Website review: AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Are...
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liltinybus rated 5 months ago- From the page: "Now, there are tens of thousands of people on the list. Where did the list come from? In 2003, President Bush had the intelligence agencies and the FBI create a "watch list" of people thought to have terrorist intentions or contacts. These agencies gave the list to the TSA and the commercial airlines. 60 Minutes got one copy of the list: It was 540 pages long. That list of people to be taken aside for extra screening had 75,000 names on it. The more stringent "no-fly list" had 45,000 names; before 9/11 there were just 16 names. The list is so secret that even Congresspeople have been prevented from looking at it. People on the list endure searches that can last for hours. One American citizen, Robert Johnson, described "the humiliation factor" of being strip-searched: "I had to take off my pants. I had to take off my sneakers, then I had to take off my socks. I was treated like a criminal." Donna Bucella, who was at that time head of the FBI program that oversaw the list, told 60 Minutes, "Well, Robert Johnson will never get off the list." On December 6, 2006, Democrats in Congress tried to find out more about recent reports that the Department of Homeland Security "was using a scoring system" that rated the dangers posed by people crossing American borders. The Democrats were worried that these lists did not simply keep people from flying-they could keep them from getting jobs as well." I am also on the watch list. Yay for me.
- rationale rated 5 months ago
- Excellent. A database is being collected by the U.S. government of "dissidents" AKA those who have woken up to what a killing machine the U.S. government is and are brave enough to say/write about it. So why the fuck would a database of this nature be collected? To stop terrorists?? Sure, Naomi Wolf is certainly prone to hijacking - in between writing enlightening books and protesting against fascism and killing. So what is the purpose? I don't know... to instill fear perhaps? To prevent dissent? Am I talking conspiracy - or is there any other rational explanation for the creation of a list that has PEACE activists, professors, and authors on it? We're fucked.
