From: Chip Eastham on
Texe Marrs was a career Air Force officer who commanded a number of the NSA's
communications centers around the world. The General in charge of the NSA is
Air Force.

As with Canadian spy Mike Frost, Texe has second thoughts about it all.

He found out about a proposal called 'L.U.C.I.D.', which he refers to as
Lucifer's Identification system...a design to enumerate every human, to
pin them down with a Universal Biometrics Card.

It is a proposal to "finish off" connecting all of the NSA's systems together
with all cooperating governments systems and international police systems.

It was set forth in 'The Narc Officer' September/October 1995.

This publication is:

"Official Publication of the International Narcotics Enforcement
Officers Association, Inc."

It proposes tying together all of NSA's disparate systems:

NCIC: National Crime Information Center 2000
IAFIS: Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System
NICB: National Instant Criminal Background
NRO: National Reconnaissance Office
National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System Projects Agency
FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency
OSI: Office of Special Investigations
NCB: Triple I National Central Bureau
FINCEN: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
CTC: Counter-Terrorist Center
DIA: Defense Intelligence Agency
LESS: Law Enforcement Satellite System
CDIS: Combined DNA Identification System
INTERPOL: International Criminal Police Organization

...and a slew of other systems, using a biometric number from all of us.

And: that everyone at birth should be issued a biometric identity card.

Biometric identification of everyone at birth.

As Texe says, that must be to get all them terrorist babies.

As I say, we all are viewed as presumed potentially guilty.

That's why


From: Pubkeybreaker on
's asset
* forfeiture laws, the mere administrative finding that Alvarez had
* "structured" his transactions was enough to justify the seizure.
[
We have Federal laws against terminating someone's benefits based solely
(automatically by computer) on "computer matching" hits of possible
ineligibility. But NOTHING to protect us from this nearly IDENTICAL
use of computer data to terminate "benefits".
]
* To the government, the question of whether the money had been legally
* earned or was the product of a nefarious drug sale was of no concern.
*
* Maybe worse than the nebulous structuring provision is a feature of the
* same group of laws that places the burden of proof on the victim. In
* other words, rather than the government having to prove that Alvarez
* had violated the statute before it seized his money, Alvarez had to
* prove that he was innocent of any wrongdoing before he could get it
* back. Further adding to the profound unfairness of the seizure process
* is an incredible provision that anyone who wants to challenge a


From: Chip Eastham on
"why did you subscribe to 'Soviet Life' and why did you write to
* the Soviet embassy?"
*
* "I need to clear this up. It's in the interest of national security."
*
* With the invocation of the sacred words "national security," one of
* the most powerful mantras of the long-lived Cold War, Mrs. Bernard's
* seventy-nine-year-old husband burst out laughing. At any time, it
* would have been hard to imaging the connection between his wife and
* the fearsome world of espionage, the arms race and Check Point Charlie.
*
* But the wall had fallen, and Russia had a complete upheaval too. The FBI
* agent's linkage of his wife to "national security" seemed absurd. The
* agent, however, did not share George's amused astonishment.
*
* "Don't mock me," the couple remembers Emmett warning them.
*
* She had subscribed to the magazine for its impressive photography, and
* had written to the Soviet embassy to thank them for sending an icebreaker
* to free some whales, as suggested by a television show


From: Marshall on
other CSE operators --- came from the National Security
Agency (NSA) in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Over the twelve years I spied for CSE, it became increasingly to resemble
the NSA. Both specialize in providing secure communications and signals
intelligence (SIGINT); both operated for years with little public knowledge
or legislative oversight until they were exposed by the media.
[snip]

Despite the similarities, CSE is treated more like a subsidiary than an
equal partner. US military and economic clout, as well as NSA's vastly
superior technical capabilities and near unlimited funds, allow Washington
to dominate.

And while CSE has only a $200-300 million dollar budget, NSA has an
estimated annual budget of almost $4 billion.

But the relationship is not without mutual benefits. CSE, NSA, and Britain's
Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) use each other's facilities
and personnel to spy on friend and foe alike and, more alarmingly, to
circumvent domestic laws and spy on their own populations.
[snip]



From: Phil Carmody on
August 26, 1996
#
# "I want the Military to expand its use of technology, including
# reconnaissance and satellites and area surveillance and listening
# posts...and call the National Guard to move in," said Presidential
# candidate Bob Dole.
#
# "In the Dole Administration, we're going to return to what works. We're
# going to replace the President's inattention to dangerous drugs with a
# clear and forceful policy of zero tolerance."
#
# "That's ZERO TOLERANCE."
#
# "ZERO TOLERANCE for drug smugglers. ZERO TOLERANCE for drug pushers.
# ZERO TOLERANCE for drugs in the workplace and drugs in school. And
# ZERO TOLERANCE for illegal drugs, period."
#
# "ZERO! ZERO! ZERO!"
#
# "We will REDOUBLE our efforts to put drug criminals behind bars."
#
# "We will only appoint judges who will throw them in jail."

Thank Gawd he didn't become President.

* July Fourth, 1997, C-SPAN Congressional Television
*
* Mark Klaas, father of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, who was murdered by a
* repeat-offender that was paroled from prison, said in support of prevention
* programs: "Building more prisons to fight crime is like building more
* cemeteries to fight the spread of AIDS. It's a bad quick fix. Police
* chiefs across the country support [me] this 4 to 1. Unfortunately, Congress
* can't act "soft" on crime, and is about to pass a very bad bill on
* juvenile crime."

More bizarre distortions in our social fabric due to Zero Tolerance:

6/10/97 MSNBC: California: a ten-year-old girl who reported a classmate
for having a joint was also suspended by the principal, under the school's
Zero Tolerance for drugs policy. Her offense: handling the joint to see if
the other student was kidding her before reporting the other student. The
principal said "too bad, that's what 'Zero Tolerance' means". The little
girl and her mother are shocked. [I am not making these up!!!!!]

6/18/97 NBC News Channel 4 N