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You Are a Suspect
by Dr. Nanochick at 4:23 pm EST, Nov 14, 2002

1984 is here. The new Cyberspace Security Enhancement Act (CSEA) rider on the Homeland Security Act (HSA) brings a $200 million dollar budget to create an automated J. Edgar Hoover sans the sexual peccadillos.

If I were you I would contact my Senators and Representatives today.

[Isn't this "America...land of the *free*" ? What kind of freedom are we supposed to feel if we are being watched like this all of the time? If this passes, they should change our slogan to "America...land of surveillance". - nanochick

RE: You Are a Suspect
by Reknamorken at 11:27 pm EST, Nov 19, 2002

Nanochick wrote:
] 1984 is here. The new Cyberspace Security Enhancement Act
] (CSEA) rider on the Homeland Security Act (HSA) brings a $200
] million dollar budget to create an automated J. Edgar Hoover
] sans the sexual peccadillos.
]
] If I were you I would contact my Senators and Representatives
] today.
]
] [Isn't this "America...land of the *free*" ? What kind of
] freedom are we supposed to feel if we are being watched like
] this all of the time? If this passes, they should change our
] slogan to "America...land of surveillance". - nanochick

Well, it's a done deal now. I can't believe that we have had such a rollback. The PATRIOT Act, various judicial findings, and now the HSA.

You Are a Suspect
by Decius at 12:24 pm EST, Nov 14, 2002

] "If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before
] passage, here is what will happen to you:
]
] Every purchase you make with a credit card, every
] magazine subscription you buy and medical prescription
] you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you send or
] receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank
] deposit you make, every trip you book and every event you
] attend all these transactions and communications will go into
] what the Defense Department describes as "a virtual, centralized
] grand database." "

This is a little more juicy...

You Are a Suspect
by Reknamorken at 12:32 pm EST, Nov 14, 2002

If I were you I would contact my Senators and Representatives today.

You Are a Suspect by Nexis at 11:46 pm EST, Nov 17, 2002
It is almost as though they are trying to the the world into a bad sci-fi movie on purpose. It'd be funny if it weren't so frightening.
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You Are a Suspect: Homeland Security Act by Swater at 7:35 pm EST, Dec 30, 2002
Even conservative pundit William Safire goes nuts over Homeland Security in this NY Times editorial.
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