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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."

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  1. To quote article about company founder: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seisint Inc., is a Boca Raton, Fla., company founded by a millionaire, Hank Asher, who stepped down from its board of directors last year after revelations of past ties to drug smugglers.

    Right, drug smuggler leading government to find terrorists.. Hmmm, anyone else see problem with that?

  2. Re:Fuck you America by gspr · · Score: 0, Redundant

    RIGHT ON! If only I had mod points!

  3. Repost Re:Fuck you America by xpccx · · Score: 1, Redundant
  4. Re:Fuck you America by XiX36 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    its all about the gain of American Hegemony (TM) over the world, so that a few of the aristocracy can enjoy 90 percent of the worlds wealth .. and what scraps they miss the rest of us get to keep...
    they prefer a nation divided .. despite what they say about 'United We Stand' ... look to the entertainment they create, political correctness is another method of creating OTHER... that which is not us is OTHER .. and therefore LESSER ..
    the lure of aristocratic lifestyle is very ancient... only until fairly recently (in the lifespan of humanity) has there emerged a significant middle class, but that middle class is now not only shrinking but it is subjected to propaganda that those at the bottom who are falling into the realm of poverty do not see what is happening, and those at the upper reaches of the middle class belive they are members of the elite few at the top.. but the majority never rise above lackeys to the counts and dukes and barons of this new era of royalty...
    the american dream of rags to riches, is naught but a myth, with but a handful of examples...

    as to the war in iraq... if you belive that this invasion of a country was to help develope democracy in a nation we had absolutely no trouble at all in giving their dictator money, arms, and WMD's until the 1990's ... then i wish you well in your blinded ignorance ....

    by the way, drafting may commence in the latter part of 2005 ... and its going to be alot harder to run to canada this time around . . .

    well sorry for the rambling, half awake babbling but we must wake up from our dream state, and confront the powers that be that we will no longer tolerate being used as cannon fodder in their wars of profit...

    "Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, IT IS THE LEADERS of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. IT WORKS THE SAME IN ANY COUNTRY."

    --Goering at the Nuremberg Trials

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  5. Re:Fuck you America by LaCosaNostradamus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Firstly, what's going on is an unholy American-Israeli Axis of evil. They are out to conquer the world, pure and simple. If you think otherwise, you haven't read enough books, and you clearly avoid understanding current news events.

    Secondly, America is busily killing itself off. The question for you is: how much of a fight will this vicious animal put up before it finally slumps into a mess of decaying debris?

    I say this as a native American citizen, writing now in Toledo, Ohio. I'm in the veritable belly of the beast.

    Contrary to what the people in the Middle East think, who have had to pick out the bodies of their relatives out of the rubble of their homes after the action of American and Israeli bombs, the real war is being fought in America. And the good guys are losing.

    Behind the mercenary killers of the world's leading terrorist group -- the US Military -- there are millions of American taxpayers who are willingly paying into the system that buys all those bombs, bullets, guns and planes. It's gone too far to stop with just negotiation and diplomacy. Hence Bin Laden's use of airliners as missiles. Bin Laden obviously believed that America and Israel could no longer be negotiated with ... and he's right, even before 911.

    I'd like to say to the free peoples of the world, "hey, America is busy eating it's own belly, don't worry, just wait until Joe Sixpack finally can't even afford to drive to his workplace anymore", but I can't do that without acknowledging that the American military (rapacious as it is now) has yet to go truly beserk and wildly attack the free peoples of the world from the prompting of the millions of cowards living in (relative) safety inside America's enormously wide borders.

    My advice to you is to actively marginalize the American-Israeli Axis as much as you can. Refuse to buy American or Israeli goods and refuse to use their services. Don't buy their bonds. And take further steps that demonstrate your power as an individual citizen of your own nation: When American or Israeli "leaders" show up in your country, urge your officals to deny entry; stay away from their parades; and overall demonstrate that you don't want such butchers setting foot in your peaceful area.

    America's military forces need financial backing, like any mercenary force. If you marginalize their finances, then you can deny that pack of killers their ability to cross the world and drop bombs on you.

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    [You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]