open letter to alt.flame.sports-suck.moderated readers
A...@alt.flame.sports-suck.moderated
calls --- gets its own daily summary file regardless
of content.
That's what I did (for company Internet traffic) when activities made it
prudent to put someone on the individual 'watch list'.
(For example, "Bob Brain".)
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Then there was a manager under heavy stress, who was pissed at top management,
knew his department had a good chance of getting cut in the next several
months, then the talk turned to guns...
This was a very long diatribe; only a little is shown here because I got
tired re-writing the words so it's not literally their traffic anymore.
In email he sounded like a major flake. In person he sounded normal.
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An oddity: a Xxxxx Yyyyyyy is getting stressed out by his area's upcoming
personnel cuts; he's made a presentation to Mr. Cheese for project ideas
that might avoid him being cut. This stress is normal, but suddenly talk
about him being a gun-nut came up. It doesn't appear to be a problem, but
I thought I'd let y'all decide for yourse
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Ke...@alt.flame.sports-suck.moderated
photography. We're
* not going to [ban] photography if someone takes dirty pictures."
*
* At this point, one of the more deaf committee members asked,
* "Pornography? Are we going to ban pornography?"
*
* The Senate Commerce Committee then approved McCain's bill.
*
* For a committee whose bailiwick is commerce, the senators seemed somewhat
* detached from their mandate with business taking a backseat.
*
Thank you once again, oh Free World Leaders, for that intelligent discourse.
* The New York Times, June 15 1997
*
* "Washington Kidnaps Dick and Jane - See How Washington Uses Dick and Jane"
*
* These days much of the nation's political debate focuses on children - or
* on the needs and interests of children as defined by politicians.
*
* Mr. Horn, who was chief of the Childrens Bureau in the Bush Administration
* added, "A cynic would say that children are being used as props or proxies."
Color me cynical.
It should be noted, of course, that uncrackable encryption called PGP is
available worldwide for free for all common platforms of computers, that
McCain's bill would do NOTHING to address that (not possible anyway), and
so his argument WAS A TOTAL SHAM.
No newspaper in the country will explain that in their coverage.
The so
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Gro...@alt.flame.sports-suck.moderated
the textile industry magazine
# 'Bobbin', has been expanded to include "anti-counterfeit" tracking after
# purchase. [What???]
#
# Could a machine-readable tag on a person's clothing serve many of the same
# tracking purposes an one embedded in the body?
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Sure, government can give debate reasons for requiring fingerprinting
for driver's licenses...
But it is still a violation of the minimization requirement of the Privacy
Act of 1974.
Biometric data on citizens is FAR BEYOND any reason government can give.
Notice how no citizens in any state ever got to vote on such an important
escalation of personal data collection by the government.
Indeed, it seems to be accomplished in the quietest way possible, giving
citizens the least amount of opportunity to choose their fate.
Odd, since tax-payer paid-for government services is what gives them the power.
But elected representatives will do, you say?
Did you hear any of them mention it during campaigning?
Did Alabama elected officials even mention it with their press
release of a new driver's license, despite that being the plan?
No.
What does that tell you?
We need a cabinet-level Privacy Commission,
with the power to intervene nationwide.
Power to protect us little people from fanatical personal data collection.
We are losing it piece by piece.
Who would have thought the United States would
collect fingerprints from all citizens?
Collect biometric information from everyone...
law enforcement's Evil Holy Grail.
* "U.S. Has Plan to Broaden Availability tests of DNA Testing"
* By Fox Butterfield, The New York Times, undated but 1996 implied.
*
* In a little known provision of the Clinton Administrati
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Exce...@alt.flame.sports-suck.moderated
* Attorney had both declined to prosecute it.
* [snip]
*
/ "Zonker": I can't believe anyone would shut down the Cannabis Buyers'
/ Club! Who ordered the bust?
/ Other character responds: "Dan Lungren, the State Attorney General.
/ Local cops wouldn't do it, so they had to bring in the Republicans."
*
* "No one should be laughing," said Mr. Lungren, asking newspapers in
* the state to censor the rest of the week's cartoons as a public service.
*
* No one followed the Attorney General's request.
Other Federal and state government officials were SHOCKED that
it passed and made angry noises and tried to interfere.
* The New York Times, Aug 29 1996, Ventura, California, By Katharine Seelye
* "Dole Criticizes Clinton as Lax On a Policy to Combat Drugs"
*
* Dole, speaking out against Proposition 215, which would allow marijuana
* to be used as medicine: "If somebody, say from Mexico or any other country,
* aimed a missile at California, you would do something about it. And they're
* aiming millions and millions of missiles right at these young people right
* here, whether it's a needle, 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?
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M...@alt.flame.sports-suck.moderated
# Yet President Clinton and Vice President Gore are meekly yielding to the
# wrongheaded opposition of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, even though they
# claim to support the ban themselves.
#
# Even General Norman Schwarzkopf and pro-military Republican Senators like
# John McCain, Alfonse D'Amato and Chuck Hagel have all endorsed the ban.
#
# America's proud tradition of CIVILIAN CONTROL [a distant memory!] of the
# military gives the President responsibility for making the final decision.
#
# Mr. Clinton is shirking his responsibility.
The Military are in control of ALL KEY POLITICIANS.
They do so via Secrecy and Scary Stories and ECHELON.
# "Covering Up Crimes", By Anthony Lewis, NYT, 5/5/97
#
# A Government official becomes aware that secret information shows
# corruption and criminality in a Federal agency.
#
# He wants to inform Congress, but he is forbidden to do so unless he first
# gets the approval of the very agency involved.
#
# And C
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