From: JSH on
to all your Congressional representatives.

Send them a copy of any/all of this manifesto with a cover letter
stating the specific questions you demand be answered.

Write to your local papers, radio stations, state supreme courts (make them
aware of fingerprinting drivers is a violation of the 1974 Privacy Act).

Write to all your state representatives.

Take copies of this manifesto and go to your neighbors and ask they consider
doing the same.

Contact all your friends.

: The New York Times, 2/10/87
: "Is This America?", by Anthony Lewis
:
: "When we speak out", she said, "that's our protection."
:
: She still believes in America.

Network. "Creep" back at the bastards who are destroying America!

Be persistent.

It is almost too late.

---guy(a)panix.com



It must always be remembered that crime statistics are highly
inflammatory---an explosive fuel that powers the nation's debate
over a large number of important social issues---and that FBI
Director Louis Freeh today is the leading official shoveling
the fuel into the blazing firebox.

---David Burnham


Indeed, the Scary Man has been whispering Nightmare Stories in the ear of
President Clinton to control him...

* "Threat to Disneyland, Mentioned by Clinton, Is Termed a Hoax."
* By Stephen Labaton, The New York Times,


From: Rotwang on
if it was unusually high, and then flew over his house at
* 2:00 a.m. in a helicopter equipped with an infrared device. The
* infrared equipment showed a white light emanating from Joe's roof,
* indicating the escape of a large amount of heat, while the other roof-
* tops were black.
*
* Joe was arrested and took his case to trial. The jury found Joe
* guilty of cultivating marijuana, but not guilty of possessing it with
* intent to distribute.

I said before the Drug War was highly politicized.

It's a matter of politics over matter when the government's Drug War elevates
marijuana above its true pharmacological controlled substances classification;
it's a matter of hysteria to escalate 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 fa


From: JSH on
to be up and
available 24 hours a day for access by the FBI's National Crime
Information Center (NCIC). This is the one used by all local police
in their cars when they pull you over.
]
* Originally the government told us that the law requiring us to get a
* driver's licenses was to "protect" us, to make sure people could drive.
*
* Now we know better. For example, as long as the government calls you a
* "deadbeat dad," it can "revoke" your driver's license. What does this
* have to do with making the roads safe? Nothing. Licensing isn't about
* "protecting" us from anything, it is about CONTROLLING us. Our
* "servants" have become dictators.
*
* In a FREE COUNTRY, the public servants do not dictate to the people.
* Folks, we ARE NOT FREE.
*
* Remember the lie about Social Security numbers? They were supposedly
* "for our good," too, just to insure that we were signed up in the social
* security program for our retirement in years to come, right? The old
* cards said, "Not for identification purposes." Now, you can't get a
* BANK ACCOUNT without one, and your money and financial transactions are
* reported to goons and thugs at the IRS who are happy to steal money from
* grandmothers. In fact, the IRS can get your bank records WITHOUT YOUR
* PERMISSION.
[
: ftp ftp.fourmilab.ch, cd /pub/kelvin/documents, get unica


From: Matthew T. Russotto on
they had formed a company that would
* make products to help people prove their identities through electronic
* fingerprinting technology.
*
* The first product of the company, Veridicom Inc., will be a postage-size
* fingerprint sensor used to retrieve information, authorize purchases or
* allow entry into restricted areas.
*
* The postage-size sensor will measure the ridges and valleys on the skin
* when a finger is pressed against a silicon chip, and then check the
* measurements against the user's profile.

Not big at all, is it?

# "Faster, More Accurate Fingerprint Matching"
# By Andrea Adelson, The New York Times, October 11 1992
#
# "We think there will be a revolution in fingerprinting," said David F.
# Nemecek, a deputy for the FBI's Information Service Division.
#
# The next step is for manufacturers to make a single-finger mobile scanner
# for use in patrol cars. Some FBI cars are expected to get them next year.

$ "The Body As Password", By Ann Davis, Wired Magazine, July 1997
$
$ In October 1995, the Federal Highway Administration awarded a $400,000
$ contract to San Jose State University's College of Engineering to develop
$ standards for a "biometric identifier" on commercial driver's licenses and
$ for use in a centralized national database.

A centralized national database of biometric information for cross-state
driver's licenses, and all individual state driver's license fingerprints
available via the FBI's NCIC.

Once most people are fingerprinted, a cheap (say $50) fingerprint scanner that
attaches a timestamp and government digital signature will be sold for allowing
Internet access to "adult" locations---chat rooms, USENET, WWW sites---and it
will be mandatory. The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court said as soon
as the "Internet driver's license" is technically feasible, CDA becomes legal.

"Such technology requires Internet us


From: Matthew T. Russotto on
further
: * legislation might be required.
: *
: * The obvious solution: a federal law prohibiting the use of any
: * cryptographic device that did not provide government access.
: *
: * Freeh's hints that the government might have to outlaw certain kinds
: * of coding devices gradually became more explicit. "The drug cartels
: * are buying sophisticated communications equipment", he told Congress.
: * "Unless the encryption issue is RESOLVED soon, criminal conversations
: * over the telephone and other communications devices will become
: * indecipherable by law enforcement. This, as much as any issue,
: * jeopardizes the public safety and national security of this country."

Louis Freeh, banging the Drums of War.


It's official:

* http://epic.org/crypto/ban/fbi_dox/impact_text.gif
*
* SECRET FBI report
*
* NEED FOR A NATIONAL POLICY
*
* A national policy embodied in legislation is needed which insures
* that cryptography use in the United States should be forced to be
* crackable by law enforcement, so such communications can be monitored
* with real-time decryption.
*
* All cryptography that cannot meet this standard should be prohibited.



The U.S. asked the OECD to agree to internationally required Key Recovery.

* What Is The OECD
*
* The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, based in
* Paris, France, is a unique forum permitting governments of the
* industrialized democracies to study and formulate the best policies
* possible in all economic and social spheres.

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