Keep the eyes peeled 
22.05.2003 [15:55] 

Only the paranoid survive, says the wise man on the hill-top. 
The wise people on Capitol Hill have taken this advice seriously 
enough to give the nod to a system that will monitor the movements 
of people visiting the US.  

A new system will keep tabs on visitors who require visas to enter 
the US. That covers a pretty large number of people, all of whose 
backgrounds will come under the scanner.  

But what about dangerous elements who might already be gestating 
inside the country - future "American Taliban" John Walker Lindhs 
or "Oklahoma Bomber" Timothy McVeighs? To identify these types before 
they do something nasty, there's talk of installing another system 
that will track anyone who seems "suspicious". And in order to 
notice anybody suspicious, one must notice everybody - which is 
exactly what Pentagon has in mind. An attempt is now under way to 
create a "virtual centralised grand database" which will keep the 
Big Eye always open: looking into people's shopping lists, e-mails, 
bank accounts, vacations, medical prescriptions, trips and other 
details.  

Short of going inside people's head, the Pentagon-funded research 
project hopes to ensure that America is not caught napping. Apart 
from all these Big Brotherly gestures, there will also be a radar-based 
device using hi-tech systems ("spatio-temporal 3-D body tracks" sounds 
as hi-tech as it gets) that will record the way people walk - yes, walk 
- which, in turn, will help in identifying them. One won't be surprised 
if privacy starts being perceived by the powers-that-be as the last 
refuge of the scoundrel in America.  

Hindustan Times

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Source: IraqWar.Ru ...
http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=6613&lang=en

Cheers, Steve..

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