Gov't Proposes Massive Homeless Tracking System 808
Chris Hoofnagle writes "The Dept. of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a massive system of tracking for homeless people and others who are served by shelters and care centers. The system will track people by their SSN, and will collect health (HIV, pregnancy) and mental information. Secret Service and national security agents can gain access to the database by just asking for it! EPIC has released a fact sheet on HMIS, and the public can comment on the guidelines until September 22, 2003, but no electronic comments are being accepted."
No, we need to track politicians, dammit! (Score:5, Funny)
Works for me... (Score:5, Funny)
Darn it! (Score:1, Funny)
Oh wait, you didnt *wink wink* hear that...
Re:Not to be cruel, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Don't you think that if we had known who the penniless homeless were, we could have prevented the massive attack on 09/11/01? They are begging for spare change, and using it to buy AIRLINE TICKETS!
Hey Mister! (Score:5, Funny)
Think of all the money we'll save in mental institutions letting these guys we THOUGHT were nuts back out...
That's good.. (Score:5, Funny)
He quickly ran off... I was still in shock and not sure if I should chase him down, let alone know what to do with him once caught, but now I can track him down and do the same to his shopping cart.
Sweet revenge!
Re:No, we need to track politicians, dammit! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why do we kill Kenny? Because he's poor. (Score:2, Funny)
That's what I was going to suggest. They could start a tag-and-release program; let the public hunt down and "register" the homeless. Sort of like an alternative to deer hunting season.
Re:Not to be cruel, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Somebody should the track the Politically Correct crowd, they're the ones to watch out for.
Re:Not to be cruel, but... (Score:5, Funny)
then we should have mandatory tracking for all major ceos! the enron debacle came in at about $4 billion... that's a lot of food stamps.
Like national geographic (Score:3, Funny)
What would one use as bait, a coupla 40's or pure-grain?
Re:We can talk about them here (Score:3, Funny)
old people don't need companionship. They need to be isolated and studied so it can be determined what nutrients they have that might be extracted for our personal use.
I guess the same goes for homeless.
My gawd (Score:3, Funny)
I can see the "scientists" now with big antenae looking for signals of wild homeless people.
I mean, if the govn't is that concerned with homeless people, maybe instead of tracking them they could give them some skills training, food, and a place to stay.
Re:No, we need to track politicians, dammit! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Good deal (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What a crock (Score:2, Funny)
If you take their money, then you have to take their shit.
Hold your hand out, then you better expect some accomidations on your part.
I always thought everyone should have a negative sign tatooed on their forehead, and if you get a disease like Herpes, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculisis, Genital Warts, etc then they finish the tatoo into a positive. That way, us clean MoFo's are protected from you dirty ol bastards.
But, then that's just me.
You know the economy is bad.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Good deal (Score:2, Funny)
obSpellcheck (Score:3, Funny)
Ummm... below the jerkin of civil liberties, presumably.
Re:What a crock (Score:2, Funny)
Actually, they won't provide any information, if you read the article you will see that they will be spotted from helicopters and shot with tranquilizers. Then each homeless person will be tagged with either a collar or one of the ear pegs that they use on livestock.
Collar first, ear peg if they "lose" their collar. We don't want to be cruel.
Re:Not to be cruel, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Calm down. Breathe deep...
Are we O.K. now? Good!
Please compose yourself, and read the link [216.239.33.104]...
Re:Not to be cruel, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Especially Texas Democrats! (Score:3, Funny)