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1 in 300 US residents are on the terrorist list. Does that make sense?

“At the current rate of growth, the U.S. watch lists will contain a million records by July. If there were a million terrorists in this country, our cities would be in ruins” said Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU’s Technology and Liberty Program. “The absurd bloating of the terrorist watch lists is yet another example of how incompetence by our security apparatus threatens our rights without offering any real security.”

As some clever person over at digg pointed out, in a perfect world, this million or so names ought to be those working for the military industrial complex in some capacity. Dangerous times indeed, especially with the seemingly inevitable plunge of the US economy that most of us have been predicting for years.