alt.fr.sport.ju-jitsu
Pau...@alt.fr.sport.ju-jitsu
computers, satellites, weapons,
* wiretap circuits and communications gadgetry of today's Dick Tracy Police
* State.
*
* Perhaps FBI Director Louis Freeh said it best shortly after his
* appointment to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1993. Referring
* to the incredible array of computerized control and battle gadgetry
* available to federal law enforcement, Freeh, stressing cooperation
* between his own FBI and the other alphabet police agencies, sardonically
* remarked, "LET'S SHARE OUR TOYS."
*
* Dick Tracy, of course, was a good guy. But Dick Tracy would have
* recognized as unconstitutional the worldwide comprehensive Orwellian
* system that has been installed, and reject it as a menace to true law
* and order.
! "Welfare Recipients Lose Benefits Through Glitches in Computers"
! By Joe Sexton, The New York Times, 5/16/96
!
! The fingerprint-imaging system that is a central element of the Giuliani
! administration's effort to crack down on welfare fraud has resulted in
! hundreds of recipients cases being closed.
!
! The public advocate's office has been inundated with complaints from
! improper case closings.
!
! The failure seems to stem from the local offices not transmitting
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