Sunday, December 01, 2002
Uncle Sam Wants You…
Libertarian Party vows to continue campaign against Total Information Awareness program
A lobbying campaign to persuade the U.S. Senate to block the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) program came up short—but the Libertarian Party has vowed to continue to try to kill the massive surveillance system.
In mid-November, the Libertarian Party joined an emergency coalition of more than 30 organizations to try to scuttle the TIA project, charging that it was an “Orwellian intrusion” into the lives of American citizens.
The TIA program will create a massive database that the federal government will use to try to “detect patterns” of terrorist activity.
A lobbying campaign to persuade the U.S. Senate to block the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness (TIA) program came up short—but the Libertarian Party has vowed to continue to try to kill the massive surveillance system.
In mid-November, the Libertarian Party joined an emergency coalition of more than 30 organizations to try to scuttle the TIA project, charging that it was an “Orwellian intrusion” into the lives of American citizens.
The TIA program will create a massive database that the federal government will use to try to “detect patterns” of terrorist activity.
This is insane. The Libertarians have the right idea, keep the pressure on and let’s try to kill these ridiculously intrusive “security measures.” They aren’t going to catch any terrorists and we all know it.
Remember...governments never give up the right to invade your life once they have it. Personal privacy makes the job of law enforcement harder, and no one likes their job to be harder.
*Our* job is to make sure our representative government balances the need for security with the rights of the citizenry to be secure in their persons and effects.
Posted by JimK at 04:42 AM on December 01, 2002
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Thursday, November 28, 2002
Important as all hell
Homeland Security Watch Dogs -The Liberty Dogs
A collection of freedom-minded bloggers keeping an eye on the Big Brother-esque goings on in toda’s post-911 government.
Someone has to do it, it might as well be the blogosphere.
Posted by JimK at 09:48 AM on November 28, 2002
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