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From: Chip Eastham on 18 Apr 2008 21:09 Infrastructure in 10 years. And let us make a * similar commitment to upgrading technology in 450 other communities, our * rural roads, and interstates, as the need warrants... * * The vehicles of the future, whether cars, planes, or trains, will have * state-of-the-art communications systems. We must ensure that our roads * and highways and transit systems are able to keep pace with them. * * Today, I'm announcing the award of five contracts to standards development * organizations to begin fast tracking the development of those standards. * They are: AASHTO, IEEE, ITE, ASTM, and SAE. [So the standards of hardware * and information are interchangeable and global.] Yep. # Subject: ---> Big Bro and the Intelligent Transportation System <--- # From: 99(a)spies.com (Extremely Right) # Date: 1997/06/03 # # If you live in a big city you will find that there is an interesting # proliferation of cameras pointed at the freeway. Do you know what they # are, what they can do, and what is their potential for abuse? # # The System is called the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) and you # may find it everywhere on the net. The cameras are linked to a city # control room, who are supposed to use them to improve traffic flow. The # cameras are "uplinked" to the net, to satellites, and I suppose to the # United States Transportation Command at Scott AFB or some other # centralized information storage base. Software is
From: tchow on 18 Apr 2008 22:00 an ID number at # birth and a plastic ID card to go with it. # # Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, September 1991 issue # # A California taxpayer has successfully filed a tax return without # providing Social Security numbers for her three children, as required # by a 1986 federal law, but the IRS is quite happy if nobody knows about # the case. # # The woman claims that the enumeration is a violation of her religious # beliefs. Like many fundamental Christians, she relies on a Biblical # passage warning that whoever worships a Satanic beast that issues a mark # OR NUMBER to all persons will incur the wrath of God. # # Initially, the IRS disallowed her claims and child care deductions. # # The woman claimed that just because she didn't provide numbers for her # children did not mean that the children did not exist. An appeals officer # agreed and overruled the auditor, saying that there was no deficiency # in the woman's tax return. ---- Here is a more detailed example of how government expands surveillance (and thus control) in a seemingly never-ending manner...consider this when talking about a National ID Card: Is it okay for the government to look at your property while walking by and if the officer spots marijuana plants growing to get a search warrant? Of course it is. * "The Right To Privacy", ISBN 0-679-74434-7, 1997 * By Attorneys Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy * * ...then the Supreme Court ruled that if the yard was big enough that "An * individual may not legitimately demand privacy for activities conducted * out of doors in fields," the Court wrote, "except in the area immediately * surrounding the home." * * ...then the Supreme Cour
From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 19:13 assume use of this court * is at the least: unusual. * * It is not. In fact, in the United States today it is increasingly * common. In 1994, federal courts authorized more wiretaps for * intelligence-gathering and national security purposes than they * did to investigate ordinary federal crimes. * * The review process to prevent legal and factual errors is virtually * non-existent. * * And the FISA system's courtroom advocacy is monumentally one-sided. * * The court has never formally rejected an application. Not once. * * For the first time in modern U.S. history, the Congress had * institutionalized a process for physical searches outside of * Fourth Amendment standards. * * Not even Congress' intelligence oversight committees review these * special cases on a regular basis. Mini-recap: o Congress voted into existence a court that bypasses our normal Fourth Amendment constitutional rights. Poof they're gone. o Congressional oversite is weak. Such a special court should be subject to the highest standard of
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 21:46 made to accept the most flagrant violations of * reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was * demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public * events to notice what was happening. [ By Walter Cronkite: "Orwell's '1984'---Nearing?", NYT, June 5 1983 In our world, where a Vietnam village can be destroyed so it can be saved; where the President names the latest thing in nuclear missiles "Peacekeeper"---in such a world, can the Orwellian vision be very far away? Big Brother's ears have plugs in them right now (or they are, by law, supposed to), at least on the domestic telephone and cable traffic. But the National Security Agency's ability to monitor microwave transmissions, to scoop out of the air VAST numbers of communications, including telephone conversations, store them in computers, play them back later, has a truly frightening potential for abuse. George Orwell issued a warning. He told us that freedom is too much taken for granted, that it needs to be carefully watched and protected. His last word on the subject was a plea to his readers: "Don't let it happen. It depends on you." ] * * The National Security Agency's Project L.U.C.I.D., with all its * technological wizardry, is a future, planetary dictator's dream---and a * Christian and national patriot's nightmare. Someday, the Holy Bible * prophesies, that planetary dictator will emerge on the scene, lusting * for blood... * * There can be no doubt about it. * * The REAL Chief Executive Officer of the NSA is not a human being. * * The CEO MUST be Lucifer himself. Amen. ---- It is technology driving the capabilities, it is our government using them ruthlessly: without letting us vote on it. Never before could someone walk up to you and number you by scanning your fingerp
From: Tim Smith on 18 Apr 2008 22:18
place to hide. Noone is an angel. Are you? What's in store next for black Americans? # "This Modern World", by Tom Tomorrow [political cartoon, in NYT] # # Biff: You know why we should eliminate welfare, Wanda? # It's been A COMPLETE FAILURE! # After all -- there ARE STILL POOR PEOPLE! # # Wanda: Hey, good thinking Biff! # And while we're at it, why don't we eliminate the FIRE DEPARTMENT? # After all -- there ARE STILL FIRES! # And talk about FAILURES -- what about the MEDICAL INDUSTRY? # Why, there are still SICK PEOPLE everywhere you look! # # Wanda: And why don't we shut down the POLICE DEPARTMENT as well -- # since there are STILL CRIMINALS! # For that matter, why have any laws at all? # People still BREAK them ALL THE TIME. # # Biff: Look, it made sense when Rush said it. # # Wanda: I'm sure it did, sweetheart. # Say, shouldn't his show be cancelled? # After all -- there are STILL LIBERALS... * "Can Unemployment Fall Further Without Setting Off Inflation?" * By Richard W. Stevenson, The New York Times, September 7, 1996 * * Six percent unemployment of the able-bodied population is the point where * the Federal Reserve Board usually kicks in to raise interest rates. [the * presiden |