The Pentagon’s commodity market trading system to predict future terrorist attacks came to a halt today. Brought about by the convicted John Poindexter, the system, called the Policy Analysis Market (site removed), would allow investors to bet on the likelihood of future terrorist events. The anonymity of the system could allow terrorists to profit from their own planned attacks. This dreadful idea was killed today in the Senate. Thankfully, the Democrats are rolling with this today, and Senator Joe Biden got to tear Paul Wolfowitz a new one in committee today. I wonder aloud how many more flagrant violations of the law are allowed before the Bush administration can be brought to task.
We don’t want to seem guilty of not being “on the same page” as other people for too long. Then – sliding through the months – we may wonder why we have lived.
from the article “The American Dissident” in the August 2003 issue of Harper’s Magazine
The US Senate wants to break up Amtrak.