Biometric Database

[Ahso!]

This is beyond arrogance, it's obscene. Scary too.

It's bad enough our American occupying troops have done this to people of an other sovereign country, but I can envision our school children being subjected to this scanning similar to hearing testing that's done. I can also see this becoming a requirement to employment on those who have already been through the school system or had been spared it.

Does anyone here have any thoughts on this? Do you agree or disagree with it? Are you patriotic enough to submit to this sort of thing without protest?

I wish there were someone with a conscious and decency in a God form overseeing this life, but there isn't and that's why we're getting away with all this crap.

"For much of the war, U.S. troops carrying viewfinder-like scanning devices kept digital records of the Iraqis they encountered. Some Iraqis got their unique identifiers recorded because they were suspected insurgents on their way to detention centers. Residents of violent cities like Fallujah would only get to return home from travel if they showed U.S. troops an ID card complete with biometric data. Iraqis underwent iris scans when they wanted to join the police. So did Iraqis who worked on U.S. bases."

U.S. Holds On to Biometrics Database of 3 Million Iraqis | Danger Room | Wired.com

[Bryn Mawr]

Ahso!;1379314 wrote: This is beyond arrogance, it's obscene. Scary too.

It's bad enough our American occupying troops have done this to people of an other sovereign country, but I can envision our school children being subjected to this scanning similar to hearing testing that's done. I can also see this becoming a requirement to employment on those who have already been through the school system or had been spared it.

Does anyone here have any thoughts on this? Do you agree or disagree with it? Are you patriotic enough to submit to this sort of thing without protest?

I wish there were someone with a conscious and decency in a God form overseeing this life, but there isn't and that's why we're getting away with all this crap.

"For much of the war, U.S. troops carrying viewfinder-like scanning devices kept digital records of the Iraqis they encountered. Some Iraqis got their unique identifiers recorded because they were suspected insurgents on their way to detention centers. Residents of violent cities like Fallujah would only get to return home from travel if they showed U.S. troops an ID card complete with biometric data. Iraqis underwent iris scans when they wanted to join the police. So did Iraqis who worked on U.S. bases."

U.S. Holds On to Biometrics Database of 3 Million Iraqis | Danger Room | Wired.com


Three million out of how many Iraqis?

[Ahso!]

The piece states that's approximately 10 percent of the population. Why?

[Bryn Mawr]

Ahso!;1379368 wrote: The piece states that's approximately 10 percent of the population. Why?


Ten percent of the entire population maybe - more like half the adult male population who would be the targets of any such programme. Would you say that half the population were suspected terrorists or was this blanket coverage?

[Ahso!]

I'd say everyone in existence is a terrorist suspect these days.