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From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 21:23 it to the same top category as heroin and LSD, 'Schedule I Substances'. Even cocaine is only Schedule II. Late 1996 / early 1997, several states, including California, passed laws via citizen initiative ballots that legalized marijuana if a doctor prescribes it. Usually for nausea or weight loss from chemotherapy or AIDS. A massive Federal and State Drug War hysteria campaign failed to stop people approving it. * The New York Times, Oct 3, 1996, San Francisco * "Skirmish in Anti-Drug War: California vs. 'Doonesbury'", by Tim Golden * * There a drug wars, and there are drug wars... * * Marching bravely into the cultural swamp where Dan Quayle once bogged * down in combat with the television single mother Murphy Brown, * California's Attorney General, Dan Lungren, has taken his fight * against the medical use of marijuana to Zonker Harris, the laid-back * hero of the comic strip 'Doonesbury'. Like the former Vice President, * Mr. Lungren appears to have underestimated his adversaries' capacity * to make fun of him. * [snip] * * Mr. Lungren raided a marijuana outlet after two years in which the * United States Attorney in San Francisco and the city's District * Attorney had both declined to prosecute it. * [snip] * / "Zonker": I can't believe anyone would shut down the Cannabis Buyers' / Club! Who ordered the bust? / Other character responds: "Dan Lungren, the State Attorney General. / Local cops wouldn't do it, so they had to bring in the Republicans." * * "No one should be laughing," said Mr. Lungren, asking newspapers in * the state to censor the rest of th
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:31 to silence me," said Jim Hogshire, "and : to some extent it did a good job of that because for the next year or more : I was wrapped up with this case." : : Two years before his arrest he had written a book called "Opium for the : Masses" (Loompanics Unlimited, 1994) which includes how-to sections on : producing and ingesting opium. : : His writings were the sole reason [stated in this article here] for the : search warrant. : : He faced federal drug charges for possessing flowers. : : In their fresh form, the illegal poppies, known as Papaver Somniferum, : grace gardens all over the country with vibrant colors. Bouquets of the : prohibited poppies can sometimes be found in supermarkets. : : Mr. Hogshire was arrested for possession of dried poppy pods which can be : bought in most any florist's shop or craft store. : : The charges have finally been dropped. : : Prosecution is so rare his story made the cover of Harper's magazine. : : One police officer told him: : : "With what you write, weren't you expecting this?" * "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs, 1996, ISBN 1-884302-02-5 * * Individuals who have been arrested and their property seized will then be * transported with other dissidents to a Federal Prison Transfer Center for * proper "categorization" and "disposition." * * Entire families are to be disposed of in this manner. Final disposition, * when deemed appropriate, will be made at a regional Processing and * Detention Center. Other countries have called these 'concentration camps' * and 'gulags'. * * At these "Centers," methods and techniques of interrogation, torture and * final disposition honed and developed by the CIA and Special Forces Green * Berets through
From: JSH on 18 Apr 2008 20:07 FBI : was authorized, in the event of an ill-defined emergency, to summarily : arrest up to 20,000 persons and place them in national security detention : camps. : : A watch list of those who should be detained---along with detailed : information about what they looked like, where they lived and their : place of employment---was developed by the FBI. : : The decision as to who was placed on the watch list was left to the : FBI and included many whose only crime was to openly criticize some : aspect of American life. : : The detention plan did not require the FBI to obtain individual arrest : warrants and it would have denied detainees the right to appeal their : arrest in federal court. The President was Harry Truman, the FBI Director was J. Edgar Hoover. The country was the United States of America. Truman was the President who created the National Security Agency. Question: Why is his seven-page NSA directive is still secret to this day? Answer: It violates the Constitution of the United States of America. At the same time Hoover was in power and developed the "Security Portfolio" and attacked civil rights movements in the United States, a Black Panther named Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt was framed for a murder he didn't commit by the FBI. : Court TV : : Judge Dickey overturned the conviction last month, ruling that : prosecutors failed to tell the defense that the key witness against : Pratt was an infiltrator and paid informant for the FBI and police. : *** This primary "witness" had claimed Pratt confessed!!! *** * "Former Black Panther Leader is Freed on Bail" * By B. Drummond Ayres, Jr., The New York Times, June 11 1997 * * After 27 years in prison, Elmer Pratt was freed on $25,00
From: bitsplit on 18 Apr 2008 21:04 38 basis/include/AppSessionMessage.h 292 basis/include/AppUI.h 71 basis/include/Customization.h [large snip here] 131 basis/include/Date.h 77 basis/include/DateEntryPad.h 54 basis/include/DateIOField.h 33 basis/include/DefaultButton.h 63 basis/include/DocLayout.h 1144 basis/lib/base/basis_ios.cc 398 basis/lib/base/AmountFormat.cc 157 basis/lib/base/TemplateField.cc 136 basis/lib/base/AssocArry.cc 18184 total His last day was XXXXXX 1996. His new job and responsibilities: > Project management of a new XXXXX project is what I'll be > doing at XXXXX XXXXX (a bank from <country> ranked in the top 20). > I'll start by consulting ($$/hour plus 1.5*OT) for TTTTTTTT. > After that we talk about them invoking their right-to-hire clause. > I might make VP. The project is great inasmuch as I'm starting it > from scratch; it's not only not burdened by legacy code, but I > can even pick the hardware. I'm "up" but also worried about the > responsibility. > > The application is X risk analysis and XX for investors. It connects > to a front end for a trading system. > > I put a lot of working into talking my new boss into me giving the > normal 2 weeks notice at Salomon (they wanted me yesterday), because > my current project is nearing a critical point. But my Salomon boss > said just do a handoff now and leave. > > I am upset. I was trying to be professional. Boy, email is one cheap detective! Anyway, that seems the full scoop. ---guy ********** end excerpt from 'Corruption at Salomon Brothers' ********** Notice my 'Boy, email is one cheap detective!' observation; Legal had talked about hiring a private investigator prior to that. The "perp" not only named his new job, he gave his full job description, pay rates, a
From: Tim Smith on 18 Apr 2008 18:33
Texas and Oregon ALREADY require fingerprints for licenses. > California is already fingerprinting drivers, and many places outside of > the US are creating identity cards with barcoded information. > > Also, AmSouth and Compass Banks will soon introduce fingerprinting of > people who cash checks and have no account with their bank. This is > now standard practice in Texas and will soon be nation-wide. * "Fingerprints Used to Cut Welfare Fraud", by Sandra Blakeslee * The New York Times, April 6 1992 * * Los Angelos is the first county in the nation to install an automatic * fingerprint-identification system for ferreting out welfare cheats. * * "We can deliver services faster too," said Eddy Tanaka, director of the * Los Angelos County Department of Public Social Services. * * "We will not share the fingerprints with the police or any other government * agency." * * Intrigued by Los Angelos County's program, the New York Legislature * authorized an identical fingerprint |