http://www.bitsbook.com/2008/10/data-mining-and-the-search-for-terrorists/ Your Life, Liberty and Happiness After the Digital Explosion Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:16:26 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.bitsbook.com/2008/10/data-mining-and-the-search-for-terrorists/comment-page-1/#comment-911 Daniel Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:49:17 +0000 http://www.bitsbook.com/?p=235#comment-911 Data-mining = racial profiling. For all of those people who will argue that we should do something to stop terrorists here in the US, and summarily surrender your freedoms... I say that we need to revise our American system then. The problem has been here at home and it has always been here at home... it's our system that is flawed. We advocate being a "melting pot" or "cultural mosaic" of various nationalities, but how do we stop hate? - One way would be through education. Teaching Creationism in schools (which Sarah Palin advocates) is anti-science, and it does not correct the problem. It only fuels resentment in the hearts of those who do not practice YOUR religion. If you are so worried about picking out a few bad needles in a hay stack, you should realize that we all have to surrender our rights and are infringed in the process. We need to seriously revise the current system we have - we cannot have it both ways. We need to change it by having a social theorist sit down and draft a new social philosophy that protects our all-inclusive philosophy, but is able to prevent those who hate us from getting into the country. This may be a futile endeavor, but if we do not want to become a totalitarian Empire, then this must be the only course. Data-mining = racial profiling.
For all of those people who will argue that we should do something to stop terrorists here in the US, and summarily surrender your freedoms… I say that we need to revise our American system then. The problem has been here at home and it has always been here at home… it’s our system that is flawed. We advocate being a “melting pot” or “cultural mosaic” of various nationalities, but how do we stop hate? – One way would be through education. Teaching Creationism in schools (which Sarah Palin advocates) is anti-science, and it does not correct the problem. It only fuels resentment in the hearts of those who do not practice YOUR religion.
If you are so worried about picking out a few bad needles in a hay stack, you should realize that we all have to surrender our rights and are infringed in the process. We need to seriously revise the current system we have – we cannot have it both ways. We need to change it by having a social theorist sit down and draft a new social philosophy that protects our all-inclusive philosophy, but is able to prevent those who hate us from getting into the country. This may be a futile endeavor, but if we do not want to become a totalitarian Empire, then this must be the only course.

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