By Darren Weeks
The U.S. Defense Department has officially began another mad witch-hunt for threats of terrorism.
A new system called "Talon" will now collect and document raw, unvalidated reports by "concerned citizens" of "anomalous activities," whatever the heck that means.
Former Pentagon "terrorism" expert, Peter Probst was quoted in a Wired News article as saying, "It would be derelict not to keep track of anomalous incidents. This is just common sense."
Well, Mr. Probst, forgive me when I say that there is no common sense in government. Government is what you do, instead of common sense.
And now we are going to have another program that we are going to be forced to fund, in order that we may have our own government collect data on all of us.
And just who are these "concerned citizens" who will be reporting to the government? Of course, they will be your neighbors who were irritated, when you installed a dusk-to-dawn light in your yard, that happened to cast a little undesired light in their direction. It may be the colleague at the office who was slighted when you received the promotion that they coveted. Or it may just be some other busy-body who has nothing else better to do than stick their sizable nose into your business and decide that whatever you do might look suspicious to them.
To be sure, a program such as this, if it could be effective at all, would most certainly give platform to vengeance seekers of all kinds.
And that is another real question: How effective could a program be, which relies exclusively upon the tips of the average Jerry Springer watcher, who may or may not be telling the truth. And whose motives may or may not be pure?
How effective at eliminating real threats could a program be, when it amasses such huge databases of information, that no single human being could ever possibly digest a substantial portion of the information?
This Talon program is just like the infamous Operation TIPS (Terrorist Information and Prevention System) program. That program was finally killed by Congress, due to outcry from people concerned about their privacy.
Operation TIPS, sought to enlist millions of Americans to report any suspicious signs that might link some of the rest of us to terrorism. The program would have utilized a phone number that Americans could call if they witnessed any "suspicious" activity.
Unlike the TIPS program, which was more generalized in scope, the Talon system is proposed to guard against terrorist threats against the military.
Of course, the reality is that anything can appear suspicious. Personally, whenever a car stops in front of my house, I look at it as being suspicious. Does that mean I should get the license number, make and model, and report it to the federal TIP line? They may just have a flat tire. But their being there is causing me to worry that they'll plant a bomb in my mailbox, so I might ought to call — just to be safe.
The inevitable reality of such nefarious programs, is that there will be many innocent individuals who are falsely indexed for no other reason that they were at the wrong place at the wrong time.
And how long will it be before these such databases are added to the already overbloated federal databases that are routinely used in an attempt to deny you your Second-Amendment right to own a firearm, for instance? After all, if anyone shouldn't be allowed to own a gun, a "terrorist" shouldn't be, right?
What is a terrorist? Have you ever noticed how the government never really defines what a suspicious activity is, or what terrorism really is?
Let me tell you what it is: It is anyone who really values your liberty and the rights that are acknowledged and promoted by the Constitution of the United States of America.
And since the traitors who occupy the Oval Office, the Congress, and the Supreme Court, no longer support and uphold the U.S. Constitution, they wish to dispel from the arena anyone who might create opposition to their plan to merge our country into a socialist one-world government. Hence, you will be deemed a terrorist, and dealt with, accordingly.
If we Americans are ever going to reclaim the freedoms of our past, and preserve that of the present, we must begin to cut funding for these federal citizen-spy programs. And the only way to do that, is by pressuring our state legislators to quit sending our tax dollars to Washington D.C. — the District of Criminals.
There was no shortage of government intelligence prior to September 11th, and no amount of additional spying would have stopped it.
This is because September 11th was a plan that was orchestrated and executed by traitorous murderers who occupy our government in their undying support for the rogue, imperialist nation-state of Israel.
There. I said it.
And if you have a problem with that, my friend, then you have a problem with the truth.
