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Monday,
June 16 2003
Subject:
"Snooping by any
other name.."
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Hi Paul (Mr.
McNamara),
I
commend you for your
comments regarding the Pentagon's
Total Information Awareness
data-mining program in
your
article "Snooping by any other name.." a few weeks
back.
For
me, the program
smacks of Orwellian McCarthy-
ism all over again and
conjures up
the horrors of the
Spanish
Inquisition that hauled even suspected
"noted" saints of the
day,
such as Saint Teresa of
Avila before the
Court of the Inquistion.
It
seemed that almost eveybody
became suspect of one thing
or other by
the "Holy"
Inquisition: in the
end, it proved to be a
WASTE of time and resources.
Can
the the U.S. afford to be
in Iraq and elsewhere in the world
turning up stones
looking for the "bad" guys
and running such
a diabolical machine in
its own
backyard? It makes for
a good
Hollywoodian farce, but it does not help buoy the U.S.
dollar/economy.
The
U.S. Gov't too often
comes across like a controversial Times
magazine
article that CAN BE READ
EITHER WAY: it canNOT
SUPPORT
OPPRESSION/REPRESSION on the one hand and
TALK about FREEDOM on the other.
As Mr. Villepin in the French
Gov't would say the U.S.A.
is NOT being COHERENT.
I
strongly feeL that "SMART
SECURITY" need NOT be "OB-
SESSIVE", NEITHER need
it be
"PERVASIVE" NOR "INTRUSIVE",
but rather
"attentive" and "thoughtful".
I
suspect A "BLOATED" SECURITY
APPARATUS envi-
sioned by this Total Information
Awareness
project will
surely
prove be "INEFFECTIVE" leading to TOO MANY "FALSE
POSITIVES".
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This will engender even greater frustration
in the public and
for-
menting
the belief that they
canNOT TRUST their Gov'tto PRO-
TECT THEIR FREEDOMS not to mention possible litigation cases
brought against the
Gov't
for defamation of reputation.
I
fear this project will
encourage "TOO MUCH" POLICING
that will have
the "REPRESSIVE" effect of creating a made-in-
U.S.A POLICE-STATE-MIND-SET: in which case
it will NO
LONGER
be said that the U.S.A is THE LAND OF THE
FREE.
I
say: LET FREEDOM REIGN IN THE LAND OF THE
FREE: let's keep
this project where it
belongs - on the back-
burner.
God
bless America.
Thanks
for bringing up the
topic for discussion.
Best
wishes,
Ken
~~~
President/Party
Leader
of the Égalité Party of Canada
~~~
Let's
DEcriminalize the Gov't!
:-D
http://www.eh-ok.ca
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