Democrats Pioneered Data Mining They Denounce
May 12, 2006
When you combine just the Census and the IRS, our good buddies at Big Brother have quite a lot of information about us -- and, Social Security numbers will tell them a lot. You know, there are two things to say here. My whole life, people have been warning that what's happening is going to happen, that there will be constant invasions of privacy, we're going to lose it and have to be vigilant. I was warned, "It is all going to happen under the guise of law enforcement and security and protecting you and so forth," and lo and behold it happened. This is what it is. There are some people who would be rightly concerned about all of this.
That is why it is crucial that we have responsible leaders assigning and appointing responsible people in these positions, because the genie is out of the bag. Anybody who thinks that you still have total anonymity and privacy just because you are not on television and not a media star, you have no clue what can be learned about you. So the genie is out of the bag. You can sit here and bemoan it all you want, but the genie is out of the bag. Every time somebody brings up the national ID card, I just chuckle. "No no no! That's the end of our privacy!" What do you think a Social Security card is? They can track you anywhere if you got an EZ Pass, cross a bridge, go through a tunnel, or whatever.
My gosh, folks, they are putting cameras at intersections to follow you, seeing whether you don't break a law or do break a law, or what have you. It's all done for privacy protection, these kinds of things. (interruption) Well, now, Snerdley just said with the exception of identity theft, who cares? Well, that's the point. A lot of people do care, but the real thing that needs to be said here, this reaction to this, that the Democrats and the Drive-By Media are having, it is infantile, juvenile. It is a willingful, purposeful ignorance of what has been happening in this country for years. As we have learned today, many of the initiatives they voted for. Many of these initiatives they sponsored. Many of these initiatives they initiated, to be redundant. It was their idea.
(Story) The Clinton administration came up with the whole notion that the federal government will get cooperation from phone companies in sharing phone records with the government, when the government wants it. Don't need a warrant to get it. The Clinton administration did it. A voice vote in a Democrat House, in a Democrat Senate, made it law when Clinton signed it, and Senator Kennedy was there and voted for it in a voice vote. Senator Levin was there. Senator Specter was there. Senator Leahy was there. So these people acing like we all have total, 100% anonymity until George Bush came along and then blew everything up. Bush secretly, at night. "They say he goes to bed at 9:30? No. He is spying on you because he's a pervert voyeur." I mean, it is just absurd. All of this is patently absurd. |
