Video Cameras on the Lookout for Terrorists(Deporting all the Muslims would be cheaper!)

cnn.com ^ | August 7, 2006 | staff

[kellynla]

NISKAYUNA, New York (AP) -- It sounds like something out of science fiction.

Researchers at General Electric Co.'s sprawling research center, are creating new "smart video surveillance" systems that can detect explosives by recognizing the electromagnetic waves given off by objects, even under clothing.

Scientist Peter Tu and his team are also developing programs that can recognize faces, pinpoint distress in a crowd by honing in on erratic body movements and synthesize the views of several cameras into one bird's eye view, as part of a growing effort to thwart terrorism.

"We're definitely on the cutting edge," said Tu, 39. "If you want to reduce risk, video is the way to do it. The threat is always evolving, so our video is always evolving."

Scientists at the GE complex, a landscaped, gated campus of laboratories and offices spread out over 525 acres and home to 1,900 scientists and staff, and others in the industry hope to use various technologies to reduce false alarms, cut manpower used on mundane tasks and give first-responders better tools to assess threats. The country's growing security needs also provide an opportunity to boost business.

The United States and its allies now face a new "Iraq generation" of terrorists who have learned how to make explosive devices, assassinate leaders and carry out other mayhem since the U.S. invasion of the country more than three years ago, said Roger Cressey, a former counterterrorism official in the Bush Administration who now runs his own consulting business in Arlington, Virginia.

[COEXERJ145]

Let's just piss on and burn the Constitution and be done with it.

Your suggestion comes right out of 1930's Germany.

[ladyinred]

t really woudn't be... it would cost us a big piece of our principles.

What?

[ladyinred]

I heard a former PLO terrorist say that Americans still don't recognize the danger we are in from the Islamic terrorists. It appears that is true. I do.

[GreenOgre]

Amen Brother.

[KoRn]

"Deporting all the Muslims would be cheaper!"

That's not possible. A "Muslim" isn't a race, it's a religion. You don't really have any mechanism for learning who IS a Muslim and who ISN'T. In a free society such thinking is folly.

[kellynla]

well when they start blowing up buildings in TX and making hamburger out of your family and friends; you come tell me where it says in the Constitution that we have to allow foreigners to stay here? hmmmmmmmm...

[kellynla]

"A "Muslim"... it's a religion."
that's debatable but any "religion" or "cult" that professes to kill nonbelievers should not be allowed to exist in America.

[KoRn]

" that's debatable but any "religion" or "cult" that professes to kill nonbelievers should not be allowed to exist in America."

Sure, but there really is no way of knowing who is Muslim and who isn't.

[kellynla]

you start at the mosques

[KoRn]

"you start at the mosques"

Ok. You take the convenience stores. We'll touch base at noon tomorrow to discuss our progress. I think I may be getting the rough end of the deal here, and it was YOUR idea lol.

[blackbart.223]

"Better cost us our principles than our lives..."

I don't think we have to sacrifice either. Any muslim (lower case intended) with a green card should have his visa canceled immediately. Those who attend mosques (again lower case intended),and are citizens, that preach hate and jihad should be watched very closely.

[ricardobaltazar]

"so by the same principle, wouldn't how, when, and where others practice religion be none of anybody elses business?" "freedom of religion" does not mean "freedom to blow up buildings and murder" and that is not only "our business" but against our laws! ` now quit bothering me with your inane posts

So we should be against those who would blow up our buildings and murder. Not those who happen to have a non-radicalized version of the religion that promotes the murder of our citizens.

There are many radical sects of christianity who are much more threatening to our way of life than the muslim family down the street.

[kellynla]

"Those who attend mosques (again lower case intended),and are citizens, that preach hate and jihad should be watched very closely."

I would close down the mosques and deport them all.
Remember citizenship is a privilege not a right.

[Blue Jays]

Hi ricardobaltazar-

"...There are many radical sects of Christianity who are much more threatening to our way of life than the Muslim family down the street..."

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That certainly is a bit of a stretch. Violence and terrorism committed in the name of religion is done by Muslim/Islamic jihadists likely on a ratio approaching 10,000-to-1 if not more.

~ Blue Jays ~

[ricardobaltazar]

That certainly is a bit of a stretch. Violence and terrorism committed in the name of religion is done by Muslim/Islamic jihadists likely on a ratio approaching 10,000-to-1 if not more. ~ Blue Jays ~

And you based that on what? Are you sure that is wasn't... nothing?

[cmotormac44]

you best begin to understand you cannot afford 'principles' when dealing with those who have NONE---our present attitude of 'better than thou' is going to get many Americans dead before we are finished with Islam

[Blue Jays]

Hi ricardobaltazar-

C'mon, you're pulling our legs, right? If you polled the 300 million residents of this country and asked the simple question, "To which religion do most terrorists adhere?" what do you think would be the most popular answer? Perhaps you're just being intentionally contrarian or obtuse.

~ Blue Jays ~

[ricardobaltazar]

"Hi ricardobaltazar- C'mon, you're pulling our legs, right? If you polled the 300 million residents of this country and asked the simple question, "To which religion do most terrorists adhere?" what do you think would be the most popular answer? Perhaps you're just being intentionally contrarian or obtuse. ~ Blue Jays ~"

If you polled 300 million residents of this country, 2/3rds of them would say that they believe that G.W.Bush had prior knowledge of the 9/11 attacks.

That's why I don't trust the people of this country to influence my beliefs.

[Peisistratus]

"Yeah well, the Founding Fathers didn't have to deal with something called "Islam".

Actually, they did. Jefferson had a pretty poor opinion of it....

[Ben Chad]

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