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Act On Total Information Awareness
pberry writes "The EFF Action Center has two new alerts (1, 2) on stopping "Total Information Awareness." TIA is a collection of DARPA-funded initiatives that are very scary.
The project is headed by Admiral John Poindexter and has no implementation guidelines thus far. In other words, it is misguided to say that these tools will be used in any particular way, but it is clear that if they do what they say they will, America could be a very scary place to live."
The only way to halt TIA is to overwhelmingly convince a lot of people that they would be hurt if TIA were implemented.
However, abuses of TIA by bureaucracies and, indeed, by corporations, are a slow creeping disease that impacts only a small percentage of the population.
The question is: when the abuses grow to the point where a lot of people do disagree with them, will those people have the power to change what they see wrong?
By that time, however, disagreement with TIA will be viewed as "aiding and abetting terrorists" and could be accompanied by suspension of various rights, particularly voting.
People don't seem to care if they get a cure that's worse than the disease.
"Provided by the management for your protection."
I found this to be pretty interesting.
The logo really sums up their motives nicely.
"When all else fails, there's always delusion." -Conan O'Brien
Seriously, all the info required to catch the hijackers was *already in government hands,* specifically in the FBI's hands. The FBI, being too busy chasing "eco-terrorists" (read: people who torch unoccupied SUVs), just didn't work with in the information.
... go ahead. I for one am losing sleep wondering when the DoD will decide that my politics and credit card purchases make me a "terrorist." Hear that? The predator drones are coming to a jeep near you!
Spying on the populace is NOT THE DoD's JOB; there is no way in hell we should tolerate the militarization of domestic intelligence, and there's no way we should hold our genitals as the DoD assembles massive amounts of private info, especially when there are much easier ways of preventing terrorism (not giving money to terrorists, having the FBI do its job, etc).
Anyways, remember the last time the DoD mass-militarized domestic security? We got internment camps on the West Coast.
But if being a sucker allows you to sleep better at night
If you've got flash, watch this. Good political flash cartoons at this site. Go up a level to see more.
Yes. Policy is one of the USA's largest exports, second only to entertainment.
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Do ya feel happy-go-lucky, punk?
If we can't save freedom, can we at least put it out of its misery
Karma: Censored (mostly affected by decency laws)
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is pushing for public hearings against TIA and for cutting its funding!?!? This is the same woman who walked out on testimony by Phil Zimmerman and Bruce Schneier during the crypto debates, absolutely refusing to listen to them. Color me shocking blue.
DMCA - Chilling free speech since 1998.
If you've got a "shoppers club" card with your name attached to it. Give it up. Cut it up. Get another one - without your real name and address.
Better yet trade them with your friends and neighbors on a regular basis.
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