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From: Marshall on 18 Apr 2008 21:46 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 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. ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** Part 2: On Monitoring and Being Monitored ---- - -- ---------- --- ----- ---------
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 21:17 are not considered major > crimes - have increased significantly while other categories are fairly > constant. * The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 1989 * * Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, "Every friend of freedom... * must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the U.S. into an * armed camp, by the visions of jails filled with casual drug users and of * an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight * evidence. > Drug offenders were 6.4 percent of state prison populations in 1980. > Drug offenders were 22.3 percent of state prison populations in 1994. > > The growth from less than 20,000 to nearly a quarter of a million was > nearly tenfold. > > Nonviolent drug offenders making up 58% of the federal prison population. Name a single person ever who was robbed by someone suffering from marijuana withdrawal. Law Enforcement Hysteria, Propaganda and Lies: And that Drug War hysteria commercial about the train wreck by the engineer on pot? They can't quite bring themselves to tell you he had been drinking. And they still show this ad... * "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1 * * In one ad, the wreckage of a train is shown. Now, everyone will agree * that no one should attempt to drive a train while high on marijuana. * But a man's voice says that anyone who tells you 'marijuana is harmless' * is lying, because his wife was killed in the train accident. * * This contradicts the direct sworn testimony of the engineer responsible * for that disaster; that "the accident was not caused by marijuana." It * deliberately ignores his admissions of drinking alcohol, snacking, * watching TV, generally failing to pay adequate attention to his job, * AND DELIBERATELY JAMMING THE TRAIN'S SAFETY EQUIPMENT prior to the * accident. [snip] * * And in yet another ad, the lies finally got them i
From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 22:15 government eavesdropping, * the Johnson White House created a special squad of FBI agents to place * wiretaps and bugs on most of the African Americans who came to Atlantic * City during the 1964 Democratic convention. ---- A while back, I saw a black ex-police officer take a camera with him in a car in LA at night. This was somewhere around the time of the Rodney King beating. I was watching C-SPAN. Some sort of police officers association meeting... It was amazing how often he was pulled over, and the cheesy reasons the officers gave. "Your tail light was broken" He got out with the camera still on, showed the tail light was fine, and asked the officer what he was talking about. "Oh, you're right. Sorry." He was pulled over again and again and again. ---- The New Jersey State Police admitted they were targeting black drivers. Pulling them over, and searching their vehicles inch-by-inch. ---- * The New York Times, December 14, 1995, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * * Six officers - five whites and one Asian-American - have plead guilty * to corruption charges, including illegal searches, lying under oath * and planting false evidence. * * The guilty pleas have led to a review of more than 1,600 arrests of * mostly black and Hispanic suspects that were made by the officers * from 1987 to 1994. * * Fifty-six convictions have already been overturned. ---- * The New York Times, November 26, 1995 * "Several Blacks Sue Beverly Hills, Asserting Bias by the Police" * by Kenneth B. Noble * * Saying they had been victims of a callous police force, six blacks * filed suit this week against the City of Beverly Hills, including * the Police Chief and the Mayor. *
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 21:44 available 24 hours a day for access by the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC). This is the one used by all local police in their cars when they pull you over. ] * Originally the government told us that the law requiring us to get a * driver's licenses was to "protect" us, to make sure people could drive. * * Now we know better. For example, as long as the government calls you a * "deadbeat dad," it can "revoke" your driver's license. What does this * have to do with making the roads safe? Nothing. Licensing isn't about * "protecting" us from anything, it is about CONTROLLING us. Our * "servants" have become dictators. * * In a FREE COUNTRY, the public servants do not dictate to the people. * Folks, we ARE NOT FREE. * * Remember the lie about Social Security numbers? They were supposedly * "for our good," too, just to insure that we were signed up in the social * security program for our retirement in years to come, right? The old * cards said, "Not for identification purposes." Now, you can't get a * BANK ACCOUNT without one, and your money and financial transactions are * reported to goons and thugs at the IRS who are happy to steal money from * grandmothers. In fact, the IRS can get your bank records WITHOUT YOUR * PERMISSION. [ : ftp ftp.fourmilab.ch, cd /pub/kelvin/documents, get unicard.doc For more than a decade, the United States Internal Revenue Service has allowed taxpayers with only regular wage income and the standard deduction to simply sign their return and have the IRS calculate the tax. With increased reporting of all financial transactions to the IRS by banks, stockbrokers, mutual funds, real estate title companies, etc., IRS officials have stated on several occasions over the last few years that the day when the overwhelming number of taxpayers could have their ta
From: Gerry Myerson on 18 Apr 2008 21:45
officer Don Allan, and consisted of a strict lecture about never, for the rest of his life, talking about his job with anyone except other indoctrinated people. GCSB workers are forbidden to say anything about their work, even to their partners. The indoctrination concluded with Holmes signing the two page indoctrination form, which refers to New Zealand laws for punishing infringements (in the Crimes Act) but which originates primarily in UKUSA regulations. Equivalent forms must be signed by staff throughout the UKUSA alliance. P44- In the middle of 1994 Holmes got his first overseas posting - and a prestigious one at that. He is on a three-year posting to the center of the UKUSA alliance, the enormous NSA headquarters at Fort George G. Meade. This posting was the first ever by a GCSB analyst to the NSA. Before he left New Zealand his daily work, like that of all analysts, revolved entirely around that most striking manifestation of GCSB's links with the NSA: the ECHELON Dictionary system. Each morning the signals intelligence analysts in New Zealand log on at their computer terminals and enter the Dictionary system, just as their equivalents do in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. What follows is a precise description of how the system works, the first time it has been publicly described. [Buy the book for full details] After en |