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Senate Wants Database Dragnet

Posted by samzenpus on from the big-brother dept.

Doc Ruby writes "Wired reports that the "Senate could pass a bill as early as Wednesday evening that would let government counter-terrorist investigators instantly query a massive system of interconnected commercial and government databases that hold billions of records on Americans".

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  1. I GOT A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS IS PATRIOTIC





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  2. Good For Us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    This could be a valuable tool in the War Against Terror.

    I, for one am glad we have this new technology to pour thru the massive amounts of data that is available, but hard to analyze. These computers can do a better job finding interesting patterns or other anomalies that might indicate the presence of bad guys.

    My Rights against being killed by a evil, Islamo-terrorist should be better protected by this new tool.

    1. Re:Good For Us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      I'm having trouble comprehending why the parent was marked as FlameBait? It's the truth 'buddys' they are Islamo Terrorists (Or Fundementalists as the PC news calls em). Would you rather live your life in knowing that the chances of a terrorist attack are low or would you love to live in fear? Of course we could vote Kerry and treat terrorism as a nusiance and get our welfare checks to fix the problem we made when we selected a dead-end job.

  3. Re:billions of records? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's not about the terrorists and it never was. The Bush administration is using the terrorists to scare the population into sacrificing rights and freedoms.

    The real goal is to turn the US into a fundamentalist facist state with dubya and his cronies in charge. They're succeeding beautifully.

    If Bush wins this election, I'd bet $1000 he uses the threat of terrorists as an excuse to change the law so he can have a 3rd term.

  4. Re:As I said before... by allism · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I have to wonder if Kerry and Edwards are going to show up to vote on this...

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