Thursday, October 09, 2008

Everyone is a Terrorist...

...apparently. According to the Washington Post a number of nonviolent activists recently discovered that they were classified as terrorists by Maryland police. My favorite part of the story is that "the activists' names were entered into the state police database as terrorists partly because the software offered limited options for classifying entries." So, if they can't find the right classification the default option is terrorist? This story also brings into question, surveillance methods and makes me wonder if anyone actually remembers the Fourth Amendment. But I guess that got thrown out years ago.

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