Total Information Awareness

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Pentagon's "Total Information Awareness" database is step toward police state, Libertarians say

WASHINGTON, DC -- A massive public surveillance system under development by the Pentagon - called "Total Information Awareness" - could help lay the framework for a police state in America and should be halted immediately, Libertarians say.

"This is Big Brother on steroids," said George Getz, Libertarian Party communications director. "The government of a free country shouldn't want surveillance powers like these. And the fact that the government wants them is proof that it shouldn't have them."

The goal of the program, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is to construct a "virtual, centralized, grand database" containing every Americans' electronic transactions, such as credit card purchases, bank and medical records, travel data, e-mails and phone calls. That information is to be linked with biometric data such as face recognition technology and digital fingerprints, and provided instantly to law enforcement to detect patterns of terrorist activity, the government says.

Spearheading the initiative is former Navy Rear Adm. John Poindexter, a Reagan administration official who was implicated in the illegal sale of arms to the Nicaraguan Contras.

As the anti-privacy aspects of the project have become clear, civil liberties groups and editorial pages around the USA have urged Congress to torpedo the program.

"This project sends a message that every American should find repugnant," Getz said. "Namely, that politicians and bureaucrats view America as a sea of criminal suspects whose private behavior must be tracked, catalogued and analyzed, just in case they commit a crime.

"So much for the presumption of innocence and the right to privacy. Just as in totalitarian states, your rights disappear at the whim of a shadowy government employee intent on spawning another database.

"Unless this Orwellian project is dismantled, innocent Americans will suffer under the kind of high-tech, 24-hour surveillance that the Stasi and the KGB would have envied."

Like most counterterrorism measures, Total Information Awareness is based on a myth, Libertarians say - the myth that the only way to prevent terrorism is to erode Americans' freedom.

"But there's already an effective, constitutional way to gather evidence against any criminal suspect: Go to court and get a warrant," Getz said. "Call it Total Constitutional Awareness.

"The fact that terrorists destroyed thousands of lives on September 11 doesn't give politicians the right to destroy the privacy of millions of other innocent individuals. It's time to tell the government: We are citizens, not criminal suspects. Pull the plug on this un-American spy scheme."

-- Braveheart (liberty@freedom.com), November 21, 2002

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I know crazy people , They're every where , they don't even know they're crazy . Anyone feel the same way ? And they send me sites like the one I pasted above. I see it as Political artwork more than accurate information.

-- Max (MaxT@yoohoo.com), November 23, 2002.


I believe for sake to partly control large masses of people and partly to direct and control consumer spending habits, our government , media , entertainment ( tv , Movies ) and education system has taught and conditioned Humans to have a defeatist attitude.This keeps the population on the defensive.A good strategy in any war ..Well, cower in the coner no longer.

. We the People are just as capable to set up our own watch dog , surveillance , data collecting organization...And who should we watch and keep tight data on ? Our poltiticians who support new surveillance laws.They are public figures , they can be photographed without permission ? Gotta check the laws .Politicians can be photgraphed when they come out of church or when they come out of the hotel where they just had a session with their personal prostitute , I mean escort .

If someone has some surveillance video footage of an average cititzen getting into his car after a hard days work and lighting up a joint , there would be almost no public response if it were made public. But remember the video surveillance shown on the news of the mayor of Washington D.C. smoking crack out of a crack pipe . ..Just think of the impact of some surveillance video of the President smoking his crack pipe .So I'd say politicians have more to lose being under surveillance then a plain citizen.

We have always been under surveillance.Wal- mart and other store have detectors that electronically search a persons body with electronic sensoring waves when leaving the store . This is a search done without a search warrant .But it's not a government search , so I don't know if laws are being volated.Also urine testing. The mark of total submission of a countries citizens to the corporate rulers.

Urine testing is illegal in this country , yet it has been allowed to go on with almost no resistence for 20 years in some parts of this country.It's is a search with out a warrent for illegal substances that may be present in the body.If there is traces of illegal drugs in the urine collected , than it was a seach and seizureof of an illegal substance without a warrant. I think that's the 4th amendment ? so much red tape

I have nothing to hide , I don't do drugs , so I don't mind complying .This is the slogan of a defeatist. A submissive. A complacent domesticated servant , I mean citizen , who is just waiting for his place in life to be given to him by his employer. As a means of psychological conditioning to it's workers , corporations delibrately take body fluid samples for drug test from the sexual organ of the body.Even though saliva and hair and a few other methods are available to test for drugs in someone's body.

It is common knowlege that in the dog ( canine ) family the submissive dogs or wolf will lye on it's back when confronted by a dominant dog or wolf and urinate.To give up your urine in the animal kindom is a sign of being submissive to the one you present your urine to . The corporations knows we're animals.( mindless cattle ). Corporations have the best psychologist money can buy working for them and know just how to make someone do something and believe it was their free will.They know how our minds work , better them we do .They have the reseach data....Intelligence without love ?

If it's hard to believe that the giving of urine for employment puposes is a corporate and government plan to increase the dominant / submissive relationship between employers and employees or government leaders and citizens, your under estimating the psychological control you are under .

-- Max (MaxT@yoohoo.com), November 24, 2002.


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