What's Your Terrorism Quotient?

unassimilatible writes "From the Department of Pre-Crime, the AP reports: before helping to launch the criminal information project known as Matrix (Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange), a database contractor gave U.S. and Florida authorities the names of 120,000 people who showed a statistical likelihood of being terrorists - sparking some investigations and arrests. The 'high terrorism factor' scoring system also became a key selling point for the involvement of the database company, Seisint Inc., in the Matrix project. According to Seisint's presentation, dated January 2003 and marked confidential, the 120,000 names with the highest scores were given to the INS, FBI, Secret Service and Florida state police. Seisint and the law enforcement officials who oversee Matrix insist that the terrorism scoring system ultimately was kept out of the project, largely because of privacy concerns."

Comments

Re:Jesus wants us to eat pork

[ChuyMatt]

My brother worked with 2 Pakistani guys at a pizza shop. One of the was uber devout, would not TOUCH pork. the other did the 5 times prayer thing and, out of sight of his countryman, chowed on canadian bacon and ham.

When my brother asked him he said that he had been like that, then he called his dad his 2nd month in the states. His dad asked him how he was liking America. He explained his difficulties in keeping clean from pork "contamination." His dad laughed and told him

"son, you need to try ham and bacon. Sometimes sin is good. The profit didn't know what the hell he was missing"

Re:Time to get out of here

[corbettw]

As someone raised muslim, with a muslim name ( and one that happens to correspond to that of an at-large chechen terrorist ) I'll wager it's time to get out of this country.

Well, see, here's the thing: if you're no longer a Muslim, once you leave here you'll find yourself in danger from other Muslims, especially if you go to Europe (Europe is about 20 years away from being yet another Islamic state, thanks to all the immigration recently). So you'll have to change your name to a "non-Muslim" one, just to be safe. And since you'll have to do that anyway, you might as well do it in the States and just stay here, saving yourself the effort.

Pick a simple one, like John Quincy Smith. Or one based on your personal heroes, whoever they may be.