A woman returning from a pleasant vacation cruise was grabbed off the ship by a Federal goon squad and thrown into the slammer just because their "Total Information" system (incorrectly) told them she had failed to pay a lousy $50 ticket! Imagine what life will be like once these boneheads start arbitrarily flagging people as "terrorists".

"Hope Clarke, 32, crying and in leg shackles, told the judge she was rousted at 6:30 a.m. by federal agents after the ship returned to Miami from [Cancun] Mexico. She insisted that she had been required to pay the $50 fine [for leaving some marshmallows at a campsite] before she could leave Yellowstone Park..."

See: AP article (2004-06-23)