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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

And you've already been given numerous links by numerous people, including myself, to prove that these weren't people wanting an honest debate but people encouraged to cause disruptions as  part of an organized multi-millionaire
dollar anti-health reform campaign by business interests who fear loss of revenue.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
Sad, funny, scary: Orwellian Pizza, coming soon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNJl9EEcsoE

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ORIGINAL: Arpig

You know, its kind of funny that you don't trust the government to be able to run a health insurance plan, but you attribute to them the ability to manage a huge conspiracy to take control of every aspect of your life....which is it, are they bumbling fools or are they scheming masterminds....it can't be both.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen
It's very funny. This video was produced to oppose Bush administration ant privacy initiatives, realID etc., and now someone who supported all of that stuff back then quite passionately is now trying to use it to attack an administration he doesn't like.

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ORIGINAL: Sanity
An honest debate is all people are asking for, and we're being told from the very top that if we disagree with the government, we need to be quiet.

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ORIGINAL: MarsBonfire
They can't help it... Most of the "Death Eaters" (as they are now being called) were brought up on a steady diet of Jerry Springer. So they think that's the way public discourse is supposed to be.

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

It's very funny. This video was produced to oppose Bush administration ant privacy initiatives, realID etc., and now someone who supported all of that stuff back then quite passionately is now trying to use it to attack an administration he doesn't like.

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ORIGINAL: Brain

Ridiculous isn't it? Bush passes Patriot Act suspends the Bill of Rights and not a peep out of them and now we get this.

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Homeland Security Detects Terrorist Threats by Reading Your Mind

Baggage searches are SOOOOOO early-21st century. Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of security screening — a body scanner that can read your mind.

Most preventive screening looks for explosives or metals that pose a threat. But a new system called MALINTENT turns the old school approach on its head. This Orwellian-sounding machine detects the person — not the device — set to wreak havoc and terror.

MALINTENT, the brainchild of the cutting-edge Human Factors division in Homeland Security's directorate for Science and Technology, searches your body for non-verbal cues that predict whether you mean harm to your fellow passengers.

It has a series of sensors and imagers that read your body temperature, heart rate and respiration for unconscious tells invisible to the naked eye — signals terrorists and criminals may display in advance of an attack.

But this is no polygraph test. Subjects do not get hooked up or strapped down for a careful reading; those sensors do all the work without any actual physical contact. It's like an X-ray for bad intentions.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,426485,00.html

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Chicago Moving to 'Smart' Surveillance Cameras

CHICAGO, Sept. 20 (2004) - A highly advanced system of video surveillance that Chicago officials plan to install by 2006 will make people here some of the most closely observed in the world. Mayor Richard M. Daley says it will also make them much safer.

"Cameras are the equivalent of hundreds of sets of eyes," Mr. Daley said when he unveiled the new project this month. "They're the next best thing to having police officers stationed at every potential trouble spot."

Police specialists here can already monitor live footage from about 2,000 surveillance cameras around the city, so the addition of 250 cameras under the mayor's new plan is not a great jump. The way these cameras will be used, however, is an extraordinary technological leap.

Sophisticated new computer programs will immediately alert the police whenever anyone viewed by any of the cameras placed at buildings and other structures considered terrorist targets wanders aimlessly in circles, lingers outside a public building, pulls a car onto the shoulder of a highway, or leaves a package and walks away from it. Images of those people will be highlighted in color at the city's central monitoring station, allowing dispatchers to send police officers to the scene immediately.

Officials here designed the system after studying the video surveillance network in London, which became a world leader in this technology during the period when Irish terrorists were active. The Chicago officials also studied systems used in Las Vegas casinos, as well as those used by Army combat units. The system they have devised, they say, will be the most sophisticated in the United States and perhaps the world.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/21/national/21cameras.html

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An honest debate is all people are asking for, and we're being told from the very top that if we disagree with the government, we need to be quiet.  ORIGINAL: Sanity

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ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales
No...you're being asked not to shout down speakers, walk around with swastika posters painting those in favor he health care as nazis and to stop with terms that are clearly non-sense such as "Government Death Panels" and my personal favorite "Mandated Abortion". They are saying that those who cannot control themselves enough to give reasoned debate are not advancing free speech. All the rest is spin.