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From: Christian Siebert on 18 Apr 2008 21:30 large-scale interception of domestic communications. Of course, when the microwave route is across one of the UKUSA countries' territory it is much easier to arrange interception. P41 The ECHELON system has created an awesome spying capacity for the United States, allowing it to monitor continuously most of the world's communications. It is an important component of its power and influence in the post-Cold War world order, and advances in computer processing technology continue to increase this capacity. The NSA pushed for the creation of this system and has the supreme position within it. It has subsidized the allies by providing the sophisticated computer programs used in the system, it undertakes the bulk of the interception operations and, in return, it can be assumed to have full access to the allies' capabilities. On December 2 1987, when Prime Minister David Lange announced plans to build a new spy station, he issued a press statement explaining that the station would provide greater independence in intelligence matters: "For years there has been concern about our dependence on others and all that implies. This government is committed to standing on its own two feet." Lange believed the statement. Even as Prime Minister, no one had told him about the ECHELON Dictionary system and the way the new station would fit in. P43 His first experience of the UKUSA alliance was its security 'indoctrination' (they really use this word). The indoctrination was done by GCSB security officer Don Allan, and consisted of a strict lecture about never, for the rest of his life, talking about his job with anyone except other indoctrinated people. GCSB workers are forbidden to say anything about their work, even to their partners
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 20:04 of Americans on U.S. soil and working with domestic law enforcement? Well, one day President Truman issued a secret order creating the NSA. As testified by Library of Congress members on C-SPAN, the names of these presidential findings change with administrations. They are called variously Presidential Decision Directives, National Security Council Decision Directives, Executive Orders, etc. One might think these special override-the-constitution presidential directives (which came out of nowhere) would be used for short-term emergencies. 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.
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 23:05 Mr. Sinclair was trying to fill a prescription for his sick child, * became confused by all the roadblocks the Atlanta police setup for * the annual "Black College Spring Break" weekend, and was attacked * by the police for trying to get back on the Interstate highway. * * Mr Sinclair's wife and two children were in his car with him. Think that would have happened to a white family during this annual Black College Spring Break 'Freaknick' police coverage? The police also illegally ordered the videotaper to stop taping. ---- Recently on ABC Primetime live, they wired for video and sound a nice car owned by the father of the black son who drove it, with another black friend. BTW, picture yourself being a black citizen to try and appreciate this. Picture yourself as the monitored group. Shortly after starting out, they were pulled over by police for a search. Not one, but two squad cars came to do the search. Because they crossed lanes while going through an intersection. If you are white, when was the last time
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 22:01 or AIDS. A massive Federal and State Drug War hysteria campaign failed to stop people approving it. * The New York Times, Oct 3, 1996, San Francisco * "Skirmish in Anti-Drug War: California vs. 'Doonesbury'", by Tim Golden * * There a drug wars, and there are drug wars... * * Marching bravely into the cultural swamp where Dan Quayle once bogged * down in combat with the television single mother Murphy Brown, * California's Attorney General, Dan Lungren, has taken his fight * against the medical use of marijuana to Zonker Harris, the laid-back * hero of the comic strip 'Doonesbury'. Like the former Vice President, * Mr. Lungren appears to have underestimated his adversaries' capacity * to make fun of him. * [snip] * * Mr. Lungren raided a marijuana outlet after two years in which the * United States Attorney in San Francisco and the city's District * Attorney had both declined to prosecute it. * [snip] * / "Zonker": I can't believe anyone would shut down the Cannabis Buyers' / Club! Who ordered the bust? / Other character responds: "Dan Lungren, the State Attorney General. / Local cops wouldn't do it, so they had to bring in the Republicans." * * "No one should be laughing," said Mr. Lungren, asking newspapers in * the state to censor the rest of the week's cartoons as a public service. * * No one followed the Attorney General's request. Other Federal and state government officials were SHOCKED that it passed and made angry noises and tried to interfere. * The New York Times, Aug 29 1996, Ventura, California, By Katharine Seelye * "Dole Criticizes Clinton as Lax On a Policy to Combat Drugs" * * Dole, speaking out against Proposition 215, which would allow marijuana * to be used as medicine: "If so
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 20:07
's Nation of Islam were convicted. And just what was so extraordinarily vile about this case? Its purpose was to tear the black community apart. Mr. Farrakhan, no fool when it comes to manipulation, joined in her defense. And: Mr. Fitzpatrick had been a high school classmate of Qubilah Shabazz. In courting her lifetime of anger at Mr. Farrakhan, he also courted her. Love. "A vile and evil seducer," said William Kunstler to the court. He had proposed to her. * "Always the Violence", The New York Times, by Bob Herbert, June 9 1997 * * Percy Sutton, a close friend of the Shabazz family for more then three * decades, said "It was so sad. This little kid [Qubilah's son Malcolm, 10] * he ended up feeling guilty because he tried to persuade his mother to * marry this guy [Fitzpatrick told the son about his marriage proposal]. * The guy told him 'We'll have our own house.' And Malcolm got all excited * and he said, 'I'll have my own bedroom?' And the guy said 'Yes, you will.'" It is safe to say this directly contributed to the burning and subsequent death of Betty Shabazz. A distraught, torn, ten-year-old suffering the effects of this persecution. He had been taken away from his mother because of Fitzpatrick. NBC Newschannel 4 NY, on the death of Bett |