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posted by martyb on Sunday January 13 2019, @12:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the Hiding-In-Plain-Site dept.

Privacy advocates have been on about how big data and large datasets can be be used against the population for decades. Now key data released by the immigration department may provide the key to bringing barbaric crimes out into the open. Data released by the Government shows thousands of child brides allowed by immigration. Accounts by some of the victims detail how they were used to gain access to America even though they were underage. While some senators have sworn to close the loopholes used to bring child brides into the US we can only expect more of this type of activity to come to light in the future as the public engages in analysis of data released by governments.


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Thexalon on Sunday January 13 2019, @03:54PM (2 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Sunday January 13 2019, @03:54PM (#785920)

    What happened with those folks is that they wanted to be Christians, but weren't so keen on ideas like "Thou shalt not kill", "Love thy neighbor as thyself", "Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven", "It is easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to get into heaven", and especially "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men." When these ideas were taking shape back in the early 19th century, the other part they definitely wanted to ignore were the Old Testament rules about not mistreating their slaves.

    So they invented a new Christianity that made the important part of their new religion all about maintaining the social order, a fairly rigid hierarchy where community leaders (preachers, businessmen, and politicians) control white men, who control white women as fathers or husbands, who control their children, and then all white people cooperate to control non-white people either by killing them (if they're Native) or coming as close as possible to enslaving them (if they're black). White people who don't fit into this hierarchy like Jews, gay people and those not doing their part to control non-white people must also be eliminated in this mindset. Maintaining the rules about virginity and rape served the purpose of controlling white women and children, so they were ruthlessly enforced. Whereas the rules about food, fabrics, etc are supposed to apply to everybody, including community leaders, and don't help enforce the hierarchy, so they are ignored.

    Since most of this stuff has been illegal for a while, and nowadays a lynching can put you in jail when it didn't used to, the focus has been placed even more on preventing sex between anyone who isn't a hetero married couple. Make no mistake, they'd do all the other stuff if they could, but they can't, so they're focused on their daughter's virginity because it's the one thing they can still legally have some say over.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by requerdanos on Sunday January 13 2019, @06:13PM (1 child)

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 13 2019, @06:13PM (#785953) Journal

    So they invented a new Christianity

    So... Obscure and/or extreme cultists, denying inconvenient-to-them parts of the Christian Bible, instead of those grouped into a belt who respect instead of deny same?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @01:43AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @01:43AM (#786202)

      sounds like islam