thereby enabling TSA to improve the allocation of
security resources at TSA security checkpoints in the Nation's
airports.

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Use of Results

TSA will use the results of the biographic and biometric data
collection to verify an applicant's claimed identity and to perform a
security threat assessment on the individual volunteering for the
program and check immigration status to ensure eligibility for the
program. The security threat assessment is essential for TSA to
determine whether the applicant presents, or is suspected of
presenting, a threat to transportation security. Individuals who do not
pose, or are not suspected of posing, a threat to transportation
security, and otherwise meet all other eligibility requirements for the
RT program, will be afforded enhanced benefits at the TSA security
checkpoints.
TSA Headquarters personnel and individual service providers, air
carriers, and airports will use the results of the surveys and
interviews to evaluate and improve customer service and operational
efficiency of this program.

When I was a school kid, back during the Cold War years, we were taught that one of the issues separating American democracy from totalitarian dictatorships was freedom to travel unhindered by "the authorities." Soviet citizens, we were told, had to "present their papers" in order to travel from place to place, while Americans were free to travel anonymously and unconstrained, especially within their own country. How quickly we've sacrificed that freedom for the illusion of protection from shadowy "threats."

pleez.

show your travel papers!


its only a matter of time now...

And don't tell me that isn't exactly how the game is going to be played.

If I were a bad guy in government, I would turn this into a way to harrass and ultimately prevent my political enemies from traveling.