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Take the Homeland Security Quiz!
By William Rivers Pitt -- t r u t h o u t | Perspective - Sunday, 1 December, 2002

Question One: Do you approve of the new Homeland Security Department, signed into law by President Bush? [Y / N / IDK]

Question Two: Do you approve of the creation of a 'Total Information Awareness' database by the Department of Defense that will track a wide variety of data regarding every American citizen? [Y / N / IDK]

Question Three: Do you believe that citizens should be allowed to sue in civil court the Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Corporation for the production of products which cause autism in children? [Y / N / IDK]

Question Four: Do you approve of the Freedom of Information Act? [Y / N / IDK]

Question Five: Do you approve of an investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001? [Y / N / IDK]

Question Six: Did you know that the 'Total Information Awareness' database, under the stewardship of Admiral Poindexter and the Department of Defense, is an integral part of the new Homeland Security legislation, and will begin mining for data soon? [Y / N ]

Question Seven: Did you know that the Eli Lilly Pharmaceutical Corporation was granted immunity from lawsuit and liability regarding the autism allegations in the new Homeland Security legislation, because they are under contract to produce bioweapons vaccines for the federal government? [Y / N]

Question Eight: Did you know that the Freedom of Information Act has been severely curtailed by the new Homeland Security legislation, because public data on the actions of federal agencies is now considered a "potential security weakness?" [Y / N]

Question Nine: Did you know that, thanks to new restrictions on the Freedom of Information Act which will be decided upon on a case by case basis by the same department that manages the Total Information Awareness database, an effective investigation into what happened on September 11th, 2001 is now a practical impossibility? [Y / N]

Question Ten: Do you approve of the new Homeland Security Department, signed into law by President Bush? [Y / N / IDK]

******I wonder how many of my neighbors here in Florida would not get the point...most likely the same number that had problems with pregnant or hanging chads or voted Kathryn Harris into office...****** but that just this old curmudgeon's opnion

posted by A Curmudgeon 8:34 AM