the fast track to being labelled an "enemy combatant"

Matt Smith and John Gilmore recommend investigating convicted felon John Poindexter as a demonstration of his "Total Information Awareness" program:


It would be good to have an early public demonstration of just how bad life could become for such targeted citizens. Public records can be manually searched and then posted to the net by people who happen to be looking there for something else. Photographs and videos of the target, their house, car, family, and associates, can be made and circulated to demonstrate facial recognition techniques.

Employees could demonstrate denial of service to such targeted people. "You've been 'randomly' selected as a security risk, I'll have to insist that [some degrading thing happen to you]". Or merely, "I can't seem to get this credit card to work, sir, and those twenties certainly look counterfeit to me."


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Drunken moose alert in Norway

Experts are warning that unusual weather has led to groups of drunken moose wandering around the Norwegian forests. Many Norwegian moose are becoming intoxicated after eating large numbers of fermenting fruit, which are plentiful after the country's exceptionally warm summer.