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From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 20:25 ruled that aerial surveillance did not constitute * a Fourth Amendment search. * * ...then the Supreme Court ruled that a "precision aerial mapping camera" * that was able to capture objects as small as one-half inch in diameter did * not constitute a Fourth Amendment search. ...then courts ruled that infrared surveillance of homes was permissible. What is this? * Subject: Re: Law Enforcement Aviation * From: aufsj(a)imap2.asu.edu * Date: 1996/12/27 * Newsgroups: rec.aviation.military * * What interests me is how new technologies will be interpreted. I recently * inquired at the local Law School about the courts views towards the use * of impulse radar, and they said "Impulse what the heck?" * * Basically it is a radar that "sees through" things (like, say, your * house). * * Their capabilities vary widely, but the feds are already using * them and I know that Hughes corp. is designing a low-cost set up * specifically for major police departments. * * They are driving towards a unit that can be mounted on a police helicopter. * * Will the police need a warrant? Who knows. Since they are allowed * to do airborne infra-red analysis of your house, why not an take an * airborne "x-ray" equival
From: Rotwang on 18 Apr 2008 22:05 said unusually high * electric bills tipped them to marijuana-growing operation. * CBS 48 hours: flying over everyone's properties, infrared scanning homes * looking for heat loss: there's one bleeding heat from one part of the * house. Let's get a search warrant. * USA Today, undated: "LOITERING LAW": a new Dallas city ordinance allows * police TO ARREST AND SEARCH PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE DRUG DEALERS. We've come a long way from 'presumed innocent'. Now: presumed potentially guilty. * "Riot May Push Md. to Expedite Prison Building", The Washington Post * * An inmate riot last week at one of Maryland's most crowded and violent * prisons will help force the state to consider a more rapid pace of * prison construction, key state legislators said. This level of monitoring has given us a world record % of prison population. So much for 'The Land of the Free'. * As a result, over 100 inmates were transferred to the state's "super- * maximum" prison. Signs of looming trouble became evident weeks ago. Signs of looming trouble have been ignored for years. # "Notes and Comment", The New Yorker, April 13, 1992 # # Traditionally, vast prison systems have adorned tyrannies. # # However, due to mandatory minimum sentencing and the profitable War on # Drugs (due to a 1978 Federal forfeiture law), the United States has # become the unchallenged world leader in incarceration rates. # # We are so far ahead of every other nation we can be rest assured of # remaining No. 1 for many years. # # What kind of society are we hoping to create by this policy of wholesale # incarceration? What will these millions of branded people, most of them # unskilled, uneducated, and brutalized by imprisonment, be prepared to do # when they emerge after many years? This section is also about abusing citizens to control targeted individuals. Examples are scattered throughout. Here come some now...
From: Phil Carmody on 18 Apr 2008 22:39 * * Information Security Board * No. Yes. [801] * * Waiver of any provision of Act by * Executive Order. * No. Yes [901] * * * *The Encrypted Data Security Act, draft dated April 29, 1997. * * **The Secure Public Networks Act, as released on June 17 * by Senator Kerrey's office. Crypto is either GAK crackable, or it is real crypto. There is no such thing as "good faith attempts to balance". You either have to choose between the best interests of the people, or the best interests of the ever-paranoid Militia. I mean the ever-paranoid Military. ****************************************************************************** Feds' Wacky Pro-GAK Logic ---- ----- --- --- ----- Here are a couple of the wacky reasons they give for everyone wanting GAK. o Business Will Demand It They say setting up a GAK infrastructure will form a defacto standard for interchange of public encryption keys, which business need for interoperability of the various cryptography products. Noone has clamored for crackable crypto to be the driving force behind such a standard. It's a very silly thing for them to assert. * "Clinton's Encryption Plan Fits Law and Market" * Letters to the Editor, Mickey Kantor, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 10/9/96 * * Many companies are eager to market Key Recovery [compromised] products. Exact same deal: Here are the actual comments on Key Recovery's predecessor, Key Escrow: : Charles R. Smith, master of FOIA, SO
From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 19:12 and apologized. * * Nevertheless, an enormous amount of effort was put out in France to * go and talk to all these people and a similar thing was done in * Germany. This was not all free. It was hideously expensive. And the * repercussions --- I don't know what they are yet. I haven't talked * to all the families. * * In the end, everything I received back was essentially destroyed. * * My computer was broken. * * All my prints were badly damaged. * * Some of them had been wadded up and thrown away and then taken out * of the waste basket and flattened out again. It cost Sturges $100,000 in legal fees, loss of major clients, much income, seizure of his life's work, the tools of his trade, and made him feel depressed about his life's work. Our government uses Orwellian terror tactics to control the politically incorrect: Jock Sturges: At my lowest point in this affair, I almost decided to jump from the San Francisco bridge. I had stopped my car. ---- # FBI # 450 Go
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 18:55
to spot unregistered children. * * The children had gone back in a week later and used their dog's name * to get the special again. * * Since it was not the government collecting the social security numbers, * participants weren't told they were registering for the draft. * * Said one of the surprised children: "How cheesy of our government!" NSA's ECHELON goes beyond any system Americans would EVER approve. That's why we weren't asked. If the full scope of ECHELON had been made public and debated in Congress and passed: civil war would have broken out. The CALEA bill was suddenly brought to a quick vote on the last day of Congress' session. Congress 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 |