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No More Travel Abuses by the Department of Homeland Security!

Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: American Civil Liberties Union

Traveling shouldn't mean checking your rights when you're checking your luggage. Yet the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continues to ask Americans to sacrifice more and more of their privacy for an illusion of security.

Among the DHS' offenses are:

1. Security agents who search laptops and other electronics as Americans enter the United States, with no suspicion of wrongdoing.

2. Invasive airport scanners that let agents conduct virtual strip searches of passengers.

3. A terrorist watch list with more than 1 million names on it, growing by 20,000 names per month.

4. A proposal to have every traveler wear an "electro-muscular disruption" bracelet that airline personnel or marshals could use to shock passengers into submission.

These policies are invasive, abusive and ineffective. It's time for some sanity when it comes to security. Tell Congress we need humane, effective reforms that will keep us safe while protecting citizens' dignity.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 10,000

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Dear Congressperson:

Traveling shouldn't mean checking your rights when you're checking your luggage.

Yet, more and more, the Department of Homeland Security is asking Americans to sacrifice their privacy for an illusion of security. I urge you to introduce legislation to protect the civil liberties of travelers and conduct vigorous oversight. Please:

1. Overhaul the broken terrorist watch list.

In July, the terrorist watch list surpassed 1 million names, and it is growing at over 20,000 names per month, according to reports by the DOJ Inspector General. Congress needs to rip this list up and start again. It should be limited to actual terrorists. Innocent travelers need a way to get off the watch list and real checks and balances if DHS is non-responsive.

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We signed the “No More Travel Abuses by the Department of Homeland Security!” petition:

# 5,628:

7:55 pm PST, Nov 19, John Soto, Texas

# 5,627:

5:30 pm PST, Nov 18, Yuri Varvak, Massachusetts

# 5,626:

4:12 pm PST, Nov 16, Kelly Gochomoto, California

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12:16 pm PST, Nov 16, Kimberly Lewis, Oregon

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6:03 pm PST, Nov 15, Hannah Raines, Tennessee

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12:41 am PST, Nov 15, Diana Quinn, Tennessee

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6:33 am PST, Nov 13, Filomena Pereira, United Kingdom

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12:56 pm PST, Nov 12, Kevin Brown, Illinois

# 5,620:

12:24 pm PST, Nov 12, Name not displayed, California

# 5,619:

10:23 am PST, Nov 12, Jessica Peimann, California
This has reached the point of ridiculous. I was searched because I had bar soap in my carry-on bag. This needs to stop. Searching people where warranted is acceptable, but it becomes a violation of privacy when it goes overboard, which it has done.

# 5,618:

9:09 am PST, Nov 12, Anthony Houghton, California

# 5,617:

7:55 am PST, Nov 12, Anna Varvak, California
Besides, the inspectors don't follow their own rules. Last year, I brought a frozen bottle of water---clearly a solid, not a liquid---but I was not allowed to take it through because "no liquids are allowed in more than 4 ounce bottles".

# 5,616:

10:19 pm PDT, Nov 1, Leslie Crofford, Texas
You people keep wasting tax dollars on your 1950's mcCarthy type hysteria and the ones that get messed with are the american people. As far as terrorism go: Did bin laden take our rights away?

# 5,615:

9:06 pm PDT, Oct 24, Lloyd Scott, Nevada
This is an abomination and un-constitutional.

# 5,614:

3:46 am PDT, Oct 24, Erik Sjodin, Sweden

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8:27 pm PDT, Oct 23, Kristina O'Brien, New York
It's good to have security measures, BUT nothing too personal! Shocking people?! HELL NO!! That should be severe desperate measures! And virtual strip search?! EW!!! Yes, I'm one of the few terrified to fly because of 9/11, but I don't think extremities are necessary!

# 5,612:

3:00 pm PDT, Oct 22, Molly Robison, California

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11:40 am PDT, Oct 22, John E Kelleher, New York

# 5,610:

4:47 pm PDT, Oct 21, Jackie Connolly, Michigan

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2:27 pm PDT, Oct 21, Elisabeth Rhee, California
It is precisely our civil liberties that make this such a wonderful country to live in. Please don't undermine the very definition of what it means to be an American Citizen by taking away those liberties.

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11:30 am PDT, Oct 20, Ashley Galindo, Texas

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8:53 pm PDT, Oct 19, Margaret Anderson, California

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6:15 pm PDT, Oct 19, Tashia Mccarty, Maryland

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1:46 am PDT, Oct 18, Lynn Orion, California

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10:24 am PDT, Oct 16, NICKIE SMITH, Michigan

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1:53 pm PDT, Oct 13, Zandy Payton, California

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1:38 am PDT, Oct 13, Christine Faelnar, Philippines

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8:02 pm PDT, Oct 10, Lisa LaRocco, Pennsylvania

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