[dirtboy]

Thanks for the post. An interesting take on the matter. Of course, there is the opposing view on this matter, that the onset of tyranny is not like turning off a light switch, but instead is a long, gray, almost imperceptible twilight into darkness.

[ctdonath2]

Yes, my post #20 was extremely uncool. The moderator's deletion and chastising is completely warranted. Pulling such detailed personal information together for display to unknown strangers is A Really Bad Thing. Such actions should be rapidly shut down, and the perpetrators (me, in this case) should be told in no uncertain terms to never try such a thing again.

Which is precisely my point about the Total Information Awareness program. The federal gov't wants to do the same thing in far more detail and for every person in the country. Such a system is extremely uncool times 300,000,000 precisely because of how such consolidated data can be abused, and comparable systems have indeed rapidly led to police states in the past.

Juxtaposition: I get severly chastized for pulling together a little publicly & easily available info on someone who openly states he has no problem with the gov't doing far more on everyone whether they like it or not.

Sure, I deserved it; does not the gov't deserve more so for doing the same on a far grander scale? DCPatriot, did you call the moderator in on post #20? if so, why shouldn't I do the same on the proposed Total Information Awareness system?