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From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 19:39 fourth year * in a row, it was still making the statistics sound worse than they * actually were. * * That's because Government tends to exaggerate the violent nature of crime. * * According to the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, less * than a third of the 6.6 million violent crimes committed in the U.S in 1992 * resulted in injury; most of the victims suffered only minor cuts, scratches * or bruises. * * About 20 percent of them needed minor medical care; 7 percent went to * emergency rooms. Only 1 percent of the victims were hurt seriously enough * to require hospitalization. * * The incongruity arises because of the way the law defines violent crime. * * For example, aggravated assault is defined as either intentionally causing * serious bodily harm or using a weapon to threaten or attempt to cause * bodily harm. * * Fortunately, most aggravated assault victims fall into the last category; * most victims are never touched by the offender. * * The same held true for armed robbery. Only 3 percent required medical * treatment. Less than half of armed robbers displayed guns, and those * who did were LESS LIKELY TO INJURE VICTIMS than robbers who didn't show * guns. * * The FBI has a tendency to worry people unnecessarily, even when it has * good news. For example, last year the FBI announced that 53 percent of * all homicides were by strangers, and that for the first time all Americans * had a
From: Risto Lankinen on 18 Apr 2008 19:33 -Kerrey bill is completely flawed. Unlimited strength crypto * has been available for years worldwide over the Internet and from some * companies. Terrorists and other criminals already have it. * * The genie is out of the bottle. * * The only thing the McCain-Kerrey bill does is cripple American companies' * abilities to compete worldwide." As FBI director Louis Freeh said: "We are at a crossroads." Indeed we are. Netscape has had to ink a deal with a German crypto company. Sun has arranged a third-party deal in Europe too. RSA has announced similar plans. It is estimated the U.S. crypto companies and employees will lose four billion dollars by the year 2000. But as you know, there is a larger concern too. The level of our nakedness before the government's massive surveillance systems. * Privacy: Experience, Understanding, Expression * by Orlo Strunk, Jr., 1982, ISBN 0-8191-2688-8 * * I make decisions and commitments on the basis of my own inner subjective * feelings --- not regarding popular opinion or the requirements of social * role very much. I tend to keep the nature of my personal relationships * very private --- I don't bring my family life, love life, etc into public * view. * * When I invite others into my home for social occasions, it means an offer * of great intimacy to me and is not a casual event to be taken lightly. My * possessions and living area are private to me --- that is, very personal. * I feel offended when I find someone has been handling them or looking at * them
From: Tim Smith on 18 Apr 2008 19:05 of privacy from the Government. That the dangers of it protecting someone involved in these activities outweighs right to privacy of everyone else in the United States. That our communications must be compromised by Government "Key Recovery". What a bunch of hooey. ****************************************************************************** War #1 - Drugs --- -- ----- * The New York Times * * December 7 1995. A&E Investigative Reports "Seized by the Law" draws * attention to a recent embellishment of the criminal law that permits * Federal agents and the state and local police to confiscate cash and * property on the suspicion that their owners are involved in drug * trafficking. * * Just suspicion. * * No arrest or indictment, much less conviction, is required. The Dark Ages in America. * And the fact that most of the proceeds stay with * the police may be a temptation to confiscation. Naw, that would never happen. ---- Fear, loathing, suspicion, unlimited police powers...welcome to America... * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996 * * As he had done many times before, African-American Willie Jones was about * to board an American airlines flight to Houston to buy flowers and shrubs. * He was a second-generation family florist and on February 27, 1991 he was * carrying $
From: Marshall on 18 Apr 2008 20:01 with the national microwave telephone system owned by AT&T. Other specialists testified to the same thing: purely domestic intercepts. P223: "Technical know-how" for microwave communications intercept was aided by William Baker, head of AT&T's Bell Laboratories and at the same time an important member of the very secret NSA Scientific Advisory Board. After all, it was Bell Labs under Baker that, to a great extent, developed and perfected the very system that the NSA hoped to penetrate. [ "The Rise of the Computer State", David Burnham, 1984, ISBN 0-394-72375-9 "A Chilling Account of the Computer's Threat to Society" FYI note: this document's opening quote is from this book. P122: For the last three decades the NSA has been a frequent and secret participant in regulatory matters before the Federal Communications Commission, where important decisions are made that directly affect the structure of the telephone company, the use of radio airwaves and the operation of communication satellites. ] P317: 1962. Now, for the first time, NSA had begun turning its massive ear inward toward its own citizens. With no laws or legislative charter to block its path, the ear continued to turn. P319: The Secret Service, the CIA, the FBI and the DIA submitted entries for the NSA's watch list. The names on the various watch lists ranged from members of radical political groups to celebrities to ordinary citizens involved in protest against their government. Included were such well-known figures as Jane Fonda, Joan Baez, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Reverand Ralph Abernathy, Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, and Chicago Seven defendants Abbie Hoffman and David T. Dellinger. A frightening side effect of the watch list program was the tendency of most lists to grow, expanding far be
From: S.C.Sprong on 18 Apr 2008 22:14
precision-guided weapon." Haven't I heard bad dialogue like this on Mystery Science Theater 3000? It is simply another in an endless series of requests for funding, for misuse of our tax money. ---- Louis Freeh's FBI: * "FBI Scare Tactics", By Richard Moran, The New York Times, 1996 * * When the FBI reported that serious crime declined for the fourth year * in a row, it was still making the statistics sound worse than they * actually were. * * That's because Government tends to exaggerate the violent nature of crime. * * According to the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, less * than a third of the 6.6 million violent crimes committed in the U.S in 1992 * resulted in injury; most of the victims suffered only minor cuts, scratches * or bruises. * * About 20 percent of them needed minor medical care; 7 percent went to * emergency rooms. Only 1 percent of the victims were hurt seriously enough * to require hospitalization. * * The incongruity arises because of the way the law defines violent crime. * * For example, aggravated assault is defined as either intentionally causing * seriou |