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Heavily armed guards at the entrances to malls and restaurants. Individuals deemed "suspicious" recinded without formal charges or lawyer. Would a "safe" America even look like America anymore? One of the few journalists to permeate the new counter terror initiative, Matthew Brzezinski provides an insider's go through the new technology, laws, tactics, and persistent vulnerabilities of the post-9/11 time. The effect is this startling, sometimes controversial check out what it will take to attain genuine homeland security and what it could be prefer to live inside Fortress America. Is this what a safe America will look like?

• Cameras at airport ticket counters that can notify if you are pressured
• Satellites and security equipment that can easily see through the surfaces of your home
• Computer programs with the capacity of spotting abnormal behavior
• National ID "smart" cards encoding your individual, financial, and medical information necessary for electronic police area checks

In the aftermath of September 11th, a massive work has been launched to protect us from another terrorist episode. But the costs of safeguarding our country will require not only unprecedented amounts of funding, but dramatic changes in the manner People in the usa lead their every day lives. Is this the new price of liberty?

• Mandatory chips installed in every cell phones and automobiles that must locate you instantly within twelve back yards
• Patriot II legislation that can arbitrarily revoke citizenship and invite terrorist sympathizers to vanish with out a track
• Transponder implants that may be injected in to the body of prisoners, international nationals, as well as perhaps 1 day all US citizens....

Such high-tech measures are not the products of knowledge fiction but in many cases already are being put in place. As Brzezinski discovers, similar measures have been in use for years in security areas like Israel. But will People in the usa trade liberty for security? Will they have a choice? And can even the most radical measures insure that a 9/11 style episode won't happen again? From an unheeded warning six years before the WTC catastrophe to dramatic war-game scenarios secretly conducted at Andrews Air Push Bottom part and chilling on-site simulations of genuine attacks, Fortress America paints a sobering picture into the future of liberty...and what life may end up like in a maximum security state.