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MATRIX - A Dossier for Every Person in Utah
jxs2151 writes: "According to the Deseret Morning News former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt signed Utah's 2.4 million residents up for a pilot program that gathers dossiers on every single man, woman and child and didn't bother to tell anyone. According to the article MATRIX -- Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange '...cross-references government records from both public and private databases, putting together a dossier on individuals for use by law enforcement.' The state's homeland security specialist dismisses concerns: '...any data gleaned for Utah's participation in MATRIX is information already available to law enforcement.'
The Utah legislature is trying to figure out how to get the state out of the program but the question is how was the Governor able to enroll the -whole state- without anyone knowing?"
You don't need to ask. You just need to have twenty five cents
Thank-you former Governor Mike leavitt for sending us Utahns DOWN THE RIVER!
No wonder that President Bush likes you so much
P.S. Come near my house and I will "Enlibra" you!!
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
To make the database even more interesting, the prophet (whoever that happens to be at the moment) can reassign wives at will. If you (assuming you are a guy) get out of line (question the prophet, etc.) then you lose your wives, your house, your kids, your shiny little thrown in heaven, your planet (apparently you get a planet full of people to worship you if you are sufficiently "righteous".). Krakhauer's book indicates that kids might switch owners several times in their lives.
To straighten the wives out in heaven, apparently women are built with a cool password encryption device. When you get sealed (which is different from getting married) the bishop assigns the girl a password. Having the password is more powerful than being married. Of course, the bishop knows all the passwords, which is scary...but I guess heaven needs sysadmins too. Joseph Smith had the secret password to a lot of other men's wives. He will get to take the wives in heaven. Joseph Smith will have one of the biggest harems. Not quite as big as Jesus' harem, but it will be a mighty impressive collection.
There is a baptizing the dead game that goes on. I am not sure what rights you get over the people who you baptize in proxy.
Back to the government database. The other really interesting trick in Utah's colorful culture is that people are taught to hate and mistrust the government. Meaning they often don't fill out any paperwork on kids. (I wouldn't be surprised if the ones on the dole don't occasionally fill out paper work on kids twice to double their take from the evil government).
BTW: When you look at all the funkiness going on with the wives, you can see why, in Utah, company's think you can contribute to an GNU project and keep their copyright too.