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From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 19:34 population * between 15 and 40 in this country would have had to smoke a joint a day. * * By 1996 the State Department's annual survey stabilized at a more realistic * 3,400 tons a year. * * However, the State Department's annual survey for 1996 stated Columbia's * cultivation of coca, the raw ingredient for cocaine, jumped 32% over 1995. * * This was deliberate manipulation of the statistics: unlike previous years, * the State Department suddenly stopped figuring in the 55,715 acres that * the Columbian police fumigated with herbicide. * * The number had actually gone down, but President Clinton cited the upswing * to support his Feb. 28 decision to decertify Columbia as helping in the * War on Drugs. Mexico was certified. A majority of citizens in several states have now told the government they are full of hooey. The Drug War is primarily about governmental politics and governmental power. Not about drugs. Can't afford to look soft on crime, or your opposition will stomp y
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:30 and not shockingly subject us to highly intrusive poking. It also doesn't work inasmuch as it has had no affect whatsoever on drugs. * Main Justice, by Jim McGee 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 Finds Mandatory Minimums Cost-Ineffective * ----
From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 20:21 the power of the all-important State. How the philosophy of communism was the rights of the individual were subservient to the needs of the State, as determined by the State. i.e. the antithesis of constitutional democracy Ironically, it was the United States that built the ultimate Orwellian surveillance mechanism. There was no public discussion about it. And used sham laws: Executive Orders and Congressional legislation. To create a secret agency and a secret sham court. Used repeatedly to control lawful domestic political protest. The Soviet Union and China we were told to fear. ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** Part 2: On Monitoring and Being Monitored ---- - -- ---------- --- ----- --------- o On Monitoring - Driver's Seat -
From: Tim Little on 18 Apr 2008 21:24 information from noise, then act on the information. Target accuracy for precision high altitude bombing requires a complex feedback mechanism to control deployment (pre-GPS WW II). * My dad: * * Norden bombsights revolutionized aerial bombing. * * They were so accurate we stopped putting explosives * in the bombs and just aimed for people. Communications, Command and Control. The above wasn't really the best example of OR, but I did get to quote my dad again. ;-) * "The Future of War - Power, Technology, and American World Dominance in * the 21st Century", by George & Meredith Friedman, 1996, ISBN 0-517-70403-X * * A discipline named operations research had begun to develop prior to World * War II that aspired to use quantitative methodologies to develop a science * of management. [snip] * * For the physicists and mathematicians of the Rand Corporation, the * intuitions of common sense were utterly insufficient as a guide to * management. Mathematical precision was necessary, and operations * research promised to supply that precision. [snip] * * It had not jumped from the management
From: Phil Carmody on 18 Apr 2008 21:06
Nothing. Not a damn thing. Cybernetic control of society. Some people have taken a stand. They are fighting back. * "Police in California Fight Citizen Complaints" * By Tim Golden, The New York Times, 8/15/1996 * * With a quiet but forceful lobbying campaign, officers' unions and their * supporters are pressing for new state laws that would remove unsubstant- * iated complaints from police personnel files and limit the time in which * a citizen's complaint must be investigated. * * Only 4% of complaints are upheld by review boards, and 70% are ruled * inconclusive. Over time, some officers build up quite a bulk of complaints * in their personnel file. Police chiefs oppose the legislations because it * could undermine early warning systems for spotting bad officers. * * In some states, police unions have begun filing libel suits against those * who file police complaints. * * The police officers assert that paper trails on complaints can ruin * law-enforcement careers. Police are the same bunch of law enforcement personnel who keep extensive non-criminal notes and allegations on citizenry. In fact, NYC Police have TWICE been caught using a form marked "for unofficial notes, not to be kept with the normal records". In other words, when the defendant tries to use discovery to get details of the police case against them, so they can analyze what happened, these "offline" notes are how the police withhold the information. You know, like Geronimo Pratt's primary prosecution witness was a paid government informer. And the FBI won't delete the file of the kid who aspires to be in our F |