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From: Pubkeybreaker on 21 Apr 2008 21:06 and Brian Duffy, 1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9 * * The drug war never had a stronger supporter than President George Bush. * * He showered the nation's drug warriors with money---nearly tripling the * overall anti-narcotics budget from $4.3 billion in 1988 to $11.9 billion * in 1992. * * The results were disappointing. * * After four years there was more cocaine on the streets than ever. * Naturally, it was also cheaper than ever. * * The overall crime rate was unchanged too. * * Inside Main Justice, such numbers are depressing. To those outside the law * enforcement community, it might have seemed an ironic, even heretical * notion, but to many of 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 Fi
From: Pubkeybreaker on 21 Apr 2008 22:17 * William Safire, the conservative New York Times columnist with libertarian * leanings, was appalled, asking if there wasn't anyone in the government * who remembered how the FBI played the game in the bad old days? * * "To the applause of voters fearful of terrorism," Safire wrote, "the pro- * activists declare their intention to prevent crime. This would be followed * by surveillance of suspect groups by using new technology, the infiltra- * tion of political movements deemed radical or violence prone; and the * stretching of guidelines put in place 20 years ago to restrain yesterday's * zealots." Fear, loathing, hysteria, and a massive misdirection of resources: * At about the same time that the FBI agent was knocking on Mrs. Bernard's * door, the bureau had 21,000 allegations of savings and loan fraud it was * unable to investigate, and at least 2,400 inactive financial crime inves- * tigations awaiting consideration. In the San Diego area, for example, * lack of available agents meant the FBI would not even consider investi- * gating bank fraud cases unless they involved losses of at least one * million dollars. ****************************************************************************** War #5 - Hackers --- -- ------- o Secret Service: Harassment of 2600 o Secret Service: Vile Persecution of Ed Cummings o Secret Service: Harassment of Steve Jackson Games * The New York Times, CyberTimes, June 20, 1997 * * Pan
From: quasi on 21 Apr 2008 22:41 DIA - U.S. Drug Interdiction Agency (older) FBI - U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation BATF - U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms UKUSA - pronounced 'you-koo-za' - a secret wartime treaty that says member nations can spy on each others population without warrants or limits, and that this can be shared with the spied-on country's SIGINT agency. PGP - Free and unbreakable encryption, available world-wide. CISPES - Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador "Ultra-secret" agencies: NSA - U.S. National Security Agency GCHQ - British Government Communications Headquarters CSE - Canada's Communications Security Establishment DSD - Australian Defense Signals Directorate GCSB - New Zealand's Government Communications Security Bureau ****************************************************************************** Main() ---- Using mainly publicly available material, here is my documentation of: o Part 1: Massive Domestic Spying via NSA ECHELON This is highly detailed documentation of NSA spying. This spying is illegal, massive, and domestic.
From: quasi on 21 Apr 2008 22:52 --- -- ----- * The New York Times * * December 7 1995. A&E Investigative Reports "Seized by the Law" draws * attention to a recent embellishment of the criminal law that permits * Federal agents and the state and local police to confiscate cash and * property on the suspicion that their owners are involved in drug * trafficking. * * Just suspicion. * * No arrest or indictment, much less conviction, is required. The Dark Ages in America. * And the fact that most of the proceeds stay with * the police may be a temptation to confiscation. Naw, that would never happen. ---- Fear, loathing, suspicion, unlimited police powers...welcome to America... * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 * * As he had done many times before, African-American Willie Jones was about * to board an American airlines flight to Houston to buy flowers and shrubs. * He was a second-generation family florist and on February 27, 1991 he was * carrying $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,
From: quasi on 21 Apr 2008 21:30
4.7 murders per 100,000 people * * Amazing as it may seem that a leading law enforcement official might * try to buttress his cases through the selective use of statistics, that * was hardly the end of it. * * When the FBI director selected the years to illuminate his thesis for the * National Press Club, he compared a year when the nation's homicide rate * was at one of its *all-time lowest* points to that of a year when the rate * was near its *all-time high*. [extended discussion of homicides followed] * * Such selective use of statistics is dishonest. * * It is impossible to know what was going through Louis Freeh's mind as he * delivered his distorted, exaggerated and fundamentally flawed crime speech * to the National Press Club. * * We do know however, that for many decades, law enforcement officials * across the nation have advanced their careers and promoted their * political agendas by chanting the same Mantra of the Scary Numbers. Louis Freeh: "The polls prove people are fed up with crime" This book contains a DEVASTATING accounting of the manipulation of people's perception of crime rates. [not shown!] Fear, loathing, and somehow the public clamoring for a Police State. * Police chiefs, prosecutors, judges, FBI directors and the politicians who * supported their cause have long waved the bloody crime flag to rally the * public to their various causes. * * During the twenty-year period that presidents from Nixon to Clinton were * agitating the public a |