Identity Dominance: the US Military's Biometric War In Afghanistan 83
Advocatus Diaboli (1627651) writes "For years the U.S. military has been waging a biometric war in Afghanistan, working to unravel the insurgent networks operating throughout the country by collecting the personal identifiers of large portions of the population. A restricted U.S. Army guide on the use of biometrics in Afghanistan obtained by Public Intelligence provides an inside look at this ongoing battle to identify the Afghan people."
Re:Does that make Obama a "neocon"? (Score:3, Insightful)
>He's also well to the right of most republicans from forty years ago, but there again, so are most democrats today - and practically all republicans now.
Let's test this thesis of yours. With an actual test.
Who said this?
1) "Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom."
Was it: A) Cliven Bundy, B) John F. Kennedy, C) Rush Limbaugh, or D) Ted Nugent?
2) "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. [...] the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
Was it: A) Obama, B) Hubert Humphrey, C) Ronald Reagan, or D) The Tea Party?
3) "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
Was it: A) Antonin Scalia, B) John F. Kennedy, C) Che Guevara, or D) Al Gore?
Ok, that might have been too easy. How about this one:
4) "The people of the United States should be forbidden to have in their possession any firearms, or any other type of weapon. The possession of weapons can make it difficult to collect taxes and dues and supports rebellion."
Was it: A) FDR, B) Al Gore, C) Truman, or D) Harry Reid?
If you want to cheat, these quotes can be found here: http://catb.org/~esr/guns/quot... [catb.org]
But more importantly, think about your thought processes as you try to answer them. Nobody would seriously think that Obama would ever in a thousand years say something like #2 (in fact, if you didn't laugh at that option, you probably don't have much of a sense of humor). But we'd seriously have to consider if it was Al Gore or Harry Reid that said that, since, again, the older Democrats were far to the right of the modern party.
JFK fought with Nixon in the debates over who was more anti-communist, and LBJ had that whole Vietnam thing. Modern Democrats are far, far to the left of the older Democrat party on most issues. Read LBJ talk about how the federal government shouldn't be in the business of law enforcement some time, and then contrast that against Harry Reid calling in snipers to try to push Cliven Bundy off his ranch.