...Age, income, length of residence, home ownership versus rental, gender, children, and "SSN Group". I think that the latter is based on the fact that Social Security numbers encode both the year and office of issuance. A correlation there could indicate how much a person has moved around the country over the course of his/her lifetime.
All in all, what this system will reveal is how closely a person conforms to a white middle-class 50s stereotype of the Good American. Deviate from that Republican ideal and you become classified as a higher risk of involvment in terrorism. In a subtle way it becomes an instrument of social control and engineering.
"White?" "Republican ideal?"
Robert is "allowing me to infer" that he does not think minorities can conform to the profile of a good citizen. He is also allowing me to infer that neither can the typical Democrat.
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- Librarians can rest a little easier...
- Goldberg on this subject
- Fair and balanced reporting... (not from
- Such unreasonable behavior by those wicked fascists. (n/t)
- Damocles got a lot of rest while that sword was suspended over his head, too.
- Then I guess we could repeal that section, right?