"Soon we expect to be able to collect DNA samples from a few ml. of fartgas. DARPA and Admiral Poindexter have expressed interest in this technology to test people in airport lines for possible terrorist tendencies."
Gives new meaning to the term, "cavity search".
Seriously, I fear my DNA, my very essence, will soon not belong to me.
"On the one hand, we want people with outstanding warrants to be caught," said Dempsey. "On the other hand, we have not been a checkpoint society. We will fundamentally change the nature of our society if we start exploiting our society's gates for general law enforcement."
We are now a checkpoint society. Driving a car? We'll just stop everyone to make sure noone is drunk, and while we're at it, we'll check all your papers and ask you where you are going etcetera, abusing fourth amendment probable cause protections. Sorry sir, fourth amendment doesn't apply. Driving is a privilege, and there is immplied consent for searches. Besides, what kind of sick individual wouldn't want to be searched at the drop of a hat if it will stop drunks. The one ray of hope in the ever increasing nightmare: Poindexter might soon be history.
Sco nips at the heels of the penquin swimming to its breeding ground. The great white MS, following the blood trail, moves in for the kill.
Information is power, and the powerful want to limit your access to it, unless you first pay tribute, i.e. money to them. It's always about power and money, and sorry, but we can't allow you to have much of either one or the other.
At my local supermarket there is a large sign on the door warning that unauthorized photography is not permitted inside the store. As soon as you walk in the door, if you glance upward, you can see yourself on tv via their cameras. At least one supermarket chain here will absolutly refuse to give any discounts without their store ID card. I find this appalling, as this is food, something that we need to even exist, and they have the gall to say that if I want the same price as everyone else for the stuff that actually keeps me alive, I must allow them to track my every purchase, and sell the data to who knows who, and use it for who knows what. May they all rot in hell along with the telemarketting industry.
Part of my right of free speech is my right to walk away from other's speech.Others have the right to speak. They do not have the right to make me listen. If I subscribe to a "Do Not Call" list, I am in fact saying that I walk away from your speech that I find boring, repugnant, or a waste of my time. I am a captive audience in my own home to the unwanted rantings of the telemarketters. The "Do Not Call" list does not vialate the telemarketer's rights, it just restores my right to walk away from that to which I do not want to listen.
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Sco nips at the heels of the penquin swimming to its breeding ground. The great white MS, following the blood trail, moves in for the kill. Information is power, and the powerful want to limit your access to it, unless you first pay tribute, i.e. money to them. It's always about power and money, and sorry, but we can't allow you to have much of either one or the other.
At my local supermarket there is a large sign on the door warning that unauthorized photography is not permitted inside the store. As soon as you walk in the door, if you glance upward, you can see yourself on tv via their cameras. At least one supermarket chain here will absolutly refuse to give any discounts without their store ID card. I find this appalling, as this is food, something that we need to even exist, and they have the gall to say that if I want the same price as everyone else for the stuff that actually keeps me alive, I must allow them to track my every purchase, and sell the data to who knows who, and use it for who knows what. May they all rot in hell along with the telemarketting industry.
Part of my right of free speech is my right to walk away from other's speech.Others have the right to speak. They do not have the right to make me listen. If I subscribe to a "Do Not Call" list, I am in fact saying that I walk away from your speech that I find boring, repugnant, or a waste of my time. I am a captive audience in my own home to the unwanted rantings of the telemarketters. The "Do Not Call" list does not vialate the telemarketer's rights, it just restores my right to walk away from that to which I do not want to listen.