From: Marshall on
consortia aware of their duties. The government will
* also have to create new regulations for international cooperation
* so that the necessary surveillance will be able to operate.


# "Made in America?", Wired Magazine, June 1997
#
# Japan's Justice Ministry is rallying support for an anticrime bill that
# would give police extensive wiretap powers---a major departure given the
# country's constitutional guarantees for "secrecy of any means of communi-
# cations." According to activist Toshimaru Ogura, Japanese cops are
# modeling their proposals on US wiretap law, specifically the 1994
# Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA). The NSA helped
# sculpt CALEA's language, which begs the question: Is Japan's wiretap bill
# another one of the NSA's covert operations?


* "The End of Ordinary Money, Part I", by J. Orlin Grabbe
* http://www.aci.net/kalliste
*
* The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is the government
* corporation


From: Marshall on
quite demanding.
*
* Shown are three children and their dog. One of the boys had an ice cream
* cake birthday special at a popular national ice cream parlor chain, which
* asks for your social security number to get the special.
*
* They were working with the government to spot unregistered children.
*
* The children had gone back in a week later and used their dog's name
* to get the special again.
*
* Since it was not the government collecting the social security numbers,
* participants weren't told they were registering for the draft.
*
* Said one of the surprised children: "How cheesy of our government!"


NSA's ECHELON goes beyond any system Americans would EVER approve.

That's why we weren't asked.

If the full scope of ECHELON had been made public and debated
in Congress and passed: civil war would have broken out.

The CALEA bill was suddenly brought to a quick
vote on the last day of Congress' session.

Congress should be ashamed of itself.

Have you NO IDEA what is at stake?

We ARE at a crossroads.

Passage of pro-crypto legislation is an important first step for backing
away from the abyss of having every single aspect of our lives --- including
our telephone calls --- monitored by computer for the UKUSA International
Secret Government.

Even the Prime Minister of New Zealand wasn't told about it.

Even the director of the NSA wasn't told about it, until after a year
[ Puzzle Palace, p333 ] of UKUSA deciding if he was "one of them".

And, as documented in the books I've been referencing, when the director
of the NSA knows about it and testifies before Congress, UKUSA not only
lies about t


From: Tim Smith on
requiring fingerprinting and barcoding on Alabama
* drivers licenses -- which Sandia specializes in -- just like they are
* doing in Communist China!
*
* Your papers, Comrade! (When can we expect the police with machine
* guns to examine our cards to protect us from counterfeiters?)
*
* The press release only mentions that Alabama gave a contract to produce a
* "holographic" driver's license to Sandia Labs.
*
* It mentions nothing about fingerprints, computers or barcodes. Where does
* anyone use a "counterfeit driver's license"? If Driver's Licenses were what
* they are claimed to be (to "protect" us from unsafe drivers), instead of
* for IDENTIFICATION by the government, there would be no value in having
* a fake, would there? Are we being "protected" or is the government just
* making sure it can fully identify and control its slaves?
*
* ************ V *****************
* DEATH TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER
* **********************************
* Dr. Linda Th


From: Chip Eastham on
persecution.

He had been taken away from his mother because of Fitzpatrick.

NBC Newschannel 4 NY, on the death of Betty Shabazz:

"Police say the boy was upset he couldn't live with his mother."


Kunstler forced the Government to drop its case...

* "...Shabazz...", The New York Times, June 8 1997
*
* Prosecutors dropped the case when it became
* clear she had NOT committed to the crime.

...and instead settle for her getting professional counseling.

Mainly to recover from what Mr. Fitzpatrick and the FBI did to her.

Mr. Fitzpatrick was paid $45,000 of our tax money for his services.

Mr. Fitzpatrick is a cocaine addict.

Remember, it's the 1990s now: same as it ever was.



American citizens are just pawns to be manipulated
by the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

Dirt.

Or worse.


* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* At 4:00 A.M. on December 4, 1969, for example, a special fourteen-man
* squad of Chicago police officers raided a house used by the Black
* Panther Party. During the shoot-first-ask-questions-later raid, police
* fired at least ninety-eight rounds into the apartment. Illinois chairman
* Fred Hampton and Peoria chairman Mark Clark were killed.
*
* An FBI informant gave the bureau specific information about where
* Hampton was probably sleeping, and a detailed floor plan of the house
* which the special squad used during its raid.
*
* Thirteen years later, in November 19


From: quasi on
#
# The American Textile Partnership, a research consortium linked to the U.S.
# Department of Energy, is sponsoring a research called "Embedded Electronic
# Fingerprint" to develop a transponder the size of a grain of wheat that
# could be attached to a garment until the owner threw it out.
#
# Heretofor, this application has been considered only for security purposes.
#
# The definition of "security", according to the textile industry magazine
# 'Bobbin', has been expanded to include "anti-counterfeit" tracking after
# purchase. [What???]
#
# Could a machine-readable tag on a person's clothing serve many of the same
# tracking purposes an one embedded in the body?

----


Sure, government can give debate reasons for requiring fingerprinting
for driver's licenses...

But it is still a violation of the minimization requirement of the Privacy
Act of 1974.

Biometric data on citizens is FAR BEYOND any reason government can give.

Notice how no citizens in any state ever got to vote on such an important
escalation of personal data collection by the government.

Indeed, it seems to be accomplished in the quietest way possible, giving
citizens the least amount of opportunity to choose their fate.

Odd, since tax-payer paid-for government services is what gives them the power.

But elected representatives will do, you say?

Did you hear any of them mention it during campaigning?

Did Alabama elected officials even mention it with their press
release of a new driver's license, despite that being the plan?

No.

What does that tell you?

We need a cabinet-level Privac