Because they are standing up for the principle the peddling or receiving stolen goods is a crime?

I would too, but only because I'd be staring intently at the pixels, projectors, screen...

I’ll take that bet.

I’m glad someone got it!

why worry about intrusive surveillance when aliens are going to come and kill us all a la War of the Worlds.?

I knew it. A fucking movie is driving your paranoia. Clueless.

how about showing your passport and allowing someone to compare the photo to your face. So invasive!

"And now your car is good for another 100k miles!"

Don't you fucking dare park this on the street!

Good. Enjoy the cavity search.

Collecting photons being reflected off your eyeball in order to identify you in a public place where you are REQUIRED to be identified cannot possibly be deemed 'invasive'. Go back to law school.

Fuck off troll.

not at all. And it would only be pervasive if they weren't only at one place, customs and border checkpoints.

I'm pretty sure that's the case, as long as you don't mind having the roof rack ripped off.

I have a solution for you...

Ummm, they don't READ your personal email.

ESL device?

Shit, then I suggest you immediately revise your plans to wage jihad on the mainland.

Yeah, because the NSA reads Gawker! lol

I think you mean "pervasive" but wrote "invasive" in the title. Unless of course one of those biometrics they plan on using is Prostate Recognition.