open letter to alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated readers
Ca...@alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated
than 200,000 forfeitures, the
* Justice Department Asset Forfeiture Fund took in over $3.2 billion.
*
* In 1993 alone the department took in $556 million, twenty times more
* than it did when the program began in 1985.
And what were some of the reasons of the dramatic
increase in forfeitures between 1985 and 1993?
What caused it to increase by more than a MAGNITUDE?
* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* In June 1989, the Deputy Attorney General ordered the nation's U.S.
* attorneys to "take all possible actions" on forfeitures, even if it meant
* dropping other matters. "You will be expected to divert personnel from
* other activities."
*
* One year later, the Attorney General himself warned the U.S. attorneys
* that the Justice Department had fallen far behind its budget projection
* in the collection of assets. "We must significantly increase production
* to reach our budget target... Failure to achieve the $470 million
* projection would expose the Department's forfeiture program to criticism
* and undermine confidence in our budget projections. Every effort must be
* made to increase forfeiture income during the remaining three months of
* fiscal year 1990."
*
* In addition, forfeiture activities affect how many federal prosecutors
* will be allocated to each U.S. Attorney by the Justice Department.
[snip]
*
* Says Senator Henry J. Hyde: "The more they seize, the more they get for
* their own 'official use'. Federal and state officials now have the power
* to seize your business, home, bank account, records and personal property,
* all without indictment, hearing, or trial. Everything you have can be
* taken away at the whim of one or two federal or state officials operating
* in secret."
*
* The so-called War on Drugs, the Congressman continued, "has been
* perverted too often into a series of frontal attacks on basic
*
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J...@alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated
bank accounts in real time. FinCen is the Financial
* Crimes Enforcement Network agency.
# Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, January 1989 issue
#
# Al Bayse, Assistant Director of the FBI, said the FBI has developed an
# artificial intelligence system, called Big Floyd, that can analyze
# thousands of disparate financial transactions and establish links
# between seemingly unconnected suspects.
#
# The same artificial intelligence methodology will be used to establish
# links in terrorism, white-collar crime, intelligence breaches, and violent
# crimes with common clues or techniques.
Cybernetic control of society.
Everything on-line and monitored in real-time.
: From: "EPIC-News" <epic...@epic.org>
: Date: 05 Jun 1997 19:01:58 -0400
: Subject: EPIC: Clinton Endorses Privacy Rights
:
: In a commencement address at Morgan State University on May 18,
: President Clinton called privacy "one of our most cherished freedoms"
: and said that technology should not "break down the wall of privacy and
: autonomy free citizens are guaranteed in a free society."
Is President Clinton being honest?
He supports Clipper III and ECHELO
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Pe...@alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated
*
* In this case, under the astonishing provisions of our nation's asset
* forfeiture laws, the mere administrative finding that Alvarez had
* "structured" his transactions was enough to justify the seizure.
[
We have Federal laws against terminating someone's benefits based solely
(automatically by computer) on "computer matching" hits of possible
ineligibility. But NOTHING to protect us from this nearly IDENTICAL
use of computer data to terminate "benefits".
]
* To the government, the question of whether the money had been legally
* earned or was the product of a nefarious drug sale was of no concern.
*
* Maybe worse than the nebulous structuring provision is a feature of the
* same group of laws that places the burden of proof on the victim. In
* other words, rather than the government having to prove that Alvarez
* had violated the statute before it seized his money, Alvarez had to
* prove that he was innocent of any wrongdoing before he could get it
* back. Further adding to the profound unfairness of the seizure process
* is an incredible provision that anyone who wants to challenge an action,
* who wants his day in court, must file a bond with the government of
* either $5000 or 10 percent of the value of the seized property. Alvarez
* had to borrow the money from his credit cards.
*
* The Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathon R.
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Step...@alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated
food. [What???]
* CBS News, Dan Rather reporting. See this camera on a building at the
* mall? It's aimed at this lighting store's customers, recording them
* and the licenses on their cars. Little old lady: I was growing some
* plants indoors, here aren't they pretty? When the police burst in...
* USA Today, undated: Kalispell, Montana---Police said unusually high
* electric bills tipped them to marijuana-growing operation.
* CBS 48 hours: flying over everyone's properties, infrared scanning homes
* looking for heat loss: there's one bleeding heat from one part of the
* house. Let's get a search warrant.
* USA Today, undated: "LOITERING LAW": a new Dallas city ordinance allows
* police TO ARREST AND SEARCH PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE DRUG DEALERS.
We've come a long way from 'presumed innocent'.
Now: presumed potentially guilty.
* "Riot May Push Md. to Expedite Prison Building", The Washington Post
*
* An inmate riot last week at one of Maryland's most crowded and violent
* prisons will help force the state to consider a more rapid pace of
* prison construction, key state legislators said.
This level of monitoring has given us a world record % of prison population.
So much for 'The Land of the Free'.
* As a result, over 100 inmates were transferred to the state's "super-
* maximum" prison. Signs of looming trouble became evident weeks ago.
Signs of looming trouble have been ignored for years.
# "Notes and Comment", The New Yorker, April 13, 1992
#
# Traditionally, vast prison systems have adorned tyrannies.
#
# However, due to mandatory minimum sentencing and the profitable War on
# Drugs (due to a 1978 Federal forfeiture law), the United States has
# become the unchallenged world leader in incarceration rates.
#
# We are so far ahead of every other nation we can be rest assured of
# remaining No. 1 for many years.
#
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Nor...@alt.conspiracy.jfk.moderated
Because the Pentagon was dissatisfied with the intelligence it was getting
* from the CIA, the new unit 'Army Intelligence Support Activity' was set up.
*
* It is suspected that the secret group was used to get around Congressional
* limits of 55 military advisors in El Salvador.
*
* The Congressional intelligence committees "stumbled on" the unit's
* existence after it was reported in an article in The Boston Globe.
The National Security Agency will even attack freedom of the press: never
forget that they were the lead agency trying to suppress "The Pentagon Papers".
Finally finishing.......
Parting shot #1...
* The Puzzle Palace, Author James Bamford, 1983 revision
*
* Infested by moles and potential defectors for more than twelve of its
* first fifteen years, NSA managed the distinction of not only becoming
* the most secretive and most hidden member of America's growing
* intelligence consortium, but also the most thoroughly penetrated.
*
*
*
* The NSA began a McCarthy-type purge, and dozens of NSA employees
* suspected of homosexuality were forced to resign or were fired.
*
* Since then, any hint of homosexual behaviour resulted in either
* the person's not being hired or, if the fact is revealed later,
* being forced to resign.
*
* Any man exhibiting the slightest effeminacy became an instant suspect.
* The Office of Security was on full alert for limp wrists and telltale
* lisps.
*
* During his security clearance polygraph test, Mitchell told his
* interrogator about certain "sexual experimentation" with dogs
* and chickens he had done when he was between the ages of thirteen
* and nineteen.
*
* The Agency's Office of Security thought about it for a week, then issued
* him his security clearance to work at the National Secur
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