Well we can't track anti-war protestors anymore... shut it down...

[W1nTry]

Things like this leave a certain expression of 'QUA?' on my face.. geez

Anti-terror database shut down

Talon de-clawed

By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 22 August 2007, 12:00
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THE US GOVERNMENT'S anti-terror database with the user-friendly name of Talon will close down on September 17.

According to Network World, the Threat and Local Observation Notices (Talon) was set up in 2002 to collect and evaluate information about possible threats to US military and defence civilians all over the world.

However Congress became a little concerned that it might be being used as an unauthorised citizen tracking database.

In 2005 Talon hit the headlines when it was discovered that it was being used for storing data on civilians. These included those who didn't like the War much and were prepared to take to the street to protest. The US Defence Department had a look under the bonnet of the data base later that year and deleted a lot of information which was considered 'unnecessary'.

In a later report, the Pentagon said that now that the men in black could not file data on the activities of soap dodging anti-war demonstrators they were not filing anything and Talon would "no longer be of analytical value".

In other words if the only threat to the US military that could be gained 'legally' were the names and addresses of peace protesters. If these were factored out then Talon would no longer be useful. µ

Who would have figured that anti-war protestors were terrorists? I guess its akin to defacing the UN site for anti-war sentiments....

[New Era Outlaw]

In case you haven't noticed, America labels everything as 'terrorists' nowadays.

It would probably reach to the point where if somebody does as much as fart in the same room as the president, he'd instantly be labelled a terrorist.

The charge, you say?
Why, for discharging a weapon of a** destruction, of course.


.....I'll stop now.