From: Phil Carmody on
him, pointed a gun at his head, called him a derogatory
* name and warned, "If you move, I'll shoot you." The handyman
* said he had been unlawfully stopped, harassed and interrogated
* by the police eight times since he started working there.
*
* Another plaintiff, the co-captain of the Beverly Hills High School
* football team, asserted that he had been pulled over at least 20
* times in the last 18 months.
*
* The Mayor and Police Chief were named in the suit because they had
* ignored numerous written and oral complaints of mistreatment.

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Think Rodney King was an isolated event?

* The New York Times, May 13, 1997, snipped
* "Police Chief Says Officers Violated Policy in Beating", by Kevin Sack
*
* Atlanta's police chief concedes the videotaped beating of an African-
* American shows it violated departmental rules.
*
* Timmie Sinclair, 27, is a black Atlantan. Five officers surrounded him
* and one Sergeant "repeatedly bludgeoned with a baton" Mr. Sinclair while
* he was being handcuffed, and at least once while the other officers held
* him down on the ground.
*
* 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.

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Recently on ABC Primetime live, they wired for video and sound a nice car
owned by the father of the black son who drov


From: Christian Siebert on
years. And that's not even figuring ECHELON.

Just try leaving the hospital without naming your baby. The government
wants 'it' to be issued a social security number too, otherwise no tax
deducting it. Gosh, a birth certificate won't do, will it?

* Source #1: HBO Undercover Special Report
* Source #2: Computer Security Journal Vol IV #1,
* "Peeping Sam: Uncle Is Watching Us", by George B. Trubow
*
* "We started getting letters from the Federal Government's Selective
* Service System, telling us that our dog had to register." the father
* explained. The letters became quite demanding.
*
* Shown are three children and their dog. One of the boys had an ice cream
* cake birthday special at a popular national ice cream parlor chain, which
* asks for your social security number to get the special.
*
* They were working with the government to spot unregistered children.
*
* The children had gone back in a week later and used their dog's name
* to get the special again.
*
* Since it was not t


From: tchow on
o Part 6: Louis Freeh & The Creeping Police State

Basically, Louis Freeh is the anti-Christ leading us to Hell.
National ID cards are effectively being implemented without
needing to issue cards. The U.S. Government is trying to
monitor all phone calls and banking transactions, and have
all equipment worldwide designed for their monitoring. They
are bent on controlling the world to the point of there being
no crime left on the planet. Of course, democracy destroyed
is the direct result.


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This publication advocates five major items:

o Passage of ProCode/SAFE legislation, allowing U.S. companies to
export unlimited strength cryptography, free from "Key Recovery".
Key Recovery means messages are no longer a secret, because the
Government has screwed around with it.

o Killing the CALEA legislation, which orders all communications
equipment be DESIGNED so the Government can spy on it.

o Dismantling domestic ECHELON, the Government listening in on our
domestic phone calls.

o A Cabinet-level U.S. Privacy Commissi


From: Risto Lankinen on
identification of fill
* materials in sealed containers.

But no, massive monitoring of people suspected of no crime is the
appropriate response.

They were just warming us up for the CALEA telephone monitoring bill.

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Here is part of the story on why we let trucks full of cocaine and
heroin just roll right into the United States.

* "Diminished U.S. Role Below Border Plays Into Traffickers' Hands"
*
* By Molly Moore and John Ward Anderson
* Washington Post Foreign Service
* Sunday, September 8 1996; Page A01
* The Washington Post
*
* Due to their new 'Mexicanization policy':
* Mexico became the main gateway into the United States for illegal
* narcotics, with the amount of cocaine making the journey climbing to
* an estimated 210 tons last year.
*
* Mexico's drug arrests plunged nearly 65 percent, from 27,369 the year
* before the policy changes to 9,728 last year, according to data that
* the Mexican government supplied to the State Department.
*
* Cocaine seizures in Mexico were cut in half, dropping from more than
* 50 tons in 1993 to slightly more than 24 tons in each of the last two
* years -- the smallest amounts since 1988, Mexican government figures
* show.
*
* The GAO report charges that Mexico's greatest problem is, in
* fact, the "widespread, endemic corruption" throughout its law
* enforcement agencies. Earlier this month, in an indictment of his own
* department, Attorney General Lozano fired 737 members of his federal
* police force -- 17 percent of his entire corps -- saying they did not
* have "the ethic


From: Pubkeybreaker on
no description of what to do for any given variation of
this report, so...

When a team of people sent their resumes to a business, including that
of a Managing Director, some discreet calls were made to see if we were
losing a whole department. (No, it was for a joint business deal.)

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* The Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision, p459
*
* When searching for derogatory references to President Richard M. Nixon
* [ "I had no prior knowledge of the Watergate break-in," said President
* Nixon looking straight at the camera on a national television address,
* "It's that simple." ], for example, technicians would have to program
* a variety of keywords, such as "Tricky Dicky." This, according to the
* former NSA G Group chief, would be converted to 'ky----ky."
*
* Should this selection process still produce a considerable amount of
* traffic, the data could then undergo 'secondary testing', such as the
* addition of the words "New York," to reduce the number.


You may wonder what keywords excel at picking up "resume condition" traffic.

You want the truth?

YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH

Just kidding. That was Jack Nickelson speaking for the NSA.

Here is how it is done:

o Select all traffic.

o Exclude commonplace traffic, such as mailing lists.
example: FROM <firewalls(a)greatcircle.com>
This is done by selecting keywords that match against the routing
information in the email header: who it came from, who it is going to.
The phone analogy is recipient and originating phone numbers.
This cuts down on "noise". "Secret Power" gave examples of this too.

o Search all traffic for a set of keywords that are found (tuned) over
time to have the best