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From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 22:03 " * * Alvarez was a landscape contractor, cautious and frugal, who saved his * money. Several years ago, however, Alvarez began listening to the * speeches of Ross Perot, especially Perot's exaggerated [beat the drum * of fear] warnings that the nation's savings and loan institutions * were about to collapse. As a reult of mounting anxiety generated by * the Texas businessman, Alvarez decided to move the nest egg from his * savings and loan. * * He placed some of the money in a regular bank and hid the balance in * small caches around the house. * * When the sky did not fall, when Ross Perot's predictions did not come * true, Alvarez began slowly moving the cash in his house back into a * bank. Partly because of his fear of a possible robbery, he chose to * redeposit his money in relatively small amounts, $5000 or so at a time. * * While Alvarez had come to know Perot's gloomy predictions were off the * mark, he did not know that the federal international government, in its * hysteria about drugs, had persuaded Congress to greatly expand the * government's civil and criminal powers to seize assets of indi
From: quasi on 18 Apr 2008 21:44 books. [snip] # # A free-lance journalist has brought a suit in Federal District Court # charging that when he returned from Nicaragua the Customs Bureau detained # him until FBI agents came and seized his diary and address book. # # The FBI admitted to interviewing more than 100 people who visited # Nicaragua, but said they were acting under Presidential Executive Order. # # Two women have come forward to complain the IRS audited them IMMEDIATELY # AFTER RETURNING FROM NICARAGUA. # # The IRS denied it had anything to do with political views: "One woman has # never earned more than 12,000 a year, and we found that suspicious." FBI director Sessions ended up apologizing BIG TIME on C-SPAN, saying that sort of thing would NEVER happen again. "We have put procedures in place so that that will NEVER happen again". But, after having been granted the special powers of the court by Congress, noone was arrested and tried for this MASSIVE abuse of power, which was granted by Congress in the good faith that the g
From: Christian Siebert on 18 Apr 2008 19:24 the FBI to obtain individual arrest : warrants and it would have denied detainees the right to appeal their : arrest in federal court. The President was Harry Truman, the FBI Director was J. Edgar Hoover. The country was the United States of America. Truman was the President who created the National Security Agency. Question: Why is his seven-page NSA directive is still secret to this day? Answer: It violates the Constitution of the United States of America. At the same time Hoover was in power and developed the "Security Portfolio" and attacked civil rights movements in the United States, a Black Panther named Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt was framed for a murder he didn't commit by the FBI. : Court TV : : Judge Dickey overturned the conviction last month, ruling that : prosecutors failed to tell the defense that the key witness against : Pratt was an infiltrator and paid informant for the FBI and police. : *** This primary "witness" had claimed Pratt confessed!!! *** * "Former Black Panther Leader is Freed on Bail" * By B. Drummond Ayres, Jr., The New York Times, June 11 1997 * * After 27 years in prison, Elmer Pratt was freed on $25,000 bail. * * The prosecutor's chief witness [now deceased], testified Mr Pratt had * confessed to him that he was the killer. * * The prosecutors did not tell
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 20:16 How foolish of her to put her real name and return address on the letter. * "Teen Sues FBI, Wants FBI File Purged", NYT, 11/12/89 * * Todd Patterson, 17, became the object of an FBI investigation when he * wrote to foreign governments as part of a sixth-grade project. He says * he is interested in a Foreign Service career and worries about the * effect the FBI files might have on his chances of obtaining security * clearances. [snip] * * The Pattersons said that they began hearing interference on their * telephone, including voices, after the visit by the FBI agent and that * about 50 pieces of mail Todd received from foreign governments from 1983 * to 1988 showed signs of tampering. * * But a Justice Department lawyer told the court, "Just because they heard * funny noises on their telephone and some foreign mail was damaged doesn't * mean we should start rummaging through agency files and asking if there * was a wiretap. The FBI insists on keeping a file ("but we 'closed' it") on him even though they should have seen he was not a threat to national security. Fear, loathing, hysteria, and spying on our
From: Christian Siebert on 18 Apr 2008 19:43
interest rates. [the * presidential campaigns are in their final stages between Dole and Clinton * at this time] * * The Federal Reserve Board is expected to raise interest rates now that * unemployment has reached 5.1 percent, so that the number of unemployed * people will go up. * * SEVEN MILLION PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY UNEMPLOYED. # Tom Tomorrow # # Since the time in the 1970s when President Nixon ordered a nationwide # salary freeze to combat inflation, the Federal Reserve Board has # manipulated interest rates so that approximately 5 to 6 million people # are purposely kept unemployed at any given time. What??? You mean the government purposely keeps millions and millions and millions of people unemployed at any given time, yet put time limits on welfare? I don't recall hearing that in the public debate. Question: What will poor people who can't get jobs do when their welfare runs out? Keeping in mind that the government purposely keeps approximately 5 to 6 million people unemployed. Answer: Increasing crime, increasing tension and conflict with police departments, some rioting, and politicians banging the Drum of War to take stronger police and monitoring actions. "Law & Order" Stronger police action main |