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From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 21:56 a black man with a criminal record. # # A month later, Mr. Stuart was implicated by his brother in the murder, # and he committed suicide by jumping into Boston Harbor. # # An elderly Methodist minister, described as a quiet and dignified man # who has for decades comforted and counseled people throughout the # Caribbean and struggled against drug abuse on the islands, died Friday, # when a SWAT team burst into his apartment unannounced, looking for drugs. # # They misread a floor plan by "an informer." # # The same Drug Control Unit was investigated for a death in 1988, and it # was revealed that their officers routinely FABRICATED INFORMERS to obtain # search warrants. # # The agents chased the 75-year-old minister to his room, then broke through # his bedroom door...he became so frightened while being handcuffed that he # began vomiting and collapsed. He died a few minutes later. # # The Reverand Accelynne Williams was a scholar who could read Greek and # Hebrew. The New York Times, CyberTimes, April 29, 1997 The Police and Civil Liberties A unanimous Supreme Court affirmed the importance of civil liberties yesterday when it ruled against exempting ALL drug raids from the Fourth Amendment's requirement that police executing a search warrant knock and announce their presence before entering someone's home or hotel room. The Court's unanimity in the case is a special embarrassment for the Clinton Administration, which arg
From: fortune.bruce on 18 Apr 2008 20:25 knows no limits. * The United States subsequently arranged for a Mexican doctor involved * in a murder, Humberto Alvarez Machain, to be kidnapped from Mexico and * spirited to the United States to stand trial. * * The abduction outraged the Mexican government. * * When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of the kidnapping in * June 1992, Mexico temporarily suspended its participation in joint * anti-narcotics operations with the United States. * * Then Mexico adopted its Mexicanization policy a year later [keep American * drug enforcement out of Mexico], and the State Department said that the * abduction was directly to blame for Mexico's increased concerns about * national sovereignty. Of course, that's no reason not to check our U.S. borders. We never learn: # "CIA Suspect's Prosperous Clan Reacts Angrily to Arrest in Pakistan" # By Kenneth J. Cooper, The Washington Post, June 22, 1997 ...combined with... # "Spiriting Off Fugitive By U.S. Irks Pakistanis" # By John F. Burns, The New York Times, June 23, 1997 # # Mir Aimal Kansi, who was wanted for killing two CIA employees and wounding # three others in an attack outside their Langley headquarters, was # transported from Pakistan within hours of his arrest. # # Leaders of minor political parties in the capital have taken up the issue, # criticizing the national government for ignoring its own extradition laws # and permitting a foreign country to haul off a Pakistani citizen without # giving him a court hearing as provided by law. # # "Of course, we are angry," said a video store owner. # # Pakistani newspapers have described the swift transfer as a loss for the # nation's prestige and the rule of law. The Lahore News said, "any person # wh
From: Rotwang on 18 Apr 2008 21:24 was a system whereby every single factory in the country, * contained within the nationalized social economy, could be in * communication with a computer. * * The intention of Cybernet was to make computer power available to the * workers' committees in every factory. * * How could this be done? * * The basic idea was that crucial indices of performance in every plant * should be transmitted daily to the computers, where they would be * processed and examined for any kind of important signal that they * contained. If there was any sort of warning implied by these data, * then an alerting signal would be sent back to the managers of the * plant concerned. What are 'arousal filter' and 'homeostatic loops'? The scope of Cybernetics is, in a word, awesome. A cyberneticist can talk from atoms to cells to nervous systems, to management of a company, country, world, solar system. Whether an organism is mechanical, biological or social, it requires a feedback mechanism to survive. Your nervous system does some amazing things to fight off infections. It creates custom anti-bodies to attack foreign microbes. Custom living cells created through a system of feedback to spot that there was a problem, analysis of the problem, action on the problem. This is a life-sustaining feedback 'homeostatic' loop. [bracket comments are mine] When Stafford Beer says Cyberstride needed to filter 'homeostatic loops': * "The Human Use of Human Beings - Cybernetics and Society" * by Norbert Wiener, 1954, pre-ISBN
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 19:56 protection against unlawful searches. * * Indeed, they cornered the Republicans into saying that the measure * containing the Fourth Amendment would gut the seizure bill. Just what is it going to take to restore the U.S. Constitution? Unlimited unregulated cryptography legislation is a beginning baby-step. Otherwise it might take another civil war. The NSA will not let go quietly. Sound over-the-top? Wait until you understand the massive surveillance system that our government has put in place, just how powerful it is, and how they've used it repeatedly to control lawful peaceful political protest. ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** Part 1: Massive Domestic Spying via NSA ECHELON ---- - ------- -------- ------ --- --- ------- o The NSA Admits o Secret Court o Wild Conspiracy Theory o Over the Top o BAM-BAM-BAM o Australian ECHELON Spotted o New Zealand: Unhappy Campers People are correct
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:43
* The Pattersons said that they began hearing interference on their * telephone, including voices, after the visit by the FBI agent and that * about 50 pieces of mail Todd received from foreign governments from 1983 * to 1988 showed signs of tampering. * * But a Justice Department lawyer told the court, "Just because they heard * funny noises on their telephone and some foreign mail was damaged doesn't * mean we should start rummaging through agency files and asking if there * was a wiretap. The FBI insists on keeping a file ("but we 'closed' it") on him even though they should have seen he was not a threat to national security. Fear, loathing, hysteria, and spying on our reading habits: The FBI also had their counter-intelligence unit start a "Library Awareness Program", which meant they wanted to know everyone who checked out certain books. What a bunch of peeping tommy guns! * "LIBRARY SPY HUNT IS CURBED BY FBI", By Herbert Mitgang, NYT, 11/11/1988 * * Bowing to pressure from a House subcommittee and continued resistance from * librarians, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has set limits on its * program seeking the help of librarians in "detecting Soviet spies." * * Under the Library Awareness Program. which |