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From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 21:41 that a leading law enforcement official might * try to buttress his cases through the selective use of statistics, that * was hardly the end of it. * * When the FBI director selected the years to illuminate his thesis for the * National Press Club, he compared a year when the nation's homicide rate * was at one of its *all-time lowest* points to that of a year when the rate * was near its *all-time high*. [extended discussion of homicides followed] * * Such selective use of statistics is dishonest. * * It is impossible to know what was going through Louis Freeh's mind as he * delivered his distorted, exaggerated and fundamentally flawed crime speech * to the National Press Club. * * We do know however, that for many decades, law enforcement officials * across the nation have advanced their careers and promoted their * political agendas by chanting the same Mantra of the Scary Numbers. Louis Freeh: "The polls prove people are fed up with crime" This book contains a DEVASTATING accounting of the manipulation of people's perception of crime rates. [not shown!] Fear, loathing, and somehow the public clamoring for a Police State. * Police chiefs, prosecutors, judges, FBI directors and the politicians who * supported their cause have long waved the bloody crime flag to rally the * public to their various causes. * * During the twenty-year period that presidents from Nixon to Clinton were * agitating the public about the national crime menace, the evidence shows * the American people were gradually experiencing less and less crime. * * In a May 1994 speech to the American Law Institute Freeh made an * IMPASSIONED
From: Gage on 18 Apr 2008 22:00 lose these Fourth Amendment rights, granted by the Constitution? And why is the Military monitoring the communications of Americans on U.S. soil and working with domestic law enforcement? Well, one day President Truman issued a secret order creating the NSA. As testified by Library of Congress members on C-SPAN, the names of these presidential findings change with administrations. They are called variously Presidential Decision Directives, National Security Council Decision Directives, Executive Orders, etc. One might think these special override-the-constitution presidential directives (which came out of nowhere) would be used for short-term emergencies. Wrong: the NSA is now a HUGE intelligence organization, eating billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars in budgets each year, and monitoring billions of messages a day. * "Spying Budget Is Made Public By Mistake", By Tim Weiner * The New York Times, November 5 1994 * * By mistake, a Congressional subcommittee has published an unusually * detailed breakdown of the highly classified "black budget" for United * States intelligence agencies. * * In previously defeating a bill that would have made this information * public, the White House, CIA and Pentagon argued tha
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 19:22 [ "The Rise of the Computer State", David Burnham, 1984 p134: ...the technical advances that were occurring did so not entirely by chance. The computers' ability to acquire, organize, store and retrieve huge amounts of data was an essential factor leading to the broad definition of intelligence that was fostered by the National Security Agency and its godfather, the National Security Council. Computer research was supported by NSA in a major way by secret research dollars. Thomas C. Reed, Director of the Pentagon's Telecommunications, Command and Control System, referring to domestic intercity telephone microwave radio trunks, said in 1975, "Modern computer techniques make it possible to sort through that traffic and find target conversations easily." p126-127: Since the wiretap law barred the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs from installing a tap on New York City's Grand Central Station pay phones, bureau head John Ingersoll asked the NSA for help. Within a few months the spy agency was sorting through all the conversations it was already acquiring for general intelligence purposes. Of course, the technicians were required to acquire, monitor, and discard a large number of calls made by people with no connection with the cocaine business in South American cities. But so pleased was Mr. Ingersoll with the tips he was getting from the dragnet monitoring that he ultimately persuaded the NSA to monitor simultaneou
From: Nick Wedd on 18 Apr 2008 21:37 * and beating someone they suspected was a drug dealer last year while * trying to rob him of cash and cocaine, Federal prosecutors said. * * Three men charged in all put on bullet-proof vests and police badges, * according to the complaint, and stopped the victim after identifying * themselves as Federal agents. The Federal agents then beat the man, * handcuffed him, forced him into their car and drove off, witnesses * said. * * The victim, whom Federal officials refuse to identify, dashed from the * car when it stopped at an intersection and persuaded a motorist to take * him to a police station. Wow. People seeking sanctuary from Federal thugs in the local police station. They thought the person had 220 pounds of cocaine. A corrupt justice system from the U.S. Attorney General all the way down to the lowest individual agents. We're becoming more like Mexico every year. ---- * Internet posting... * * Joe Pinson * 30 years old, MEDICAL MARIJUANA user. * FIVE Y
From: Rotwang on 18 Apr 2008 21:24
should be ashamed of itself. Have you NO IDEA what is at stake? We ARE at a crossroads. Passage of pro-crypto legislation is an important first step for backing away from the abyss of having every single aspect of our lives --- including our telephone calls --- monitored by computer for the UKUSA International Secret Government. Even the Prime Minister of New Zealand wasn't told about it. Even the director of the NSA wasn't told about it, until after a year [ Puzzle Palace, p333 ] of UKUSA deciding if he was "one of them". And, as documented in the books I've been referencing, when the director of the NSA knows about it and testifies before Congress, UKUSA not only lies about their activities, they also do so with impunity. A Secret Government? : The Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision, p206 : : Bypassing not only the Joint Chiefs but even the secretaries of the : branches of the armed forces, the NSCID devolves incredible authority : and responsibility on the NSA director, giving him, at least where : SIGINT is concerned, his own Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force. Let's just say lots of secrecy, Military power, Military and civilian personnel, MANY BILLIONS of dollars of funding per year and no accountability. Called UKUSA. * "A Spy Agency Admits Accumulating $4 Billion in Secret Money" * By Tim Weiner, The New York Times, May 16, 1996 * |