- Signatures: 540
- Goal: 5,000
- Deadline: 11-21-2003
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The Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program brings Big Brother home, spying on ordinary Americans. The military plans to collect citizens' personal information in a central database, where a computer will identify "dangerous" citizens. TIA must be shut down.
| Number | Date | Name | City | State | Why Do You Oppose TIA? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 543 | 5:12 pm PDT, Oct 26 | Brian Clark | Sinking Spring, PA | Pennsylvania | The idea and motivation behind this bill is out of line with the American belief of optamism in each other and a possible first step towards the fascist belief that the government decides what is right for the people, instead of the people deciding where the limits of government stop. The idea itself behind the TIA is scary enough considering it was forced into legislation after failing to pass the test of those elected into office by the people. |
| 542 | 7:29 am PST, Nov 13 | Charles S. Wilson | Minneapolis | Minnesota | I oppose TIA because of my belief in democracy. |
| 541 | 6:42 am PDT, Oct 26 | Andrew Savage | Hershey | Pennsylvania | |
| 540 | 10:10 pm PDT, Jun 15 | Robyn Sharpe | Boston | Massachusetts | |
| 539 | 3:34 pm PST, Feb 10 | Tori Rumbaugh | San Jacinto | California | |
| 538 | 9:56 am PST, Jan 24 | Brittany Jane | Boone | North Carolina | UGH OUR NATION IS COMMUNIST NOW HUH? WHATS NEXT USING SATELLITE IMAGES AS EVIDENCE AGAINST CRIMINALS? THIS IS SOOO GROSS WHY DONT YOU JUST PUT US ALL IN ISOLATION CAMPS AND FEED US BREAD AND WATER???? FOR OUR FREEDON YOU MAKE A MILLION LAWS SO WE CAN BE FREE...THAT IS INSANE...AND YOU CONTROL OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD SO WE CAN BE FREE THIS IS GOT TO END I SWEAR!! I HOPE I AM NOT PICKED UP IN A TRUCK TOMORROW WITH MY NEIGHBORS AND DELIVERED TO A CAMP WITH BARB-WIRE FENCES ALL AROUND ME!!!!! |
| 537 | 1:07 am PST, Jan 15 | Kathleen Roby | Corning | Ohio | |
| 536 | 4:51 pm PST, Jan 14 | Tina Dimitroff | Allen Park | Michigan | |
| 535 | 7:42 am PST, Jan 14 | Gary Sumpter | Franklin | Missouri | |
| 534 | 8:43 am PST, Nov 2 | hadasah fleishon | cambridge | Massachusetts | |
| 533 | 6:24 am PDT, Oct 21 | Muhammad Ali | Cheverly | Maryland | |
| 532 | 8:16 pm PDT, Jun 23 | Earth Indigo | Alger | Michigan | |
| 531 | 4:40 pm PDT, Jun 20 | Brittany Rahuba | Clairton | Pennsylvania | "The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live and fear breeds repression. Too often, sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-Communism."--Adlai Stevenson Now Adalai Stevenson said this in 1952. We are experiensing the exact same problem today. "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin I think that they are 2 of the best ways to put my view on this situation. |
| 530 | 2:28 pm PDT, Jun 9 | Anonymous | Lexington | Kentucky | This is illegal; this is a form of communism; this is further proof that America is now a Communist state; no longer a free country and Bush is a dictator. |
| 529 | 5:30 pm PDT, Jun 2 | Mary Osmer | Balcones Heights | Texas | |
| 528 | 12:44 pm PDT, May 31 | Cathy Nelson | Tampa | Florida | |
| 527 | 8:02 am PDT, May 24 | Toni Sokoloski | Marstons Mills | Massachusetts | |
| 526 | 4:58 pm PDT, May 11 | Angela Williams | Jacksonville | Florida | TIA includes monitoring every US citizen's telephone conversations in the name of a supposed "terrorism watch". If they don't have proof or suspicion of terrorism, our privacy should be protected. The last time I looked we were a democracy, not a dictatorship state. |
| 525 | 1:17 pm PDT, May 11 | Kirk Williams | Raleigh | Mississippi | We The People are not terrorist! We want our Bill of Rights. Give me Liberty, or give me death! VOTE LIBERTARIAN! |
| 524 | 10:14 am PDT, May 3 | James Healey | New Oxford | Pennsylvania | |
| 523 | 6:51 am PDT, May 3 | stephanie lessard | Derry | New Hampshire | |
| 522 | 1:37 pm PDT, Apr 23 | Stephanie Pope | Reno | Nevada | |
| 521 | 7:12 pm PDT, Apr 8 | KELLI BURKE | Sandwich | Illinois | |
| 520 | 6:56 pm PDT, Apr 3 | Dawn Johnson | New Creek | West Virginia | |
| 519 | 11:34 am PST, Mar 27 | Crystal Jack | Eustis | Florida | |
| 518 | 3:51 pm PST, Mar 19 | Nikolai Dragnes | Oslo | ||
| 517 | 11:10 am PST, Mar 12 | Malin Therese Mahisen | Sarpsborg | ||
| 516 | 4:36 am PST, Mar 12 | Anonymous | fresno | California | will discuss my view on how the police are cvrooked as heck and getting away with it severely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 515 | 3:47 pm PST, Mar 7 | Michael Mitsuda | Fremont | California | |
| 514 | 9:45 pm PST, Feb 26 | Jennifer Gardner | Quincy | Massachusetts | |
| 513 | 1:17 am PST, Feb 24 | Steve Klein | x | Armed Forces Americas | |
| 512 | 4:05 pm PST, Feb 9 | Paul Girardin | Montreal | ||
| 511 | 3:16 am PST, Feb 7 | Thomas Pirovano | Bern | Armed Forces Americas | |
| 510 | 6:41 pm PST, Jan 25 | Krystin Erchenbrecher | North Olmsted | Ohio | |
| 509 | 6:34 pm PST, Jan 19 | Anonymous | Oakdale | Pennsylvania | |
| 508 | 6:27 pm PST, Jan 17 | C Lisa Jackson | Portland | Oregon | |
| 507 | 7:33 pm PST, Jan 10 | Halley Farber | Waycross | Georgia | |
| 506 | 10:09 pm PST, Dec 30 | Dinda Evans | San Diego | California | |
| 505 | 10:57 pm PST, Dec 26 | Robin Harrison | Oklahoma City | Oklahoma | |
| 504 | 6:58 am PST, Dec 26 | Chandra Patel | Bristol | Tennessee | |
| 503 | 5:03 pm PST, Dec 21 | Donna Hodsdon-Trips | New Plymouth | Idaho | |
| 502 | 10:54 am PST, Dec 17 | Lawrence Smith, BA | Saint Simons Island | Georgia | Contained within every evil(greedy profiteering republican) act are the seeds of its own destruction. Adhere to the teachings of Jesus, as contained in The Urantia Book, or else suffer the consequences. It IS that simple. TRUTH has been spoken to power, Peace will prevail. IMPEACH BUSH NOW! |
| 501 | 2:40 pm PST, Dec 16 | Scott Davidson | toronto | Armed Forces Americas |
Stop Big Brother -- shut down Total Information Awareness
"Scientia ist Potentia." In English, "Knowledge is Power."
This is the motto of the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program. TIA brings Big Brother home, spying on ordinary Americans. The military plans to collect citizens' personal information in a central database. According to the TIA website, this information includes financial, educational, communication, medical, travel, housing and yes, even VETERINARY records.
A computer will use this information to identify "dangerous" citizens and engage in "pre-emptive" action. Who among us will be classified as enemies of the state? What will be the nature of TIA's pre-emptive action?
We, the undersigned, agree that Knowledge is Power. No matter how well intentioned efforts like TIA may be, we know all too well from history that total and centralized surveillance engenders intimidation and invites horrific abuse. So long as we have the power as citizens of this nation to determine what happens in our government, and so long as knowledge regarding plans like TIA is available, we will continue to stand against this skip towards a totalitarian state.
We, the undersigned, call for Total Information Awareness to be totally, immediately, publicly, and irrevocably dismantled.
This is the motto of the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program. TIA brings Big Brother home, spying on ordinary Americans. The military plans to collect citizens' personal information in a central database. According to the TIA website, this information includes financial, educational, communication, medical, travel, housing and yes, even VETERINARY records.
A computer will use this information to identify "dangerous" citizens and engage in "pre-emptive" action. Who among us will be classified as enemies of the state? What will be the nature of TIA's pre-emptive action?
We, the undersigned, agree that Knowledge is Power. No matter how well intentioned efforts like TIA may be, we know all too well from history that total and centralized surveillance engenders intimidation and invites horrific abuse. So long as we have the power as citizens of this nation to determine what happens in our government, and so long as knowledge regarding plans like TIA is available, we will continue to stand against this skip towards a totalitarian state.
We, the undersigned, call for Total Information Awareness to be totally, immediately, publicly, and irrevocably dismantled.
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