How many of us are in the databases?
Dec 20, 2010 | 7:33 am
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How many of us are in the databases?
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/t.../?hpid=topnews
This entire article makes my blood boil. I wonder how many of us are in this database because we took a stand for our Constitutional rights while flying. Our only crime being that we didn't want to get irradiated or groped.
This entire article makes my blood boil. I wonder how many of us are in this database because we took a stand for our Constitutional rights while flying. Our only crime being that we didn't want to get irradiated or groped.
Suspicious Activity Report N03821 says a local law enforcement officer observed "a suspicious subject . . . taking photographs of the Orange County Sheriff Department Fire Boat and the Balboa Ferry with a cellular phone camera." ... He was then met by another person, both of whom stood and "observed the boat traffic in the harbor." Next another adult with two small children joined them, and then they all boarded the ferry and crossed the channel.
All of this information was forwarded to the Los Angeles fusion center for further investigation after the local officer ran information about the vehicle and its owner through several crime databases and found nothing.
As of December, there were 161,948 suspicious activity files in the classified Guardian database.
Of those, 103 have become full investigations that have resulted in at least five arrests, the FBI said. There have been no convictions yet.
Dec 20, 2010 | 7:38 am
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She [Napolitano] recently enlisted the help of Wal-Mart, Amtrak, major sports leagues, hotel chains and metro riders. In her speeches, she compares the undertaking to the Cold War fight against communists.
~~ Irish
Dec 20, 2010 | 7:44 am
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To put a little perspective here, it's very likely that the reporter for the article had access to numerous such reports and the one that was chosen here was "the worst". So trying to generalize all the reports as being similar to the one that was reported is undoubtably wrong.
Dec 20, 2010 | 7:51 am
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DHS wrote this little gem:
http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf
(U) Disgruntled Military Veterans
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and
radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from
military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the
capabilities of extremists—including lone wolves or small terrorist cells—to carry out
violence. The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist
groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from
the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.
http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf
(U) Disgruntled Military Veterans
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and
radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from
military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the
capabilities of extremists—including lone wolves or small terrorist cells—to carry out
violence. The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist
groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from
the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.
Dec 20, 2010 | 8:39 am
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Suspicious Activity Report N03821 says a local law enforcement officer observed "a suspicious subject . . . taking photographs of the Orange County Sheriff Department Fire Boat and the Balboa Ferry with a cellular phone camera." ... He was then met by another person, both of whom stood and "observed the boat traffic in the harbor." Next another adult with two small children joined them, and then they all boarded the ferry and crossed the channel.
Or does it just not matter because I'm Caucasian?
Pardon my French, but WTH?
Dec 20, 2010 | 8:44 am
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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...show_article=1
Govt 'creating vast domestic snooping machine'
Dec 20 07:27 AM US/Eastern
Govt 'creating vast domestic snooping machine'
Dec 20 07:27 AM US/Eastern
The government is creating a vast domestic spying network to collect information about Americans in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks and subsequent terror plots, The Washington Post reported Monday.
Dec 20, 2010 | 8:51 am
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This appears to be a continuation of The Washington Post's TSA (Top Secret America) stories. There's an opportunity to correlate the world of top-secret portions of America, and the sterile area managed by the TSA. In that bubble, the normal rules don't apply. 
Dec 20, 2010 | 8:57 am
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To put a little perspective here, it's very likely that the reporter for the article had access to numerous such reports and the one that was chosen here was "the worst". So trying to generalize all the reports as being similar to the one that was reported is undoubtably wrong.
YMMV of course.
Dec 20, 2010 | 11:29 am
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I know that I am in a database or two. After my shirt incident at MCI, I discovered that a formal report was written up.. Good thing they did notnget my name when I was there!
Dec 20, 2010 | 11:36 am
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Even worse, 5 arrests and NO convictions. This is a VERY distrubing report. I can hear Huxley now, "Looks like I was off by 26 years."
Dec 20, 2010 | 12:19 pm
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Dec 20, 2010 | 12:41 pm
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I don't remember if Huxley specified the year of the Brave New World, but the Orwellian nightmare of 1984 is definitely invading reality.