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Pentagon to Track American Consumer Purchases?
Anonymous Nerd writes "I was looking at Fox News today and came accross this gem of a story . It seems the Pentagon wishes to create a massive database of every transaction made in America. I wonder how they plan to track purchases made with cash?"
I don't have that big a problem with that, providing all the politicians get their transactions logged and screened as well. That'll probably clean up a lot of problems...
(I also pay in cash alot, so nyeh!)
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My paycheck is direct deposited, but other than that I deal almost entirely in cash, so I make "large" withdrawals every week. Three times this year I've purchased a one-way rail ticket for a 300 mile journey to meet up with friends and travel back with them by car. I've rented a car once this year. I have a collection of firearms.
Yep. Terrorist.
Oh, brother.
Big Brother, that is.
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I wonder how they plan to track purchases made with cash?
Precisely why from now on I will NEVER use my credit card when making crack purchases.
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"Anybody with that kind of record is gonna make a mistake. I want all party members in the tri state district to monitor the city, county and state police on their CB. Mr. Shade is gonna fuck up. And when he does, he'd better pray the police get to him before we do."
Dear Pentagon,
Rear Adm. John Poindexter is going to spend a buttload of money to build a supercomputer when a phone call would do - yep, I dig porn. I hope that satisfies your curiousity. I stop in the adult book store occasionally. And he's going to log all of my web hits? Mostly porn sites. You want a back door to my computer? Just to save you the effort it's full of porn. Go figure.
So by everyone just speaking up and admitting they dig porn, perhaps we won't need to build this computer. Maybe we can save some tax money and spend it on KILLING THE FUCKING TERRORISTS!!!!!
I mean, for christ sake! Logging everything the CITIZENS of this contry do and say and buy! Hey, why not track who we fuck? What we eat? Stick our DNA in there for good measure! How we vote! Record every one of our phone calls and store them!
I know you're a bit freaked out after Sept. 11, but TRACKING THE CITIZENS of this country doesn't make much sense when the attacks were carried out by NON-CITIZENS!!! Track them! Prove it by tracking one! Just one. Track OBL and snuff him!
Wanna make a difference?? CONTROL OUR FUCKING BORDERS and reform the INS!
PS - Being that the supercomputer and database are likely to exist already, and the law was just a nice formality, then I imagine this message will actually make it's way to you. I hope it provides you with some amusement, being that I am just a pion, insignificant. Just an American.
Gotta go, Big Brother! Gonna eat a cheeseburger and watch the Victoria's Secret show. You probably knew that already, but I'm just making sure.
Precisely why from now on I will NEVER use my credit card when making crack purchases.
But if you don't use your credit card, you're missing out on the Cash Back! And the Bonus Miles!
Why get just crack, when you could earn credit towards a trip to Bolivia?