An email to BeNow.com..Pentagons marketing firm for teen recruit info...

[Danieljay]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5471542.html

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Defense Department began working Wednesday with a private marketing firm to create a database of all U.S. college students and high school students between 16 and 18 years old, to help the military identify potential recruits in a time of dwindling enlistment in some branches.

here is the email and email link to the marketing firm...lets let them know our feelings about this.......

Dear BeNow

Your website states....

"Welcome. In virtually any industry, you can point to companies that challenge perceptions and redefine the price/value ratio. Think Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, Charles Schwab....

(you forgot to add "Pentagon" here)

"At BeNOW, that's what we've done to Database Marketing."

My question for you is...what is the price/value ratio on the lives of teenagers of whom's personal information you are providing the Pentagon to support the war in Iraq?? The blood of Americas young will now be on your hands for an unjust war based all on a pack of lies.

Congratulations on your new contract.

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[minnesotaDFLer]

1. damn

i ain't goin' tuh noe wahr

[TalkingDog]

2. Is this the same thing?

If so they've been working together longer than Wed.

NY Times:
The Defense Department and a private contractor have been building an extensive database of 30 million 16-to-25-year-olds, combining names with Social Security numbers, grade-point averages, e-mail addresses and phone numbers.

The department began building the database three years ago, but military officials filed a notice announcing plans for it only last month. That is apparently a violation of the federal Privacy Act, which requires that government agencies accept public comment before new records systems are created.

David S. C. Chu, the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness, acknowledged yesterday that the database had been in the works since 2002. Pentagon officials said they discovered in May 2004 that no Privacy Act notice had been filed. The filing last month was an effort to correct that, officials said.

[zbdent]

3. Gee, and you thought the MasterCard fiasco was

invading your personal info . . .

[Danieljay]

4. check out this statement...

The system also gives the Pentagon the right, without notifying citizens, to share the data for numerous uses outside the military, including with law enforcement, state tax authorities and Congress.

[havocmom]

6. No Child Left Behind

in the corporate march to destroy nations and national identity, and all the little people.

[Cleita]

5. The Pentagon is just a client of this firm.

I think you need to blast the Pentagon about hiring PR firms for the purpose of encouraging enlistment. Even if Be Now drops them as clients, they will hire some other firm. However, don't take this as criticism. I suppose it doesn't hurt to blast everyone involved.