[ale] Homeland Security Act - Perhaps I should take up farming?

[irvm at ellijay.com (Irv Mullins)]

> Anyway, for your reading pleasure:
> You Are a Suspect
> By WILLIAM SAFIRE
>
> WASHINGTON ?? If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage,
> here is what will happen to you:
>
> Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription
> you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and
> e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank
> deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you attend ?? all
> these transactions and communications will go into what the Defense
> Department describes as "a virtual, centralized grand database."
>
> To this computerized dossier on your private life from commercial sources,
> add every piece of information that government has about you ?? passport
> application, driver's license and bridge toll records, judicial and
> divorce records, complaints from nosy neighbors to the F.B.I., your
> lifetime paper trail plus the latest hidden camera surveillance ?? and you
> have the supersnoop's dream: a "Total Information Awareness" about every
> U.S. citizen.

Isn't that just dandy. Remind me again, how many of the 9/11 hijackers were 
US citizens?

Irv

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