Data mining you

[xchrom]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/ND05Dj02.html

was out of the country only nine days, hardly a blink in time, but time enough, as it happened, for another small, airless room to be added to the American national security labyrinth.

On March 22, Attorney General Eric Holder and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Junior signed off on new guidelines allowing the National Counter-terrorism Center (NCTC), a post-9/11 creation, to hold on to information about Americans in no way known to be connected to terrorism - about you and me, that is - for up to five years. (Its previous outer limit was 180


days.) This, Clapper claimed, "will enable NCTC to accomplish its mission more practically and effectively."

Joseph K, that icon of single-lettered anonymity from Franz Kafka's novel The Trial, would undoubtedly have felt right at home in Clapper's Washington. George Orwell would surely have had a few pungent words to say about those anodyne words "practically and effectively", not to speak of "mission".

For most Americans, though, it was just life as we've known it since September 11, 2001, since we scared ourselves to death and accepted that just about anything goes, as long as it supposedly involves protecting us from terrorists. Basic information or misinformation, possibly about you, is to be stored away for five years - or until some other attorney general and director of national intelligence think it's even more practical and effective to keep you on file for 10 years, 20 years, or until death do us part - and it hardly made a ripple.





*** squeeze the poor and middle class dry. build $2 billion dollar security structure to data mine the people -- hire in perpetuity who ever it is you need to run it.
keep spewing out the paranoia message for security.

and i thought government needed to cut back -- silly me

[msongs]

1. easier to murder you using drones when they know what you buy and where nt

[xchrom]

2. they can rub me out at whole foods buying grass fed rib eyes or goat meat or

bulk navy beans.

somebody driving is gonna kill me there anyway.

maybe they'll take out a cell phone talking nemesis too.