Reply #43: Asher seems like a nice businessman. Appears he's connected to BFEE.

[Octafish]

Big time.

Thanks for the heads-up, DrummerMan.

The Matrix has you......

And your privacy - You don't have to be among those with a "high terrorism quotient" (HTQ) to heed the warning on Neo's computer: THE MATRIX HAS YOU.

By Henry Silverman

These words "The Matrix has you" appear on Neo's computer screen in the first film of the popular "Matrix" series.

Another Matrix short for Multistate Anti-TeRrorism Informational eXchange has us here in Michigan. It creates a serious threat to our privacy.

Matrix is a vast database created by Seisint Inc., initially intended to track potential terrorists and criminals but now federally funded as a successor to the Pentagon's notorious Total Information Awareness program nixed by Congress because of public uproar.

Seisint, a Boca Raton, Fla., company, was founded by millionaire Hank Asher, who stepped down from its board of directors last year after revelation of past ties to drug smugglers.

In launching its new criminal information project, Seisint developed a statistical method of determining an individual's propensity for terrorism. According to documents obtained by the ACLU, Matrix operators sent to federal law enforcement authorities a list of 120,000 names of individuals who had been scored with a high "terrorism quotient." Seisint claimed that many arrests have resulted from the list, though recently Seisint and the law enforcement officials who oversee Matrix insist that the terrorism scoring system is now out of the project, largely because of privacy concerns.

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http://news2umedia.blogspot.com/2004_10_01_news2umedia_archive.html

Very convenient BFEE science, having a "propensity" to think may soon be a prosecutable crime.

Sorry this is so late, Bob. Every time I get away from the rabbit, they call me back in.