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From: Chip Eastham on 18 Apr 2008 20:18 whether it's a cigarette, whatever the delivery * system is. It's poison [at least it's not paraquat!], and it's got to stop * in America. My view is that drugs are wrong, you shouldn't use drugs, you * shouldn't smoke cigarettes---let's just throw them all out at the same * time." * * Mr. Dole later qualified his remarks: "I didn't say anything about * cigarettes." [what???] Proposition 215 passed into law. It was a major repudiation of Drug War hysteria. A major repudiation of the Schedule I Substances classification of marijuana. DEA: "Drugs in this schedule are those that have no accepted medical use in the United States and have a high abuse potential." And just why did the citizens of California have to pass a ballot to approve medical use of marijuana? * "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1 * * From 1979 to 1989 (when the law lapsed), California had a law that was * supposed to help people get cannabis for medical reasons. Patric Mayers, * with his testimony and personal lobbying, was instrumental in getting the * California Legislature to pass the state law allowing cannabis for medical * use. Mayer's life was saved in 1976 when his doctors il
From: Tim Smith on 18 Apr 2008 20:34 for publication approval, and when they censored something... Bingo. Because of the Catch-22 situation, the NSA gave up trying to censor many books, since it can be used to confirm questions they would otherwise have refused to answer. The other books referenced within are also suggested reading. I have sometimes edited for brevity the excerpts, especially my newspaper clippings of stories flying by. If I have any news story specifics wrong or if you have more details, please email me. Later versions of this document can be searched for at dejanews.com. Or, you can email me, Subject: Requesting Cryptography Manifesto. ---- ---- Here comes a large 'reasoned polemic': ---- This is a U.S.-centric message, but keep reading even if you are not in the U.S.; British, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand citizens are also directly affected. This message is about ECHELON, which is an unbelievably huge world-wide spying apparatus, including the domestic phone calls of many countries. United States citizens' phone calls are being monitored in a dragnet fashion not even George Orwell could have imagined. This was all paid for by U.S. taxpayers. Built in secret. Not debated. The CALEA legislation is a shameful takes-us-into-the-abyss domestic spy bill. It is for the FBI to simultaneously monitor HUGE amounts of our phone calls. And when the judiciary found out about NSA monitoring U.S. citizens' overseas telephone calls without a warrant: they approved the loss of our Fourth Amendment rights. Giving Presidential Directives the same force of law as the Constitution. Congress has lost it too. * The New York Times, undated * * The House is not expected to vote on the search-and-seizure bill until * at least Wednesday. But tonight the Republicans defeated a Democratic * amendment that SIMPLY REITERATED THE WORDS OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT OF * THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. * * The vote was 303 to 121. *
From: Pubkeybreaker on 18 Apr 2008 19:04 * Federal prisons, the Sentencing Project study said, though * blacks are only 14 percent of the nation's population. * * Of a total voting age population of 10.4 million black men nationwide, * an estimated 1.46 million have lost the right to vote [as a result]. Wow. This highly focused monitoring of blacks should be way illegal. Blacks make up 14% of our U.S. population. Blacks make up 51% of our prison population. Never forget what it means to be heavily monitored: there is no place to hide. Noone is an angel. Are you? What's in store next for black Americans? # "This Modern World", by Tom Tomorrow [political cartoon, in NYT] # # Biff: You know why we should eliminate welfare, Wanda? # It's been A COMPLETE FAILURE! # After all -- there ARE STILL POOR PEOPLE! # # Wanda: Hey, good thinking Biff! # And while we're at it, why don't we eliminate the FIRE DEPARTMENT? # After all -- there ARE STILL FIRES! # And talk about FAILURES -- what about the MEDICAL INDUSTRY? # Why, there are still SICK PEOPLE everywhere you look! # # Wanda: And why don't we shut down the POLICE DEPARTMENT as well -- # since there are STILL CRIMINALS! # For that matter, why have any laws at all? # People still BREAK them ALL THE TIME. # # Biff: Look, it made sense when Rush said it. # # Wanda: I'm sure it did, sweetheart. # Say, shouldn't his show be cancelled? # After all -- there are STILL LIBERALS... * "Can Unemployment Fall Further Without Setting Off Inflation?" * By Richard W. Stevenson, The New York Times, September 7, 1996 * * Six percent unemployment of the able-bodied population is the point where * the Federal Reserve
From: Marshall on 18 Apr 2008 20:31 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. ****************************************************************************** Conclusions ----------- 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 crooked N
From: Phil Carmody on 18 Apr 2008 21:24
--- whereby it sucks into its system the maximum amount of telecommunications and then filters it through an enormous screen of "trigger words" --- analysts end up reviewing telephone calls, telegrams, and telex messages to and from thousands of innocent persons having little or nothing to do with the actual focus of the effort. And when a person made the watch list, any conversations EVEN MENTIONING that person are scooped up. P333: By now, the names of U.S. citizens on NSA's many watch lists for fighting the drug war had grown from the hundreds into the thousands. Even when Noel Gayler took over as Director of the NSA in August 1969, NSA personnel waited a year or so before briefing even him on the NSA watch list program. P381-382: NSA Director General Allen testified to Congress that there is no statute that prevents the NSA from interception of domestic communications. Asked whether he was concerned about the legality of expanding greatly its targeting of American citizens, the NSA replied: "Legality? That particular aspect didn't enter into the discussions." P459: Innocent Americans - people neither targeted nor watch-listed - are scooped up into the NSA's giant vacuum cleaner. This happens with considerable frequency because of the way in which names and phrases are jam-packed into the computers. Even though N |