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From: Gerry Myerson on 18 Apr 2008 23:05 ---- The "average" American has no idea why cryptography is important to them. It is the only way to begin preventing massive illegal domestic spying. Currently, there are no restrictions on domestic use of unlimited strength cryptography. That is not because the Government hasn't complained about child pornographers or terrorists or other criminals who might use it. No, that's the reason they are giving for why U.S. companies can't EXPORT products, such as web browsers, outside U.S. territory, without compromising it with Government "Key Recovery"; i.e. made stupider and breakable. Why such an indirect control on what they claim is a domestic problem? Because that is how 'The Creeping Police State' works. Slowly, bit-by-bit. Slowly, State-by-State everyone in the U.S. is being fingerprinted. The FBI is now advocating biometric capture of all newborns too. This is an interesting manifesto, please take the time to read it. Cryptography can be used to keep private: Internet traffic, such as email, and telephone conversations (PGP phone). A version of PGP phone that looks and works like a normal telephone --- but can't be spied upon --- would eventually become wide-spread. It begins to change the mind-set that the Police State is inevitable. ---- Major references... In the last several years intelligence operatives, specifically including SIGINT (signal intelligence) people, have started
From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 22:23 Wednesday said the agency only investigated * suspected crimes, not political beliefs or constitutionally protected * freedom of speech. * * Oliver Revell, the FBI's executive assistant director, said that the * FBI did not investigate CISPES because of its political activities, * but for a "wide range of possible crimes." % The New York Times, Thursday, February 4, 1988 % "Reagan Backs FBI Over Surveillance" % % President Reagan is satisfied that the Federal Bureau of Investigation % conducted a proper surveillance campaign against groups opposed to his % policies in Central America, the White House said today. % % The new FBI Director William S. Sessions assured Reagan that there was % a solid basis for the investigation: "We knew CISPES was established % from funding by the Communist Party, U.S.A." Well, Reagan didn't like a peaceful Texas based group called CISPES, which was against the United States' support of the El Salvador government. The El Salvador government was torturing and killing people. * "Officers held in Salvador Abductions", By James LeMoyne, NYT, 4/25/86 * * One of those arrested was accused of killing the head of the Salvadoran * Land Reform Institute and two AMERICAN agrarian advisors. So the FBI had one of their agents infiltrate CISPES using a Frank Varelli, who was born in San Salvador and served in the U.S. Army. # "How the FBI infiltrated CISPES and Assisted the Salvadoran Right Wing" # By James Ridgeway, The Village Voice, NYC # # Varelli met with the Salvadoran National Guard, best known for its
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 23:18 the career lawyers and prosecutors inside Main * Justice it was an article of faith that solving the nation's drug problem * could not be accomplished by prosecution and jail sentences alone. These * career people feel the answer is self-evident: Education, rehabilitation * and improving the grim lot of most of those prone to drug addiction ought * to become national priorities. * * Said David Margolis, who had supervised the Criminal Division's anti- * narcotics efforts in the early 1990s: "Anyone who thinks that drug * enforcement is primarily a law enforcement issue, they're smoking wacky * tabacky." Tell all the damn manipulative politicians. Jail's not even cost effective. * RAND Study Finds Mandatory Minimums Cost-Ineffective * ---------------------------------------------------- * * Excerpt from RAND Press Release: * * Washington, DC, May 12, 1997 -- If cutting drug consumption and * drug-related crime are the nation's prime drug control * objectives, then the mandatory minimum drug sentencing laws * in force at the federal level and in most states are not the * way to get there. * * This is the key finding of "Mandatory Minimum Drug * Sentences: Throwing Away the Key or the Taxpayer's Money?", * a new RAND study that provides the first quantitative * analysis of how successful these measures are in achieving * what Director Barry McCaffrey of the Office of National Drug * Co
From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 20:38 $9600 in cash because the wholesalers prefer cash. * * This time, however, apparently because Jones fit a "profile" of what drug * dealers are supposed to look like, two police officers stopped him, * searched him and seized his $9600. The businessman was given a receipt * and told he was free to go. * * "No evidence of wrongdoing was ever produced. No charges were ever filed. * As far as anyone knows, Willie Jones neither uses drugs nor buys nor sells * them. He is a gardening contractor who bought an airplane ticket. Who lost * his hard-earned money to the cops." After a long legal battle and a lot of * publicity, Jones got his money back. * [snip] * * Paolo Alvarez: "I believe in God, but the government's seizure of all my * savings was really horrible. I felt trapped and I almost flipped out." * * Alvarez was a landscape contractor, cautious and frugal, who saved his * money. Several years ago, however, Alvarez began listening to the * speeches of Ross Perot, especially Perot's exaggerated [beat the drum * of fear] warnings that the nation's savings and loan institutions * were about to collapse. As a reult of mounting anxiety generated by * the Texas businessman, Alvarez decided to move the nest egg from his * savings and loan. * * He placed some of the money in a regular bank and hid the balance in * small caches around the house. * * When the sky did not fall, when Ross Perot's predictions did not come * true, Alvarez began slowly moving the cash in his house back into a * bank. Partly because of his fear of a possible robbery, he chose to * redeposit his money in relatively small amounts, $5000 or so at a time. * * While Alvarez had come to know Pero
From: Tim Smith on 18 Apr 2008 21:42
and without fear of reprisal. They could only pass on information to appropriate members -- for example, CIA information would have to go to the Intelligence Committee. But the White House said it would veto the entire bill over that provision. In a written statement, it said the whistle-blower measure would usurp "the president's constitutional authority to protect national security and other privileged information." National security means keeping Congress dumbed-down: * "Secret Pentagon Intelligence Unit is Disclosed" * By Raymond Bonner, The New York Times, May 11, 1983 * * Because the Pentagon was dissatisfied with the intelligence it was getting * from the CIA, the new unit 'Army Intelligence Support Activity' was set up. * * It is suspected that the secret group was used to get around Congressional * limits of 55 military advisors in El Salvador. * * The Congressional intelligence committees "stumbled on" the unit's * existence after it was reported in an article in The Boston Globe. The National Security Agency will even attack freedom of the press: never forget that they were the lead agency trying to suppress "The Pentagon Papers". Finally finishing....... Parting shot #1... * The Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision * * Infested by moles and potential defectors for more than twelve of its * first fifteen years, NSA managed the distinction of not only becoming * the most secretive and mo |