The Government Accountability Office reported in October that more than 755,000 names now appear on the US terrorist watch list. And the Department of Homeland Security (sic) has been secretly testing a pilot scheme here in New York in which firefighters are trained to identify suspicious material or behavior when they enter houses. Unlike police, firemen do not need warrants to get into homes and other buildings during technical inspections, making them “particularly useful for spotting signs of terrorist planning.” And so if some NYC firefighter notices your shelves full of humanist, atheist, and anti-Bush books, that watch list could grow to 755,001.

The Government Accountability Office reported in October that more than 755,000 names now appear on the US terrorist watch list. And the Department of Homeland Security (sic) has been secretly testing a pilot scheme here in New York in which firefighters are trained to identify suspicious material or behavior when they enter houses.

Unlike police, firemen do not need warrants to get into homes and other buildings during technical inspections, making them “particularly useful for spotting signs of terrorist planning.”
And so if some NYC firefighter notices your shelves full of humanist, atheist, and anti-Bush books, that watch list could grow to 755,001.