The Immoral Minority has been made part of this data base as well.

Called TIDE, for Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, the list is a storehouse for data about individuals that the intelligence community believes might harm the United States. It is the wellspring for watch lists distributed to airlines, law enforcement, border posts and U.S. consulates, created to close one of the key intelligence gaps revealed after Sept. 11, 2001: the failure of federal agencies to share what they knew about al-Qaeda operatives.


But in addressing one problem, TIDE has spawned others. Ballooning from fewer than 100,000 files in 2003 to about 435,000, the growing database threatens to overwhelm the people who manage it. "The single biggest worry that I have is long-term quality control," said Russ Travers, in charge of TIDE at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean. "Where am I going to be, where is my successor going to be, five years down the road?"

TIDE has also created concerns about secrecy, errors and privacy. The list marks the first time foreigners and U.S. citizens are combined in an intelligence database. The bar for inclusion is low, and once someone is on the list, it is virtually impossible to get off it. At any stage, the process can lead to "horror stories" of mixed-up names and unconfirmed information, Travers acknowledged.

A couple of years ago I noticed that on my site meter there was an ISP that was connected to the State Department that kept visiting my site. (In those days I literally only received a handful of visits.)

I posted that I thought I was being monitored since we were just then getting information about this "data mining" that the government was engaging in.

I immediately received an e-mail from somebody who confirmed that I was indeed on a list. I did not e-mail the person back because it was a State Department e-mail address and I did not want to get anybody into trouble. But I did feel just a touch of self importance to be included on a list of possible troublemakers for the Bush administration. But now I learn that ANYBODY can make the list. That just sort of makes me feel all ordinary.

But all kidding aside the idea that any government agency would track this website is absurd. I have always preached non-violence and urged our citizens and liberal politicians to use the proper channels to stop Bush and his war.

If that is the definition of a terrorist then I guess every single person who disagrees with this President is a terrorist. Which means the majority of our citizens are terrorists.

No wonder the administration has been having trouble fighting the "war on terror". By their definition they are completely outnumbered!