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:Hypocritical griping? Physician, heal thyself

[dmitriy]

And why precisely should I trust ACLU?

With their "Action Alerts" like this:

Patriot Act: Urge Congress to Reject Ashcroft's Veto Threat

Marriage Amendment: Oppose Writing Intolerance into the Constitution

Urge Congress to Stop Racial Profiling

their political views fall squarely on one side of the aisle.

Re:Wrong.

[nursedave]

In reference to your people of the book statement; Christians and Jews (NOT Muslims) are called people of the book. In Mohammed's (from this point on called "Big Mo") early days, when he was given sanctuary by the now spinning-in-their-graves Jews and Christians while he was being chased by his fellow Arabs who wanted to kill him, he 'received' the message from Allah about the 'people of the book.'

Later, after he had gathered a large following of people attracted to his success as a highway robber (he and his fellow Muslims attacked villages, travelling caravans, etc, killing the men and raping the women), he began receiving NEW direction from Allah, that gave them orders to kill those who do not convert. Reverence for the 'people of the book' disappeared. Instructions that it was permissible by Allah to rape the women captured in war made the budding Islam that much more attractive, plus an afterlife of service by those whom you have killed, while you spend your time with the 72 virgin women and 28 young nubile boys, since you are promised the sexual prowess of 100 men (homosexuality, while condemned in the Koran, it ironically permitted in Paradise, and it was quite popular back in Mo's day).

So, if this is the PROTECTION of which you speak, this infidel wants the OPT-OUT number.