ACLU Spooked by Domestic Spying 

[Editor's Note: The ACLU is not free of Illuminati influence, but thankfully, lower eschelon employees think the organization's purpose is what it says it should be: helping to protect Amercian Civil Liberties. If you've read the books of David Icke or John Coleman, you already  know that virtually all "think tanks" like the Heritage Foundation or the Rand Corporation are, in fact, Illuminati propaganda front organizations-whose job is to deceive and mislead. Look at the bottom of this article and take notice of  who's jumping up and down assuring us that we have nothing to worry about!..Ken Adachi]  

By Julia Scheeres    

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/acluspookedbyspying16jan03.shtml
Jan. 16, 2003 

A black man visits an affluent white suburb to attend a co-worker's barbecue. That same night, a crime takes place in the neighborhood. Police review footage taken from a security camera installed in the area, use face-recognition software to identify the man and visit his home to ask him what he was doing in a neighborhood where he "didn't belong."

That's one of the futuristic scenarios offered by the American Civil Liberties Union in its new report titled: "Bigger Monster, Weaker Chains: The Growth of an American Surveillance Society."

Released Tuesday in San Francisco, the document warns that a combination of technological innovation and weakened privacy protections is "feeding a surveillance monster that is growing silently in our midst."

GPS, biometrics, cameras, wireless communication, implantable microchips and other systems that identify, track and record people's activities need to be held in check by legislation to protect Americans' privacy rights, the report argues.

"The kind of surveillance society that people have been talking about since George Orwell is now technically possible," said Jay Stanley, of the ACLU's Technology and Democracy Program, who co-authored the report. "Too many people still do not understand this danger."

Since Sept. 11, the government has invested heavily in technology to combat terrorism, but the ACLU charges that many of the Justice Department's new tools will lead to racial profiling and widespread monitoring of ordinary, innocent Americans.

The ACLU isn't the only group questioning the efficacy of government's tech arsenal.

Several tests of the face-scanning software being deployed at national airports since the terrorist attacks have shown the systems to be shoddy, for example. And database experts have expressed doubts about the feasibility of the Total Information Awareness system, a Herculean data mining effort to suss out terrorist information.

"It will always be important to understand and publicly debate every new technology and every new technique for spying on people," the report concludes.

Not everyone agreed.

"The ACLU precludes the use of new technologies because of their mere potential for abuse and I think that's ludicrous," said Paul Rosenzweig, a senior research fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "Increased government surveillance isn't a panacea to stop terrorism, but it isn't a monster either."

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