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From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:48 plan. * * About three million teenagers will seek driver's licenses each year and * therefore be tested for drugs. At a rate of one-percent false positives, * 30,000 completely clean kids will fail their drug tests. They will be * denied driver's licenses. How will their parents react? Many kids are * likely to be emotionally scarred by the false accusations of drug use, * and some may even attempt suicide out of their shame. Thank you very much Free World Leaders for that intelligent discourse on marijuana. What would we do without you? We love being your lemmings. Keep beating the Drums so we can march into your ocean of insanity. "Zero Tolerance" is an extremely dangerous attitude to have regarding crime. Zero Tolerance by definition means excessive vigilancy. # "War on Drugs Runs Up Against the 4th Amendment" # By Tony Mauro, USA Today # # J. LeWayne Kelly went to the Austin, Texas, airport two months ago. # # But because he's black, dressed casually and wore expensive cowboy boots, # he soon wa
From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 21:54 intent. This multiplier effect was caused by the inclusion of names of people who came in contact with those persons and organizations already on the lists. Because of the NSA's vacuum cleaner approach to intelligence collection --- whereby it sucks into its system the maximum amount of telecommunications and then filters it through an enormous screen of "trigger words" --- analysts end up reviewing telephone calls, telegrams, and telex messages to and from thousands of innocent persons having little or nothing to do with the actual focus of the effort. And when a person made the watch list, any conversations EVEN MENTIONING that person are scooped up. P333: By now, the names of U.S. citizens on NSA's many watch lists for fighting the drug war had grown from the hundreds into the thousands. Even when Noel Gayler took over as Director of the NSA in August 1969, NSA personnel waited a year or so before briefing even him on the NSA watch list program. P381-382: NSA Director General Allen testified to Congress that there is no statute that prevents the NSA from interception of domestic communications. Asked whether he was concerned about the legality of expanding greatly its targeting of American citizens, the NSA replied: "Legality? That particular aspect didn't enter into the discussions." P459: Innocent Americans - people neither targeted nor watch-listed - are scooped up into the NSA's giant vacuum cleaner. This happens with considerable frequency because of the way in which names and phrases are jam-packed into the computers. Even though NSA's specialized supercomputers have enormous storage capacities, the tremendous number of targets forces the Agency to squeeze the watch lists together as tightly as possible. P462-465: Its power to eavesdrop, the NSA had always insisted, came
From: Phil Carmody on 18 Apr 2008 22:05 was # transported from Pakistan within hours of his arrest. # # Leaders of minor political parties in the capital have taken up the issue, # criticizing the national government for ignoring its own extradition laws # and permitting a foreign country to haul off a Pakistani citizen without # giving him a court hearing as provided by law. # # "Of course, we are angry," said a video store owner. # # Pakistani newspapers have described the swift transfer as a loss for the # nation's prestige and the rule of law. The Lahore News said, "any person # who is sought by a foreign power, no matter what his crime, must have the # right to expect normal extradition proceedings before being whisked away # from his homeland." # # In the Kansi case, the government ignored a 1972 extradition law that # requires a Pakistan citizen to be given a hearing before a magistrate # and the chance to appeal to higher courts. # # A prominent Pakistani, Hamid Gul, a retired army general who is a former # director of Pakistan's military intelligence agency, has said he will # challenge the Government's action in the Pakistan Supreme Court. # # When Pakistan demanded that a Pakistani Air Force pilot seized in New York # in April on heroin-smuggling charges be returned to face trial
From: tchow on 18 Apr 2008 19:23 Sinclair while * he was being handcuffed, and at least once while the other officers held * him down on the ground. * * Mr. Sinclair was trying to fill a prescription for his sick child, * became confused by all the roadblocks the Atlanta police setup for * the annual "Black College Spring Break" weekend, and was attacked * by the police for trying to get back on the Interstate highway. * * Mr Sinclair's wife and two children were in his car with him. Think that would have happened to a white family during this annual Black College Spring Break 'Freaknick' police coverage? The police also illegally ordered the videotaper to stop taping. ---- Recently on ABC Primetime live, they wired for video and sound a nice car owned by the father of the black son who drove it, with another black friend. BTW, picture yourself being a black citizen to try and appreciate this. Picture yourself as the monitored group. Shortly after starting out, they were pulled over by police for a search. Not one, but two squad cars came to do the search. Because they crossed lanes while going through an intersection. If you are white, when was the last time two squad cars searched your vehicle inch-by-inch because you crossed lanes while passing through an intersection? Never happened to me. The police were recorded saying a container they found "probably had drugs" in it. It was a make-up container. [All you little people are probably guilty] When ABC asked the police chief later why they were pull
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 22:11
denied the information required to do that job. If a democratic society wants to control its secret agencies, it is essential that the public and politicians have the information and the will to do so. P113 Good encryption systems, such as PGP, developed privately by American Phil Zimmerman, are publicly available, although they are still used only by relatively few people in the know. The UKUSA agencies have been attempting to curb the spread of this technology, which is a major threat to their influence, so far without enough success to stop it. It remains to be seen how much the public can find a technological answer to maintaining privacy in a world with systems like ECHELON. *** end of 'Secret Power' excerpt ****************************************************************************** Throughout the Cold War, the United States government pounded into us again and again how Russia and China were evil because they monitored and controlled the political expression of their people, had sham laws and sham courts, all dedicated to m |