No homegrown violence, except police brutality that is increasing by the hour.

No radicalization, except by the police, FBI, and such.

Nothing real to combat, besides own own fears imposed on us by the mass media.

From all the threats that the government was scaring us with, so far not one turned out to be real. Each one sooner or later was exposed as another hoax.

They might as well fight against the threat from the space aliens, or from the live trees, or from green flies with big pink eyes.

Read “The factory of Fear” in RollingStone magazine, it gives very good perspective.

And (b) I want the methods permissible under the constitution to secure the safety of the people people whether the threat be foreign or domestic.

So don’t cherry pick the parts that sound scary to you. Look at the parts that establish a study of the perceived problem. Look at what the bill is actually trying to accomplish. My own opinion is that the bill tries to accomplish very little over a long period in order to give those who voted for it some sort of “homeland security” rating for some group that rates congress on those sort of things.

When you see what the actual propositions and solutions to the terror are and they are tyranical then I can see hysteria. But for now if you care enough, Write to your senators. Express an interest in your government to change it for the better. They might even listen.

The Congress finds the following:

`(1) The development and implementation of methods and processes that can be utilized to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States is critical to combating domestic terrorism.

`(2) The promotion of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence exists in the United States and poses a threat to homeland security.

`(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.

(4) While the United States must continue its vigilant efforts to combat international terrorism, it must also strengthen efforts to combat the threat posed by homegrown terrorists based and operating within the United States.

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`(b) Implementation- To the extent that methodologies are permissible under the Constitution, the Secretary shall use the results of the survey as an aid in developing, in consultation with the Attorney General, a national policy in the United States on addressing radicalization and homegrown terrorism.
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Still thinking it’s only a study?

Re: Current scanning technology

Television can trace it’s roots back to the 1880’s. Can you imagine what Paul Gottlieb Nipkow who patented the first electromechanical television system in 1884 would say if he could see an HDTV, video iPod, video game, or a Movie Theater? The speed of technological advancement is ten to twenty times what it was in the 1880’s. You do the math.

“For all the promise of fMRI, some critics think the technique is critically flawed. For one thing, though neurons typically fire on a scale of milliseconds, changes measured by fMRI occur about 5 seconds later, so that fast, complex neurological events may be lumped together. Other critics worry more that the algorithms needed to create images from complex, noise-ridden data introduce the possibility that scans can be misinterpreted. ”

” Current scanning technology does not work with nonconsenting subjects. In fact, even tiny movements inside the scanner can negate results. “

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health_medicine/4226614.html

CAN’T ANYONE THINK FOR THEM SELF ANYMORE ???

YOU BET YOUR ASS, we can also put the pieces together. Check out the cover story of the November 2007 edition of Popular Science titled, “Digital Thought Police”

“Our ability to guess what a person is thinking about binary decisions is not super dramatic,” he says . “But we’re doing it with really crude image resolution of samples from the brain. If we could access every neuron, and spent long enough analyzing the data, we could figure out in great detail what a person is seeing or thinking.”

If they’re right, then there may come a day when others – the government, employers, even your spouse – might turn to technology to determine whether you are a law-abiding citizen, a promising new hire or a faithful partner.

Only if he actually hurts or kills someone. I was saying that in that hypothetical case, his post could show intent.

Firefox 2.0 or higher has a built in spell checker.

I don’t get your almost fanatical worry that some horrendous harm is going to desend [sic] upon the poor unwashed **Illegals** because of this RESEARCH STUDY.

I’m not really sure how a research study will violate rights either. However, the authors of the bill seemed quite concerned about it. And, it’s from the Department of Homeland Security, whose track record is somewhat less than perfect on human rights thus far.

But to be honest, when it comes to worry’s [sic] about people’s right’s [sic] in this country, the illegal alian’s [sic], who snuck into the US illegally, are way down my list of concerns.

Well, the difference starts from considering whether they are human beings and entitled to any rights at all. It also helps if you remember that there are many countries where life is so horrifically bad that people will take a lot of risks to get out. If you recognize the situations these human beings are trying to escape, it’s hard not to care about them.

It also helps to remember that very few of the people living in this country are not immigrants or descendants of immigrants who came to this country in hopes of a better life. Those of European descent whose families have been here the longest not only came without permission, but came and slaughtered the people living here through warfare, especially germ warfare. So let’s try not to be too holier than thou on the subject.

MS….I don’t get your almost fanatical worry that some horrendous harm is going to desend upon the poor unwashed **Illegals** because of this RESEARCH STUDY.
I’m pretty open minded about about immigration, I’m all for it, as long as it is legal. But to be honest, when it comes to worry’s about people’s right’s in this country, the illegal alian’s, who snuck into the US illegally, are way down my list of concerns.