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From: Tim Smith on 18 Apr 2008 20:46 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 * same group of laws that places the burden of proof on the victim. In * other words, rather than the government having to prove that Alvarez * had violated the statute before it seized his money, Alvarez had to * prove that he was innocent of any wrongdoing before he could get it * back. Further adding to the profound unfairness of the seizure process * is an incredible provision that anyone who wants to challenge an action, * who wants his day in court, must file a bond with the government of * either $5000 or 10 percent of the value of the seized property. Alvarez * had to borrow the money from his credit cards. * * The Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathon R. Howden, flooded by financial * statements by Alvarez's defense attorney (who was a retired career * criminal investigator with the IRS), admitted he would not take the * case to court. That step took seven months. * * However, Howden made an astonishing attempt to keep half of the $88,000 * the government had seized from Alvarez's bank account. Howden offered * Alvarez two options: settle the matter by agreeing to a 50 percent * forfeiture, or the money will be returned to the IRS, who might keep * it. Alvarez's lawyer called his bluff and got the money back after * a full year had elapsed. Loss of a full
From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 20:05 banks and major companies/industries in Chile. In 1971, Stafford Beer began a project for Allende to put the Chilean economy under cybernetic control. As far as I know, this is the only documented instance of someone attempting this; deploying cybernetic controls nationwide. * "Brain of the Firm", Stafford Beer, 1986, ISBN 0 471 27687 1 * * All of this involved a massive and continuing exercise in (what I should * call, in the original World War II sense) operational research. That is * exactly what it was: research by highly qualified interdisciplinary teams, * into operations, namely production companies, with the prospect of * discovering models and sets of measures. * * We needed a group who understood the operational research techniques of * data capture that were needed for project Cybersyn. As a Briton I knew * whom I wanted --- they were a group of consultants within the London * branch of the international firm of Arthur Anderson and Co. * * Project Cybercyn objective: To install a preliminary system of information * and regulation for the industrial economy that will demonstrate the main * features of cybernetic management and begin to help in the task of actual * decision-making by March 1st 1972. Under the circumstances of a nationalized economy, it was a positive thing. It was a massive application of cybernetic feedback to help each industry and each factory keep track of itself through a central location. All communications flowed through the central location. This is what Stafford Beer refers to as 'Brain of the Firm'. It was located in Santiago, Chile. For NSA, it is Fort Meade in Maryland, USA. * "Brain of the Firm", Stafford Beer, 1986, ISBN 0 471 27687 1 * * Project Cybercyn consisted of four major t
From: tchow on 18 Apr 2008 18:10 creators of the Internet), the FBI facility was * created to allow the bureau "to use computer-aided design, engineering * and manufacturing of tools and equipment (software and firmware * respectively) to design, simulate, and fabricate integrated circuits, * printed circuit boards, electronic components, packages, systems and * concealments in a quick turnaround cost-effective manner." * * Among the facilities advantages are speed "through the use of laser * restructuring, high-density interconnect, and reverse milling capability," * and a capability "to produce an integrated microphone ('microphone on a * chip') in a single design/fabrication process." * * For many years, the FBI had been placing secret microphones on street- * lamps, telephone poles, parking meters and empty automobiles parked near * locations where its targets sometimes strolled. Such an outdoor array * of surveillance devices planted near the Mulberry Street headquarters * of John Gotti, for example, was an important weapon on the FBI's long * and eventually successful investigation of one of New York City's most * arrogant Mafia bosses. Jeez, that sounds like plenty of electronic surveillance spy-power to me! How about you? The FBI has since come up with a briefcase with a 'targetable array of microphones' to pick up conversations
From: Chip Eastham on 18 Apr 2008 20:43 the case, * to protect the girl. Parents charged with child pornography for taking photos of their children. Thought Police. ---- We netizens are rightfully paranoid of the American government, because it has no scruples. What the FBI did to photographer Jock Sturges was criminal. Excerpt from 'TO: A Journal of Poetry, Prose + the Visual Arts', Summer 1992: * Hounded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a bizarre witch-hunt * at an expense to the taxpayers of over a million dollars, Sturges had * survived an attempt to destroy his life and his work and was now * countersuing the agency. * * Recapitulated briefly, Sturges, who's based in San Francisco, has for * years been photographing young people whose families practice nudity. * * He's done so with his subjects' permission, as well as that of their * parents, who often appear in the photographs along with their offspring. * Rejecting the use of standard model releases, with their blanket * permissions, the photographer chooses instead to request approval * from his subjects for each and every exhibition and publication * of each and every image --- an exemplary scrupulousness. * * Then, in 1990, alerted to the "questionable" content of some of his * images by a local processing lab, the FBI arrested Joe Semien, Sturge's * assistant, invaded the photographer's San Francisco studio without a * warrant, and seized all his prints, negatives, records, and equipment; * thereafter, without arresting Sturges, or even charging him with * anything, they refused to return his property and did everything * possible to destroy him personally and professionally by branding * him a child pornographer On September 15, 1991, The New York Tim
From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 19:24
my husband go. * * They also said they knew I only had $78 in my bank account, hinting * that they could change that. * * A fourth man came into the house. * * I will never forget his eyes. * * He took out a small Palistinian flag and burned it. * * Then they took me out, back into the car. They stopped about two miles * from my house. They said 'Listen Babe, when you least expect us, expect * us. WE WILL ALWAYS BE AROUND.' I looked at my watch. It was 8:30 AM. : : Could that have happened in America? Readers will no doubt find it hard : to believe, as I did. : : So did she. : : She was too frightened to talk at first. But now she is ready to testify, : if her lawyers ask her to. : : Her friend was one of eight Palistinians arrested in Los Angelos who were : taken at gunpoint in their home at 7 in the morning, then shackled in arm : and leg irons. : : Each of them, too, was shown photographs and offered inducements to : testify against someone. : : There was no evidence whatever that they had done or contemplated any : act of violence. : : The |