From: Matthew T. Russotto on
to all the latest equipment now so high,
that they have had to come out in the open and lie lie lie to get CALEA.

We need CALEA to prevent crime and catch terrorists like a hole in the head.


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At the same time Stafford Beer was trying to get a grip on the Chilean
economy, the U.S. was trying to destroy it.

* http://ursula.blythe.org/NameBase
*
* Uribe, Armando. The Black Book of American Intervention in Chile. Boston:
* Beacon Press, 1975. 163 pages. Translated from Spanish by Jonathan Casart.
*
* Chile is a well-documented example of covert destabilization by the U.S.,
* and NameBase includes several books on the subject. The CIA had been
* passing out money since 1964 to influence elections in Chile, but Salvador
* Allende won the presidency in 1970 anyway.
*
* Under orders from Nixon and Kissinger, a broad economic blockade was then
* launched in conjunction with U.S. multinationals (ITT, Kennecott, Anaconda)
* and banks (Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank).
*
* According to notes taken by CIA director Richard Helms at a 1970 meeting
* in the Oval Office, his orders were to
*
* "make the economy scream."
*
* Street demonstrations and various dirty tricks were paid for by the CIA
* over the next three years to increase pressure.

The cybernetic project died when Allende was assassinated in late 1973.


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Conclusions
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We have been subject to an imperfect feedback loop form of government
for several decades now. Politicians constantly beating the drums of
war ('1984': The Song of Hate), causing the erroneous public perception
crime is out of control.

Anyone remember the scare ads that got crooke


From: JSH on
women with jazz and marijuana,
# claiming that 50% of all violent crime by blacks and Latino immigrants
# has been traced directly to marijuana.


* "Phantom Numbers Haunt the War on Drugs"
* By Christopher S. Wren, The New York Times, April 20, 1997
*
* Politicians are said to use statistics the way drunks use lampposts: for
* support rather then illumination. The aphorism seems more apt for the War
* on Drugs, which abounds with statistical lampposts that shed little light
* on the nation's preoccupation with illegal substances.
*
* When sensibly vague estimates based on the little that is known won't
* suffice, law enforcement officials oblige constituents with numbers that
* one police officer characterized as "P.F.A.," or "pulled from the air."
*
* When the State Department's annual survey said Mexico's annual marijuana
* production in 1989 was 30,200 tons, it was PFA.
*
* Assuming half the production makes it into the U.S., half the 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 ton


From: JSH on
MANY BILLIONS of dollars of funding per year and no accountability.

Called UKUSA.


* "A Spy Agency Admits Accumulating $4 Billion in Secret Money"
* By Tim Weiner, The New York Times, May 16, 1996
*
* In a complete collapse of accountability, NRO, the Government agency that
* builds spy satellites, accumulated about $4 billion in uncounted secret
* money. [First they said it was $1 billion, then $2 billion...]
*
* The new head of the agency, John Nelson, said that the secret agency had
* undergone "a fundamental financial meltdown."
*
* The agency's secrecy made Congressional oversite next to impossible,
* intelligence officials said.
*
* Just two years previously, the NRO constructed a "stealth building".
* It was a $300 million new headquarters. The agency had explained that
* happened because they treated the construction of the building as a
* covert operation.

A covert operation against whom?

The Pentagon was in operational charge of the NRO.

The NRO is a sister agency to the NSA.


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Key Recovery Means No Cryptography
--- -------- ----- -- ------------

It's one way or the other.

Zero or One.

We either have uncrackable crypto, or crackable crypto, meaning no crypto.

# "White House Challenged on Data Security"
# By John Markoff, The New York Times, May 31,


From: Gage on
of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,
* the FBI advocated BIOMETRIC CAPTURE FOR ALL NEWBORN BABIES AND
* SIMULTANEOUSLY THEIR MOTHERS.


******************************************************************************


Worldwide Banking and Phone Monitoring
--------- ------- --- ----- ----------

Newspeak: "It's never been abused, and we are doing this to protect you."

* Dorothy "DoubleThink" Denning, "Encryption and Law Enforcement", 2/21/1994
*
* Although there is no evidence of widespread abuse of wiretaps by law
* enforcement officials, Key Escrow will effectively thwart any
* potential abuse, thereby providing greater protection from illegal
* government wiretaps than currently exists.


It is astonishing the extent the U.S. government feels its citizens and
the world's population must by spied upon.

The U.S. Government wants all communication systems in the world to be
designed so they can spy on it.

The U.S. Government wants to know every banking transaction in the world
in real-time.

What does it look like to you?

* "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs, 1996, ISBN 1-884302-02-5
*
* [The joint Australian/NSA building contains:]
* A sm


From: Rotwang on
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, April 23, 1995
*
* Responding to a question about whether Washington should review its
* readiness to combat domestic terrorism [the first arrest in the OKC
* bombing had just been made], the President sought to reassure the
* public that the Government was already making great efforts to do so.
*
* Groping for a specific illustration, he appeared to think twice about
* describing the incident, but then went ahead.
*
* There's been a lot of activity that the public does not see, most of
* which I should not comment on, but let me give you one specific example,"
* he said.
*
* "There was one incident with which I was INTIMATELY FAMILIAR, which
* involved a quick and secret deployment of a major United States effort
* of F.B.I.," and emergency, health and Army forces.
*
* "Because we had A TIP OF A POSSIBLE TERRORIST INCIDENT which, thank
* goodness, did not materialize," the President added.
*
* However, the F.