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Thursday, June 23, 2005

Hey, man, it is just a list!

"The purpose of the system . . . is to provide a single central facility within the Department of Defense to compile, process and distribute files of individuals who meet age and minimum school requirements for military service," according to the official notice of the program.
(There is, of course, no such list for gun owners, as that, with some reason, might violate the 2nd amendment)

3 comments:

gberke said...

Oops... I missed this:
"Privacy advocates said the plan appeared to be an effort to circumvent laws that restrict the government's right to collect or hold citizen information by turning to private firms to do the work."
Ah, so its OK if you pay a private firm. Cool.
Lemmee go back and look at that gun thing. Medical records. Travel history. Records of family members.
Hey! y'know, Fox could do this! Way cool!

Ken said...

Yes, the only way to be an unregistered gun owner is to buy with cash from one of those dealer shows or something.

gberke said...

Ah, no, that is the beauty of the private sector: they can buy (and sell) all you gun information... what, when, clubs, travel trips, money spent and match that to income and education.
The government can't do that, but, ummm, duh, they can ummm buy it?
Stealing guns, that works really well on the privacy end of things.