From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 18:49 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 that revealing the * secret budget would cause GRAVE DAMAGE to the NATIONAL SECURITY of * the United States. * * $3.1 billion for the CIA * $10.4 billion for the Army, Navy, Air Force * and Marines special-operations units * $13.2 billion for the NSA/NRO/DIA * * The only damage done so far is to the * credibility of those who opposed the measure. There is no constitutional basis for this massive loss of Fourth Amendment rights. It sounds like some wild conspiracy theory, doesn't it? Yet it exists. ****************************************************************************** Secret Court ------ ----- : The Washington Post Magazine, June 23 1996 : Gover
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:45 taken place > and that Cummings should be held and a sentencing date scheduled within > 60 days. The judge had just done the same thing for a man who had just > committed his third DWI offense. In fact, he had killed someone. The > judge ordered that person held on $50,000 bail. Ed Cummings, however, > was another matter. The judge ordered Cummings held on $250,000. > > So Cummings was being held on a quarter of a million dollars because he > was thought to have taken batteries out of a tone dialer years ago. He's > in a 5 by 8 holding cell 22 hours a day with no windows and no clock. > He never knows what time it is or whether it's day or night. > > The temperature reaches a maximum of sixty degrees and he has only one > layer of thin cotton clothing and one blanket. To add to his misery, > he was just notified that the Haverford Township police will destroy > the property they seized from him last year unless he picks it up by > Friday, January 19. > > The prison itself was built right after the Civil War. There are tons of > roaches and graffiti in all the cells which dates back to the fifties > - the last time it was painted. There are 1200 inmates. > > Currently Cummings is
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 22:24 * attorneys to "take all possible actions" on forfeitures, even if it meant * dropping other matters. "You will be expected to divert personnel from * other activities." * * One year later, the Attorney General himself warned the U.S. attorneys * that the Justice Department had fallen far behind its budget projection * in the collection of assets. "We must significantly increase production * to reach our budget target... Failure to achieve the $470 million * projection would expose the Department's forfeiture program to criticism * and undermine confidence in our budget projections. Every effort must be * made to increase forfeiture income during the remaining three months of * fiscal year 1990." * * In addition, forfeiture activities affect how many federal prosecutors * will be allocated to each U.S. Attorney by the Justice Department. [snip] * * Says Senator Henry J. Hyde: "The more they seize, the more they get for * their own 'official use'. Federal and state officials now have the power * to seize your business, home, bank account, records and personal property, * all without indictment, hearing, or trial. Everything you have can be * taken away at the whim of one or two federal or state officials operating * in secret." * * The so-called War on Drugs, the Congressman continued, "has been * perverted too often into a series of frontal attacks on basic * American constitutional guarantees --- including
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 22:25 GRAVE HARM TO BOTH. And what was a critical public safety and national security item the FBI insisted on in the first version of CALEA? They wanted all cellular phones to continually monitor the location of the owner, EVEN WHEN NOT IN USE. Every cellular phone would become a location tracking monitor for the government. And why would this be a critical public safety and national security item? Because: The NSA/FBI are raving rabid frothing-at-the-mouth lying looneys. I hope you understand that by now. * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 * * A few months after his appointment as the new director of the Federal * Bureau of Investigation, Louis J. Freeh delivered a speech at the National * Press Club in Washington. * * More than two hundred Washington-based reporters, congressional staffers * and interested lobbyists had come, and because the speech was carried by * C-Span, National Public Radio and the Global Internet Computer Network, * and would be the basis for articles in newspapers all over the United * States, Freeh was also delivering his message to a much larger national * and international audience. * * "The people of this country are fed up with crime," Freeh declared. "The * media report it, the statistics support it, the polls prove it." * * To drive home his point and authenticate the national menace, F
From: Tim Smith on 18 Apr 2008 22:34
-in the back---violated no departmental rules because he thought the youth was going to turn and shoot him. A grand jury fails to indict the officer, during a secret presentation by prosecutors. Preventative shootings are now legal. ****************************************************************************** I have tried to show you: o the power of high-traffic computer monitoring o what happens to a group of people who are closely monitored by law enforcement Congress and CALEA are leading us into the 21st Penitentiary. ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** Part 3: 1984 Means a Constant State of War ---- ----- - -------- ----- -- --- War #1 - Drugs War #2 - Guns War #3 - Child Pornography War #4 - Terrorism War #5 - Hackers Welcome to America, land of unlimited Police State powers... : The NYC police burst into the apartment, looking for drugs. : In one room was a lone four-year-old black child. : : Four years old. : : The NYC Police officer took his gun and held it to the tiny child's head. : : NBC NewsChannel 4, showing the cutest little kid, talking hesitantly, : "The Police man put the gun to my head, I was very a-scared!" |