1/24/03, 12:03 am – Semblance of Senatorial Sensibleness
It seems like maybe my comments (and those of thousands of others, of course) make a difference.
The Senate inserted an amendment into a major spending bill putting the kibosh on the Total Information Awareness project headed by John Poindexter. Thank goodness. That thing is an abomination. Declan McCullagh has the story on CNET.
posted 12:12 am
Here’s the NY Times piece on the same story. This describes the amendment much more as restricting the program than killing it. The unanimous support of the amendment is notable, too.
January 24th, 2003 at 11:33 am
Spent some time yesterday surfing/googling the web and reading about Bloody Sunday (January 30, 1972) in Derry, Ireland and the Inquiry into it (the Saville Inquiry – 1998 – 2001) which inspired me to check back in on Kent State — which is all related to your blogentary re: the government’s trampling of the rights of the people – in those cases killing unarmed civilians. No real justice ever came about in either situation as far as I can see.
Also, I’m further along in the bio of “Saddam Hussein, The Politics of Revenge” by Said K. Aburish — It seems Saddam was a great student of Josef Stalin.
January 24th, 2003 at 1:22 pm
hey lukie, just letting you know i’ve been reading your blog … mrs. mcnally says hi! love you
January 29th, 2003 at 5:08 pm