Funding for TIA All But Dead

Tim May timcmay at got.net
Wed Jul 16 18:51:20 PDT 2003


On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 04:54  PM, Steve Schear wrote:

> The controversial Terrorism Information Awareness program, which would 
> troll Americans' personal records to find terrorists before they 
> strike, may soon face the same fate Congress meted out to John 
> Ashcroft in his attempt to create a corps of volunteer domestic spies: 
> death by legislation.
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59606,00.html
>

"In other news, the Senate Select Committee on Children's and Workplace 
Safety met today to consider the Total Safety Awareness Bill. 
Newly-appointed Commissioner of Child Safety, John Poindexter, declared 
that TSA will "finally make the streets safe for children." He 
dismissed any concern that this bill is just a rehashing of the failed 
Total Information Awareness program."





--Tim May
"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any 
member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm 
to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient 
warrant." --John Stuart Mill





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