open letter to alt.music.deftones.moderated readers
Su...@alt.music.deftones.moderated
discrepancy. His manager said it must be in the tires. You can only check
: the tires for drugs he was told.
:
: But the agent persisted, and made the bust. His manager let the driver
: of the truck leave. The driver literally fled on foot back to Mexico.
What the hell was that about???
Was it a single corrupt Federal agent?
: CBS 60 Minutes, Steve Croft reporting.
:
: Standing at a fence about a hundred feet from the U.S. Customs lanes,
: Steve Croft and an ex-agent with a walkie-talkie tuned to the right
: frequency began videotaping the border crossings.
:
: Truck after truck drove right through the individual Customs lanes,
: not even stopping. "Nafta express lanes" explained the ex-agent.
:
: Truck after truck drove straight into the U.S. unmonitored.
:
: Then a message came through the walkie-talkie: "We got some cameras
: watching, better get out there and cover traffic".
:
: Suddenly several Customs agents came out of the booths and started
: inspecting trucks.
That makes at least five people at a minimum!
What the hell is going on???
IF the rumor is true,
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Da...@alt.music.deftones.moderated
of this country are fed up with crime," Freeh declared. "The
* media report it, the statistics support it, the polls prove it."
*
* To drive home his point and authenticate the national menace, Freeh said,
* "the rate of violent crime has increased 371 percent since 1960 --- that's
* nine times faster than our population has grown. In the past 30 years,
* homicides have nearly tripled; robberies and rapes each are up over 500
* percent; aggravated assaults have increased more than 600 percent."
*
* Crime is a white-hot public issue that has been shamelessly exploited by
* cynical leaders for their own political and administrative advantage. Here
* is how these callous manipulators have used the gut-level fears of the
* American people for their own purposes. The rhetoric of crime in the
* United States is in many ways more important than crime itself. [Most
* of this STUNNING chapter not shown: buy the book!]
*
* Hard, consistent and detailed knowledge about crime has been gathered
* by the Census Bureau for the Bureau of Justice Statistics, part of the
* Justice Department. Under this program, twice a year, 50,000 Americans
* are asked dozens of detailed and probing questions about their experience
* with crime.
*
* This procedure is considered highly reliable...and every year they publish
* an authoritative annual report summarizing criminal victimization.
*
* Consid
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Wa...@alt.music.deftones.moderated
friends.
: The New York Times, 2/10/87
: "Is This America?", by Anthony Lewis
:
: "When we speak out", she said, "that's our protection."
:
: She still believes in America.
Network. "Creep" back at the bastards who are destroying America!
Be persistent.
It is almost too late.
It must always be remembered that crime statistics are highly
inflammatory---an explosive fuel that powers the nation's debate
over a large number of important social issues---and that FBI
Director Louis Freeh today is the leading official shoveling
the fuel into the blazing firebox.
---David Burnham
Indeed, the Scary Man has been whispering Nightmare Stories in the ear of
President Clinton to control him...
* "Threat to Disneyland, Mentioned by Clinton, Is Termed a Hoax."
* By Stephen Labaton, The New York Times, April 23, 1995
*
* Responding to a question about whether Washington should review its
* readiness to combat domestic terrorism [the first arrest in the OKC
* bombing had just been made], the President sought to reassure the
* public that the Government was already making great efforts to do so.
*
* Groping for a specific illustration, he appeared to think twice about
* describing the incident, but then went ahead.
*
*
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Lio...@alt.music.deftones.moderated
surveillance spy-power to me!
How about you?
The FBI has since come up with a briefcase with a 'targetable array of
microphones' to pick up conversations outside at a long distance.
* "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
*
* The leading lobbyist for CALEA was Louis Freeh, the aggressive new
* director of the FBI. The government's most important investigative
* tool, Freeh said, was "wiretapping, court-authorized wiretapping."
*
* Unless remedial steps were taken, he continued, "the country will
* be unable to protect itself from terrorism, violent crime, drug
* trafficking, espionage, kidnapping and other grave crimes."
*
* But is Freeh's frightening vision true?
*
* In fact, at the same time the FBI was telling Congress and the public
* that the new technologies were already preventing them from conducting
* essential wiretaps, senior FBI officials from cities across the United
* States were telling FBI headquarters in Washington THE EXACT OPPOSITE.
* We know this because...[buy the book! Burnham is an American hero.]
Additionally, the FBI/NSA has briefcase-sized devices that can be attached
to any digital telephone company transmission line, and can monitor many
conversations simultaneously.
# "The FBI's Latest Idea: Make Wiretapping Easier"
# By Anthony Ramirez, The New York Times, April 19, 1992
#
# One telecommunications equipment manufacturer said he was puzzled by the
# FBI proposal. "The FBI already has a lot of technology to wiretap digital
# lines," he said, on the condition of anonymity.
#
# He said four companies, including such major firms as Mitel Corporation,
# a Canadian maker of telecommunications equipment, can design digital
# decoders to convert computer code back into voice.
#
# A portable system abo
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Zep...@alt.music.deftones.moderated
I did (for company Internet traffic) when activities made it
prudent to put someone on the individual 'watch list'.
(For example, "Bob Brain".)
----
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.
***************** BEGIN OF JOBTALK EXCERPT *******************************
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 yourselves. ---guy
> First, I am having a real bad day. I am dealing with it well though.
> In fact I admire myself for it. In the past several weeks I've begun
> to respect myself highly for putting up with all the obstacles and
> bullshit I run into EVERY*FUCKING*DAY. 99% of all other people don't
> have my strength and will. Which is why people fear me or find me
> threatening.
>
> I've got an employee who is a totally useless shit, whines, talks
> about me when I'm not there, stabs me in the back, etc. I should
> have fired him when I had the chance.
> [snip]
> Upper management is like a den of vipers.
> [snip]
> Don't bring up guns again at a party. Most people here in NY are
> fucking liberals and would throw the rest of us in deep dungeons.
> Everytime I've said I'm pro-
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La...@alt.music.deftones.moderated
laws in many countries,
# some of which are far stricter than U.S. policy. Conversely,
# many countries blatantly disregard personal privacy, and might
# not respect our personal rights and business needs. Because of
# this, foreign governments must not be allowed access to the
# escrow key."
# - George Fisher - Chairman and CEO Motorola
#
# "The NIST proposal states that the escrow agents will provide
# the key components to a government agency that 'properly
# demonstrates legal authorization to conduct electronic
# surveillance of communications which are encrypted.' The term
# 'legal authorization' leaves open the possibility that court
# issued warrants may not be required in some circumstances."
# - Robert H. Follett - Program Director IBM
#
# "If people choose to deposit their keys with the government or
# any other escrow agent, they must have some legal recourse in
# the event that those keys are improperly released. The most
# recent draft of the escrow procedures specifically states,
# however:
#
#
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