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From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 22:54 permission to search their vehicles. On C-SPAN, U.S. Attorney Eric Holder further states that if a member of the car makes "furtive gestures" the police may search the car. Question: If sweating at the airport can get you a deep probing anal search by a manly security guard, what "furtive gesture" will get your car searched when the police stop you and shine a flashlight in your face? Answer: Blinking. Point: They are almost not bothering to pretend. Law enforcement hysteria. The Miranda ruling by the 1966 Supreme Court requires the police inform criminal suspects of their legal rights before questioning them. It is classical poetry, even when recited by Dragnet's Joe Friday. * Justice Department report: "Excerpt From the Report to Meese", NYT, 1/22/87 * * The Miranda decision reflects a willful disregard of the authoritative * sources of law. The decision flies in the face of the principals of * constitutional government and impairs the ability of government to * safeg
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 22:37 been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking * it had not always been the same war. * * The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil. * "Taking Control - Politics in the Information Age" * Authors Morely Winograd & Dudley Buffa, 1996, ISBN 0-8050-4489-2 * * From Richard Nixon's law and order campaign in 1968 to George Bush's * infamous Willie Horton ad in 1988, Republicans have attempted to define * their differences with Democrats by a no-nonsense position on crime and * criminals. * * It helped Republicans win the presidency, and it also gave them the * tool by which to control the Democratic majorities in Congress that * might allow their opponents to label them as soft on crime. * * No Democrat, except those in overwhelmingly Democratic districts, could * afford to cast any votes in Congress that might allow their opponents * to label them soft on crime. A constant state of law enforcement hysteria. The absolute pinnacle of War terminology was the phrase "Zero Tolerance". We will monitor and pr
From: Christian Siebert on 18 Apr 2008 20:39 8/26/1996 * * About 500,000 students will now have their bus and subway usage tracked by * Metrocards, in an effort to save money. Unlike current passes, which * students can use anytime between 6 A.M. and 7 P.M. on weekdays, the * Metrocard pass can be programmed to restrict the students to a set number * of trips a day. * * Ms. Gonzalez-Light, a spokeswoman for the Board of Education, said they * would work with the Transit Authority to individualize the number of * trips per student to adjust for extra-curricular activities. Then you could track each individual student? Decide if they might be truant including if they didn't use it, or went the wrong way? * "Last Clink for Token-Only Turnstiles" * By Garry Pierre-Pierre, The New York Times, May 14 1997 * * The last token-only turnstile was ripped out today. * * Officials have spent $700 million over a four-year period to automate the * system, including upgrading the electrical wiring and the computer systems * to link up the vast network. * * Tokens will be eliminated in a year or so. * * For years, transit riders and advocates have been demanding discounts like * other cities, but transit officials said they couldn't do it without an * electronic system. * * In 1995, the Transit Authority lost $300 million in city, state and Federal * subsidies, and had to reduce and eliminate some bus and subway service, * along with some cleaning. Not counting the long-promised discounts, the * city is also offering free bus-subway transfers which will cost it another * $168 million. Wow. They are hurting for money, yet spent $700 million on it to offer discounts? They aren't expecting to monitor individual users, like in Singapore, are they? Let's see...they don't print them up in advance, so they can't be stolen.
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:48 are already able and authorized to listen in on any line at any time, to check the integrity of the network. I've heard some funny stories by old Bell System employees about a bunch of people listening into private conversations, and having a hoot. Question: How can the FBI use computers to monitor thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of phone calls simultaneously, as they said they would do with the bill, when we Americans speak so many different accents and languages? Answer: Thirty years of fine tuning by the NSA, y'all. The Digital Telephony Act will allow them to legally - at full wiretapping capacity - dragnet-monitor the telephone network. Each line monitored will not require a warrant. And how did they get this CALEA legislation? * "Government Access", by Jim Warren * * At the administration's pleading, the [Democrat-controlled] Congress * rammed it through in less than two months, with no substantive hearings. * * Literally in the dark of night, without debate, it passed in the house * by voice vote and two nights later by unanimous consent in the Senate, * only minutes before adjourning to rush home for their important work: * campaigning for re-election. The NSA domestic watch-list is probably already stuffed full enough to use the complete CALEA capacity. You can select many more lines for monitoring tha
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 20:09
was a paid government informer. And the FBI won't delete the file of the kid who aspires to be in our Foreign Service, but made the mistake of writing to foreign embassies in grade school. Poor schmuck. The FBI wants to keep "suspect" information on anyone in its NCIC 2000 system. ---- Some people feel the smart card will quickly give away to implantable biometric transponders. Once everyone is fingerprinted, you may as well! Guess what? They exist, and aren't that big: * http://www.radioamerica.com/relevance/11-94.html * * Martin Anderson, former senior member of Ronald Reagan's Economic Policy * Advisory Board fears that the advancing technology may soon end with, * "all of us tagged like so many fish." Writing in the October 11th, 1993 * Washington Times he confirmed the drift toward human applications of the * chip: * * You see there is an identification system made by * the Hughes Aircraft Company that you can't lose. * * It's the syringe implantable transponder. * * According to promotional literature it is an * "ingenious, safe, inexpensive, foolproof and * permanent method of identification using radio * waves. A tiny microchip, the size of a grain of * rice, is simply placed under the skin. It is so * designed as to be injected simultaneously with a * vaccination or alone." * * * When government technocrats want Americans to accept the unacceptable, * they move slowly. In the case of reaching the ultimate goal of a universal * system of personal identification, this introduction is likely to begin * with the smartcard, and progress to non-implantable, bio-chips attached to * the clothing or worn in bracelets. * * In Europe, this system has already been used at track and field events * where the competitors wear the device attached to |