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From: Pubkeybreaker on 21 Apr 2008 23:23 * year, Sandia said. The process will take a four-year cycle to supply all * Alabama drivers with the new license as they renew. The Sandia system * is replacing an 11 year-old system. Alabama is switching to the new * license production system to improve the quality and timeliness of * drivers' license issuance, and to reduce counterfeit procurement and * fraudulent alteration. * * The state's system, operated by the Alabama Department of Public Safety * (DPS), will consist of more than 100 issue sites and a central * production facility housing Sandia's in-line, one-pass production * printers. The new system, scheduled to be in operation next year, is * expected to enhance the quality of support services for law enforcement * agencies. * * "In addition to providing increased driver license security, the new * license system will help insure more efficient and reliable customer * service," said Col. L.N. Hagan, DPS director. The new system offers * faster production of the license as applicants receive them within one * week, rather than three to four weeks required by the current system. * * The new system also features simplicity of operation at work stations * and enhanced on-line help for probate ju
From: Pubkeybreaker on 21 Apr 2008 21:08 involved. ---- Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge. Persisting, a BATF informant persuaded Weaver, a DECORATED GREEN BERET VETERAN of Vietnam with NO CRIMINAL RECORD, to sell him two shotguns, but insisted that Weaver saw the barrels off one-quarter inch short of the legal limit. Monitoring him, they knew Mr. Weaver needed money for his family. Why did the government target Mr. Weaver? Blackmail. One of the FBI's favorite activities is spying on political organizations. They wanted to use him to infiltrate white supremacists groups for the government. Or face prosecution. When Weaver refused, he was indicted on guns charges. He was sent two conflicting court appearance dates. He became paranoid the Government was out to get him, so he didn't show up. [He was eventually acquitted of all charges except the original not showing up in court!] To justify a militaristic retaliation, BATF agents lied to the U.S. attorney's office. BATF agents claimed that Weaver had a criminal record and that he was a suspect in several bank robberies. Both charges were fabrications, even according to BATF Director John Magaw, who admitted the accusations were "inexcusable" in testimony before Congress. THREE HUNDRED armed federal agents conducted a siege of the Weavers' mountain home, first killing Randy Weaver's dog, then his son, then his wife. A law enforcement wilding. * The CATO Institute, "Congressional Testimony", May 24, 1995 * http://www.cato.org * * The Marshals, wearing camouflage and carrying silenced machine guns, did * not identify themselves or their purpose, but they did shoot one of the * dogs. Sammy Weaver, fourteen-years-old, returned fire, and was promptly * shot by a Marshal. * * Sammy turned and fled, with his nearly severed arm flopping as he ran. * * Sammy was promptly shot dead in the back. An FBI sniper, Lon T. Horiuchi
From: Pubkeybreaker on 21 Apr 2008 22:20 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 the FBI says has been in exist- * ence for years, librarians have been asked to report suspicious-looking * people who might be Soviet spies, to be alert to which books and periodi- * cals such people read or check out and to disclose the names and informa- * tion about book borrowers suspected of using libraries for espionage * purposes or recruiting library users for espionage [what???]. * * FBI Director William S. Sessions said the bureau would continue to contact * public, university and corporate libraries in the New York City area about * "hostile intelligence service activities at libraries." [fuh-gedda-boutit] Of course, they know all the books you've ever bought using credit cards. Fear, loathing, hysteria, and a loosening of the rules for "national security": * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 * * After the Oklahoma City bombing, Deputy Attorney General Jamie Goreli
From: Pubkeybreaker on 21 Apr 2008 21:37 have required it for all users of a * National Job Training and Employment database. * * George Orwell, in 1984, his classic novel of Big Brother and a coming * totalitarian state, observed that very few people are awake and alert * to the machinations and manipulations of the controllers. Thus, the * people, as a whole, fall victim to a colossal conspiracy out of ignorance * and because of apathy and denial of reality: * * The people could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of * reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was * demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public * events to notice what was happening. [ By Walter Cronkite: "Orwell's '1984'---Nearing?", NYT, June 5 1983 In our world, where a Vietnam village can be destroyed so it can be saved; where the President names the latest thing in nuclear missiles "Peacekeeper"---in such a world, can the Orwellian vision be very far away? Big Brother's ears have plugs in them right now (or they are, by law, suppose
From: Pubkeybreaker on 21 Apr 2008 21:16
for driver's licenses... But it is still a violation of the minimization requirement of the Privacy Act of 1974. Biometric data on citizens is FAR BEYOND any reason government can give. Notice how no citizens in any state ever got to vote on such an important escalation of personal data collection by the government. Indeed, it seems to be accomplished in the quietest way possible, giving citizens the least amount of opportunity to choose their fate. Odd, since tax-payer paid-for government services is what gives them the power. But elected representatives will do, you say? Did you hear any of them mention it during campaigning? Did Alabama elected officials even mention it with their press release of a new driver's license, despite that being the plan? No. What does that tell you? We need a cabinet-level Privacy Commission, with the power to intervene nationwide. Power to protect us little people from fanatical personal data collection. We are losing it piece by piece. Who would have thought the United States would collect fingerprints from all citizens? Collect biometric information from everyone... law enforcement's Evil Holy Grail. * "U.S. Has Plan to Broaden Availability te |