Wednesday, July 02, 2008

AND EXACTLY WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

(h/t Nicole Belle at Crooks & Liars)

The Denver Post has a report on a truly massive spying operation by Americans on Americans.


Terror watch uses local eyes
Privacy advocates worry that officers' snooping will entangle innocent people.
By Bruce Finley
The Denver Post

Hundreds of police, firefighters, paramedics and even utility workers have been trained and recently dispatched as "Terrorism Liaison Officers" in Colorado and a handful of other states to hunt for "suspicious activity" — and are reporting their findings into secret government databases.

It's a tactic intended to feed better data into terrorism early-warning systems and uncover intelligence that could help fight anti-U.S. forces. But the vague nature of the TLOs' mission, and their focus on reporting both legal and illegal activity, has generated objections from privacy advocates and civil libertarians.

"Suspicious activity" is broadly defined in TLO training as behavior that could lead to terrorism: taking photos of no apparent aesthetic value, making measurements or notes, espousing extremist beliefs or conversing in code, according to a draft Department of Justice/Major Cities Chiefs Association document.


Does believing that the Earth is only 6,000 years old count as "extremist"? If not, why not?

EXAMPLE:
Evidence of a Young Earth

#1 - Posted on 7/01/08 at 01:16 AM

Nelms1947


Christians need to watch or here this video, more so than others with little or no faith in God.
Most that go to a Bruce Malone seminar come away with a greater understanding of just how Young our Earth is, not some billion of years old as some would like for you to think;but possible as young as 6,000 and not much over 10,000 years old.....
Watch and here it all, it starts out some what boring from simple basic understanding but gets into evidence and facts of creation and so much more...

Astounding Evidence for a Young Earth by Bruce Malone. The PowerPoint file used in this seminar is also available and may be viewed online or downloaded for personal use

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