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From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:26 permanent nationwide.] ---- NYC Mayor and former federal prosecutor Rudolph Giuliani has made some emphatic statements proposing $100 dollar bills be eliminated to combat drug dealers. Perhaps all cash will be next. ] * On November 11, 1993, apparently tipped off by a friendly bank clerk who * thought Alvarez's redeposits looked like "structuring", the Internal * Revenue Service seized $88,315.76, the life savings of a hard-working * immigrant. * * The government, of course, had no evidence that Alvarez was using the * money for improper purposes, or was in any way connected with drugs or * drug-dealing, for the simple reason that he wasn't doing any such thing. * * In this case, under the astonishing provisions of our nation's asset * forfeiture laws, the mere administrative finding that Alvarez had * "structured" his transactions was enough to justify the seizure. [ We have Federal laws against terminating someone's benefits based solely (automatically by computer) on "computer matching" hits of possible ineligibility. But NOTHING to protect us from this nearly IDENTICAL use of computer data to terminate "benefits". ] * To the government, the question of whether the money had been legally * earned or was the product of a nefarious drug sale was of no concern. * * Maybe worse than the nebulous structuring provision is a feature of the * sa
From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 22:00 That is how she interprets the language of the bill. Wow. And I thought Ed Meese was a bad Attorney General. Meese had written to companies like the owners of 7-11 and told them selling Playboy and Penthouse could get them Federal obscenity charges. That was his attempt to get around the First Amendment. 10/3/96 NYT: Because of computers, a bill was passed that changes the definition of child pornography to include generated images that do not involve actual children. Thought crime. Law enforcement child pornography hysteria. Sturges incident: attacked by the FBI Thought Police Squad. Massive corrupt use of governmental law enforcement authority to enforce mere political correctness. Due to its size: by definition not an aberration. It cost one million dollars of our tax money. ---- On June 19, 1997, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain introduced his own bill (Senator Kerrey co-sponsor) which parrots the Clinton administration's position and forced it to replace the Pro-Code bill. He banged the Drum of War against Child Pornography. * http:
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 21:41 : * the law in a serious way. Any private conversation that doesn't : * involve criminality should be private" : * : * In other words, as the debate was framed by Bayse, the right to : * privacy is at least partly contingent on a determination by an FBI : * agent or clerk that the conversations they already intercepted and : * understood do not involve a crime. Do you want to live in a real live Big Brother world? It is not at all about trying to keep up with technology in order to wiretap. The phone companies 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 v
From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 21:09 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. The indoctrination concluded with Holmes signing the two page indoctrination form, which refers to New Zealand laws for punishing infringements (in the Crimes Act) but which originates primarily in UKUSA regulations. Equivalent forms must be signed by staff throughout the UKUSA alliance. P44- In the middle of 1994 Holmes got his first overseas posting - and a prestigious one at that. He is on a three-year posting to the center of the UKUSA alliance, the enormous NSA headquarters at Fort George G. Meade. This posting was the first ever by a GCSB analyst to the NSA. Before he left New Zealand his daily work, like that of all analysts, revolved entirely around that most striking manifestation of GCSB's links with the NSA: the ECHELON Dictionary system. Each morning the signals intelligence analysts in New Zealand log on at their computer terminals and enter the Dictionary system, just as their equivalents do in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. What follows is a precise description of how the system works, the first time it has been publicly described. [Buy the book for full details] Aft
From: Matthew T. Russotto on 18 Apr 2008 21:50
CALEA will give the FBI "legal" domestic listening posts. : The Washington Post Magazine, June 23 1996 : "Government surveillance, terrorism and the U.S. Constitution" : from Main Justice, by Jim McGee and Brian Duffy, 1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9 : : The FBI is growing in tandem with the NSA. With the help of the National : Security Agency, the U.S. eavesdropping bureaucracy that spans the globe, : the FBI operates a super-secret facility in New York code-named Megahut : that is linked to the other FBI listening posts. : : After the OKC bombing, Janet Reno and Louis Freeh asked Congress to raise : to 3,000 the number of FBI agents working counter-intelligence and counter- : terrorism. : : With the new legislation, the funding for just the FBI's counter-intelli- : gence/terror goals is now ONE BILLION DOLLARS a year, and their activities : will rise to a LEVEL HIGHER THAN AT ANY TIME DURING THE COLD WAR. 1984 means a constant State of War. Here's a new war: "cyberwar". # "Head of CIA Plans Center To Protect Federal Computers" # By Tim Weiner, The New York Times, 6/26/96 # # John Deutch, Director of the CIA, is building a "cyberwar" center in the NSA. # # Mr. Deutch said cyberwar could become a 21st-century national security threat # second only to nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. # # "The electron," Mr. Deutch warned, "is the ultimate precision-guided weapon." Haven't I heard bad dialogue like this on Mystery Science Theater 3000? It is simply another in an endless series of requests for funding, for misuse of our tax money. ---- Louis Freeh's FBI: * "FBI Scare Tactics", By Richard Moran, The New York Times, 1996 * * When the FBI reported that serious crime declined for t |