“There’s no idea so asinine that this administration won’t give it serious consideration,”

[kpete]

Science Fiction Mavens Offer Far Out Homeland Security Advice

Now a fixture at Department of Homeland Security science and technology conferences, SIGMA is a loosely affiliated group of science fiction writers who are offering pro bono advice to anyone in government who want their thoughts on how to protect the nation.

The group has the ear of Department of Homeland Security Undersecretary Jay Cohen, head of the science and technology directorate, who has said he likes their unconventional thinking. Members of the group recently offered a rambling, sometimes strident string of ideas at a panel discussion promoting the group at the DHS science and technology conference.

Among the group’s approximately 24 members is Larry Niven, the bestselling and award-winning author of such books as “Ringworld” and “Lucifer’s Hammer,” which he co-wrote with SIGMA member Jerry Pournelle.

Niven said a good way to help hospitals stem financial losses is to spread rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants.

more, if you dare at:
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/issues/2008/March/SecurityBeat.htm#Science

[Mountainman]

1. They must really think Latinos are stupid or something.

Americans think that if you can't speak English or work in the fields you are ignorant. The Latino community would smell a rat faster than you can say "fuck you bushco idiots." That message would spread faster than the lie about the emergency rooms.

[shain from kane]

2. I guess Niven hasn't come up with another idea, since the late sixties. He's recycling his past.

Organlegging
Technology needed to deal in illicitly obtained body parts.

[lpbk2713]

3. That's a concept worthy of the 59 Million who voted this corrupt and inept regime in office.

They never heard the phrase "Be careful of what you wish for. You might just get it."

[Ganja Ninja]

4. "spread rumors in Spanish within the Latino community"

Good idea! Those rumors they've been spreading in Russian in the Latino community have gone nowhere.
:think:

[MisterP]

5. Niven and Pournelle cooperated on

this Limbaughist piece of excrement: anti-science SF--I mean what's next, creationist "SF"? This is like when Quayle confused Tom Clancy with a real national security expert.