*fume*

[piranha]

ok, this is it. goodbye, united states of america. you are no longer a country in which i feel welcome.

homeland security plans to eventually tag all non-citizens with the same sort of electronic anklets that criminals under house arrest now wear, if they like the results from their pilot studies.

the pilot studies are bad enough because they are treating people who have not committed any crime like criminals. and why? because the department of homeland security can't put its own house in order, it seems, at least on the surface.

fucking shrubtards. way to turn a pretty nice country into a police state. terrorists don't scare me half as much.

via matociquala.

[edit: i am trying to find something other than the audio program that talks in more detail, and with sources, about the ongoing pilot programs. they seem to be restricted to immigrant aliens who would otherwise be detained in prison, and i have not seen anything anywhere in writing that would support this single source claiming the DoHS would like to eventually tag all immigrants and immigrant-applicants. lemme know if you find anything. why is this only on NPR so far?]

Comments

[novazembla.livejournal.com]

JEEEEEESUS FUCKING CHRIST. So to speak. Hey George -- not all Canadians seeking citizenship are Zündel.

@%

[crantz.livejournal.com]

just read that. There goes my line about 'as if going through customs wasn't enough of a pain in the ass already'.

there goes me moving there though. I have enough trouble not clawing off my own watch.

[grumpywitch.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I heard the story on my way to work this morning. I couldn't believe it! I still can't believe it!

[slit.livejournal.com]

That is just incredible.

[crazed-lynn.livejournal.com]

On behalf of US citizen's with functioning brain cells, I apologize top those immigrating. I am shamed by my accidental membership in this asylum.

[desh]

I'm skeptical of that one. It seems like something that even the dormant non-thinking citizens might rise up in protest against.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i'd be more skeptical if it weren't NPR. they've become such a cowed institution that i simply do not expect them to go overboard anymore.

alas, i disagree with your assessment of the sheeple -- i think the average citizen doesn't give a damn about new immigrants, and is in fact already prejudiced agaist them. immigrants are very easily made into scapegoats, what with taking away jobs from americans and all.

arab-americans can probably attest to how quickly one can become the enemy. japanese-americans remember when it was their turn.

[kyra.livejournal.com]

Four years after my initial trial separation from the US, I reaffirm my secession from the nation of my birth. I am the President of the Dorm-Room Republic of Kiwi, and I swear nobody in my country will ever have to wear stupid fucking tags.

[necturus.livejournal.com]

They're shouldn't even be a Department of Homeland Security. We got along fine without one for 225 years. The name is an unpleasant reminder of the German Reichssicherheitshauptamt, and the department itself is a constant threat to liberty and an open door to official abuse.

What's next? The Soviet Union had a 1 km wide strip along its border in which anyone caught without authorization was immediately shot. How long till we get there, I wonder?

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

if you do find something other than the audio program, could you please make a new post as well as/instead of editing this one? i, personally, am horrified.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i will. one thing i found just now is that st.paul, MN is one of the eight cities in which this ankle bracelet pilot program is conducted.

[betanfrill.livejournal.com]

I'm outraged that I'm not more surprised.

I'm not going into the US if I can possibly avoid it because I don't want to be fingerprinted. Fingerprinting is bad enough, wearing an ankle bracelet is probably the next thing for tourists.

It wouldn't even make any difference for terrorists.