Former Congressman Bob Barr has filed formal objections to CAPPS II , the Passenger Profiling System. Barr calls the proposed profiling system unconsitutional, unfair and ineffective.

Barr, who occupies the 21st Century Liberties Chair for Privacy and Freedom at the American Conservative Union, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, submitted six pages of reasons why the proposed system violated provisions of the U.S. Constitution, including citizens' right to privacy. Barr also included in his objections, recommendations that other, less intrusive and constitutional steps by the government would be more likely to identify terrorists than the vast database of information on the travelling public, whose only "crime" leading the government to gather evidence against them, was that they needed to travel by air.

Way to go, Bob. Nice to have you on our side on this one.