In the past few days, Senator Hillary Clinton - avoiding the use of Madame Dufarge's image and the shadow of the guillotine - has accused the Republican Party of creating a police state with their support for the latest in a long line of bills aimed at stemming the flood tide of illegal immigration — reliably said to be inundating the United States with terrorists and felons.
Of course, when the term "police state" is bandied about, we usually turn our tired eyes to the well worn and dog-eared picture book of Germany during the Hitler years, where the police state has been given the most credit for flourishing.
and one of the reasons it was so efficient there — in the identification of criminals, resistants and Jews, in their round-ups, in their assignment to prison or camps, their executions, in the plunder of whole countries, in the manufacture of aircraft and armored vehicles, the matching of military occupational specialties to the exact areas of need, in the maintenance of military machines of all types, in the payment of salaries for all government officials, wherever statistical listing was needed, regardless, for the most part, of the disruptions of total war — was their ability to manage voluminous amounts of data through their mastery of the Hollerith punch card system.
The Hollerith system enabled the police state of the Third Reich to manage their activities to a degree never before envisioned by the simple expedient of data mining. By means of a census or any type of questionaire, and the transfer of the captured data onto the punch cards — coinciding with the design of specific questions to capture the exact information required - the SS would have itemized lists of every person of interest in entire countries when the time came to round them up. and when the ratissage was completed, the punch cards for the German railway system would be run, enabling the proper number of trains to be gathered for deportation, out of the thousands being operated for the carrying of goods, munitions, passengers and troops.
So, now, we also learn that Hillary Clinton, who is so desperately troubled by her frenzied fears of a Congressionally induced police state, of which information management is seen to be an important cog, has joined forces with her old pals Harold Ickes and George Soros to inaugurate the largest private data mining project ever conceived in what they term the "Data Warehouse," in what is claimed to be an effort to keep the "voter rolls" up to date for the upcoming elections.
Let's see, now. Mr. Ickes first met Bill Clinton back in the glory days of 1972, when both were engaged in the time honored Democratic process of undermining american war efforts with their joint membership in Operation Pursestrings — the national lobbying enterprise focused on cutting off all aid to South Vietnam. Though Ickes moved on to a New York law firm - where he specialized in the representation of labor unions with suspected ties to organized crime - they kept in touch.
Harold Ickes has been a pal of Hillary's for quite awhile. as part of his long list of activities in the Clinton White House, for which he was an early and eager volunteer, Mr. Ickes operated a sort of shadow office inside the Counsel's office, for the express purpose of spiking scandals, which reported directly to Hillary.
Mr. Ickes was held in such high regard by Mrs. Clinton that he was immediately recruited as her chief campaign advisor for her now fabled Senate run, where he coordinated the electoral activities of many of the troubled unions he had so vigorously defended as an attorney.
always a busy lad in the furtherance of progressive causes, Mr. Ickes went on to help organize - with the aid of George Soros and his money, and become a founder in what has come to be termed the "Shadow Party" of the Democratic Party - the large group of 527 committees, like america Coming Together and The Media Fund, designed to raise the monies needed by the Democratic party in order to circumvent the strictures of the McCain-Feingold soft money ban. Updated voter and donor data bases were a crucial part of their success in this avoidance and were centrally mined on a vast scale by Mr. Ickes.
Mr. Ickes helped organize the american Progress (CaP) in the summer of 2003 with Mr. Soros, Mr. Morton Halperin - of Pentagon Papers fame, director of the Washington office of the aCLU, defender of Philip agee, avowed globalist, unabashed Soviet apologist and Clinton State Department appointee - and John Podesta, who served as Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff. The CaP essentially serves as Mrs. Clinton's private R&D arm and its aim is to provide position papers and rebuttals as needed as quickly as possible.
So now we understand that this hard nosed liberal foe of america, the ruthless operator of Hillary's shadow counsel's office charged with quashing scandals, one of the founders of the Shadow Party, the co-inventor of the Democratic 527's designed to circumvent the limits on soft money donations, the operator of major strip mining efforts in the vast data fields, the manager of Hillary's private R&D corporation, Mr. Harold Ickes is setting up the largest "voter" data base in the country, the "Data Warehouse" with Mr. Soros, one of the world's richest men and a dedicated foe of democracy, capitalism and President Bush.
This whole thing is being done, so we're told, in opposition to the one at the DNC, and we're all supposed to think that it's totally benign in nature and they're only doing it because Howard Dean is so slow, so ham fisted, such a mutton head and because he doesn't know the difference between a land mine and a data mine.
Let me use those immortal words of Senator Ted Kennedy, which he used to wake the Senate with such force not so long ago, "Hello? Hello? Hello?"
Sure'n begorrah, it's harmless! Why in heaven's name would Hillary Clinton, Harold Ickes and George Soros throw in on something that has the slightest possibility of causing the slightest harm to anyone? after all, everything they've ever done has been utterly benign and completely innocuous. They've never spoken other than kindly words about their opponents. The Barrett Report is nothing but a continuous paean to their manifold kindnesses, except for those parts which were redacted due to the excessive panegyrics and obsequious blandisments the Clinton White House troweled over their most worthy of opponents — words so rich with affectation they had to be redacted for the sake of the embarrassment they'd cause to all involved.
and if somebody tells us that the tens of millions of dollars available to Mr. Ickes might enable him to mine our data we'd rest assured that he'd never let it happen. and if some bug-eyed dolt should lean over and whisper that Hillary Clinton has our data somewhere, forget about it, she's too high type to collect our personal files and even if she did, she'd never use them against us, ever. and for pity's sake, we'd pay no attention to Howard Dean's nonsense. It's all because of him that the big three had to step in.
and with the power of the three names behind this project, there's no reason to even mine the data. ask the people. Let them gladly offer you their names and personal information. Let them bring it to you, or e-mail it, or drop it in the mail.
Rest easy, folks, police states are always associated with the Reich and Republicans and never with a Democrat.
The devil is always in the details and he only gets out when the right, I mean wrong, user tinkers with the data.
(For a greater understanding of the Hollerith system, see IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black, Three Rivers Press, NY, NY, 2002)
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