He fought the law and the law won… This guy wants to retire – so this is your chance to take up the duties of the [trumpets:da da da da] Sign Avenger!
Hmm, I wonder if you get to design your own costume?
Nov 212002
Well, every purchase you make is going to be tracked by the U.S. Government – so get used to it…. Hopefully you don’t buy too many things that “they” consider suspicious eh?
A massive database that the government will use to monitor every purchase made by every American citizen is a necessary tool in the war on terror, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
Edward Aldridge, undersecretary of Acquisitions and Technology, told reporters that the Pentagon is developing a prototype database to seek “patterns indicative of terrorist activity.” Aldridge said the database would collect and use software to analyze consumer purchases in hopes of catching terrorists before it’s too late.
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It would also combine consumer information with visa records, passports, arrest records or reports of suspicious activity given to law enforcement or intelligence services.
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TIAF’s office logo is now one eye scanning the globe. The translation of the Latin motto: knowledge is power. Some say, possibly too much power. “What this is talking about is making us a nation of suspects and I am sorry, the United States citizens should not have to live in fear of their own government and that is exactly what this is going to turn out to be,” said Chuck Pena, senior defense policy analyst at the Cato Institute.
I’m sorry… but aren’t you WORRIED yet…???!!! You should be:
If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you:
Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend — all these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as “a virtual, centralized grand database.”
To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources, add every piece of information that government has about you — passport application, driver’s license and bridge toll records, judicial and divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance — and you have the supersnoop’s dream: a “Total Information Awareness” about every U.S. citizen.
This is not some far-out Orwellian scenario. It is what will happen to your personal freedom in the next few weeks if John Poindexter gets the unprecedented power he seeks.
This is not fiction, and it is no longer something you can afford to disregard – the freedoms that we’ve cherished for so long in this country are being ripped out from under your feet.
Don’t think it doesn’t matter to you, that it won’t affect you – because by the time it does, it will be too late to do a thing about it.
CONTACT YOUR SENATORS NOW to let them know you do not approve of such bastardization of the concepts this country was founded upon and what its Constitution represents. Tell them to amend this unacceptable version of the Homeland Security Act. It is the most American thing you could do.
With Great Power…
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Nov 062002
I just hope the Republicans remember...
"With great power, comes great responsibility."
BOOOOO!
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Oct 302002
A police chief in South Carolina is afraid of Halloween pranksters….
McCaster wants the townsfolk to turn off their lights tomorrow night and not answer the doorbell.
Instead, the town plans a party in a local park. Officers and other volunteers in costume will be handing out treats to the kids.
He says pranksters have caused too much trouble in the past to make Halloween fun.
Puh-lease – talk about the sanitizing of Halloween! And won’t you feel like an outsider if you don’t attend their Halloween “community party”?
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