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From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 21:50 major > crimes - have increased significantly while other categories are fairly > constant. * The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 1989 * * Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, "Every friend of freedom... * must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the U.S. into an * armed camp, by the visions of jails filled with casual drug users and of * an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight * evidence. > Drug offenders were 6.4 percent of state prison populations in 1980. > Drug offenders were 22.3 percent of state prison populations in 1994. > > The growth from less than 20,000 to nearly a quarter of a million was > nearly tenfold. > > Nonviolent drug offenders making up 58% of the federal prison population. Name a single person ever who was robbed by someone suffering from marijuana withdrawal. Law Enforcement Hysteria, Propaganda and Lies: And that Drug War hysteria commercial about the train wreck by the engineer on pot? They can't quite bring themselves to tell you he had been drinking. And they still show this ad... * "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1 * * In one ad, the wreckage of a train is shown. Now, everyone will agree * that no one should attempt to drive a train while high on marijuana. * But a man's voice says that anyone who tells you 'marijuana is harmless' * is lying, because his wife was killed in the train accident. * * This contradicts the direct sworn testimony of the engineer responsible * for that disaster; that "the accident was not caused by marijuana." It * deliberately ignores his admissions of drinking alcohol, snacking, * watching TV, generally failing to pay adequate attention to his job, * AND DELIBERATELY JAMMING THE TRAIN'S SAFETY EQUIPMENT prior to the * accident. [snip] * *
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 21:09 -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
From: Gerry Myerson on 18 Apr 2008 20:42 admitted it wanted the property. This is our Drug War for national security reasons. The government now says it regrets calling it a Drug War. Then appointed a retired Military General as Drug Czar. Drug Czar William Bennett was an active nicotine addict until his first day of work. The ONLY reason he quit smoking was because it would have been politically incorrect to smoke while leading the War on Drugs. * On October 19 1996, Clinton announced that his administration will develop * a plan to test the urine of driver's license applicants under the age of * 18, and he gave drug czar Barry McCaffrey 90 days to present the plan to * him. * * "Our message should be simple: no drugs, or no driver's license," Clinton * proclaimed. * * Clinton took this action in the closing weeks of the presidential race * after Bob Dole attacks his joking comments about marijuana on MTV. * * The plan will likely require federal legislation, probably making highway * funds contingent upon a state's implementation of the plan. * * About three million teenagers will seek driver's licenses each year and * therefore be tested for drugs. At a rate of one-percent false positives, * 30,000 completely clean kids will fail their drug tests. They will be * denied driver's licenses. How will their parents react? Many kids are * likely to be emotionally scarred by the false accusations of drug use, * and some may even attempt suicide out of their shame. Thank you very much Free World Leaders for that intelligent discourse on marijuana. What would we do without you? We love being your lemmings.
From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 20:35 Vatis, who told me at a conference this year that : the Clinton administration did not want import : controls. Though Cabe Franklin, spokesperson : for Trusted Information Systems, says Kerrey was : misunderstood. "In the briefing afterwards, I found : out he didn't mean that at all. He meant import : controls, but more regulation than restriction. The : same way they wouldn't let a car with faulty : steering controls in the country. He meant more : quality control," Franklin says. (I don't know : about you, but I'm not convinced.) [ What a bunch of hooey. ] : : Kerrey's sudden interest in cryptologic arcana : likely stems from a recent addition to his staff: : policy aide Chris McLean. : : McLean is hardly a friend of the Net. While in : former Sen. Jim Exon's (D-Neb.) office, McLean : drafted the notorious Communications Decency : Act and went on to prompt Exon to derail : "Pro-CODE" pro-encryption legislation last fall. : Then, not long after McLean moved to his current : job, his new boss stood up on the Senate floor : and bashed Pro-CODE in favor of the White : House party line: "The President has put forward : a plan which in good faith attempts to balance : our nation's interests in commer
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 20:37
* of a criminal it must obtain a warrant from a Federal judge. In those cases * where the FBI wants to eavesdrop on a specific individual who it believes * is an agent of a foreign government, it can apply for a warrant from a * special SECRET PANEL of Federal judges established just for that purpose. * * The special missions and advanced technology of the NSA however, make its * operations more difficult to control within the restrictions of the Federal * wiretapping and surveillance laws. * * According to the 1975 report of the Special Senate Intelligence Committee, * the agency has equipment that "sweeps up enormous numbers of communications, * not all of which can be reviewed by intelligence analysts." * * Using "watch lists" --- lists of words and phrases designed to identify * communications of intelligence interest --- NSA computers scan the mass of * acquired communications to select those which may be of specific foreign * intelligence interest", the report said. * * The court ruled Fourth Amendment rights were not violated. * * The Senate investigation in 1975 uncovered evidence the overseas * communications of a number of individuals engaged in organizing * political protests against the war in Vietnam were subjected to * surveillance by the NSA equipment. Mini-recap: o The NSA can listen in on all American citizens' border-crossing communications of any sort without a warrant or an |