From: Pubkeybreaker on
This information structuring is why we don't just splash to the
ground in a muddy puddle of our constituent chemicals.

We are matter structured by information.

"We are starshine" ---Woodstock

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Whew!

Cybernetics is VERY heavy-duty stuff.

It can yield the ULTIMATE in control.

It can be applied to controlling people in a society.

Cybernetic control of society.

The 'arousal filter' Stafford Beer and his cyberneticians
set up was effectively keyword monitoring of traffic.

When you use keywords to either select or exclude traffic, each step
is a 'filter' step. If you make it past all the filters, a human then
reviews the results to see if it calls for action. "arousal filter"

Mr. Beer was trying to help the economy by massive real-time monitoring
of factories and companies and banks, and thus help the people of Chile.

* "Brain of the Firm", Stafford Beer, 1986, ISBN 0 471 27687 1
*
* Twenty-four hours a day, messages were flowing in non-stop. This instantly
* posed an enormous problem in handling the inundation of information.
*
* Two of the senior cyberneticians organized a filtration system.

The feedb


From: quasi on
under the skin and an
* identification number. The chip would transmit a signal that would bounce
* off a satellite and be picked up by police on a computer-screen map."
*
* The syringe implantable biochip
*
* Which brings us to what is undoubtedly the most fearsome potential threat
* in the surveillance arsenal -- one that should raise the hairs on the neck
* of even the most trusting techno-child of the nineties. It is the
* implantable biochip transponder.
*
* When implanted under the skin of the subject, the biochip will emit low
* frequency FM radio waves that can travel great distances e.g., some miles
* up into space to an orbiting satellite. The transmission would provide
* information on the exact location of the "chipee": his latitude, longitude
* and elevation to within a few feet anywhere on the planet.
*
* The April 2nd, 1989 Marin Independent Journal discussed the theory of
* biochip implants in humans. Tim Willard, the then- executive officer of
* the World Future Society and managing editor of its monthly magazine.
*
* The Futurist, noted that with a little refinement, the microchip could be
* used in a number of human applications. He stated: "Conceivably, a number
* could be assigned at birth and go with a person throughout life."
*
* The article continued: "Most likely, he added, it woud be implanted on
* the back of the right or left hand for convenience, `so that it would
* be easy to scan....It could be used as a universal identification card
* that would replace credit cards, passports, that sort of thing. At the
* checkout stand at a supermarket, you woul


From: Risto Lankinen on
:
: In high school, Mary Lawton had won a debate about the meaning of the
: U.S. Constitution.

Nor was it an aberration: the 1980s joined the 1960s and 1970s with yet
another massive use of this Orwellian technology for political purposes.

And these are when they were caught.

It's currently used for the "Drug War", a highly political endeavor.

Of course, once CISPES was designated as a terrorist organization...

: The Washington Post Magazine, June 23 1996
:
* The CISPES investigation expanded. The FBI conducted a MASSIVE NATIONWIDE
* investigation that put under surveillance ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED THIRTY
* liberal groups, many of them religious or political organizations.

By definition, ECHELON surveillance of 1,330 groups is NOT an "aberration".

The state of Congressional oversight (and punishment of FISA violations)
is horrifying.

Not only did the NSA/FBI use FISA in a criminal manner, they then cross-
referenced through everyone ever connecting to CISPES - no matter how
distant - to achieve massive domestic spying for political purposes.

To crush peaceful lawful political protest.

In America.

For the President.

And they did it WITHOUT getting 1,330 FISA warrants.

Question: How do you spy on 1,330 domestic groups?

Answer: Electronically, using an existing domestic surveillance network.

Just push the button marked 'monitor'.

Your phone calls, bank transactions, credit card usage, health/
credit/utility/law-enforcement/TRW/IRS records, your w


From: Matthew T. Russotto on
IMPUNITY. OTHER THAN SOME KIND
OF KEY RECOVERY SYSTEM, THERE IS NO TECHNICAL SOLUTION.

* And this false diagnosis is on purpose.
*
* When Louis Freeh told the National Press Club that homicides have almost
* tripled since 1960, his audience had to have been disturbed. Freeh's
* picture of a grim, seemingly inevitable upward surge in what has always
* been considered among the most heinous crimes is indeed a frightening
* prospect.
*
* But once again, like a car salesman trying to make his monthly quota,
* Freeh pushes too hard. First of all, his claim that there are now
* nearly three times more homicides than in 1960 ignored the important
* fact that the nation's population grew substantially during that period.
*
* When this factor is taken into account, the picture still looks bad, but
* not quite as bad as Freeh suggested. While the *numbers* of murders did
* indeed almost triple, the murder *rate* barely doubled:
*
* In 1992, 10.4 murders per 100,000 people
* In 1960, 4.7 murders p


From: Risto Lankinen on
listen to?

For when they took the time to get a court authorization:

* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* ...in 1993, it appears in that year alone the government agents
* listened to something like 810,000 conversations.

Of course, the NSA has stated it needs no warrants and doesn't even consider
the legality of purely domestic wiretaps.

* The Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision
*
* P229: "There's your smoking pistol right here." Watters says it is tied
* into the local telephone company circuits, which are interconnected with
* the national microwave telephone system owned by AT&T. Other specialists
* testified to the same thing: purely domestic intercepts.

I would say a MINIMUM of 100 million purely domestic U.S. conversations
are run through NSA keyword monitoring each year.


And who is listening to all our court authorized conversations?

* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* Under a little-noticed section of a 1986 law, Congress dropped the
* requirement that only the FBI's high-priced Special Agents could
* listen to the tapes. The FBI now hires low-cost clerks for what must
* be extremely tedious work.

An army of low-cost clerks are listening to our private conversations?

I feel sick.

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Conclusion: Louis Freeh is a manipulative liar.

Louis Freeh is a Scary Man with the morals of a styrofoam cup.


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* steps, Senator Biden with Senator Simpson in tow proclaims: "What's wrong
* with a National ID Ca