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Skriven 2004-09-29 14:43:21 av Steve Asher (3:800/432.0)
   Kommentar till text 2648 av Jeff Binkley (1:226/600)
Ärende: Insurgency In Iraq...
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Mulling over Jeff Binkley to Steve Asher 28 Sep 2004

SA>SA>Looks like the "catastrophic success" in Iraq is becoming
SA>SA>even more catastrophic and successful. Perhaps the USA &
SA>SA>its allies will come to realise that they are about as
SA>SA>popular as blowies at a barbie, and withdraw before they
SA>SA>achieve even more "catastrophic success".

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SA>SA>Insurgency in Iraq 'intensifying'

SA> JB> Excellent.  I'd rather have the terrorists in Iraq than on Main
SA> JB> St. USA. 

SA>I wouldn't worry too much about terrorists on Main St. USA, apart
SA>from an "October Surprise" or whatever "Operation Northwoods" event
SA>or events the Architects of Aquarius decide are necessary to gull /
SA>cow the already  easily gulled & cowed US populace into accepting the
SA>"solutions" that  they are implementing in the name of "homeland
SA>security". 

 JB> Sweat.  Maybe we can keep out some of the undesirable third
 JB> worlders ? 

Maybe, maybe not. Gullible liberals will just accept the "solutions" 
on offer to ensure their "peace" and "safety", keep out "undesirable 
third worlders" and other "evil doers", but will lose their freedoms 
in the process. If they come to realise that they have been dudded, 
it will be too late. 

The chooks will have come home to roost.

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'Fortress America' focuses on future of siege mentality

By Stephen Lyons, Special for USA TODAY

Imagine a chip implanted in your body that carries all your pertinent
information as well as your current body temperature and, of course,
your exact location.

Sounds harmless when applied in commerce to track shipments or in the
livestock industry to monitor animals.

But when the idea is broached of injecting the chip into political
prisoners, as is rumored in China, or into convicted sex offenders, 
a proposal in this country, then the name of George Orwell quickly
surfaces.

Matthew Brzezinski explores this high-tech surveillance technology and
other new and often frightening frontiers in a post-9/11 USA in his
riveting Fortress America.

A siege mentality - a maximum security state similar to Israel - is
emerging in the USA, he says.

The manufacture of such sophisticated hardware as the RFID - radio
frequency identification - is easy, but moving it into place and
solving delicate legal issues before another terrorist attack is 
the tricky part.

"The technological and legal foundations for blanket surveillance had
already been laid in 2003," Brzezinski writes. "All that was lacking
was the political and social will to bring all this technological
wizardry to bear in the war on terror. It wouldn't happen overnight 
or without another catastrophic incident, something that upped the 
ante and put America in the same survival mode on par with Israel: a
nuclear detonation, a biological outbreak, a mass casualty event. But
if the stakes were high enough, would we be more willing to accept
life in a maximum security surveillance state?"

As for RFID, the future is here. Brzezinski writes, "Special Ops
forces reportedly had tiny chips injected in their hips on sensitive
missions where they could not wear dog tags."

(snip)

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Cheers, Steve..

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