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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."
Hahaha... This is a horrible troll, but at least it is a funny and creative one. GG man.
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.
"I'm so glad their civil liberties oversight group consists of people from "DoD and the Intelligence Community"."
Is this any better than the ACLU? The ACLU has an entire division devoted to pushing policy in which people are denied rights if they have the wrong skin color. They are also side with the censors when there are court cases in which individuals get in trouble for speaking up if their words involve the "wrong" religion.
If you are really concerned about due process and free speech, you won't support the Anti-Civil Liberties Union, either.
"Unfortunatley now there isn't much separation or balance... as if you don't blindly vote for GW's cabinet's policies, you are branded "unpatriotic" and "soft on terror", which as every good Dem knows, is a bad thing to be labled when you want to get re-elected."
This is because the Democrats too often put national security as a lower priority than playing politics.
Look at the Homeland Security Department. The Democrats caved into the union thugs and actually tried to hold it up unless its workers were forced to join unions.
"The question is not whether the links are good. The question is whether the information is true."
Sorry, I was not clear. The links are "good" in that they do go to valid HTTP links. They are "Bad" in that they go to links to crackpot pages with bad information.
"Most people in the U.S. are not aware of the U.S. government's support for violent dictatorships, for example."
That is because the U.S. either did not support them, or made the choice between a native dictator and much worse invaders.
"But that support is not disputed by those who have studied the history"
It certainly is, by any but the extreme left wing fringe.
poor white trash inmigrants? fuck off, cunt.