Maybe this will happen when purchasing firearms.

This will stop criminals how?

 

I get your point, I really do. It's just that criminals don't care, they will get them illegally, so it's the same tired argument.

"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

-- Benjamin Franklin

On the surface, it seems like a good idea because people are scared, but I just can't agree with it. We hear the same comments when we disagree with such things: "if you're not a criminal then why worry", "it's to protect us", "The government only will use this to catch criminals", but in my minds it's just another small piece of our freedom and liberty infringed upon. The citizens of the United Stated have the right move about the country unmolested, that is our right guaranteed by The Constitution and should not be infringed upon for the excuse of "safety". We have seen how the government has used "safety" features against it's own citizens in recent and past events. This is another tool to be used for that purpose.

 

As for Homeland Security, I think it is an useless office and an unneeded expansion of government, that could have been incorporated into pre-existing governmental agencies. Another measure placed under the auspices of "safety".

Maxine Waters on the OFA database

 

"...contains the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life...that database will have everything on every individual in ways that has never been done before..."

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK9AYDF2YCQ

 

Big, big brother. Controlled by a democratic 501©4....

Maybe this will happen when purchasing firearms.

 

Since the gun shows are usually held at Heritage Hall below Rupp Arena I am sure they have lots of gun purchasers on video and can use facial recognition to identify them. Though this is prohibited by law to create a centralized gun ownership DB.

 

I am sure they have me with a shotgun in the lobby of Rupp on video....

Since the gun shows are usually held at Heritage Hall below Rupp Arena I am sure they have lots of gun purchasers on video and can use facial recognition to identify them. Though this is prohibited by law to create a centralized gun ownership DB.

 

I am sure they have me with a shotgun in the lobby of Rupp on video....

 

I am sure many of you will find my comment silly but this is the groundwork for a "Ben Richards" scenario.

 

For those of you that have seen The Running Man you should know exactly what I mean.

Something else I think the government needs to do on this front. The government needs to make it a serious serious felony for anyone (including government workers with no immunity provisions) to tamper with, manipulate, or change any of the information in the database.

I am sure many of you will find my comment silly but this is the groundwork for a "Ben Richards" scenario.

 

For those of you that have seen The Running Man you should know exactly what I mean.

 

Or 'Enemy of the State'

 

Favorite scene...

 

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Knowing that powers of the NSA have likely been turned inwards is scary.

Or 'Enemy of the State'

 

Favorite scene...

 

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Knowing that powers of the NSA have likely been turned inwards is scary.

 

I agree Enemy is another good example.

 

For everyone, with Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger), he worked for the Government but refused to kill innocent citizens so the government killed the citizens anyway and blamed Richards with bogus video (thus Bluegrasscard with a shotgun at the mall video). Then when they couldn't kill Richards fair and square the government created a computer simulation where Jesse the Body killed Arnold.

 

The point is all that data and all that information is extremely dangerous in the wrong hands.

I agree Enemy is another good example.

 

For everyone, with Ben Richards (Arnold Schwarzenegger), he worked for the Government but refused to kill innocent citizens so the government killed the citizens anyway and blamed Richards with bogus video (thus Bluegrasscard with a shotgun at the mall video). Then when they couldn't kill Richards fair and square the government created a computer simulation where Jesse the Body killed Arnold.

 

The point is all that data and all that information is extremely dangerous in the wrong hands.

 

Great. Now I won't sleep this weekend.

 

I remember the movie with Arnold and Richard Dawson. But did not remember the opening premise.

 

The Joint-Chief-of-Staffs must not have worried too much about this moral dilemma when they approved Operation Northwoods in the early 60's.

Annals of the Security State: the Airplane Stories Continue - James Fallows - The Atlantic

 

This article lists and links to a handful of stories documenting identical experiences in unusual circumstances involving the DHS or DHS coordinated operations. These are examples of why I'm skeptical of vesting more power in this theater, whether it be the so-called War on Drugs or War on Terror. It appears there is a growing assumption that ordinary citizens are criminals and they must prove that they are not in these circumstances. I believe that is the precise opposite of what the Bill of Rights demands.

I renewed my drivers license today and got into a discussion with the worker there. In short I learned that as of October 2012 they put a new system in and when your photo is taken it is immediately sent to the Department of Homeland Security. Homeland then gives the worker a yes or no on the photo. A yes means the photo is sufficient for the Homeland Security facial recognition database.

 

I assume all this is true and again I got it from the worker at the Drivers License Office.

 

Anyone?

 

And did you know this?

 

Good idea? Big Brother? Slippery Slope?

 

And does posting this put me on the watch list!? LOL

It probably puts you on the IRS watch list.

Any Verizon customers....

 

Report: NSA asked Verizon for records of all calls in the U.S.

 

"Now they appear to. A major scoop from Glenn Greenwald at the Guardian appears to prove that the National Security Agency has been demanding that Verizon produce calling records of all phone calls made in the United States."