From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:01 secret. It is done in secret. When you lift up the phone, you don't hear a message warning you that the NSA is monitoring it. But they are. "Anytime, anywhere" is their motto. ***************************************************************************** On Being Monitored -- ----- --------- On being black. African-Americans are a heavily monitored group. * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 * * Even while Lyndon Johnson fought for far-reaching civil rights * legislation and spoke out against racism and government eavesdropping, * the Johnson White House created a special squad of FBI agents to place * wiretaps and bugs on most of the African Americans who came to Atlantic * City during the 1964 Democratic convention. ---- A while back, I saw a black ex-police officer take a camera with him in a car in LA at night. This was somewhere around the time of the Rodney King beating. I was watching C-SPAN. Some sort of police officers association meeting... It was amazing how often he was pulled over, and the cheesy reasons the officers gave. "Your tail light was broken" He got out with the camera still on, showed the tail light was
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:00 underground smash-up at the Union Square Station in NYC. Even if he had a drug test before his shift, he still would have had the accident. Non-invasive (eye-hand co-ordination and other) tests would work better 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 prosecu
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 21:56 * Medicaid, Welfare]. The solution to screening people...is to have * a National [Identification] Center computerized so that local law * enforcement offices can instantly access information from all states. * * In other words, all states would supply information to the National * [Identification] Center, and the Center will have a positive * identification system which will identify any applicant... * * That Congressman Neal Smith's unconstitutional "final solution" to gun * control and other "crime" issues---a National Identification Center--- * is not just a proposal, but a looming reality, was proven by this startling * admission: * * We have invested $392 million so far in such a Center, about a four * hour drive from Washington, D.C., and we hope to have it completed * and equipped in about two years... We hope all states will be in the * system by 1998 and will supply information on a continuing basis... * * Meanwhile, we will continue to establish the National Identification * Center for this AND OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT PURPOSES. * * It should be noted that, since my revelations in 1994, Congressman Neal * Smith and his office refuse to answer inquiries about the National * Identification Center. * * However, in a recent article in Federal Computer Week, a Washington, D.C. * magazine for federal employees, basically admitted the existence of this * Center and its activities. * * In his article, "Federal Agencies Link,
From: tchow on 18 Apr 2008 18:58 it all gets into the country. It's as if it has its own special unmonitored border crossing, where it can drive truck after truck through. And what happens when you bang the drum of hysteria long enough? Bizarre distortions in our social fabric: widespread fear, loathing and suspicion. And: censorship. Tom Petty wins MTV's highest video award, but they always censored the word 'joint' in the video! MTV, the spirit of Rock'N'Roll...not. Maybe they're just doing what they can: they played the word BACKWORDS in the video...a British band was on trial in the U.S. a few years ago charged with putting backward-playing lyrics on their album (acquitted). But it's okay if Jay Leno shows a Clinton look-alike smoking a bong. Drug addicts can't get clean needles, furthering the AIDS epidemic. # "AIDS VIRUS FEEDS ON FEDERAL NEEDLE POLICY" # By Steven Wishnia, High Times Magazine, July 1997 # # No federal action is planned to end the ban on federal funding for needle # exchange programs by the Clinton Administration, despite mounting scienti- # fic evidence that shooting up with unclean needles is the second most # common risk b
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:12
into account # emerging technologies like software that determines if two facial images # belong to the same person, even from composite sketches. Yep. Even using photographs. More on this later. ---- And what does a National ID Card with a Universal Biometric identifier mean? A number (that is: scanned fingerprint or iris) that cannot be faked. Unprecedented possibilities for control of the presumed guilty population. You will be forced to verify yourself for an endlessly ever-growing list of items. * Dr. Linda Thompson: * YOUR STATE IS NEXT AND DON'T THINK OTHERWISE. Sandia and other defense * contractors, without a war elsewhere, are OUT OF WORK, so they're * creating job security for themselves by helping fascists wage war in the * United States on us and our rights!! * * Georgia, 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 |