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Big Brother Gets a Brain
Gregus writes "The Village Voice delves into the DARPA's latest plan to track people and vehicle movement in cities, ostensibly for urban warfare, though this would be really handy watching 'suspicious' people in any city. "The goal, according to a recent Pentagon presentation to defense contractors, is to 'track everything that moves.' " The actual DARPA RFP and briefings. I just feel more safe all the time."
Nothing to add, I think I pretty much summed it up in $subject
Actions like this adds fuel to the fire that will erupt in revolution. Remember, this country was founded by people that became intensely disgusted with the opressions of their own government.
... how much longer?
Chances are very good that they'd be disgusted today with what their foundations for freedom have become. I think the US government is now far worse than the british government was in 1776.
So, the ultimate question is
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While I beleive that things aren't nearly as bleak as people seem to think (I'll expound on that in another post), it's interesting you bring up McCarthy.
Right now one of the primary voices of this ultra-conservative movement (Anne Coulter I beleive is her name) is spouting off about the VIRTUES of McCarthy. She see's him as one of the most admirable men (her words not mine) of the last century. It's interesting, that it seems in order to protect the 'integrity' of this neo conservative movement, they feel like they have to revise the history of the one that came before it.
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This unfounded, unsubstantiated assertion gets modded as "Insightful"??
Geez, if Slashdot thinks that's insightful, maybe I'll post stories about airplanes and then tell everyone that "Wow...it's just like da Vinci and Jules Verne said it would be....!!"
In any case, this isn't the first time Slashdot has tossed this this DARPA RFP story to its core audience of adolescent male fantasizers. Must sure boost the ad impressions, though.
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But question why those planes flew into the twin towers and the Pentagon. What acts of the US's drove nineteen people to carefully plan their own suicides and mass murder on that scale?
"They hate our Freedom" doesn't cut it. People die to buy their own freedom (even if it's the freedom to oppress others). They don't die just to end other peoples' freedom.
Taking bin Laden (remember him?) at face value, it happened because the USA keeps a presence in Saudi Arabia. Maybe we should be asking our political masters exactly why we do this? Perhaps we should question the unquestionable. Why exactly does the USA need all those military bases across the world?
Well, the world is a dangerous place. It's full of people who want to kill us. For placing military bases in their countries.
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