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it? It's 1997 now: same as it
ever was. And his imprisonment had the same slimy quality as the vicious
attack on Qubilah Shabazz, whom the government at first claimed they
"had enough on her to put her away for 90 years".


And just how do domestic civil rights organizations get labelled terrorist
or under the influence of foreign agents? Why was Qubilah Shabazz's father
considered a terrorist?

: "Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency"
: by Stephen F. Knott, 1996, ISBN 0-19-510098-0
:
: Both presidents Johnson and Nixon had been convinced that Communist
: nations were bankrolling or directing the antiwar movement and had
: ordered investigations into this possibility.
:
: The CIA's investigations, which included operation CHAOS, found no
: evidence of external control or funding of the antiwar movement, the
: Black Panthers, or the Students for a Democratic Society.

* "The Rise of the Computer State", David Burnham, 1984
*
* p128: Federal authorities were concerned that foreign governments MIGHT
* try to influence civil rights leaders in the United States. The list
* of Americans monitored ballooned as political groups, celebrities and
* ordinary citizens were added to the 'watch lists'. The NSA surveillance
* was illegal and was instantly stopped [years later] when it appeared
* that Congress might learn about the eavesdropping.

Fear, loathing, suspicion and monitoring of civil rights movements.

All it took was the thought that foreigners were influencing Americans.

That's all it took to make the massive surveillance "legal".

Of course, massive surveillance means more than just surveillance:

* Main Justice, by Jim McGee and Brian Duffy, 1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9
*
* The FBI had been spying on members of the civil rights movement
* to discredit Martin Luther King and destroy the civil rights
* movement, government files showed. There had been burglaries
* and ille


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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



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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 maintaining the power of the all-important State.

How the philosophy of communism was the rights of the individual were
subservient to the needs of the State, as determined by the State.
i.e. the antithesis of constitutional democracy

Ironically, it was the United States that built
the ultimate Orwellian surveillance mechanism.

There was no public discussion about it.

And used sham laws: Executive Orders and Congressional legislation.

To create a secret agency and a secret sham court.


Used repeatedly to control lawful domestic political protest.

The Soviet Union and China we were told to fear.


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offered by the FBI when a couple of
* years ago it asked the White House for $27 million in public funds to
* pay the engineering whizzes at the Sandia and Los Alamos National
* Laboratories and several other government research facilities to develop
* ways to defeat "any locking system whether it be mechanical or electronic,
* or computer supplemented."
[snip]
*
* The FBI's Rapid Prototyping Facility (RPF) is a laboratory and factory
* dedicated to the design and manufacture of "unique miniaturized devices in
* direct support of various investigative efforts" of the "FBI and other
* members of the U.S. law enforcement community."
*
* Operated jointly by the FBI and the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research
* Projects Agency (DARPA, creators of the Internet), the FBI facility was
* created to allow the bureau "to use computer-aided design, engineering
* and manufacturing of tools and equipment (software and firmware
* respectively) to design, simulate, and fabricate integrated circuits,
* printed circuit boards, electronic components, packages, systems and
* concealments in a quick turnaround cost-effective manner."
*
* Among the facilities advantages are speed "t


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* 311, Maleny, Queensland 4552, Australia). It first came to my attention
* when it was printed in the U.S. by LtCol Archibald E. Robert's Bulletin,
* the newsletter of the highly respected Committee to Restore the Constitu-
* tion (P.O. Box 986, Fort Collins, Colorado 80522).
*
* The article caused a flurry of activity and a round of vigorous denials,
* admissions, coverups, and more denials by Australian political leaders.
*
* The article contends that (1) America's National Security Agency (NSA)
* is the world surveillance headquarters, and (2) Australia has it's own
* secret "computer center", linked with the NSA via satellite, which
* illegally watches over Australia's citizenry.

Article snippets... capitalization by the original authors...

* On a fateful fall day in America, on November 4th, 1952, a new United
* States government agency quietly was brought into existence through
* presidential decree.
*
* The birth of the National Security Agency on that day so long ago
* heralded the beginning of the world's most sophisticated and all
* encompassing surveillance system, and the beginnings of the greatest
* threat to individual liberty and freedom not only in Australia, but
* the entire planet will ever see.
*
* The NSA grew out of the post war "Signals Intelligence" section of the
* U.S. War Department. It is unique amongst government organizations in
* America, and indeed most other countries, in that there are NO specified
* or defined limits to its powers.
*
* The NSA can (and does) do just about whatever it wants, whenever, and
* wherever


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yep.

We don't have to respect other countries' laws.

We are the New World Order.

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And judges have agreed we should be mass monitored for fluid correctness.

Which unwittingly added to the beating of the War drums, not in any way
solving the drug problem...judges themselves are now monitored for
politically correct mandatory minimum prison sentences.

What goes around, comes around...

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# "Minister Who Sought Peace Dies in a Botched Drug Raid"
# By Sara Rimer, The New York Times, March 28, 1994
#
# Boston, March 27--- Tensions between the police and black Bostonians
# intensified after the murder of Carol Stuart in 1989. Charles Stuart
# said that a black robber had killed his pregnant wife.
#
# Police subsequently stopped AND SEARCHED many black men in the Mission
# Hill neighborhood, where the shooting had occurred, and eventually
# arrested a suspect, a black man with a criminal record.
#
# A month later, Mr. Stuart was implicated by his brother in the murder,
# and he committed suicide by jumping into Boston Harbor.
#
# An elderly Methodist minister, described as a quiet and dignified man
# who has for decades comfo