open letter to alt.suicide.holiday.moderated readers
No...@alt.suicide.holiday.moderated
windshield.
*
* Concerns about privacy were met with assurances that information about
* commuters' whereabouts would be released only under court subpoena.
People are buying the transponders because they eliminated the regular
discount tokens and moved the discount availability to E-Z Pass.
Wow.
It does have a kind-of Singapore feel to it...being able to track cars.
Well, it's not like they're going to go nutcake and
install a monitoring grid over the entire metropolis.
They wouldn't do that, right?
: "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
:
: In New York City, the FBI spent millions of dollars to install a permanent
: "fully-functional real-time physical tracking network."
:
: It should come as no surprise that the FBI did not announce this addition
: to its investigative bag of tricks: a citywide network of hidden sensing
: devices that pick up signals from a moving vehicle and immediately project
: the precise location on a large illuminated map located in the FBI's New
: York command post.
:
: When the FBI's technology head was asked how the new tracking system was
: working, he looked surprised, and didn't answer the question. "How did you
: know about that?" he asked.
:
: The FBI denied a request for a tour of its Manhatten command post, where
: the output from its instantaneous tracking system is displayed for the
: brass.
:
: In 1993, however, the FBI allowed a reporter who was working on what the
: bureau expected would be a friendly article to visit the inner sanctum.
:
: The command center, she later wrote, "looks not unlike the Starship
: Enterprise, of 'Star Trek.' On the rear wall of the room are three giant
: screens on which neighborhood maps, live field surveillance, and graphs
: charting the progress of a manhunt can be projected.
:
: Law enforcement officials, at stations in three s
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Yve...@alt.suicide.holiday.moderated
and FBI have been moving to monitor not
only our bank transactions, but also telephone, fax, Internet, telex
communications of all people and businesses and with CALEA want that
capability given to them at the design stage.
Cybernetic-level monitoring of our electronic systems.
What are they trying to control?
What are they trying to exert MAXIMUM CYBERNETIC CONTROL over?
It is INSANE to design our systems for government monitoring.
It is a MASSIVE cybernetic operation, astounding in its scope.
They (obviously) are attempting to do this world-wide too.
It is a true cybernetic Beast, out of control and about to
devour the world.
In '1984', the ubiquitous 'telescreen' monitored everyone in their homes.
As I have demonstrated --- as if you needed me to tell you --- our phone
conversations are too private, too personal to be monitored in a dragnet
fashion. You find out everything about someone: who their friends are,
what their opinion is on a wide range of matters, whether and who they
are having sex with, the full range of somone's activities and emotions.
The telescreen in everyone's home: the telephone.
* Main Justice, by Jim McGee and Brian Duffy, 1996, ISBN 0-684-81135-9
*
* The FBI had been spying on members of the civil rights movement.
* There had been burglaries and illegal wiretapping on a grand scale.
*
* The FBI obtained recordings of Martin Luther King in embarrassing
* conversations. Agents assembled the most graphic of these recordings
* on a single tape that was circulated to senior government
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Be...@alt.suicide.holiday.moderated
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
* American constitutional guarantees --- including due process,
* the presumption of innocence, and the right to own and enjoy
* private property."
----
* 2 Customs Agents are Facing Charges in Kidnapping Case
* by David Kocieniewski, The New York Times, 1996
*
* Two United States Customs inspectors have been ch
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Eliz...@alt.suicide.holiday.moderated
At the
* checkout stand at a supermarket, you would simply pass your hand over
* a scanner and your bank account would automatically be debited."
There it is again: people talking about assigning
everyone a biometric identifying number at birth.
----
# Privacy Journal, By Robert Ellis Smith, June 1994 issue
#
# The Hughes Aircraft Company is selling a tiny transponder for injection
# under the skin of laboratory animals. Hughes has also moved into "the
# human market."
#
# Effective this year, the federal Food and Drug Administration requires
# every breast implant carry a transponder chip with a unique identifying
# number. A hand-held scanner can read the number much like a supermarket
# scanner.
#
# The reason the government gave for the transponder was that both the doctor
# and patient might lose track of what kind of breast implant was installed,
# and so if a certain model had a recall, they could tell what was installed.
#
#
# The American Textile Partnership, a research consortium linked to the U.S.
# Department of Energy, is sponsoring a research called "Embedded Electronic
# Fingerprint" to develop a transponder the size of a grain of wheat that
# could be attached to a garment until the owner threw it out.
#
# Heretofor, this application has been considered only for security purposes.
#
# The definition of "security", according to the textile industry magazine
# 'Bobbin', has been expanded to include "anti-counterfeit" tra
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Aus...@alt.suicide.holiday.moderated
* "Former Black Panthers Leader Is Freed on Bail"
* By B. Drummond Ayres Jr., The New York Times, June 11, 1997
*
* ...any trial jury is sure to be asked to weigh Mr. Pratt's alleged violent
* excess against the ALLEGED EXCESSES COMMITTED BY GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS IN
* THE 1960's, PARTICULARLY ALLEGED EXCESSES IN SURVEILLANCE AND SUBVERSION
* OF ANTI-GOVERNMENT GROUPS like the Panthers.
Alleged?
I hear The New York Times "alleged" the "Pentagon Papers" were real!
----
The law refers to "lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area".
The FBI takes that to mean naked. Obviously.
A poorly written bill, interpreted by predatory pinheads.
Guess what?
1/18/95 NYT: In a case that did not involve nudity or genital visibility,
Attorney General Janet Reno filed a brief with the Supreme Court that
said it was not necessary for a child pornography conviction. That is
how she interprets the language of the bill.
Wow.
And I thought Ed Meese was a bad Attorney General. Meese had written
to companies like the owners of 7-11 and told them selling Playboy and
Penthouse could get them Federal obscenity charges. That was his attempt
to get around the First Amendment.
10/3/96 NYT: Because of computers, a bill was passed that changes the
definition of child pornography to inc
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Os...@alt.suicide.holiday.moderated
would have any privacy left,
such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations,
telegrams, it doesn't matter.
There would be no place to hide.
If the government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge
in this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence commun-
ity has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny,
and there would be no way to fight back, because the most careful effort
to combine together in resistance to the government, no matter how
privately it was done, is within the reach of the government to know.
Such is the capability of this technology...
I don't want to see this country ever go across the bridge.
I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and
we must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this
technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that
we never cross over that abyss.
That is the abyss from which there is no return.
*** end of 'Puzzle Palace' excerpts.
Wow.
No recap necessary.
I'm feeling a bit sick at this point, how about you?
******************************************************************************
Those of you who supported any version of the FBI/NSA Digital Telephony Act
sold us down the river, making use of this Orwellian Military technology
fully legal domestically for the first time.
The descent into the abyss, from which there is no return.
: * "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
: *
: * [ Al Bayse was assistant director of the FBI's Technical Services
: * Division, in charge of spending more than half a billion dollars
: * for research, development and computer operations. ]
: *
: * "Sure", said Al Bayse of the FBI, "I believe there is an absolute
: * right to privacy. But that doesn't mean you have the right to break
: * the la
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