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Spying the American Way of Life
Wired ^
| 11 March 2002
| Declan McCullogh
Posted on 03/11/2002 7:11:08 AM PST by white trash redneck
Edited on 06/29/2004 7:08:56 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON -- Last month's revelation that President Bush wants hundreds of millions of dollars to invent innovative ways to spy on Americans was greeted not with suspicion, but shoulder-shrugging indifference.
Save for a few battle-weary civil libertarians, not many people have been fretting about how cameras now monitor all downtown areas in Washington, D.C., or the unchecked spread of face-recognition cameras that spy on travelers in airports and sports fans in arenas.
(Excerpt) Read more at wired.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billofrights; privacylist; surveillance
To: boston_liberty
ping
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posted on
03/11/2002 7:16:12 AM PST
by
toenail
To: white trash redneck
"Hey, now, what's that sound?
Everyone look what's goin' down."
"It can't happen here."
"It's a hard raaaiiin gonna faaalll."
Shoot, just put a picture on our "Social Security" cards and voila! It's a done deal.
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To: TruthNtegrity;Scuttlebutt;MedProf;LadyX;glock rocks ;Vigilant1; AnnaZ;
Lazamataz; Sir Gawain...
As the camera scans you ...........
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posted on
04/14/2002 3:25:39 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
To: B4Ranch
Thanks for the heads up!
To: B4Ranch
Thanks 4Bs!
To: B4Ranch
But the December 2005 expiration date embedded in the law applies only to a tiny part of the mammoth bill.But of course.
in my best vampire imitation As planned.
Didn't everyone (House/Senate) read the bill?
But of course not...it's for the People's safety and can do no harm24-OCT-2001 and October 25, 2001...And it has taken six months for some to even come to that realization.
?
Probably.
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