'Big Sister' Continues Push for Suspicious Activity Program

[boutons_deux]

officer then determines if it's "credible" and "possibly linked to terrorism and/or criminal behavior" before writing up what's called a "patriot report." These patriot reports can contain rich details about an individual "engaged in and/or connected to the suspicious activity" -- name, gender, age, race, ethnicity, Social Security number, driver's license number, birth date and distinguishing features.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gw-schulz/big-sister-continues-push_b_805561.html?view=print

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Responses here should be good litmus test.

OBL is laughing his ass off, that America is now so chickenshit and afraid of its own shadow.

Once the feds decide you're an enemy combattant (eg, some asshole you pissed off frames you), they can lock you forever in isolation with no legal recourse, or kill you without trial.

[boutons_deux]

U.S. teenager tortured in Kuwait and barred re-entry into the U.S.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/01/06/kuwait?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+salon%2Fgreenwald+%28Glenn+Gr eenwald%29

American citizens can sleep safer now that being an American citizen gives them protection of the law.

[johnsmith]

officer then determines if it's "credible" and "possibly linked to terrorism and/or criminal behavior" before writing up what's called a "patriot report." These patriot reports can contain rich details about an individual "engaged in and/or connected to the suspicious activity" -- name, gender, age, race, ethnicity, Social Security number, driver's license number, birth date and distinguishing features.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gw-schulz/big-sister-continues-push_b_805561.html?view=print

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Responses here should be good litmus test.

OBL is laughing his ass off, that America is now so chickenshit and afraid of its own shadow.

Once the feds decide you're an enemy combattant (eg, some asshole you pissed off frames you), they can lock you forever in isolation with no legal recourse, or kill you without trial.

My God.....you mean to tell me that the United States Government will have on record all of the exact same information that the DMV has on me currently...........The horror!!!!:wow

[ElNono]

Drone may be coming to Miami-Dade

DORAL, Fla. (WSVN) -- A new piece of technology may soon be coming to South Florida, but is already raising concerns from residents.

The Miami-Dade Police Department recently finalized a deal to buy a drone, which is an unmanned plane equipped with cameras. Drones have been used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan in the war against terror.

Many residents are concerned that the new technology will violate their privacy.

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Honeywell has applied to the FAA for clearance to fly the drone in urban areas. This has never been allowed before, but if it does happen, the Miami-Dade Police Department will be the first police agency in the US to use the technology.

Full Article here (http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21003198189967/)

[ElNono]

Another excerpt from that article (bolding mine):

"It gives us a good opportunity to have an eye up there. Not a surveilling eye, not a spying eye. Let's make the distinction. A surveilling eye to help us to do the things we need to do, honestly, to keep people safe," said Miami-Dade Police Director James Loftus.