At 11:04 AM 5/7/03 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: ...
While the point they're trying to make is about false positives, the THIRTEEN MILLION PEOPLE ON THE FBI WATCH LIST just kind of slides by. That's equal to 5% of the US population, on Federal watch lists. (Yes, obviously some of those are foreigners, but then half the US population are young enough that hopefully almost none of them attract Federal attention...) What an outrage!
Yep. Along with the obvious civil liberties problems there, this implies some incredible level of waste of resources monitoring and harassing mostly innocent people, while spending far fewer resources on actually catching the guys shipping the Pakistani nuke in and loading it on a truck for shipment to D.C. --John Kelsey, kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259