Pentagon shuts down database that monitored peace rallies.
By on Aug 21st, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Pentagon shuts down database that monitored peace rallies.
The Pentagon said it will shut down an anti-terror database, known as TALON, that has been criticized for improperly storing information on peace activists and others who posed no threat. “Anti-war groups and other organizations, including a Quaker group — the American Friends Service Committee — protested after it was revealed that the military had monitored anti-war activities, organizations and individuals who attended peace rallies.” The Pentagon said the database is being shut down because “the analytical value had declined,” but expressed it hopes that a new system will replace it in the near future.
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Yeah, one in the future that can get your picture, attach your name, home address and personel information to it. Then it will be so easy to raid you in the middle of night and hauled off to a nice little prison camp somewhere. All that for not agreeing to their sick line of thought.
August 21st, 2007 at 12:42 pmThird try….
Oh the irony….
August 21st, 2007 at 12:44 pmso all this means to me is that they have a NEW database or program that they’re not telling us about…..yet….
Of course, these politicians would like us to believe that we have nothing to worry about if we’re doing nothing wrong…but that’s not the issue.
As soon as we give politicians this kind of power – or don’t stop them from using it, we’re in big trouble.
That’s my rant, some additional reading:
August 21st, 2007 at 12:47 pm“If you’re not guilty, what are you afraid of?”
http://www.populistamerica.com/if_you_aren_t_guilty__what_are_you_afraid_of
I’ll still be keep photographing you freaks and posting the pictures on the web:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19698_Moronic_Convergence_in_Hollywood&only
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24841&only
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/index.php?entry=17666_LA_Moronic_Convergence_Slideshow&only
August 21st, 2007 at 12:58 pmI’ll still be photographing you freaks and posting the pictures on the web:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/ weblog/ ?entry=19698_Moronic_Convergence_in_Hollywood&only
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24841&only
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/ weblog/ index.php?entry=17666_LA_Moronic_Convergence_Slideshow&only
August 21st, 2007 at 12:59 pmSorry for the double post.
August 21st, 2007 at 12:59 pm“Adolph builds a bonfire, and Ringo plays with IT”
August 21st, 2007 at 1:00 pmSorry for the double post.
Comment by Ringo — August 21, 2007 @ 12:59 pm
Thanks for your concern.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:02 pmRaven,
I understand the Peter Gabriel reference, but what’s with the “IT”….I don’t get it.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:06 pmIf anyone believes that they aere going to close down that program, I have a great deal on three different bridges that might just interest someone!
August 21st, 2007 at 1:06 pmbilljpa
a great deal on three different bridges that might just interest someone!
Comment by billjpa — August 21, 2007 @ 1:06 pm
Huh, are any of them in Minn, by chance?? Or Alaska??
August 21st, 2007 at 1:10 pmI don’t get it.
Comment by Ringo — August 21, 2007 @ 1:06 pm
And you never will.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:13 pmLooking at Ringos pics. Yeh, I can see why they shut down TALON those people look about as dangerous as Hastert at an all you can eat bar and almost as noisy! [Joking]
BTW wasn’t that, TALON, the name of the paper [lol] Gannon softballed for? [Joking again]
August 21st, 2007 at 1:14 pmRaven,
I understand the Peter Gabriel reference, but what’s with the “ITâ€â€¦.I don’t get it.
Comment by Ringo
Dear Ringo:
The Peter Gabriel song “Games Without Frontiers” is a commentary on lax sexual morays, and the verses are rife with references to particular sexual predilictions.
Every time I observe your verbal masturbations here, I am reminded of that particular verse.
As far as capitalizing “it”, that is simply my addition for emphasis, as well as a play on the acronym for information technology.
Perhaps you’ve mistaken me for someone who gives a rats ass whether you get it or not.
:)
August 21st, 2007 at 1:15 pmOff-topic here, but if you haven’t read this, you need to. Extremely disturbing material, to say the least.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/hail-caesar-by-digby-ive-been-getting.html
August 21st, 2007 at 1:17 pmLooking at Ringos pics. Yeh, I can see why they shut down TALON those people look about as dangerous as Hastert at an all you can eat bar and almost as noisy! [Joking]
Comment by Zeppie!
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They ARE dangerous, not in a terrorist way, but in a useful idiot / fifth column sorta way.
Of course some of them suffer from such severe BDS that they could be a threat to the President.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:18 pm….I don’t get it.
Comment by Ringo
That describes 99.99% of your posts.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:19 pmPerhaps you’ve mistaken me for someone who gives a rats ass whether you get it or not.
:)
Comment by Raven
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No, I haven’t.
BTW – Did you watch the History Channel’s 9/11 twoofer smack down last night?
If not, it’ll be on again: http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=240087
August 21st, 2007 at 1:21 pmLittle Green Footballs?
Wasn’t that labled a racist hate site by Websense?
August 21st, 2007 at 1:25 pmOf course some of them suffer from such severe BDS that they could be a threat to the President.
Comment by Ringo — August 21, 2007 @ 1:18 pm
Completely meaningless comment.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:25 pmI’m so glad that Ringo has found the time to give all of those protesters coverage!
Some of those signs look like they took awhile to create and it’s really nice that he can provide that extra promotion for them.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:26 pmLittle Green Footballs?
Wasn’t that labled a racist hate site by Websense?
Comment by Bruce Gorton
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ThinkProgress will always be my favorite hate site.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:26 pmRingo
What next, are you going to link us to Redwatch? Stormfront? Maybe the KKK home page?
August 21st, 2007 at 1:27 pmLittle Green Footballs?
Wasn’t that labled a racist hate site by Websense?
Comment by Bruce Gorton — August 21, 2007 @ 1:25 pm
If not, it should be.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:28 pmCompletely meaningless comment.
Comment by The Republic of Stupidity
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When someones takes to the street with an effigy of the president hanging from a noose, I think that it is appropriate for the Secret Service to keep an eye on that person….Don’t you?
August 21st, 2007 at 1:28 pmThinkProgress will always be my favorite hate site.
Comment by Ringo — August 21, 2007 @ 1:26 pm
Well, people here don’t cheer when someone gets run over by a bulldozer, like the people in LGF did.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:28 pmLGF monitors radical Islam and the crackpot Left.
I have no love for either.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:31 pmI have no love for either.
Comment by Ringo — August 21, 2007 @ 1:31 pm
Or for any other human being, for that matter.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:33 pmOf course some of them suffer from such severe BDS that they could be a threat to the President.
Comment by Ringo
Hrrmm. I don’t see any difference really bewteen BDS and CDS. Now, if you want to talk about obsessions, them Clinton Sydromists are STILL, a decade later, STILL, I say, frothing rabidly about how everything is Clintons fault.
Besides, I dont hate Dubya. I just don’t agree with most of what he says.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:33 pmSome people hate broccoli.
Some people hate the Yankees.
Some people hate liars, thieves, murderers and rapists.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:33 pmWhen someones takes to the street with an effigy of the president hanging from a noose, I think that it is appropriate for the Secret Service to keep an eye on that person….Don’t you?
Comment by Ringo — August 21, 2007 @ 1:28 pm
That’s it! Anybody who has ever attended a Guy Fawkes celebration, you are on the list! /snark
August 21st, 2007 at 1:34 pmWell, people here don’t cheer when someone gets run over by a bulldozer, like the people in LGF did.
Comment by Luis M
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You mean this woman?
August 21st, 2007 at 1:34 pmhttp://home.comcast.net/~fenrisulven/rachel-corrie-flag-02.jpg
They should hand out effigies of the criminal Bush hanging from a noose for free at every street corner in America. You are still a pathetic moron Ringo….why do you bother to breath, you are wasting perfectly good air.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:35 pmLGF monitors radical Islam and the crackpot Left.
I have no love for either.
Comment by Ringo
Stlll trying to make your lefty imagination into righty truth?
Okay, prove I am a your version of a crackpot left.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:37 pmYou are still a pathetic moron Ringo….why do you bother to breath, you are wasting perfectly good air.
Comment by Buck Fush
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“Buck Fush”….Wow, did you make that up yourself?
You moonbats are so clever.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:38 pmStlll trying to make your lefty imagination into righty truth?
Comment by Zeppie!
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Huh?….I don’t know what that means.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:39 pmPerhaps you’ve mistaken me for someone who gives a rats ass whether you get it or not.
:)
Comment by Raven
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No, I haven’t.
Comment by Ringo — August 21, 2007
OK, you called me on that one, I do care, it’s just tough love buddy.
You are showing signs of softening from your initial persona of meanness and bile.
I suppose it can’t be avoided, spending as much time as you do here engaged in discourse with intelligent, caring and humorous
human beings.
We love ‘ya man, and behind every blustery denial, label and accusation hurled our way, we see the human struggling against its shackles.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:41 pmNo, I meant this image.
And yes, you guys at LGF cheered after she was run over by a bulldozer.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:41 pmHuh?….I don’t know what that means.
Comment by Ringo
We know.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:43 pmWe have low expectations as to what you actually do understand.
Very low.
You are showing signs of softening from your initial persona of meanness and bile.
Comment by Raven
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I’m only rude when someone is rude to me.
I probably disagree with you on everything, but you are never rude, so I’m not rude to you.
I’m actually a very nice person….kind to children and animals alike.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:44 pmI gotta go moonbats.
Keep on raging!
August 21st, 2007 at 1:45 pmYou moonbats are so clever.
Comment by Ringo
ooo moonbat. OHhh Your killing me! LOL.
…perhaps you dont understand the Saronic cycle?
August 21st, 2007 at 1:46 pmRingo
Don’t let the door hit you on the backside as you leave, it might cause you brain damage.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:46 pmFurther, brain damage.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:47 pmShut down or renamed and moved after the code name TALON is known?
August 21st, 2007 at 1:49 pmAnyway, back on thread after the infinitely amusing, and infinitely stupid Ringo has left…
The worst threat the United States military considers pacifists a threat to America’s security?
August 21st, 2007 at 1:52 pm“I’m actually a very nice person….kind to children and animals alike.”
Comment by Ringo
Is there a doctor in the house?
August 21st, 2007 at 1:52 pmI don’t believe I’m qualified to analyze that one…. :)
Huh?….I don’t know what that means.
Comment by Ringo
It means your putting/sticking your imagination/opinion on me from your right perspective and then think its true.
You looking for the splinter in my eye and overlooking the log in yours.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:53 pmbrain damage.
Comment by Bruce Gorton
Hard to damage it more.
August 21st, 2007 at 1:56 pmThose 2 brain cells of his rarely ever meet in that vast cavern,
Wayne
Two? You’ve got a crumb on the X-Ray.
August 21st, 2007 at 2:02 pmSure they did. Right. Yeah. Uh-huh. They shut it down FOR GOOD this time. Sheeeeut! Some people never learn that the only method of communication Repubs know is lying. It ain’t shut down. It ain’t NEVER GONNA BE shut down. The military OWNS the government. They do what they want. Got bananas?
August 21st, 2007 at 2:04 pmThe military OWNS the government. They do what they want. Got bananas?
Comment by david
Not really. The government is Corporate owned, bought and paid for daily down on K-Street.
August 21st, 2007 at 2:16 pmAll the generals that spoke out or tried to suggest alternate plans for example, were retired.
Two? You’ve got a crumb on the X-Ray.
Comment by Bruce Gorton
By golly, you were right. One brushed right off there, hehe
August 21st, 2007 at 2:19 pm“Talon” will soon be reconstituted as “Nolat”
National
August 21st, 2007 at 2:22 pmOrganization of
Lying
Arrogant
Tyrants
The “Robber Barons” are the problem with government today as well as the representatives that look out for those interests over and above the rights and liberties of Americans, actual people.
August 21st, 2007 at 2:26 pmAmazing…right after submitting my last ocmment, Judas Priest’s Hellion/Electric Eye came on the radio. Didi the last comment even show up?
I’m afraid.
August 21, 2007. A day which will live in infamy.
August 21st, 2007 at 2:26 pmBuck Fush is right. It has happened to three of my friends. Never heard from again. All their neighbors, friends, and employers act as if they never existed…but I can tell they’re scarred. Something, someone got to them. I’m thinking they might be after me next.
If I dissappear there will be letter automotically mailed out to every progressive institution in the country. THis is bigger than most people think.
August 21st, 2007 at 2:34 pmLet me know when you get the new system up and running, I’d like to be the first name on the list. Unlike you I have nothing to hide!
August 21st, 2007 at 2:41 pmThe worst threat the United States military considers pacifists a threat to America’s security?
Comment by Bruce Gorton
The Friends are purely pacifists too.
That makes no sense.
what kind of threat are they? Other than Idealogically?
I am not a christian, so personally, I am more likely to break the arm that struck me, than to turn the other cheek, depending on the situation, of course.
August 21st, 2007 at 2:43 pmBuck Fush is right. It has happened to three of my friends. Never heard from again. All their neighbors, friends, and employers act as if they never existed…but I can tell they’re scarred. Something, someone got to them. I’m thinking they might be after me next.
If I dissappear there will be letter automotically mailed out to every progressive institution in the country. THis is bigger than most people think.
Comment by Harl
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Seek psychological help.
August 21st, 2007 at 2:46 pmUnlike you I have nothing to hide!
Comment by Stephen Splain
Neither do I.
But when something called the Constitution is being violated, their is great cause for concern.
“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin
August 21st, 2007 at 2:51 pmAnother good reason why you should take action, make the pledge for a better America. The Six Years and Out movement requires no time or resources. There are no financial contributions to be made no meetings to attend no speeches to endure. A citizen need only make the following pledge to himself then spread the word to others. If you are fed up with pay-to-play government and duopoly party rule, you should make the pledge.
Six Years and Out, The Pledge
With the recognition that there are huge numbers of intelligent, talented and qualified citizens who are prepared to limit their public service. I hereby pledge that I will not vote a second term for any United States Senator and no more three terms for any United States Congressman.
August 21st, 2007 at 2:52 pmComment by Harl
ok, that was some weird chit.
Who exactly is supposedly missing?
Sounds a bit sci-fi to me.
August 21st, 2007 at 3:03 pmNow that Rove is out the door is Bush going the straight and narrow way????
August 21st, 2007 at 3:05 pmSix Years and Out, The Pledge
Comment by Lewis Walsh
An Anti-incumbent vote starting in 2008 and every election after would go a long way cleaning that cesspool out some.
August 21st, 2007 at 3:06 pmthey only shut it down because they’ve farmed it out to AT&T – the company which will not only take your money, but rat you out if you speak out against the King
August 21st, 2007 at 4:52 pmWell, people here don’t cheer when someone gets run over by a bulldozer, like the people in LGF did.
Comment by Luis M — August 21, 2007 @ 1:28 pm
August 21st, 2007 at 4:57 pmNo, folks here just cheer when people get cancer.;)
Shut down?
Try “hushed up.”
August 21st, 2007 at 6:29 pm“I’m actually a very nice person….kind to children and animals alike.â€
Comment by Ringo
Yeah right, I think it’s more like we should all hide our children and pets from the likes of you.
August 21st, 2007 at 7:41 pmHELLO.
Say you opinion about peace building.
IRFF ONLUS invite you to celebrate 21September 2007, UN International PEACE Day 2007.
Say you opinion peace building NOW!!!
By: Forum:
http://moldova.worldcarp.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=767
Bloging:
http://pacea21.blogspot.com/
Posting Video Spots like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73ytSEBoc8
Join e- groups to support UN millennium development goals:
Donate for PEACE projects:
Add you own initiative and
pass this message on to all you friends:
Added initiatives:
1. ……. You own initiative here…….
2.Sign petition to UN initiative:
More on: http://www.irffmd.net
September 3rd, 2007 at 4:19 pm