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Thread #55756   Message #868632
Posted By: Amos
16-Jan-03 - 03:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: ACLU on Erosion of Freedoms
Subject: RE: BS: ACLU on Erosion of Freedoms
For a further analysis of the full scope and meaning of Poindexter's interpretation of the Total Information Awareness concet, see this article by the ACLU. I warn you that it is ugly. Especially ugly is the deft falsification exercised by Poindexter in the best Bushbunde tradition of using desireable names for undesireable things in order that they will slide down people's throats with less effort.

An example is P's assurance that domestic spying will support privacy. If that isn't straight Orwellian doubletalk, what is?

I spit.

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