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Pentagon Soft-Pedals Total Information Awareness
PizzaFace writes "Congress was concerned that the Pentagon's 'Total Information Awareness' program would invade citizens' privacy, so it gave the program the red light until the Pentagon addressed Congress's privacy concerns. DARPA, the Pentagon technology agency that brought us the Internet in more innocent times, showed its Total Marketing Awareness by renaming the TIA program, 'Terrorism Information Awareness.' The gist of its report seems to be that data may be collected from everyone, but it will only be used against evildoers. You can read DARPA's report and a background story from the Washington Post."
Perhaps you would have preferred Gulags where they worked you to death, or you counted trees. (1930s Soviet Union)
Perhaps you'd enjoy having your head severed by a guillotine in good old liberal France because you were not Jacobin enough. (1793-95)
Maybe you'd prefer having your kids have little red books and informing on you, often with deadly results. (60's China)
Perhaps you'd prefer being a Pathan tribesman in what is modern-day Afghanistan during the British-run Afghan Wars. Lots of rapine, slaughter, moreso than the Indian campaigns. (1830s-1850s)
There are no such things as Native Americans, we all migrated here at one time or another from Eurasia.
I could go on and on. It's amazing how fast we forget and take things out of historical context...
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
poor white trash inmigrants? fuck off, cunt.