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Libernet Digest Wed, 20 Sep 95 Volume 112: Issue 1
Today's Topics:
Lib. VP hopeful Jo Jorgenson in Bucks County, PA. Arlan Diefenderfer
Mary Canary on her way to feed the pigeons Greg Swann
META: Libernet Noise David J. Kernen
Need magazine info James Rowh
NON-DELIVERY of: James Herriot, popular culture, and... (fwd)
Sanford V. Sternlicht
October Reason Bill Woolsey
PRE-ANNOUNCE: moderated news-only libertarian list Mike Linksvayer
quit cc'ing libernet! Bill Woolsey
Speeches in Michigan Douglas Friedman
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 01:11:57 -0400
From: dief...@omni.voicenet.com (Arlan Diefenderfer)
Subject: Lib. VP hopeful Jo Jorgenson in Bucks County, PA.
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
Jo Jorgensen, the LP's Vice Presidential candidate will be the guest of the
Bucks County Libertarian Party of Penna, Thursday, Oct 19th. Those in the
area can meet her at Barnaby's Restaurant, 739 N. Easton Road (Old Rt. 611),
Doylestown, Bucks County, PA. The meeting starts at 7:30 pm.
For more information, contact 215 675 3083
A complaint:
I'm a new subscriber to libernet now for about three weeks. I thought it
was news for and of concern to libertarians.
I just spent another half hour scrapping worthless mailings. Only one of
which was of a libertarian interest.
I've got rehashed information on a non-libertarian Colin Powell (supports
gun control) which I can pick up from general daily news. How right
non-libertarian Phil Gramm is (remember the swiss cheesed Gramm/Rudman
balanced budget act? *ha ha*) And even an introduction to Alan Keyes.
I didn't know so many Republicans and conservatives were libertarians.
I have yet to come across updates on the campaign of Libertarian
Presidential hopeful Harry Browne. Does anyone care to remind libertarians
that Harry's CityVote appearance is coming up Friday, Oct 6th. Remember,
the first CityVote debate was changed from Oct 8th to the 6th.
Clean it up or more will be joining those exiting this so-called libertarian
news group. Me included.
Arlan Diefenderfer
Secretary, BCLP
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 07:10:16 -0700
From: gsw...@primenet.com (Greg Swann)
Subject: Mary Canary on her way to feed the pigeons
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
Mary Canary on her way to feed the pigeons
A Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie story by Greg Swann
[is omitted for brevity's sake. To see what Mary Canary revealed to
Willie, transport yourself to:
http://www.primenet.com/~gswann/Canary.html
The story is also reproduced in full in libernet-d.
--GSS]
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Date: 19 Sep 95 15:13:26 EDT
From: "David J. Kernen" <David.J...@mail.tju.edu>
Subject: META: Libernet Noise
To: Libertarian Discussion Group <libe...@Dartmouth.EDU>
From: David J. Kernen
Technical Specialist
DIS, Thomas Jefferson Univ. (215)955-6612
:The libernet list has been receiving some discussion by Steve and My Way
:about Colin Powell. Libernet is _not_ a discussion list. But notice
:how these folks aren't really posting to libernet. They have libernet
:on their cc list along with what appear to be a set of "patriot-bircher"
:lists. Cut it out!
:Bill Woolsey Email: Bill.W...@Citadel.edu
I agree with all the recent complaints about noise on Libernet. In fact,
included in that noise was a minidebate about whether or not one of the
other groups in the cc list should reject messages with multiple recip-
ients! And while that particular debate is a sparkling example of what
Libernet is NOT supposed to be discussed on Libernet, it nevertheless
gives me an idea...
Well, Barry, what do you think? Would this change be tough to implement?
You could either prohibit messages with multiple recipients, or else
require Libernet to be first in the list, or something like that. I admit
it isn't fair to legitimate cross-posts, and it certainly won't cut out
deliberate posting of inappropriate material, but it would cut out a lot
of noise caused by posts sparking debates on other lists that then get
cross-posted here. It will also help cut down on some of those huge posts
that aren't all that libertarian in nature and that also seem to be post-
ed to every other group out on the 'net.
Virtually yours,
David J. Kernen
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 22:48:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: James Rowh <fro...@iia.org>
Subject: Need magazine info
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 09:23:16 -0400 (EDT)
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I am a scholar of popular culture whose most recent book, ALL THINGS
HERRIOT: JAMES HERRIOT AND POPULAR CULTURE (Syracuse U. Press, 1995),
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children's books, and TV exposure, on growing world-wide sensitivity to
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Herriot readers and readers of my new book about their thoughts on the
importance of popular culture signifying of humanitarian issues as per
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P.S. Kindly pass this message on as appropriate and if possible. SS
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 09:39:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Woolsey <Bill.W...@citadel.edu>
Subject: October Reason
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
The October issue of Reason Magazine is out. It includes:
Features:
Bringing the Border War Home Glenn Garvin
Americans will have to pay a heavy price
to keep immigrants out.
Don't Tough the Dial Jesse Walker
Challenging the FCC ban on micro radio
A Confederacy of Boobs Michael Fumento
How special interests, assorted ideologues
and a sensationalist press overinflated the
dangers of breast implants.
Columns:
Free Speech: HUDscapbades Brian J. Taylor
Welfare: Drunkard's Dream Brian Doherty
Modest Proposals: Retina Scans All Around Stuart Anderson
Selected Skirmishes: Let it Burn Thomas Hazlett
And there is more. Reason is the best magizine for those developing
an interest in libertarianism. If you can't find it on your local
newstand you can subscribe:
Reason
P.O. Box 526
Mt. Morris, IL 61054-7868
The rate is $26 per year.
Bill Woolsey Email: Bill.W...@Citadel.edu
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 10:20:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: mlin...@netcom.com (Mike Linksvayer)
Subject: PRE-ANNOUNCE: moderated news-only libertarian list
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
I've meant to start a couple news-only libertarian lists for
some time to compliment the World Wide Libertarian Pages, and
it seems like now is an appropriate time. The lists will be
moderated, low-volume, and only contain brief articles of
general and timely interest to the libertarian movement (no
announcements of patriot club meetings in Timbuktu, no abortion
tracts, no repetitive alerts every time a new version of an
anti-gun bill is introduced, and absolutely nothing on
conservative kooks like Pat Buchanan and Alan Keyes).
One list, ne...@libertarian.com, will be for general libertarian
news, and the other, news-...@libertarian.com, will be for
announcements of libertarian resources available online.
The lists will officially open next week. You can subscribe
now by sending mail to pre-news...@libertarian.com and
pre-news-on...@libertarian.com respectively. Simply
say 'subscribe' in the message body. You will automatically be
added to the appropriate list(s) next week.
If you'd prefer receiving weekly digests, please wait till next
week to subscribe.
--
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 09:10:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Woolsey <Bill.W...@citadel.edu>
Subject: quit cc'ing libernet!
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU, mw...@bbs.cresnet.org
:From: My Way <mw...@bbs.cresnet.org>
:To: usa-f...@webcom.com
:cc: sne...@world.std.com, usa-f...@mail.webcom.com,
: usa-f...@mail.webcom.com, p...@garnet.msen.com,
: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU, c...@oak.oakland.edu
:Steve: What is your problem? Powell is a supporter of the UN! He is
:wishy washy - can't make up his mind which party he agrees with, and
The libernet list has been receiving some discussion by Steve and My Way
about Colin Powell. Libernet is _not_ a discussion list. But notice
how these folks aren't really posting to libernet. They have libernet
on their cc list along with what appear to be a set of "patriot-bircher"
lists. Cut it out!
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 95 20:44:31 EDT
From: "Douglas Friedman" <douglas_...@ccmail.bus.umich.edu>
Subject: Speeches in Michigan
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
The Ann Arbor Libertarian League and the Libertarian Party of Washtenaw
County, Michigan will be holding two events in the next couple of weeks.
On Thursday, Sept. 28 at 7:30 p.m., there will be a debate on gun control
at the Kuenzel Room of the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor. 1994 LP Senate
candidate Jon Coon will take the anti-gun control position. No gun
grabbers have confirmed yet.
On Thursday, Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m., I will speak on Libertarian Perspectives
on the Mideast Crisis in the Hoeffler Room of the Michigan League, also in
Ann Arbor.
Admission to both events is free.
For more info, E-mail me.
Doug Friedman
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:09:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Grapski <cgra...@grove.ufl.EDU>
Subject: The Cult of Democracy
To: JACK HAMMER <j...@teleport.com>
On Tue, 19 Sep 1995, JACK HAMMER wrote:
: Democracy is a cult demanding total obedience of mind. To challenge the
: cult of democracy is to risk being branded a pariah. Freethinking is not
: an attribute of cult democracy, here's why.
But this "cult of democracy" you refer to has nothing in itself to do
with democracy. What is more effective than to prevent democracy (true
democracy) by redefining it and then making everyone believe a) that it
exists and b) that they must protect it. Now, you have a number of
people protecting "democracy" and thereby preventing democracy from ever
existing.
:
: The majoritarian god of democracy replaces it's opinion for law, and this
: must be accepted by its lackeys, for it says to them that if they
: disagree with the majority's decree, then they can stir the fires of
: public debate, rev the engines of public oipinion so that the dissenter
: can take his turn at leading opinion. So, because there has been a
: popular vote, the individual is faced with the notion that he had a
: chance to make some change for his own good, and now that the ballots
: have been cast, public discourse is closed until the next election.
: The individual must now acquiesce to the will of the majority. If the
: will is to confiscate half his wages, then the individual must reckon
: this to be good and voluntary, since he participated in the deliberation
: of his own rape.
:
And this is my point. Majoritarianism is not equivalent to democracy.
SO -- if you claim that, in the name of "democracy", the people are being
forced to accept a denial of rights or bad decisions because they are the
decision of the majority - and that these people should simply resign
themselves to mobilizing opinion behind their view and thus wait until
they become the majority before they should expect a resolution in their
favor -- then we are not speaking of democracy -- but misled people,
believing they have democracy and thus not seeking it -- and in effect
denying themselves a democratic form of government.
: This explains, for example, prohibition in a so-called free
: country.
:
: Democracy is much like an orchestra in that it is very difficult to
: mobilize, but once it has started it is very difficult to stop.
:
: One reason among many why democracy is not only a bad form of government,
: but the worst. And yes, there is a better way . . .
:
Democracy is not a "bad" form of government. No government can guarantee
good government. Only those who rule can guarantee it. THerefore -- the
greatest potential for such a guarantee is to make those who rule and
those who are ruled the same. It is then in the best interest of the
rulers to rule wisely and in the interest of the ruled - for they are the
same -- and it is least likely for those who rule to rule in their
private interests. Simple reliance on majority rule, however, does not
guarantee the same. Now you have a group, less likely than a few or one
person to rule in their private interest - but more likely than all the
people to rule in their private interest. Democracy, my friend, does not
equate to majority rule.
Charlie
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 23:01:47 -0400
From: lib...@gate.net (Jim Ray)
Subject: UNI-DIOT
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
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(or, indeed, commenting at all on) the publication of this garbage
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JMR
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 07:41:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Donna J. Logan" <rev...@pcnet.com>
Subject: USA! Re: AOL Opens Email to Feds
To: James Hayman <j...@io.com>
On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, James Hayman wrote:
: > Yes, but what was their excuse for surveilling/censoring those of us AOLers
: > on the Immune list, where we discussed alternative health treatments for
: > immune systems disorders...we even had problems in PRIVATE live chat rooms.
:
: I was watching C-SPAN a program from Aspen on Effects of Technology
: where a Veep for Aol was present and he said something to the effect that
: some of the AOL users had threatened the life of the President using
: their AOL accounts. He justified what they did with this excuse.
I saw the same show. Still doesn't answer the original point...not one of
us on the Immune list threatened the life of the president, nor were we
dealing in kiddie porn, nor were we hackers, nor were we illegal drug
dealers. Just talking about allergies and chemical sensitivities
(ie, what's the best paint to use on one's walls which doesn't outgas
too much?)...the only thing we could figure is that the FBI was doing
some legwork for the FDA, and watching us to see if we were recommending
any substances they want to regulate, most notably tryptophan and
melatonin.
;->
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 95 04:00:01 EDT
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Libernet Digest Tue, 19 Sep 95 Volume 111: Issue 16
Today's Topics:
AOL Opens Email to Feds Donna J. Logan
Constitution for the United States Michael.Lorton.
Downsizing NASA Martin Frankford
FBI's HRT by way of Charles Zeps <cz...@icis.on.ca>
Fw: Constitution for the United States Mike Goldman
Gramm Strongest on Right to Bear Arms Michael of Nebadon
In search of an alternative to Libernet Keith F. Lynch
James Herriot, popular culture, and animal rights
Sanford V. Sternlicht
Libertarian-leaning talk show host in El Paso WalkerBill
Libertarians mentioned on "Today Show" Dena L Bruedigam
NRA:COURT UPHOLDS BRADY LAW and A LOOK AT THE STATES Matthew Gaylor
NRA: FBI SNIPERS TESTIFY ON RUBY RIDGE Matthew Gaylor
NRA: THE GENERAL SPEAKS: Matthew Gaylor
Request for info Bill Cross
Secret Court Increased Surveillance in 1994 Matthew Gaylor
The Cult of Democracy JACK HAMMER
TIPS: Outreach to High Schools (11/6/94) Tom Isenberg
Update - Sarah Brady appearance in Adrian, MI Matthew Gaylor
USA! FBI's HRT pomi
USA! President Powell 3rdi
USA! President Powell My Way
USA! Re: AOL Opens Email to Feds James Hayman
Welfare pays better than work Cato Institute
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 07:34:36 -0400
From: "Donna J. Logan" <rev...@pcnet.com> (by way of Charles Zeps <cz...@icis.on.ca>)
Subject: AOL Opens Email to Feds
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
On Fri, 15 Sep 1995 lin...@iquest.net wrote:
: (1) Of course, we're ALL supposed to ignore this because these BLATENT
: abuses of privacy are in the name of "stopping pornography," (Pay no
: attention to the man behind the curtain, Dorothy. It's for our own good!)
Yes, but what was their excuse for surveilling/censoring those of us AOLers
on the Immune list, where we discussed alternative health treatments for
immune systems disorders...we even had problems in PRIVATE live chat rooms.
: (2) ANYONE WHO HAS AN ACCOUNT WITH AOL AFTER THIS COMPLICITY AND FAILURE TO
: FIGHT LIKE DOGS AGAINST THIS DESERVES WHAT THEY GET.
Unfortunately, once the TOS Gods decide you're a troublemaker, you start
experiencing even more problems....more non-delivery of email, constant
disconnects on the few times you CAN get thru, and obvious intrusions
of your hard drive, which in my case resulted in my mouse driver getting
trashed on 4 separate occasions as AOL made attempts to do "something" to
the com port the mouse was attached to (AOL can and does read subscribers
hard drives, ala Microsoft's Windows 95).
: ******************** BOYCOTT AOL **********************************
I did.
;->
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:45:15 -0700
From: "Michael.Lorton."<mlo...@eshop.com>
Subject: Constitution for the United States
To: liber...@Dartmouth.EDU
:
: Does anybody know what happened to the Constitution for the United States Web
page? It used to be located at:
:
: http://www.lm.com/~damon/Constitution.html
:
: but when I try it, the server says there is nothing there. If it has
: been deleted due to lack of Web space, let me know and I'l l put it up
: on my Web page. It was a really good job.
Kinda ironic, huh?
Try
http://www.nauticom.net/users/whig/Constitution.html
M.
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:57:46 -0500
From: mfra...@UAV-SPARC-10.dartmouth.edu (Martin Frankford)
Subject: Downsizing NASA
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
:
:
:[This is circulating at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which
:operates the Hubble Space Telescope for NASA.]
:
:(from an unknown source ...)
:
:House to Downsize Solar System
:A Press Release
:
:Bob Haberle reporting.
:
:WASHINGTON D.C. The House Appropriations subcommittee on NASA oversight, in
:another effort to reduce the NASA budget, passed a resolution today to downsize
:the solar system. According to an unnamed congressional staffer, House
:Republicans felt there has been "too much redundancy in the solar system" and
:that streamlining the 4.5 billion year old planetary system is long overdue.
:Such action would give NASA fewer places to go and this would allow the agency
:to carry out its space exploration goals within the funding profile that the
:House proposed earlier this summer.
:
:"Look, we have three terrestrial planets" said Congressman Rip U. Apart (R,
:Del.), "and only one of them really works! So why not get rid of the other
:two and clean up the neighborhood?" Most subcommittee members felt that
:while downsizing was definitely in the cards, eliminating both Mars and
:Venus was going too far. "We have too many international commitments to
:Mars." said Rush N. Hater (R, Calif.). "So I think we should keep Mars and
:dump Venus. Its too hot to live on, and liberal Democrats keep using it as
:an example of what global warming can do. So from a political and
:practical point of view, Venus has got to go."
:
:Also at risk is the planet Mercury which lacks support because of its
:small size and poor visibility from Earth. "Who needs it?" asked
:Congressman Newt Onian (R, N.C.). "Have you ever seen it? I haven't. So
:what good is it? We just don't need useless planets. And speaking of
:useless planets, what about the asteroids? If you've seen one, you've seen
:them all. So I say we ought to get rid of the little boogers once and for
:all."
:
:However, the downsizing recommendations do not stop with the terrestrial
:planets. The resolution also calls for a reduction in the number of gas
:giants which contain most of the planetary mass in the solar system. Most
:subcommittee members favor retaining Jupiter and Saturn, and eliminating
:Uranus and Neptune. "Jupiter employs the most molecules, and Saturn has those
:pretty little rings everyone likes." said Rep. Con Mann (R, Fla.). "On the
:other hand, Uranus is a bore and its rings are dirty. And Neptune, for God's
:sake, is just too far away. So begone with those ugly bruisers."
:
:But the influential Wright I.M. Fornow from South Carolina has publicly
:announced he will fight to eliminate Saturn. Fornow is especially miffed by
:NASA's success thus far in keeping Cassini, the next mission to Saturn,
:alive which he feels is waste of taxpayers money. "If there ain't no
:Saturn, then there ain't no Cassini" he exclaimed. The congressman also
:expressed concern about sending back-to-back spacecraft bearing Italian
:surnames to the outer planets (The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter
:this December).
:
:The subcommittee was unanimous in its views towards Pluto which they deemed
:a moral misfit. "Now here's a planet we can definitely do without." continued
:Fornow. "A few years ago, it was farthest from the sun. Now its not. Its
:just too confusing. And now they tell me its really two planets instead of
one.
:What the hell is going on here?"
:
:The resolution must now be presented to the entire House, where it is
:expected to pass easily since only a minority of Representatives have
:constituents on the affected planets. NASA Administrator Golden has vowed
:to resist any further reductions to the solar system, saying that
:"NASA has expended considerable effort to make the planets cheaper, faster,
:and better. Much of this work would be wasted if the solar system were
:downsized" stated Golden.
:
:Critics say, however, that reducing the number of planets will not produce
:the expected savings to taxpayers. Textbooks, they note, would have to be
:revised to reflect the new arrangement, and facilities would need to be
:constructed to remove the planets themselves. The resolution is also likely
:to draw strong opposition from religious fundamentalists who have long
:opposed the elimination of any of the biblical planets. Thus, the matter is
:far from resolved.
:
:
:
----- End Included Message -----
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:39:23 -0400
From: pomi <p...@clark.net> (by way of Charles Zeps <cz...@icis.on.ca>)
Subject: FBI's HRT
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 21:48:30 -0400
From: Mike Goldman <wh...@pobox.com>
Subject: Fw: Constitution for the United States
To: rj...@pitt.edu
:Does anybody know what happened to the Constitution for the United States
Web page? It used to be located at:
:
: http://www.lm.com/~damon/Constitution.html
:
:but when I try it, the server says there is nothing there. If it has been
deleted due to lack of Web space, let me know and I'll put it up on my Web
page. It was a really good job.
It is located at http://pobox.com/~whig/Constitution.html
--
Mike Goldman <wh...@pobox.com>
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 15:48 EDT
From: ma...@aztech.ba.md.us (Michael of Nebadon)
Subject: Gramm Strongest on Right to Bear Arms
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
I may not be getting the attributions right, but I believe the
URM...@prodigy.com (MR ROBERT L MCCARTY) was forwarding a
GrammNet posting which said:
: Dole, Buchanan, Wilson and Keyes all refused to make any attempt to
:take a stand. Taylor tries to finesse the issue by opposing federal
:gun control but supporting equally restrictive measures by local
:government. Only Lugar makes little attempt to veil his support for
:gun control. Gramm and Dornan are the only ones who fully and
:unequivocally oppose gun control. Gramm goes even further, to outline
:a real plan for deterring violent crime. We can always count on Gramm
:to keep a firm, principled position and provide real solutions.
[ ... ]
:> --------------------------------------------------------
:> Gun Control:
:> Do you support or oppose the waiting period now required for handgun
:> purchases? What, if any, restrictions should there be on such
:> purchases? (This question was asked of the candidates on Aug. 15,
:> 1995.)
:> --------------------------------------------------------------------
[ ... ]
:> Alan Keyes:
:> The Keyes campaign declined to respond to PoliticsUSA's
:> question on gun control.
I suspect this says more about the quality of his campaign people
than his actual position on this issue. Living in Baltimore, MD I've
had the opportunity to listen to Keyes when he was a talk show host.
IMHO, his opposition to gun control is unequivocal.
Just to make sure, I checked his campaign web page and found this Q&A
from the transcript of one of those CompuServe Open Interview thingies:
: Question from ST. LOUIS, MO: [75620,2774] Chris Bertolett
: Mr. Keyes- What is your position on Second Amendment rights??
:
: Alan Keyes
: Chris Bertolett... I strongly favor the 2nd amendment, which I
: believe is in the constitution to assure that the people have
: the wherewithal to defend themselves against government abuses
: of our natural, God-given rights. I think the gun control
: mentality also represents a degrading view of the human person
: since it presumes that objects are responsible for human actions
: rather than human beings. This disregards the moral capacity and
: moral responsibility of the individual. It's the same mentality
: as the condom distributors.
Yipes! He even takes the GunNut(tm) position that the RKBA was intended
to help people defend themselves against government abuses! ;-)
Anyway, I just wanted to avoid anybody getting a false impression. I
may have problems with some of his other positions, but not his stand
on RKBA.
That aside, why do folks feel that politicians who propose federal
solutions to local crime problems are the "strongest" on the RKBA (as
in this case) or fighting crime in general. Gramm's "real plan for
deterring violent crime" just sounds like another effort to widen
federal involvement in local affairs.
Just my $0.02,
Matt
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 23:07:32 -0400
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <k...@access.digex.net>
Subject: In search of an alternative to Libernet
To: Libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
Well, today's (Monday morning's) Libernet digest has finally done it.
After years of putting up with the gravel for the sake of the gold,
I've decided the ratio is so bad, it isn't worth it anymore.
Today's digest contained a message from Jeff Chan, of interest only
to people in Pennsylvania. The rest of us might have wanted to see
a short synopsis of what the issue is about. But instead, we all got
400+ lines.
It also contained a message from One4...@aol.com denouncing communism
in Israel. Thank you, we already know communism is a bad thing. We
don't need to all see a 500+ line message that was split into three
parts to evade Libernet's size limit.
Neither did we all need to see a 300+ line message from John Hammell,
which can be summed up as "Were there two bombs in OK City on 4/19?
The scientific evidence is inconclusive." Especially since the
*exact same message* had been posted a day or two earlier, and since
the format was virtually unreadable, with 70 column lines alternating
with 10 column lines. In the past, he has posted that his position
is that the government bombed their own building. He signs himself
"Political Coordinator, The Life Extension Foundation". Is he speaking
for the LEF? If so, do Saul Kent and Bill Faloon know what he's saying?
But wait! There's more!
Steve Sidwell, 3rdi (any relation to C3PO?), and others had a lively
conversation about Colin Powell. Not only was this on an explicitly
non-discussion mailing list, but they almost seemed to be competing
for how much of each other's -- and Charles Zeps' -- messages they
could quote inside their own, or how many levels deep (I counted three).
Well, I'm declaring it a tie.
And One4...@aol.com is back, this time denouncing communism in
another part of the globe -- for another 300 lines.
And One4...@aol.com yet again! Proclaiming that the HIV virus doesn't
cause AIDS, to the tune of 400 lines. I wonder if he's aware that
Bryan J. Ellison, the author he quotes at great length, is being
sued by the co-author of his book about AIDS, for misrepresentation?
For all the text that's flying around on Libernet, there seems to be
remarkably little *knowledge*.
And there are several messages from Linda Thompson and others,
alleging the usual government and UN conspiracies.
What's worst is that this is not at all unusual. Every day this
same sort of crap comes in. Self-moderation has failed. If people
are as poor at governing themselves as they are at moderating
themselves, then the cause of liberty is doomed. We should all
put an ad in the paper advertising for a kindly slave-master or
a benign monarch, because nothing else seems to be working.
Libernet is even worse than some of the alt. and talk. newsgroups.
Well, it's too much. Forget it. If anyone is aware of a list that
is what Libernet was supposed to me -- a low volume high quality
non-discussion libertarian list, please tell me. Until then, I guess
I'll have to rely on offline sources, such as magazines, for my
libertarian information.
Good bye and good luck from one of the few remaining charter
subscribers of this list.
Please reply to me, not to the list. Thanks.
--
Keith Lynch, k...@access.digex.net
http://www.access.digex.net/~kfl/
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:01:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Sanford V. Sternlicht" <svst...@mailbox.syr.edu>
Subject: James Herriot, popular culture, and animal rights
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
I am a scholar of popular culture whose most recent book, ALL THINGS
HERRIOT: JAMES HERRIOT AND POPULAR CULTURE (Syracuse U. Press, 1995),
looks at, among issues and subjects, the influence of Herriot's memoirs,
children's books, and TV exposure, on growing world-wide sensitivity to
the need for more responsible human dominion. I would like to hear from
Herriot readers and readers of my new book about their thoughts on the
importance of popular culture signifying of humanitarian issues as per
Herriot and others? I continue to research and plan further writing and
lecturing on this subject. Thanks,
Sanford Sternlicht
Professor of English
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13224 USA
svst...@mailbox.syr.edu
P.S. Kindly pass this message on as appropriate and if possible. SS
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 22:25:48 -0400
From: Walke...@aol.com
Subject: Libertarian-leaning talk show host in El Paso
To: Libe...@Dartmouth.EDU, Brown...@aol.com, Bro...@rahul.net,
I was the phone-in guest on a radio talk show this afternoon. The host was
Cat Simon, of 1380 AM in El Paso. The subjects were immigration, free trade,
and the Republican leadership's support for the Mexican bailout. The host was
very helpful; he mentioned that he reads Reason magazine and Libernet. His
e-mail address is cat...@AOL.com, and he should definitely be on any media
list. -- Bill Walker
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:57:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dena L Bruedigam <dbru...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Libertarians mentioned on "Today Show"
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
This morning on the "Today Show" Tim Russert was talking about Colin Powell
running as an independent and how he would have to get 700,000 signatures
to get on the ballot in all 50 states. He said something like, "It's
difficult, but not impossible. Ross Perot did it in '92 and the Libertarian
candidates do it just about every election year."
Way to go, Tim!
-- Dena L. Bruedigam, brued...@osu.edu --
---------------------------------------------
"In the old days being crazy meant something.
Nowadays everybody's crazy. --Charles Manson
---------------------------------------------
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:55:58 -0400
From: free...@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
Subject: NRA:COURT UPHOLDS BRADY LAW and A LOOK AT THE STATES
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
From: NRA Alerts <ale...@nra.org>
NRA-ILA FAX NETWORK
11250 Waples Mill Road * Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: 1-800-392-8683 * Fax: 703-267-3918
Vol. 2, No. 41 9/15/95
COURT UPHOLDS BRADY LAW: On September 8, the 9th Circuit Court of
Appeals in San Francisco upheld the Brady law, saying the federal
government can require local law enforcement agencies to check the
records of prospective handgun buyers. The 2-1 ruling overturned
decisions by federal judges in Montana & Arizona declaring part of the
law unconstitutional. The court said the law's requirement, that law
enforcement agencies make a "reasonable effort" to determine the
legality of a handgun purchase, was a minor burden the federal
government could impose on state & local officers. Sheriffs in
Montana & Arizona argued that requiring a records check violates the
10th Amendment, which protects state & local governments from certain
types of federal interference. The Court's ruling applies only in
states in the 9th Circuit's jurisdiction, which includes Arizona &
Montana. A motion for a rehearing by the full court (all of the 9th
Circuit Court judges instead of just three) will be filed. Stay
tuned!
A LOOK AT THE STATES: Washington: In Olympia, the City Council
recently voted to place a proposition on the November ballot that
would encourage the City Council to lobby the legislature to gut the
state's firearms preemption law. Members are encouraged to attend a
special NRA organizational meeting to learn how we can work together
to defeat this initiative. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday,
September 20, at 7:00 p.m., in the Coho- C Room of the Tyee Hotel in
Tumwater. For more information, please call the NRA California Office
at (916) 446-2455.
Wisconsin: NRA-endorsed candidate Bob Welch won his special election
in State Senate District 14. Many thanks to all NRA members who went
to the polls and supported Bob Welch!
SEATS STILL AVAILABLE FOR FLORIDA SEMINARS: Seats are still available
for the September 23 Grassroots seminars in Miami and Tampa. Don't
miss this opportunity to find out how we can work together to pass
pro-gun legislation and elect pro-gun lawmakers to office! For more
information, please call NRA-ILA at 1-800-392-8683.
=+=+=+=+
This information is provided as a service of the National Rifle
Association Institute for Legislative Action, Fairfax, VA.
This and other information on the Second Amendment and the NRA is
available at any of the following URL's: http://WWW.NRA.Org,
gopher://GOPHER.NRA.Org, wais://WAIS.NRA.Org, ftp://FTP.NRA.Org,
mailto:LIST...@NRA.Org (Send the word help as the body of a
message)
Information may also be obtained by connecting directly to the
NRA-ILA GUN-TALK Bulletin Board System at (703) 934-2121.
=+=+=+=+
This information is provided as a service of the National Rifle
Association Institute for Legislative Action, Fairfax, VA.
This and other information on the Second Amendment and the NRA is
available at any of the following URL's: http://WWW.NRA.Org,
gopher://GOPHER.NRA.Org, wais://WAIS.NRA.Org, ftp://FTP.NRA.Org,
mailto:LIST...@NRA.Org (Send the word help as the body of a
message)
Information may also be obtained by connecting directly to the
NRA-ILA GUN-TALK Bulletin Board System at (703) 934-2121.
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:58:22 -0400
From: free...@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
Subject: NRA: FBI SNIPERS TESTIFY ON RUBY RIDGE
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
From: NRA Alerts <ale...@nra.org>
Subject: FAXNET: FBI Snipers Testify on Ruby Ridge
NRA-ILA FAX NETWORK
11250 Waples Mill Road * Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: 1-800-392-8683 * Fax: 703-267-3918
Vol. 2, No. 41 9/15/95
FBI SNIPERS TESTIFY ON RUBY RIDGE
On September 14, eight FBI snipers appeared before the Senate
Subcommittee on Terrorism to discuss the amended rules of engagement
adopted during the 1992 Ruby Ridge raid. The sharpshooters testified
that the shots they fired during the siege -- including the shot that
killed Vicki Weaver -- were justified because they believed the
Weavers posed a "continuing" threat to an FBI helicopter that was
allegedly hovering above the Weaver's remote cabin. In response to
the snipers' testimony, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) stated "we've
got a subculture here that needs to be changed." As for the shooter
who actually took the ill-fated shot, Lon Horiuchi invoked his Fifth
Amendment privilege and has refused to testify concerning his
involvement in the siege. Although the subcommittee considered giving
Horiuchi immunity for his testimony, they decided against it.
Currently, an Idaho state prosecutor is investigating the possibility
of filing criminal charges against Horiuchi and some of his fellow FBI
cohorts for the actions in the raid. Although disappointed that
Horiuchi is refusing to testify, Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) noted that
"no negative inferences" should be drawn from Horiuchi's decision.
Hearings are scheduled to continue through September 28. Stay tuned!
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 10:56:49 -0400
From: free...@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
Subject: NRA: THE GENERAL SPEAKS:
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
From: NRA Alerts <ale...@nra.org>
NRA-ILA FAX NETWORK
11250 Waples Mill Road * Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: 1-800-392-8683 * Fax: 703-267-3918
Vol. 2, No. 41 9/15/95
THE GENERAL SPEAKS: During an interview with Barbara Walters for ABC's
"20/20," potential '96 Presidential candidate General Colin Powell
discussed a number of issues -- including "gun control." When asked
about his position on firearms ownership, General Powell qualified his
answer by noting that although he owns a gun & believes in the right
to bear arms, he'd support "registration or waiting a certain amount
of time" prior to purchasing a firearm. "20/20" airs tonight on ABC.
=+=+=+=+
This information is provided as a service of the National Rifle
Association Institute for Legislative Action, Fairfax, VA.
This and other information on the Second Amendment and the NRA is
available at any of the following URL's: http://WWW.NRA.Org,
gopher://GOPHER.NRA.Org, wais://WAIS.NRA.Org, ftp://FTP.NRA.Org,
mailto:LIST...@NRA.Org (Send the word help as the body of a
message)
Information may also be obtained by connecting directly to the
NRA-ILA GUN-TALK Bulletin Board System at (703) 934-2121.
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 03:24:53 PDT
From: Bill Cross <Bill....@f6.n143.z1.fidonet.org>
Subject: Request for info
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
X-Fido-Echo: LIBERTY
X-Fido-To: Libernet (Jim Ray)
X-Fido-Date: 17 Sep 95 08:59:00
-=> Quoting Libernet (jim Ray) to All <=-
L(R> From: lib...@gate.net (Jim Ray)
L(R> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 09:03:19 -0400
-=snip=-
L(R> I just got an anonymous e-mail describing in detail certain
L(R> vulnerabilities of various cryptosystems, and if you e-mail me
L(R> by midnight Wednesday, I will forward it to you.
-=snip=-
Please send it to me too.
Thanks - Bill....@6.microbbs.us.com
... Catch the Blue Wave!
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
--- Maximus 2.01wb
* Origin: Liberty Bell BBS, Santa Clara CA. (1:143/6)
--
Forwarded from the LIBERTY echo via dehnbase.fidonet.org
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 14:17:59 -0400
From: free...@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
Subject: Secret Court Increased Surveillance in 1994
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
SECRECY & GOVERNMENT BULLETIN
Issue Number 52
September 1995
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Secret Court Increased Surveillance in 1994
The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved 576 government
applications for domestic electronic surveillance of suspected foreign
agents last year under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of
1978, up from 509 approvals in 1993, according to annual reports obtained by
S&GB from the Justice Department under the Freedom of Information Act.
The integrity of the little-known FIS Court and its utility as an oversight
body have been called into question because of the Court's failure to ever
deny a single application for electronic surveillance. (The Court has
approved a total of 8,130 surveillance actions between 1979 and 1994.)
Government officials say the Court's 100% approval rate is due to careful
pre-screening of applications in the executive branch, which they say
eliminates the more questionable cases. "Applications and proposed
applications are frequently kicked back," said Deputy Attorney General Jamie
S. Gorelick. And in fact, Justice Department officials have been criticized
recently by some in the intelligence community for refusing to forward
certain proposed surveillance applications to the FIS Court. (Washington
Times, 5/11/95, p. A4).
Nevertheless, Kenneth C. Bass III, a former Justice Department official who
implemented the FISA in the late 1970s, said "I do not think it serves the
national interest for every application that has ever been presented to that
court to have been approved by that court. I think some turndowns are in the
national interest every once in a while. We have not had any
[rejections].... That creates an aura of suspicion and an aura of anxiety
about the legitimacy of the court that is not well- founded."
At a Congressional hearing last year, former House Intelligence Committee
Chairman Dan Glickman said that "In the hands of an oppressive government
this [FIS Court] could be an extraordinary tool if national security is not
very well defined or if people don't have a basically honest view of what
constitutes national security." Mr. Glickman recommended that additional
protections be incorporated in the law. ("Amending the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act," House Intel Comm, 7/14/94, p. 48).
Mr. Bass offered an impressive proposal to establish an independent advocate
for the target who could make the case against approving surveillance,
thereby enriching the record before the Court and reducing the likelihood
that the process would be abused.
No such enhanced protections were adopted. Instead, in the wake of the
Aldrich Ames case, Congress expanded the scope of FISA to include, for the
first time, physical searches as well as electronic surveillance,
notwithstanding a cogent argument by Kate Martin of the Center for National
Security Studies that the move was unconstitutional. The President
implemented the revised law in executive order 12949 last February.
The continuing controversy over the FIS Court has recently been reported in
Legal Times (11/7/94) and Covert Action Quarterly (Summer 1995).
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:20:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: JACK HAMMER <j...@teleport.com>
Subject: The Cult of Democracy
Democracy is a cult demanding total obedience of mind. To challenge the
cult of democracy is to risk being branded a pariah. Freethinking is not
an attribute of cult democracy, here's why.
The majoritarian god of democracy replaces it's opinion for law, and this
must be accepted by its lackeys, for it says to them that if they
disagree with the majority's decree, then they can stir the fires of
public debate, rev the engines of public oipinion so that the dissenter
can take his turn at leading opinion. So, because there has been a
popular vote, the individual is faced with the notion that he had a
chance to make some change for his own good, and now that the ballots
have been cast, public discourse is closed until the next election.
The individual must now acquiesce to the will of the majority. If the
will is to confiscate half his wages, then the individual must reckon
this to be good and voluntary, since he participated in the deliberation
of his own rape.
This explains, for example, prohibition in a so-called free
country.
Democracy is much like an orchestra in that it is very difficult to
mobilize, but once it has started it is very difficult to stop.
One reason among many why democracy is not only a bad form of government,
but the worst. And yes, there is a better way . . .
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 18:03:17 PST
From: Tom Isenberg <to...@microsoft.com>
Subject: TIPS: Outreach to High Schools (11/6/94)
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
I have spoken to almost a dozen high school and college classes and I
find it one of the most personally rewarding activities. It's also
very important to reach students (and teachers) with our message. It
legitimizes the LP when they get invited to speak to your class. And
when they see what a good job you do (whether they agree with you or
not) it gives a good image of the LP.
Our primary goal is to expose these kids to Libertarian ideas and to
give them enough information so they can progress on their own (by
giving them a solid info packet.)
The following ideas assume that you want to organize a speaker's bureau
in your area (check with your county LP first to make sure there isn't
one already.) However, you'll find plenty of ideas to use even if
intend to go solo.
I. IDENTIFY GOOD SPEAKERS
Interest in having political speakers is usually highest in October
(because of the elections in early November) but I've been invited to
speak throughout the school year. At any rate, get into the routine at
the beginning every school year of identifying the volunteers who would
be good speakers. They don't need to be awesome orators, they just
need to be nice, friendly people who don't come across as raving kooks.
They need to be comfortable with public speaking, obviously, but they
also need to dress respectably (i.e., business suit.) You want to look
like you're ready to assume public office. If you don't take yourself
seriously, they won't take you seriously either. People who have (or
want to) run for office should practice their public speaking by
talking to high school classes.
II. SOLICIT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Once you've identified your stable of speakers, assign each one of them
a local school district. Have them draw up a list of all the high
schools in their district (don't forget private schools). Focus on
high schools in upper-class neighborhoods (the kids are better
educated, college-bound, and, who knows, you might get their rich
parents interested, too!) Get the address and phone number for each
school. Then, call up each of the schools and ask for the names of all
the Civics/Social Studies/Politics/Government (or whatever they call it
in your area) teachers that teach Seniors. (Juniors are ok, too, but
don't waste your time with younger kids.) Make sure you get the
spelling of their names right and get their personal phone numbers as well.
The coordinator then creates a database with all of this information
and sends a form letter to all of the teachers. The letter might read
as follows:
"Dear Ms. Jackson,
"The Libertarian Party often gets requests to send a representative to
speak to local high school classes. Many teachers would like their
students to be exposed to alternative political parties, and we are
happy to oblige with classroom presentations on the third largest party
in the country (and its history, positions, and unique role in American
politics.) We have already done well-received presentations at
Churchill, Gateway, and Penn Hills High Schools.
"I am writing to let you know that we are again booking speakers in
your area. Please contact me as soon as possible to ensure that
speakers are available when you need them.
"We are also happy to provide schools with reference materials on the
Libertarian Party, including books and videotapes, and to provide
participants for debates, political fairs, or materials for class projects.
"I have enclosed materials to acquaint you with the Libertarian Party
and its views.
"Sincerely,
"Tom Isenberg, 206-936-7359"
Send your standard prospect kit to the teacher (it should include the
National LP Program and the Nolan Chart survey.) To see the awesome
prospect kit that we use, send two 29-cent stamps to: LPWS, P.O. Box
20732, Seattle, WA 98102.
Two weeks after these letters have gone out, have your speakers do a
follow-up call to the teachers in their assigned schools. The call
might go as follows: "Hello, this is Tom Isenberg. I'm with the
Libertarian Party of King County and I wanted to make sure you received
the information we sent you on our speakers program. Would you like a
representative of the Libertarian Party to make a presentation to your
class? Etc." Arrange for a mutually satisfactory time, get
directions, find out how many students you will be speaking to, and
call back to confirm the day before the speech. Try not to schedule
more than two classes on a given day, you'll be exhausted. If
possible, schedule for early morning classes (teenagers get sleepy
after lunch.)
III. PREPARE HANDOUTS
Image is everything in politics. That's why you have to look and act
first-class. Also, your literature has to look sharp. We want to make
sure that students have something to take home and show their family
and friends, put up on their bedroom wall, and maybe even act on later.
So bring enough copies of the Nolan Chart survey (with your membership
form, reading list, etc. on the back) and the "Bill of Rights: Void
Where Prohibited by Law" handbill for each student (if you want to get
a copy of either, contact me.) Have your assistant hand them out
before class begins.
Also, you'll want to bring some prospect kits for students who want
them (about 30% of the class.) Start with your standard prospect kit
and add a free issue of Reason magazine, the Cato books catalog, the
Freeman, and the Laissez-Faire Books catalog. (These organizations
have provided free supplies for distribution, so ask them.) For more
information on professional-looking prospect kits, contact me. Also,
include photocopies of contests/scholarship/seminar info for college
libertarians (you know, the full page ads you see in Reason.) Many
kids are college-bound and may be interested in such things.
Make sure you give a copy of this prospect kit for the teacher, in
addition to a copy of Robert Ringer's "Restoring the American Dream" or
other introductory book for his classroom library.
IV. GIVE THE PRESENTATION
To get a copy of the standard high school speech I give, contact me.
Always bring an assistant with you. Bring someone who would like to
give speeches, so they can see what it's like (to see that it's not so
hard.) You'll want them to dress as professionally as you do, because
you're both representing the Libertarian Party, a serious political
party. Have your assistant distribute handouts and take notes (ideas
for improvements, questions that were asked, etc.) You'll use these
notes to improve next time.
Dress for success. Wear a suit. Look like you're in office already.
If you look like a schmoe, go give a speech on behalf of the Socialist
Workers Party instead, you'll help our cause more.
Hang out with the teacher before and after class. Make conversation.
Let him get to know you as a
decent normal person (not a fanatic kook). Don't debate politics with
him, make friends with him. You want him to invite Libertarians back,
year after year.
V. SOLICIT THE JUNIOR STATESMEN FOUNDATION
Finally, check with your state and county LP to see if you should make
yourself available as an LP representative to the Junior Statesmen
Foundation chapter in your area: call 1-800-334-5353, in Northern CA,
call 415-347-1600. Or write to: The Junior State of America, 60 E.
Third Ave #320, San Mateo, CA 94401-4032. This nationwide organization
is geared towards high school students who are interested in politics.
They hold annual conventions complete with debates, keynote speakers,
seminars, and political fairs. The 1994 Junior State of America
regional conventions were held in Spokane, Austin, Anaheim, New York,
Seattle, Los Angeles, and Santa Clara.
In Washington state, they always invite the Libertarians to set up a
literature table. We do the Nolan booth there, and it's always the hit
of the political fair. If you can address the entire convention (by
giving a speech or participating in a debate) that'd be awesome. Push
for that. But at least participate in the political fair. Obviously,
you want to encourage libertarian students in your area to attend this
and give presentations.
_________________
This is one of a series of many TIPS sheets for Libertarian activism.
For a complete list, contact to...@microsoft.com. They are continually
updated, so please give me your feedback and suggestions.
--
Tom Isenberg
INTERNET: to...@microsoft.com "The opinions expressed are mine only."
VOTE LIBERTARIAN 1-800-682-1776
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 11:01:59 -0400
From: free...@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
Subject: Update - Sarah Brady appearance in Adrian, MI
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
From: dc...@adrian.adrian.edu
Subject: Update - Sarah Brady appearance in Adrian, MI
This is an update on Sarah Brady's appearance in Adrian,
Michigan, on Tuesday, September 19, 1995 at 10:30 AM. Sarah is
speaking at the Croswell Opera House in Downtown Adrian,
Michigan.
At this time (10:15 AM on Monday morning, 9/18/95) our plans are
unchanged. Please show up tomorrow at the Croswell Opera House
beginning around 9:00 AM. It is suggested that you park in the
back of the Croswell, in the city parking lot. About 9:30 AM, we
will move to the front of the Croswell. Sarah's talk will begin
around 10:30 AM. Once her talk has commenced, we can either
disperse, or continue the protest, until the lecture is finished,
as those in attendance see fit.
This protest of Sarah's presentation received top line, page one
coverage in the Daily Telegram (Adrian's local paper) on
Saturday, 9/16/95. The reporter (Matt Crossman) who wrote this
article has confirmed that he will be present, and advised that
there will be a Associated Press photographer present as well.
Given this exposure by the media (and the potential for more
exposure), it is important that the pro-firearms movement make a
strong showing! Virtually all our TV and radio coverage come
from Toledo, Detroit or Ann Arbor. The Detroit News/Free Press
and the Toledo Blade are also widely circulated in Adrian and in
Lenawee County.
Please plan on attending, and encourage others to attend. It is
understood that this is a very poor time (mid-morning on a work
day). Please do your best to be present! Your efforts are
appreciated!
Direction to Adrian, Michigan, and the Croswell Opera House.
Adrian is located in southeast lower Michigan, approximately half
way between Jackson, Michigan, and Toledo, Ohio (about 35 miles
southeast of Jackson, and about 35 miles northwest of Toledo).
:From Jackson, take US 127 south, past M-50 and US 12. About 1
mile south of the US 12 intersection, there is a split between US
127 and US 223. Take US 223, and follow it to Adrian. Follow
the signage directing you to downtown (Business 223). The
Croswell Opera House is located on East Maumee Street, between
Main Street and Broad Street. It is one-half block east of the
"four corners" of the center of the downtown district.
:From Toledo, take US 23 north to the Adrian-Blissfield exit (it
is so marked - I believe it is exit 4) Go west through
Blissfield, to Adrian. Upon entering the city, you will cross a
light at Treat Road, cross an overpass spanning a railroad line,
and come to a second light at Division Street. Turn right
(north) on Division Street, and take it until it ends at Church
Street. Turn left, and then immediately go right (it's one way)
onto northbound Broad Street. The next cross street (and light)
is East Maumee Street. The Croswell will be one-half block west
of this intersection.
:From Ann Arbor or the Detroit area, you have two options. One is
to get to US 23 south (by your favorite route), and run it to the
Adrian-Blissfield exit. Go west, and follow the above directions.
The other option is to US 12 to M-52, and take M-52 south into
Adrian. Stay with M-52 (it loops west and then south again at
the County Courthouse, and becomes Winter Street). Turn left onto
West Maumee Street from Winter Street. You are one and one-half
blocks from the Croswell at this location.
M-52 also intersects I-94 at Chelsea. Michigan. If you come this
way, simply head south on M-52, cross US 12, and follow the
previous directions.
Everyone is reminded that this protest is to be peaceful in the
extreme. We will take no actions that will hurt the pro-gun
movement. Please dress appropriately. If you chose to bring
signs or banners, please word them appropriately.
I encourage any who receive this notice to call me if there are
any questions.
David G. Coy 517-263-6468
Again, please plan on attending! It won't be the same without
you! Don't miss your chance to become involved in this direct
action against Sarah Brady!
P.S. Cyber eagles, and all activists, please help to distribute
this notice as widely as possible.
P.P.S Thanks for your help with the previous notice!
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 16:36:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: pomi <p...@clark.net>
Subject: USA! FBI's HRT
To: usa-f...@webcom.com
You received this msg, which was represented as being sent by me.
I wrote it to another list, but I did not send it to any recipients
listed in this header. Someone must have forwarded it and stripped
out the identifiers. It's no big deal, but I'm not the one who sent
it to recipients who are also reading this msg.
-----received msg-------------
: From NY Times, 9/16/95, p.A9:
:
:
: Members of the Hostage Rescue Team [of the FBI] serve full time,
: unlike officers in a SWAT team who are assigned only part time
: to special weapons and tactic duties. Agents in the rescue team,
: who dress in black fatigues, helmets, and are armed with auto-
: matic weapons, have militarized the image of the FBI, a far cry
: from the days when agents were pictured as brainy detectives who
: wore suits and carried snub-nose revolvers.
:
: They drill every day in military style exercises at the FBI
: training academy in Quantico, Va. Before they feel under criticism,
: the agents dazzled visiting dignitaries by their live fire drills,
: and demonstrations of a "dynamic entry" when they rush a building
: to save a hostage trapped within.
:
: The team is split in two, one part an assault unit and the other
: a sniper-observer unit. Those who undertake assaults are trained
: in the techniques of storming aircraft, ships, trains, houses, and
: hotels. Snipers must be able to consistently hit a dime-sized
: target at 600 feet.
:
: The criticism of the unit is a change from the days when it
: represented a swashbuckling civilian version to the military's
: Delta force. The unit's high point came in 1991, when its agents
: stormed a cellblock at a Federal Prison in Taledega, Ala., that
: had taken over by Cuban inmates facing deportation. The unit
: raided the prison building before dawn and successfully rescued
: the prison employees taken hostage, without firing a shot.
:
: [end excerpt]
:
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 20:51:32 -0500 (EST)
From: 3r...@pinn.net
Subject: USA! President Powell
To: My Way <mw...@bbs.cresnet.org>
Yea, and if you want a lackey of the CFR/Trilateralism/UN axis support
this guy. He's attractive because he transcends race but that is hardly a
recommendation to be president.
And as far as our great victory in the Gulf War, I suggest that anyone
who believes that, read "Second Front" by John MacArthur (editor of
Harper's Magazine.) That puts to rest the media-generated notion that the
US military fought some terrible stupendous enemy. Iraq was nothing but a
paper tiger who couldn't beat a lowly country like Iran with US support.
It's amazing to me how much so many people buy everything hook, line and
sinker! It's no wonder the US is in a perpetual crisis- the people are
misinformed!
On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, My Way wrote:
: Steve: What is your problem? Powell is a supporter of the UN! He is
: wishy washy - can't make up his mind which party he agrees with, and
: overall he was a great leader during the action of Desert Storm, etc.,
: but that is all! That is it. Why do people like you run after someone
: whose credentials and longevity in the political circles are null and
: void just because he is known in some other position? THINK IT OUT.
: Do it: MY WAY.
:
: P.S.: Dole has cozied to all and everything to be at the top. Is that
: what you want, Steve?
: d On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Steve Sidwell wrote:
:
: >
: > On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Dennis Clark wrote:
: >
: > >
: > > Steve, Get a grip, this guy is a LIBERAL. He is on record as stating he
: > > is an FDR NEW DEAL man. SHEESH
: > >
: > > Dennis
: > >
: >
: > Dennis,
: >
: > I'm not quite sure this is the case. I see him 75% conservative and the
: > rest a mixture. I'm a die-hard Republican conservative - and I could
: > live with Gingrich-Wilson ticket (since a Limbaugh-Liddy ticket is
: > probably out of the question).
: >
: > That aside, Colin Powell is the best current compromise. More
: > importantly, no one else is even close in capturing the public's
: > attention. He *is* the man of the hour - and I believe it will carry him
: > into the White House in January, 1997.
: >
: > Hail to the (new) Chief!
: >
: > > On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Steve Sidwell wrote:
: > >
: > > >
: > > > I'm taking all odds that the next President of the Unites States was
: > > > interviwed by Barbara Walters on Friday, September 15th, 1995.
: > > >
: > > > President Powell is a giant of a man - and one who's time has come to
: > > > serve our great country. The right man at the right time, IMHO.
: > > >
: > > > My $.02 worth,
: > > >
: > > > Steve
: > > >
: > > > ***********************************************************************
: > > > Committed to bringing serious attention to the alien presence...
: > > > ***********************************************************************
: > > >
: > > > On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Charles Zeps wrote:
: > > >
: > > > > Powell: Approves Abortion, Gun Control and the United Nations
: > > > >
: > > > > (c) 1995 N.Y. Times News Service
: > > > > <ABRIDGED>
: > > > >
: > > > > WASHINGTON (16 Sept. 1995 - ) Gen. Colin Powell says he did not spend his
: > > > > whole life waiting for this moment.
: > > > >
: > > > > Yet, the moment has clearly arrived. America's yearning for a strong, vivid
: > > > > leader has met up with one of the most intense book marketing efforts of all
: > > > > time. And the man who has been effusively hailed as an inspirational leader,
: > > > > a national hero and a potential savior of the political system is finally
: > > > > going to be expected to explain who he is, and what he wants.
: > > > > "I have been this sort of blank screen that people have projected their
: > > > > fondest image on," the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
: > > > > acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times.
: > > > >
: > > > > In person, in mufti, Powell does reveal some surprising things about himself:
: > > > > He listens to Muzak in his office. He has a curious, horsy laugh. He has
: > > > > devised an elaborate mathematical formula for making decisions, where when
: > > > > P equals 1 you have apparently waited too long.
: > > > >
: > > > > "Somewhere between .4 and .7 you make your decision," he explained.
: > > > >
: > > > > His autobiography, "My American Journey," which arrived in bookstores Friday,
: > > > > also reveals some surprising things:
: > > > >
: > > > > Among his favorite movies are "The Producers," "The Lavender Hill Mob" and
: > > > > "Moonstruck." The dimple on his neck is not a bullet wound, it's a surgical
: > > > > scar. He enjoys a stiff drink now and then, even though he once had to be
: > > > > strapped into a jeep to go on an alert because he was so hung over.
: > > > > But spending time with Powell, either in his Alexandria, Va., office or in
: > > > > his book, one is left, quite intentionally, one suspects, still wishing he
: > > > > would reveal a lot more.
: > > > >
: > > > > Powell chooses his words with enormous care, to the point of challenging
: > > > > reporters on their precise phrasing of his past remarks, and adeptly turns
: > > > > any question he does not want to answer into one he that does.
: > > > >
: > > > > This same habit shapes his autobiography, where he sidesteps issues he does
: > > > > not want to confront. He has studied intently the political landscape, to
: > > > > the point of becoming well-versed in election law, yet he genuinely seems to
: > > > > be using his publicity tour to decide whether to run, and if so, what as.
: > > > >
: > > > > The general describes himself as pro-choice, pro-United Nations, in favor of
: > > > > some form of affirmative action and gun control, and against organized prayer
: > > > > in public schools. On the basis of these stands, he would seem to fit in the
: > > > > moderate wing of the Republican Party or, just as easily, in the desperately
: > > > > -seeking-center Democratic Party.
: > > > >
: > > > > But on many other key issues, he appears to be a man very much in the midst
: > > > > of studying up. He said he received position papers from groups as diverse
: > > > > as the staunchly conservative Heritage Foundation and the centrist
: > > > > Progressive Policy Institute.
: > > > >
: > > > >
: > > > >
: > > > > I had learned that those who |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
: > > > > are lying or trying to cover CI$: GO OUTFORUM SEC.8
: > > > > up something generally make |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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: > > > > to overact, to overstate their PERMISSION TO
: > > > > case. - Richard Milhous Nixon COPY / REPOST
: > > > >
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 20:19:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: My Way <mw...@bbs.cresnet.org>
Subject: USA! President Powell
To: usa-f...@webcom.com
Steve: What is your problem? Powell is a supporter of the UN! He is
wishy washy - can't make up his mind which party he agrees with, and
overall he was a great leader during the action of Desert Storm, etc.,
but that is all! That is it. Why do people like you run after someone
whose credentials and longevity in the political circles are null and
void just because he is known in some other position? THINK IT OUT.
Do it: MY WAY.
P.S.: Dole has cozied to all and everything to be at the top. Is that
what you want, Steve?
d On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Steve Sidwell wrote:
:
: On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Dennis Clark wrote:
:
: >
: > Steve, Get a grip, this guy is a LIBERAL. He is on record as stating he
: > is an FDR NEW DEAL man. SHEESH
: >
: > Dennis
: >
:
: Dennis,
:
: I'm not quite sure this is the case. I see him 75% conservative and the
: rest a mixture. I'm a die-hard Republican conservative - and I could
: live with Gingrich-Wilson ticket (since a Limbaugh-Liddy ticket is
: probably out of the question).
:
: That aside, Colin Powell is the best current compromise. More
: importantly, no one else is even close in capturing the public's
: attention. He *is* the man of the hour - and I believe it will carry him
: into the White House in January, 1997.
:
: Hail to the (new) Chief!
:
: > On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Steve Sidwell wrote:
: >
: > >
: > > I'm taking all odds that the next President of the Unites States was
: > > interviwed by Barbara Walters on Friday, September 15th, 1995.
: > >
: > > President Powell is a giant of a man - and one who's time has come to
: > > serve our great country. The right man at the right time, IMHO.
: > >
: > > My $.02 worth,
: > >
: > > Steve
: > >
: > > ***********************************************************************
: > > Committed to bringing serious attention to the alien presence...
: > > ***********************************************************************
: > >
: > > On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Charles Zeps wrote:
: > >
: > > > Powell: Approves Abortion, Gun Control and the United Nations
: > > >
: > > > (c) 1995 N.Y. Times News Service
: > > > <ABRIDGED>
: > > >
: > > > WASHINGTON (16 Sept. 1995 - ) Gen. Colin Powell says he did not spend his
: > > > whole life waiting for this moment.
: > > >
: > > > Yet, the moment has clearly arrived. America's yearning for a strong, vivid
: > > > leader has met up with one of the most intense book marketing efforts of all
: > > > time. And the man who has been effusively hailed as an inspirational leader,
: > > > a national hero and a potential savior of the political system is finally
: > > > going to be expected to explain who he is, and what he wants.
: > > > "I have been this sort of blank screen that people have projected their
: > > > fondest image on," the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
: > > > acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times.
: > > >
: > > > In person, in mufti, Powell does reveal some surprising things about himself:
: > > > He listens to Muzak in his office. He has a curious, horsy laugh. He has
: > > > devised an elaborate mathematical formula for making decisions, where when
: > > > P equals 1 you have apparently waited too long.
: > > >
: > > > "Somewhere between .4 and .7 you make your decision," he explained.
: > > >
: > > > His autobiography, "My American Journey," which arrived in bookstores Friday,
: > > > also reveals some surprising things:
: > > >
: > > > Among his favorite movies are "The Producers," "The Lavender Hill Mob" a
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: > > > "Moonstruck." The dimple on his neck is not a bullet wound, it's a surgical
: > > > scar. He enjoys a stiff drink now and then, even though he once had to be
: > > > strapped into a jeep to go on an alert because he was so hung over.
: > > > But spending time with Powell, either in his Alexandria, Va., office or in
: > > > his book, one is left, quite intentionally, one suspects, still wishing he
: > > > would reveal a lot more.
: > > >
: > > > Powell chooses his words with enormous care, to the point of challenging
: > > > reporters on their precise phrasing of his past remarks, and adeptly turns
: > > > any question he does not want to answer into one he that does.
: > > >
: > > > This same habit shapes his autobiography, where he sidesteps issues he does
: > > > not want to confront. He has studied intently the political landscape, to
: > > > the point of becoming well-versed in election law, yet he genuinely seems to
: > > > be using his publicity tour to decide whether to run, and if so, what as.
: > > >
: > > > The general describes himself as pro-choice, pro-United Nations, in favor of
: > > > some form of affirmative action and gun control, and against organized prayer
: > > > in public schools. On the basis of these stands, he would seem to fit in the
: > > > moderate wing of the Republican Party or, just as easily, in the desperately
: > > > -seeking-center Democratic Party.
: > > >
: > > > But on many other key issues, he appears to be a man very much in the midst
: > > > of studying up. He said he received position papers from groups as diverse
: > > > as the staunchly conservative Heritage Foundation and the centrist
: > > > Progressive Policy Institute.
: > > >
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 22:31:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: James Hayman <j...@io.com>
Subject: USA! Re: AOL Opens Email to Feds
To: "Donna J. Logan" <rev...@pcnet.com>
On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, Donna J. Logan wrote:
: On Fri, 15 Sep 1995 lin...@iquest.net wrote:
:
< snip >
: Yes, but what was their excuse for surveilling/censoring those of us AOLers
: on the Immune list, where we discussed alternative health treatments for
: immune systems disorders...we even had problems in PRIVATE live chat rooms.
:
Donna and Linda,
I was watching C-SPAN a program from Aspen on Effects of Technology
where a Veep for Aol was present and he said something to the effect that
some of the AOL users had threatened the life of the President using
their AOL accounts. He justified what they did with this excuse.
Of course, you are right to leave them for this. It is not their job to
protect the president. Their job is to serve and protect their customers.
They deserve to go out of business for the way their kowtowed to the SS.
Regards
Jim Hayman
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:08:25 -0500
From: ca...@cato.org (Cato Institute)
Subject: Welfare pays better than work
STUDY RELEASE
September 19, 1995
Welfare pays better than work, study says
Welfare benefits are far more generous than commonly
portrayed and substantially exceed the amount a recipient could
earn in an entry-level job, according to a new study from the
Cato Institute. As a result, recipients are likely to choose
welfare over work, increasing long-term dependency.
The study examined the combined value of benefits--including
AFDC, food stamps, Medicaid, and others--for a typical welfare
recipient in each of the 50 states. The study compared the value
of those tax-free benefits with the amount of pretax income that
a worker would have to earn to receive an equivalent income.
Among the study's findings:
: To match the value of welfare benefits, a mother with two
children would have to earn as much as $36,400 in Hawaii or as
little as $11,500 in Mississippi.
: In New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, the District of
Columbia, Hawaii, Alaska, and Rhode Island, welfare pays more
than a $12.00 an hour job--or more than two- and-a-half times the
minimum wage.
: In 40 states welfare pays more than an $8.00 an hour job.
In 17 states the welfare package is more generous than a
$10.00 an hour job.
: Welfare benefits are especially generous in large urban
cities. Welfare offers the pre-tax income equivalent of a
$14.75 an hour job in New York City, $12.45 in Philadelphia,
$11.35 in Baltimore, and $10.90 in Detroit.
: In 9 states, welfare pays more than the average first year
salary for a teacher. In 29 states, welfare pays more than the
average starting salary for a secretary. In 47 states welfare
pays more than a janitor. Indeed, in the 6 most generous states,
benefits exceed the entry level salary for a computer programmer.
The study's authors--Michael Tanner, Cato's director of health
and welfare studies; Stephen Moore, Cato's director of fiscal
policy studies; and David Hartman, CEO of Hartland Bank in
Austin, Texas--conclude that if Congress or state governments are
serious about reducing welfare dependency and rewarding work, the
most promising reform is to cut benefit levels substantially.
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Date: (null)
From: (null)
Members of the Hostage Rescue Team [of the FBI] serve full time,
unlike officers in a SWAT team who are assigned only part time
to special weapons and tactic duties. Agents in the rescue team,
who dress in black fatigues, helmets, and are armed with auto-
matic weapons, have militarized the image of the FBI, a far cry
from the days when agents were pictured as brainy detectives who
wore suits and carried snub-nose revolvers.
They drill every day in military style exercises at the FBI
training academy in Quantico, Va. Before they feel under criticism,
the agents dazzled visiting dignitaries by their live fire drills,
and demonstrations of a "dynamic entry" when they rush a building
to save a hostage trapped within.
The team is split in two, one part an assault unit and the other
a sniper-observer unit. Those who undertake assaults are trained
in the techniques of storming aircraft, ships, trains, houses, and
hotels. Snipers must be able to consistently hit a dime-sized
target at 600 feet.
The criticism of the unit is a change from the days when it
represented a swashbuckling civilian version to the military's
Delta force. The unit's high point came in 1991, when its agents
stormed a cellblock at a Federal Prison in Taledega, Ala., that
had taken over by Cuban inmates facing deportation. The unit
raided the prison building before dawn and successfully rescued
the prison employees taken hostage, without firing a shot.
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From: mpr...@inri.com (Mike Price)
Subject: - ALAN KEYES
To: Natha...@aol.com, klu...@u.washington.edu, rd...@cosi.stockton.edu,
- ALAN KEYES -
Dear friend of America,
I offer for your consideration this summary of the strength of the
candidacy of Ambassador Alan L. Keyes for the presidency. The views
expressed here are entirely private, and are not necessarily endorsed in
any way by Dr. Keyes or his campaign.
I believe that this candidacy has a moral claim on men of conscience in
America. If we have been waiting for someone to speak to the heart of the
problems and promise of America, our wait is over. We must respond.
Qualifications and Experience
Dr. Alan L. Keyes - citizen activist, diplomat, educator, and scholar - is
one of the best prepared candidates for the presidency the country has seen
in decades. His depth of insight into the issues facing America, and the
eloquence of his expression of that insight, have been compared seriously
to those of Lincoln -- that is, by people who actually know something about
Lincoln.
* Ph.D. in Government Affairs: Harvard University.
* Foreign Service Officer: 1977-81.
* Ambassador to the U.N. Economic and Social Council under Ronald Reagan,
1981-85.
* Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations under Ronald
Reagan, 1985-87.
* Twice nominated for the United States Senate in Maryland, 1988 and 1992.
* President of Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), 1989-1991.
* Founder of CAGW's National Taxpayer's Action Day.
* President of Alabama A&M University, 1991.
* Author of "Masters of the Dream: The Strength and Betrayal of Black
America, 1995".
* Host of nationally syndicated radio talk show.
Issue Summary
"We can no longer afford to follow leaders for whom the moral challenge
this nation faces is an afterthought, when it ought to be the primary focus
of national policy. The American people are ready to deal with our moral
identity crisis. All the signs are out there and 1994 was the best sign of
all."
"The moral problems of this country are its practical problems."
"Our first priority should be restoring the moral and material support for
the marriage-based two parent family. The disintegration of the family is
the major contributing factor in poverty, crime, violence, the decline in
educational performance, and a host of other expensive social problems.
Restoring a strong sense of inter-generational family responsibility would
even help to address the financial problems facing the Social Security
system."
"If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a
matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship
in our republic."
"We're going to have to find the courage one of these days to tell people
that freedom is not an easy discipline. Freedom is not a choice for those
who are lazy in their hearts, and in their respect for their own moral
capacities. Freedom requires that at the end of the day, you accept the
constraint that is required, the respect for the laws of Nature and
Nature's God, that say unequivocally that your daughters do not have the
right to do what is wrong, that your sons do not have the right to do what
is wrong.
They do not have the right to steal bread from the mouths of the
innocent.They do not have the right to steal life from the womb of the
unborn."
"Abortion is a Declaration issue. It is an issue that goes to the very
heart of our principles and how we apply them. It is like the issue of
slavery and the issue of civil rights: an issue of whether or not we really
acknowledge the transcendent Authority on the basis of which we have our
rights, or whether we are going to arrogate that authority to ourselves,
and declare that we have the right to draw the line determining who is
human and who is not."
"[The] notion that your children exist for your convenience, for your
pleasure, for your satisfaction, and, that if they don't serve that
pleasure, satisfaction and convenience, you have the right to get them out
of the way - that is the principle of abortion. And so we see that at the
heart of this issue is an attitude that poisons and destroys the entire
possibility of family life. It establishes as the principle of right in
this society the notion that other human beings, including those who are
closest to us of any human beings in the world, can be regarded by us as
objects, de-humanized instruments of our pleasure and passion and
convenience.
Abortion strikes at the very heart and soul and principle of what it means
to be part of a family."
"The paradigm of all peace and security should be the peace of the unborn
child in the womb."
"Might does not make right. Abortion is a breach of the fundamental tenets
of our public moral creed."
"People shall never again be enslaved by the principle that one human
being, whether it be a mother or a slave owner, has the right to treat
another human life as property."
"When you are morally disordered, you eventually get into the situation
where you must sacrifice your liberty for the sake of order. No free
society can survive when it has lost its self-control, its self-
discipline, and the foundation of real authority in that society. And the
Declaration states for us that foundation: our freedom comes from God; it
must be respected out of respect for the authority of God."
"I would strongly favor and promote school choice approaches that empower
parents to send their children to schools that reflect their faith and
values. We not only need prayer in schools, we need schools that are in the
hands of people who pray. We must break the government monopoly on public
education."
"Affirmative action is a betrayal of the principles of the civil rights
movement"
"Tax cuts and reforms aimed at reducing government's extortion of family
income are essential elements of the program to restore America's moral
health. Fiscal sanity and moral revival go hand in hand."
The Washington Post called Keyes at the U.N., "an uncompromising defender
of the United States in an often hostile environment."
"I still have a question in my mind, which I put personally to every
senator who voted for it, as to why it was in the Fall of last year, after
the American people sent the clear message that they wanted their money
home and they wanted their power back in their hands at the grass roots,
that so many of them chose to vote for a treaty that put that power in the
hands of unelected foreigners in the World Trade Organization."
The Power of the Word
Keyes' candidacy has for its principle instrument the spoken word of the
candidate. Testimonials are accumulating rapidly to the profound power of
this word:
"After listening to the Alan Keyes video-tape you sent me I am through
fence-straddling. Abortion, the way we are using it today, is an
abomination and there is no way to rationalize by qualifying modern demands
on people. (letter from the first person I sent a tape to)
"Keyes... has the ability to... move this campaign a certain degree to the
right. [To] the moral right. Keyes is powerful on the stump. Keyes is
absolutely amazing on the stump... There's nobody out there right now who
is doing a better job of articulating the moral concerns, the moral
positions of the Republican Party, and what they ought to be, than Alan
Keyes.
But that's the side of things that SCARE -- DEEPLY -- patrician mainstream
old country-club Republican types. They wish that guys like Alan Keyes
would drop off the edge of the earth." (Rush Limbaugh: May 31, 1995)
"Dole was the fourth of five presidential aspirants to address the meeting
of 600 party members from across the Midwest, who seemed to applaud loudest
for the podium- pounding style of conservative radio talk-show host Alan
Keyes. 'We need [people] in leadership who, for lack of a better word, are
heroes,' Inez Jones, a retired secretary from Muskegon, Mich., said in a
mild criticism of Gramm's politely received speech.
'The programs (the government) have now are like putting Band-Aids on a
bleeding ulcer,' she said, citing her belief that "family values" were the
enduring issue in the campaign. 'Keyes is a tough act to follow,' said
retired banker Elgin Gunderson of Hayward, Wis., reflecting the mostly
white audience's enthusiastic reaction to the adamantly anti-abortion
Keyes, who is black. 'I think Keyes is going to surprise a lot of people,'
lawyer Jack Falasca agreed. 'Dole will win a couple of primaries but not by
what he's expected to, then Gramm and others will move up.'" (Reuters story
about May 20, 1995 Midwestern Presidential Forum at Green Bay, Wisconsin.)
On May 17, two days before Keyes' speech to the Midwest Leadership
Conference, a secular Milwaukee radio station, WISN, conducted a
presidential poll on the air. The host was U.S. Senate candidate Bob Welch.
Alan Keyes won the poll nearly 10:1 to the next nearest vote getter, Gramm,
who received only about 4 votes. The screener stopped taking Keyes calls
the last 15 minutes so that the few callers supporting other candidates
could get in.
The incredulous host and screener were convinced this was spontaneous and
not an organized call-in effort. No one called in support of Tommy
Thompson.
Strategy
Alan Keyes is the only candidate in either party able and willing to
propose with clarity, authority, and conviction the moral restoration that
the consciences of Americans are finally demanding. He understands the
principles of American civilization, and he intends to raise the banner of
those principles in this election.
He is, predictably, gaining increasing media attention because of media
interest in the "divisive" issues, which the media hope are dangerous to
the party. They hope, rightly, that Keyes will start the fight within the
Republican Party over the moral issues. When the media eventually cease
dismissing Keyes as a "podium-thumping, fiery ideologue" and realize that
they have a political leader of rare stature on their hands, Keyes will
become a national phenomenon.
And if Keyes is right in his claim that the American people really are
finally demanding moral leadership, then they will settle for nothing less
than what he offers.
Keyes' emergence onto the national stage began with an eight-minute speech
at a February candidate forum in New Hampshire. It was a performance that
left Focus on the Family's James Dobson literally weeping with joy. Its
re-broadcast on Dobson's radio show on two successive days generated an
overwhelming wave of phone calls and letters from Americans who had almost
ceased to hope that they would ever hear a politician speak moral truth
with conviction.
Keyes has since regularly received second or third place in straw polls at
state conventions around the country - frequently from delegations most of
whose members had never heard him speak until the day of the vote.. A
grass-roots movement of distribution of recordings of his speeches is
proceeding across the country.
This movement constitutes a new instrument of populist politics, which
entirely circumvents the media, is extremely cost effective, encourages the
person-to-person contact which is the true source of political power, and
brings people face to face as well with Keyes in his most powerful and
inspiring contexts.
Keyes is a master of crafting his presentation to the particular audience
and medium before him. From talk radio, to stump speech, to state
convention, to the G.O.P.A.C. convention in Washington, he speaks without
text or notes directly to his audience and with great art. He is a polished
and skilled debater.
Meanwhile, as the first true populist movement in Republican presidential
politics since the 1976 Reagan campaign gathers steam almost nine months
before the first primary or caucus, speculation is rampant that other
Republicans will enter the race. This speculation is a clear, if tacit,
admission that the leading candidates in the party are largely failing to
generate enthusiasm in a party almost assured of victory next year against
an incumbent who is a manifest embarrassment to the office of President.
Senators Dole and Gramm have hired or recruited operatives in almost every
hamlet in the land, but Keyes is acknowledged in news account after news
account to be generating far more enthusiasm wherever he is heard.
Republican politics of the '90's is populist, conservative, and moral. If
the response that Keyes is generating in this politics is sustained and
organized, his campaign will soon emerge as a real challenge to the
"front-runners." When this happens, it will be difficult to stop the
candidacy of the man acknowledged by all to be the most eloquent and
inspiring man in the race. It will be even more difficult to stop when it
becomes clear that he is the most qualified.
Keyes breaks all the categories of possible conservative appeal:
He holds the promise of retrieving one-tenth of the American population,
the blacks, from serfdom to the liberal Democratic machine. He has authored
a book this year which considers black history in detail, from slavery
times to the present, and presents a powerful proposal to liberate blacks
from their miserable condition by returning to a real respect, in our
policy choices, for the moral dignity of black America.
He is the most highly educated conservative candidate for the presidency in
decades. He received a true liberal education at the hands of Allen Bloom.
He spent the years of his doctoral studies at Harvard studying the
principles of the American founding, and the testing of those principles in
the crucible of the Civil War. He would destroy the image of conservatism
as flowing from the anger of the illiterate and the greedy, and reclaim in
the public mind the intellectual high ground for the permanent things.
He is a devout and loyal and educated Catholic. The implications of such a
man gaining the presidency are staggering. That such a man should do so by
moving the masses, and becoming the object of their deep respect, is also
incalculably important.
Finally, we must remember that we live in a time of extraordinary political
ferment. The November election results were almost entirely unexpected, as
was the much larger collapse of liberal ideology that is still playing
itself out. In a very real sense, anything is possible in American politics
today. Professional politicians are, if possible, distrusted more
profoundly than ever.
It would be difficult to claim that the money, campaign organizations, and
name recognition of the prominent candidates will necessarily sustain them
in the face of a populist candidacy speaking to the heart of the moral
conservatives who are the heart of the party, and executed by the most
intelligent, charismatic and powerful candidate of our era.
What if We Lose?
If men of conscience respond to Keyes, he will win. Still, the benefit to
souls of his effort, apart from the prospect of electoral success,
justifies by itself our wholehearted devotion to this cause.
This campaign will be a campaign of moral instruction. Alan Keyes teaches
his audience how to think and talk about their deepest moral sentiments,
and how to apply those sentiments, in light of the history and principles
of America, to their society and politics. He does this far better than any
national politician of our time. Such instruction, as Socrates would have
said, is real political action.
The campaign therefore literally achieves a part, a real part, of its end
every time someone is introduced to the words of Keyes. This effort may be
compared in some ways to the effort of Rush Limbaugh to change the
vocabulary and sentiments of our public discourse. To see a man of Keyes'
gifts and authority refute decisively some received liberal doctrine will
be for many citizens a moment of real instruction and encouragement. I know
of two pro-choice or long undecided men who have heard him speak; each was
profoundly moved, and one pronounced himself to be thenceforth pro-life.
We can thus devote ourselves whole-heartedly to this effort apart from the
inevitable calculations of the likelihood of electoral success.
Keyes and Buchanan
Buchanan does not convince the unconvinced. He speaks convincingly on moral
issues only to social conservatives, and does not effectively encourage
them to discover ways to lead others to moral truth. There is some truth to
the charge that his language is divisive, because he has not crafted a
rhetoric that is effective beyond his base. Keyes converts pro-choice,
pro-abortion listeners by appealing masterfully to conscience, American
history, and American principles. He invites his listeners to join him in
the truth.
He will be the most effective leader of the pro-life movement we have yet
seen, because he will move the opposition, and he will teach them. The
range of his appeal is open-ended. America is his base.
Buchanan is an isolationist. He does not embrace the vision of America as
the great exporter of the universal principles of American politics. Keyes
is a foreign policy professional with ambassadorial rank, firmly committed
to Ronald Reagan's principles in foreign policy, and capable of
articulating them with great force and skill. As president, he would
literally instruct the world anew in the great principles of the American
political proposal.
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I invite you to join me in supporting the candidacy of Dr. Keyes. Should
you care to send a contribution to me here in Oak View, it will be used for
this purpose. Much more important, however, would be efforts you can make
personally, through the sharing of this tape with others, to make the
extraordinary leadership of Dr. Keyes known to others who, like yourself,
are in a position to shape the emerging campaign discussion.
Sincerely,
David Quackenbush
P.O. Box 1159
Oak View, CA 93022
76752...@compuserve.com
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 12:19:20 -0400
From: Free...@aol.com
Subject: 2ND ANNUAL MIDWEST ANTI-FASCIST NETWORK (MAFNET) CONFERENCE
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
From: epl...@first.megalinx.net (Helen Johnson)
CHECK IT OUT!!! What an incredible opportunity..... Anyone game?
In The Fight For Liberty - Helen
ANNOUNCING THE 2ND ANNUAL MIDWEST ANTI-FASCIST NETWORK (MAFNET) CONFERENCE!
Oct.13,14,15, 1995
North High School, Columbus, Ohio
Speakers will include:
--Chip Berlet (Cambridge) - the leading authority on the American
"Patriot" and "militia" movements. Quoted in Time, CBS News, CNN and PBS
after the recent Oklahoma bombing murders.
--Rita Bo Brown (San Francisco) - former member of the George Jackson
Brigade, lesbian feminist doing prisoner support work.
--John Woods (Ohio) - founder of Rock Out Censorship, on the attacks on
music freedom and the issue of "white power" music.
--Signe Waller - survivor of the 1979 Klan/Nazi/government attack on
anti-Klan rally in Greensboro, NC during which five people were murdered.
--Michael Novick (California) - author of White Lies, White Power; active
with People Against Racist Terror (PART)
--Chrystos (Seattle) - feminist poet and activist
AND MANY MORE, including: people from Klanwatch (Alabama), Center for
Democratic Renewal (Atlanta), RASH (New York), Active Transformation
(Michigan), representatives of native American and Arab-American groups,
Irish-American Students' Association and the Ohio Humanist Community.
Tons of workshops - "Censorship"; "Racism and Media"; "What is Fascism?";
"Prisons and the Crime Scare"; "The Religious Right"; "Black/Jewish
Relations and the Anti-Fascist Movement"; "Dealing with Racists and
Sexists in the Punk Rock Scene"; "Doing Revolutionary Anti-Klan Work" and
lots more!
Skills training - everything from "Tips on Doing a Great Flyer" to
martial arts classes. Great musical acts, dancing, healthful food, child
care, artistic performances, book stalls, videos - even basketball - and
hopefully an "action" on the streets relating to "Columbus Day."
Security for conference provided.
Mark you calendar NOW. Plan to be there. Set up a table. For
information call:
Anti-Racist Action (ARA) - Columubus
(614) 424-9074 / no email
snail: ARA, P.O. Box 82097, Columbus, OH 43202
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The REAL question is:
What will you do when they come for your NEIGHBORS guns?
For God, Family, Country - Helen Johnson
E Pluribus Unum & Ohio Unorganized Militia
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 22:56:15 -0400
From: PLAG...@aol.com
Subject: Andrew Sullivan: Libertarian?
To: gga...@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu, q-li...@netcom.com, libe...@Dartmouth.EDU,
Is Andrew Sullivan, the openly gay editor of The New Republic, becoming more
libertarian in his old age?
THE DAILY TEXAN
P. O. Box D,Austin,TX,78713
(Send letters to the editor to "Firing Line" at the above address or E-MAIL:
Te...@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu)
(NOTE: Word limit 250. The Daily Texan welcomes letters from persons who
live in all parts of the country.)
Thursday, September 21, 1995
SULLIVAN DISSECTS GAY RIGHTS DEBATE
"The same freedom that allows people to say 'I don't want a lesbian couple to
live in my basement' also allows a drag queen to march down Fifth Avenue.
That's what a free society is about." - New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan
By Heath Shelby, Daily Texan Staff
Gay journalist and author Andrew Sullivan told about 70 people at the
Texas Union Wednesday night the U.S. government should "stick to the original
message of the civil rights movement, which is to end all discrimination."
Sullivan, editor of The New Republic magazine and the primary analyst of
American politics for the Sunday Times of London, was in Austin promoting his
newly released book, Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality.
Speaking in the Chicano Culture Room of the Texas Union, Sullivan said he
supports freedom for homosexuals from the American government, but private
businesses and organizations should be allowed to do as they please regarding
acceptance of homosexuals in society and in the workplace.
"The same freedom that allows people to say, 'I don't want a lesbian
couple to live in my basement' also allows a drag queen to march down Fifth
Avenue. That's what a free society is about," Sullivan said.
Sullivan spent much of the speech outlining and clarifying to the audience
his views on where the government sphere begins and ends as far as protecting
the rights of homosexuals.
"Government is at all times answerable to all its citizens equally,"
Sullivan said, later adding that "insofar as the government reacts to its
citizenry, that institution should not [discriminate against homosexuals]
based on an involuntary characteristic."
Some students, however, felt Sullivan's vision of government is too
idealistic.
Sullivan's views on government's responsibility to gays and lesbians
"might be a little too rosy of a picture. I'm not so sure government is so
accessible," said Richard MacKinnon, a graduate student in government.
Sullivan, explaining an argument from his book, also outlined four basic
categories people fall into with their stance on gay rights, though he added
that "probably in reality there are 400."
Sullivan called one group of people "prohibitionists," including people
who view homosexuality in American society as "a social problem" and advocate
government policing of homosexual behavior. Sullivan said another group
adopts a "conservative" approach, in which people "believe privately you
should tolerate homosexuals [but they] wouldn't go so far as to publicly
approve [of it]."
Another group, "liberationists," advocate the promotion of freedom of
sexual orientation, and he said the "liberal" view includes people who would
advocate including homosexuals in "existing statutes that protect civil
rights."
Sullivan said many people choose to think of homosexuals in purely sexual
terms, but homosexuality "really isn't fundamentally about that. Gay people
spend about 1/1000 of their time having sex, just like heterosexual people,
[but] heterosexuals aren't defined by that activity."
While he advocated freedom against government discrimination, Sullivan
insisted government should not dictate to private institutions policies on
their treatment of gays and lesbians.
Dictating discrimination laws to private business "is an illegitimate
invasion of people's privacy.
"Since liberalism has done that it has lost public support," Sullivan
said. "There's a limit to what a government can do to create a good society.
What makes a liberal a liberal is freedom from government interaction."
Some audience members said they agreed with Sullivan's principles, though
others said his views are unrealistic.
"He approached the whole question with a lot of emotion and did a good job
of anticipating people's concerns," said Austin resident Kevin Heyburn.
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 20:52:19 -0400
From: "Richard B. Kahn" <kahn...@contra.org>
Subject: Internet Deregulation
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
On page 16 of Reason, October 1995 issue, in the "Balance Sheet" section,
there was a news brief:
Basically Reps. Chris Cox (R-CA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) have cosponsored a
telecom bill amendment which passed the House by a vote of 420 to 4.
The bill would prohibit the FCC from regulating the Internet and would ban
civil lawsuits against online providers that provide software to screen out
racy language and pictures.
Anyone knwo where I could get the text of this bill electronically?
Are either of these reps online? Please e-mail me privately.
Rich Kahn
kahn...@contra.org
kahn...@contra.org
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 11:49:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Telegraph Publishing Co <pri...@telegraph-nh.com>
Subject: New Hampshire Primary Monitor Web Page
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
We're letting word leak out in a few discussion groups about New
Hampshire Primary
Monitor, a new Web-based news service organized by four New Hampshire daily
newspapers: the Concord Monitor and The Telegraph of Nashua, with cooperation
from The Keene Sentinel and the Valley News. We thought the readers of this
newsgroup might be interested in the service, both as potential users and as
Internet-savvy people who want to know about online innovations.
Here's a mouthful that summarizes what we're trying to do: NH Primary Monitor
is a subscription-based news service offering comprehensive coverage of
the New
Hampshire primary and publishing twice-daily on the World Wide Web. It is
intended for a fairy narrow audience of political journalists, campaign
professionals and researchers, and it will offer the complete coverage of the
four participating daily newspapers (posted in time for publication by
newspapers elsewhere at the same time we publish in New Hampshire) as
well as
summaries of all other significant news reports. It offers the ability to
search a database of archived stories. And we have developed extensive
background files on the candidates, the state and its primary. In short,
we aim
to be the single best source of information about the primary, without the
Beltway spin. When the primary's over, so are we.
Some of you may have choked on that 'subscription-based' phrase...
We're businesses, and pretty small ones at that, at least compared to the
giants out there talking about getting into the news business. (Did
anyone use
the M-word?) But when it comes to the New Hampshire primary, we know it like
nobody else. So we're taking a kind of a gamble here. We're betting that
people
are willing to pay a fair amount to use this medium for valuable, timely
information. Time will tell. How much? Base price of $350 with a discount for
small newspapers.
Come check it out at http://www.cmonitor.com/primary. We're in beta now. Not
everything (i.e. searches) is working perfectly right now, and we haven't
downloaded all of our background files and archives. But you get a pretty
good
sense of where we're heading.
We would appreciate your comments and feedback.
Geordie Wilson
Project director
p.s. If you have any questions on subscribing to the web page, please
send questions to pri...@telegraph-nh.com.
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 07:29:51 -0400
From: free...@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
Subject: NRA:UPDATE: CA - Legislative Activity in California
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
From: NRA Alerts <ale...@nra.org>
Subject: UPDATE: CA - Legislative Activity in California
NRA-ILA CALIFORNIA FAX NETWORK
555 Capitol Mall Suite # 455 * Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: (916) 446-2455 * Fax: (916) 448-7469 9/18/95
LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITY IN CALIFORNIA
:From the Capitol - The embattled Speaker of the State Assembly,
Doris Allen, resigned her position on Thursday. Brian Setencich
(R-30), former Speaker Pro Tempore and a strong Second Amendment
supporter, was selected to replace her. In one of his first acts,
Speaker Setencich restored Paula Boland (R-38) to her former
position as Chair of the Assembly Public Safety Committee. This
comes as great news since Assemblywoman Boland is a proven champion
in fighting for our Second Amendment rights.
SB 28 (Leslie) - This bill, which would be a major step toward
returning management responsibility for mountain lions to the
Department of Fish and Game by placing a question on the March 1996
ballot, was approved in final form by both the Assembly and Senate
on Friday. The bill now goes to Governor Wilson for his expected
signature. In the Assembly, David Knowles, Joe Baca and Brooks
Firestone rose to speak in support of the bill. In the Senate,
Dick Mountjoy and Tim Leslie were the principal proponents of the
bill. Please call Senator Leslie (916-445-5788) and thank him for
his sponsorship of this bill.
SB 670 (Lewis) - This bill, which would cap the Dealer Record of
Sale (DROS) fee, paid when purchasing a firearm, at $14 and tie
future increases to the Consumer Price Index - was also approved by
both houses and is en route to the governor for his signature. The
going got a little tougher on this bill when Attorney General Dan
Lungren withdrew his support at the last minute.
SB 671 (Lewis) - This bill, which would reduce the waiting period
for all firearm purchases from 15 to 10 days effective 7/1/96, was
put over until next year because of technical problems. However,
fear not, the waiting period for rifles and shotguns will be
reduced from 15 to 10 days effective 1/1/96 as scheduled. Please
call Senator Lewis (916-445-4264) and thank him for his excellent
work and sponsorship of SB 671.
Long Beach - The City Planning Commission met on 9/14 to consider
a proposed ammunition registration scheme. Eighteen pro-gun
speakers spoke in opposition to this misguided proposal. It has
been put off from further consideration until next year.
Monrovia - The City Planning Commission met on 9/14 to consider
whether additional zoning restrictions should be adopted for
establishments selling firearms or ammunition. As in Long Beach,
NRA members were on hand to express their opposition. The proposal
has been put over until next month. We'll keep you posted.
Orange County - The County Chapter of the League of California
Cities (LCC) met on 9/14 to vote on resolution endorsing the
infamous gun control proposals of the California Police Chiefs
Association. NRA members in Orange County contacted their mayors
and expressed their strong opposition. The county's police chiefs
had expected an easy win, but they were as wrong about their quick
success as they are about the Second Amendment. When the voting
was done, the proposed resolution was defeated. The full LCC
membership will consider the matter in San Francisco during their
annual meeting in late October. We'll keep you updated.
=+=+=+=+
This information is provided as a service of the National Rifle
Association Institute for Legislative Action, Fairfax, VA.
This and other information on the Second Amendment and the NRA is
available at any of the following URL's: http://WWW.NRA.Org,
gopher://GOPHER.NRA.Org, wais://WAIS.NRA.Org, ftp://FTP.NRA.Org,
mailto:LIST...@NRA.Org (Send the word help as the body of a
message)
Information may also be obtained by connecting directly to the
NRA-ILA GUN-TALK Bulletin Board System at (703) 934-2121.
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 20:35:13 -0700 (MST)
From: Second Amendment Is For Everyone <sa...@indirect.com>
Subject: Proposed Canadian federal gun registration (fwd)
To: azrkba <AZRKBA%ASUACAD...@ARIZVM1.ccit.arizona.edu>,
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 95 20:37:00 -700
From: john edwards <edw...@direct.ca>
To: sa...@indirect.com
Subject: Proposed Canadian federal gun registration
As you are probably aware, our Justice Minister, Alan Rock has
begun a personal crusade to register all guns in Canada. This
vote getting motherhood issue is being justified by manipulating
statistics in a manner that would put any accountant in jail.
Our legislation is being proposed at the federal level even
though gun registration is already required in each Province of
Canada. Yes that's right. If you want to buy a hunting rifle,
you now have to get what is called a Firearms Aquisition
Certificate. And to obtain one you have to get fingerprinted,
get a criminal check from the local police station, and take
a firearms safety course. This safeguard is still not enough
for our beloved Justice Minister.
This part of the legislation is the tip of the iceberg. As you
go deeper, the following hidden (never discussed) laws are also
included.
1. The cost of implementing and maintaining the legislation is
to be borne by the individual Provinces. Initial implementation
of one half billion dollars plus perpetual operating costs.
Remember the US is ten times the size of Canada in population
so multiply this by ten.
2. Certain guns are to be classed as prohibited and confiscated
without compensation. I believe that .22 cal pistols are one
example of a dangerous weapon that would no longer be acceptable.
A larger pistol is okay.
3. Police are given the legal right to forcibly enter your home
without a warrant if they believe (not know, but believe) that
you have an unregistered firearm inside.
4. It is a crime not to disclose to the police any knowledge of
an unregistered firearm. (Just like in Nazi Germany you say).
5. You must obtain permission to transport a firearm and fill
in a long form telling the police where, why, purpose, duration,
and etc. This of course will cost you time and money.
6. If you are an Indian, then these laws do not apply to you.
This I presume is based on the fact that Indians take better
care of guns.
There are a few more hidden items in this legislative agenda and
I hope you will look at any legislation in the US with more care
than we seem to take in Canada. Good luck.
John Edwards
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 17:33:13 -0400
From: "Arthur R. McGee-IGC Staff" <amc...@igc.apc.org> (by way of Charles Zeps
<cz...@icis.on.ca>)
Subject: Questions for General Sir Colin Powell
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
---------- Forwarded message ----------
/* Written 7:30 AM Sep 19, 1995 by mrobinowitz in igc:env.justice */
/* ---------- "questions for General Colin Powell" ---------- */
From: "Mark Robinowitz" <mrobi...@igc.apc.org>
Questions the Mass Media Won't Ask Colin Powell
General Colin Powell is being promoted by the establishment media as a
"moderate" who would make a great "centrist" President, especially for
those tired of Demican and Republicrat business as usual. But while
Powell is not a fundamentalist theocrat like some Republicans, his
involvement in mass slaughter of civilians and secret arms shipments to
Iran should disqualify him for public office.
His Cover-up of the My Lai massacre-------------------------------------
Powell's career began as an Army Ranger (special forces) during the
Vietnam War. As Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations at a base
in Vietnam, he was ordered to investigate claims of Army massacres at My
Lai (where US forces murdered hundreds on March 16, 1968 _ Powell had no
involvement with that tragedy). Powell's cosmetic "investigation" of
allegations by Tom Glen, who knew about the slaughter, claimed that his
charges were false since Glen's superiors stated that he could not have
witnessed abuses of Vietnamese. It wasn't until many months later that
another soldier, Ron Ridenhour, complained to his Congressman, that
serious inquiries into the My Lai massacre began within the Army, at
Washington headquarters. _ The New Republic, April 17, 1995
When My Lai became public knowledge, many officers responded by resigning
in protest or even joining peace demonstrations. Powell's response was to
burrow further into the military establishment. He went to a higher post
in the Pentagon, then to Nixon's Office of Management and Budget, where he
met Weinberger and Frank Carlucci, who each commanded the Pentagon during
the Reagan Administration. Powell kept silent for the rest of the war,
the Watergate scandal, and Nixon's racist appeals for votes.
The Iran-Contra Scandal --------------------------------------------------
Just before leaving office, President Bush pardoned Casper Weinberger,
preventing any prosecution for his involvement in the illegal arms for
hostages deals. This act was one of the best things for Powell's future
political career, since he was deeply involved in the scandal. There will
never be a trial of his former boss, Defense Secretary Weinberger, where
he'd have to testify.
The US aided both Iran and Iraq during their 8 year long war, in which one
million people died. No one knows how many thousands were killed with the
2,000+ missiles Powell helped send to Iran.
"Weinberger testified before the [Senate Select] Committee [on
Intelligence] that later that day he received a call from Poindexter
informing him of the President's action [to send weapons to Iran].
Weinberger ... instructed military aide, Major General Colin Powell, to
arrange the transfer of the weapons ... to the CIA, and that the matter
was to be closely held at the direction of thePresident.
"General Powell had had previous discussions with North about the program
and about Israel's problems in getting replacement TOW's [missiles]. ....
According to [Assistant DOD Secretary] Armitage and a CIA official, Powell
worked with Major General Vincent Russo, of the Defense Logistics Agency
to provide the material securely and without any loss of funds for the
Army." _ The National Security Archive, "The Chronology: The Documented
Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the
Contras," Warner Books, 1987, p. 262
"Weinberger reluctantly [ha!] ordered his military aide, Major General
Colin L. Powell, to arrange the sale of TOW's for North's new deal." _
Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus, "Landslide: The Unmaking of the President
1984-1988," p. 197
After Powell became Reagan's National Security Advisor, he threatened to
cut off US aid to any Central American country that refused to support the
US-backed Contra war against Nicaragua.
How does Powell's expertise in covering up weapons shipments to Iran
qualify him to lead a democracy?
Panama: the News Not Fit to Print -------------------------------------
In December 1989, while Powell was Joint Chiefs of Staff _ the top
military leader for all US forces _ George Bush invaded Panama in an
attack condemned by almost every other country on Earth. Portrayed as a
"surgical strike" on Manuel Noriega, it did virtually nothing to stem the
flow of drugs into the US. (Noriega's replacements installed by the US
Southern Command were also linked to the profitable drug trade.) An
investigation by Codehuca (Central American Human Rights Commission)
concluded:
* "The U.S. Army used highly sophisticated weapons_some for the first
time in combat--against unarmed civilian populations.
* "The human costs of the invasion are substantially higher than the
official figures. Conservative estimates indicate that civilian
fatali-ties were at least 10 times greater than the U.S. figure of 220.
* "The actual death toll has been obscured through U.S. military
practices including: 1) Incineration of corpses prior to identification;
2) Burial of remains in common graves prior to identification; and 3) U.S.
military control of administrative offices of hospitals and morgues,
permitting the removal of all registries to U.S. military bases.
* "A thorough, well-planned propaganda campaign has been implemented by
U.S. authorities to ... deny the brutality and extensive human and
material costs of the invasion."
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark reported a "conspiracy of silence"
regarding civilian dead and former U.S. Ambassador to Panama Ambler Moss
stated that his "gut instinct is that there is an awful lot of parties
around there that have an interest in covering up numbers" (New York
Times, 1/10/90). Catholic priest Diego Caffley, working in Panama
reported that the invasion killed 3,000 people and that the main obstacle
to learning how many people were killed was the US Army Southern Command
(La Republica, Costa Rica, 11/01/90). After visiting Panama, Clark
estimated that 4,000 died.
Many of the victims lived in the El Chorrillos slum next to Panamanian
military headquarters. This neighborhood was leveled by US bombs, and the
number of dead remains unknown. Most were of African descent and among
the poorest in Panamanian society. The Black, mestizo, and Indian
populations suffered most of the destruction and misery wreaked by U.S.
forces. Establishment media sources generally cited only the mostly white,
elite elements tied to Panamanian banks. Panamanians opposing the
invasion, even those also opposed to Noriega, were ignored by US
journalists.
The Panama invasion, which occurred just weeks after the fall of the
Berlin Wall, helped prevent efforts to cut the military budget.
"it's really clear ... that the military action in Panama violates
inter-national law, designed to maintain peace, and the laws of the [US]
which are designed to keep the [US] out of war and from committing
unlawful military aggressions." _ Ramsey Clark, 12/27/ 1989
How does General Powell's involvement in the illegal invasion of Panama
and the massacre of civilians qualify him to work for world peace?
The Gulf War -----------------------------------------------------------
"Every Black soldier ought to say, `I am not going to fight. This is not
my war.'" _ Martin Luther King, III, January 18, 1991
Powell, as Joint Chiefs of Staff, presided over the bloody Persian Gulf
war. John Lehman, Reagan's first Navy Secretary, reportedly confided in
1991 at a gathering at the "Bohemian Grove" (an all-male retreat for
corporate and political leaders in northern California) that 200,000
people were killed in the Gulf War.
US forces bulldozed Iraqi draftees into mass graves, bombed retreating
forces on the "Highway of Death," set oil refineries on fire (not all oil
spills were caused by Saddam Hussein), dropped uranium tipped shells
across the desert (over 40 tons of radioactive uranium was scattered), and
threatened to use nuclear weapons before the conflict started. But since
strict Pentagon censorship prohibited virtually any photographic
documentation of the slaughter, Americans who only watched TV never
learned what happened in the desert.
Powell claims that he never received an illegal order during his military
career, but orders to bomb civilians in Iraq and Panama (among many other
locations) certainly could be classified as war crimes, which Powell
should have refused to carry out under both the Uniform Code of Military
Justice (which mandates that soldiers refuse illegal orders) and the
Nuremberg Principles. Instead, Powell's only documented opposition to any
policy was about Clinton's efforts to end anti-gay witchhunts in the
military _ Powell urged military men to resign if they also opposed
Clinton's policies.
Powell for President? ------------------------------------------------
Why is the mass media virtually unable to look at Powell's inglorious
past? Arms to Iran, mass graves in Panama and the Kuwaiti "highway of
death" are more important than his ostensible beliefs that his handlers
devised for public consumption.
Powell is an opportunist interested in POWER, not reactionary ideology.
He partially resembles Chief Buthelezi of South Africa, who worked
secretly on behalf of the Apartheid regime. Buthelezi didn't work for
apartheid for ideological reasons, but because he wanted to increase his
power base and the oppressors were willing to help him do it. Likewise,
Powell has furthered his own career through involvement in bloody wars,
not out of reactionary ideology but rather a desire to help perpetuate
U.S. military power and dominance over the planet.
Every oppressed group throughout history has had members willing to aid
the oppressors to further their own positions, either out of misguided
self-interest or by identifying with the oppressors. Even the Nazi
ghettos in Poland had Jews willing to help the Germans round up their
victims.
Powell claims that he supported (and benefitted from) the civil rights
movement, but Martin Luther King and other leaders worked from a
non-violent perspective, and strongly condemned the Vietnam War. King, if
he had not been killed, would certainly protest Powell's actions in
Central America and the Middle East.
It is also curious how Powell's media blitz has been much more successful
than the other African-American Presidential candidate: Republican Alan
Keyes of Maryland. Keyes, unlike Powell, is a fundamentalist Christian
ideologue who worked for UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick at the United
Nations in the early 1980's, where he helped politically support South
Africa. However, Powell's hands are far bloodier than Keyes's.
When the Air Force allowed women to become "missileers" (who are ready to
launch nuclear armageddon 24 hours a day), this decision was not an
advancement for feminism and gender equality. Likewise, Powell's
involvement in illegal invasions and mass murder, not to mention his
control of the nuclear doomsday machine, merely proves that the military
is not strictly racist_they're willing to allow a black face as the public
manifestation as long as that face conforms to the program.
Affirmative action is not about being the first person of non-European
descent to plot the murder of thousands of non-whites from within the
bowels of the Pentagon. Powell's rise to the top of the Pentagon did not
advance the cause of racial equality_just his own personal lust for power.
Opposition to General Powell is not based on the fact of military service,
since there is a big difference between people who join the military due
to the "economic draft" and a General who ordered the massacre of
defenseless civilians in Panama City's slums and their burial in secret
mass graves.
Powell is well qualified to perpetuate obscene levels of military spending
and to plan invasions of virtually unarmed countries like Panama and cover
up the resulting civilian carnage. casualties. He's also expert at
covering up weapons sales to ultra-dictatorships like Iran. But it's
doubtful that he's thought much about environmental sustainability,
improving education to teach critical thinking, reducing extreme
inequality and reviving a sense of community (ie. it's different than pure
jingoist nationalism) in this country.
Powell's career is not that of a great leader in fights for social
equality, justice, human rights, sustainable economy, etc. When Senator
Bradley (D-NJ) announced his retirement this summer, he quoted the
playright Bertold Brecht, who said "Unhappy is the land that needs a
hero."
While Powell's involvement in Iran-Contra, the illegal Panama massacre and
last, but not least, the Gulf War, qualifies him to run the world's
largest military industrial complex, it does not qualify him to supervise
the transition to a better, more equitable, sustainable society not
predicated on mass murder and limitless resource exploitation. Voting for
Powell would be no different than voting for Lockheed or General Dynamics
for President.
Colin Powell should spend his days planting trees in Haiti or clearing
mines in Angola, undoing the tremendous damage he's helped create, not
trying to create a second Republican party. The world needs a remote
island_preferably Bikini Atoll, ravaged by US nuclear tests_where war
criminals from around the world could spend the rest of their days and not
hurt anyone else again. Colin Powell could join Gen. Schwartzkopf, George
Bush, Saddam Hussein, Saudi King Fah'd, Yitzhak Shamir, the Argentine
Generals, Idi Amin, the Rwandan army, Pol Pot, Suharto (dictator of
Indonesia), China's Li Peng, Russia's Boris Yeltsin, nuclear warmonger
Edward Teller, ad nauseam.
We need more non-violent soldiers such as those on the international
flotilla of politicians and grass roots activists who sailed to Tahiti and
Muroroa atoll this summer to block French nuclear tests. It takes more
courage to be a non-violent activist like the Greenpeace campaigners in
the Pacific, the Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King, Gandhi, or the "White
Rose" resistance group in Nazi Germany, than to order mass slaughters
thousands of miles away.
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the
military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of
this combination endanger our liberties or democratic process." - Dwight
D. Eisenhower's farewell speech, January 17, 1961
Eisenhower also remarked that every dollar spent on weapons was a theft
from the poor, who would suffer greatly as a result of military spending.
By that criteria, Colin Powell makes Michael Milken seem honest in
spending other peoples' money. In 1981, the federal deficit was about $1
trillion, now it's about $5 trillion. Doubling of the military budget
during the Reagan era wasted nearly $5 trillion in military spending to
date. Budget Director David Stockman admitted after leaving the White
House that the deficit was intentionally raised to force desired social
spending cuts.
Haven't we had enough presidents who get our country involved in secret,
bloody, disgusting wars?
Demand that the media report the truth!
ABC News (202) 897-7977
NBC News (202) 362-2009
CBS News (202) 659-2589
Cable News Network (202) 898-7565
McNeil-Lehrer (703) 998-2870
National Public Radio (202) 414-3329
Washington Post (202) 334-6000
New York Times (202) 862-0340
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military
defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death."
-- "A Time to Break Silence," Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 13:32:17 -0800
From: jege...@mizar.usc.edu (Jennifer George)
Subject: Reason's e-mail address
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
This is the e-mail address for the Reason Foundation's research department:
The editors of REASON have their own accounts, listed in the magazine.
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Date: 21 Sep 1995 14:16:42 -0700
From: "Johann Opitz" <Johann...@smtp.svl.trw.com>
Subject: Stirring the pot!
To: " Libernet" <libe...@Dartmouth.EDU>
Due to another fine example (supporting Sen. Ashcroft's proposed juvenile
crime legislation, violation of the 10th Amendment) of the NRA speaking with a
forked tongue when it comes to protecting the 2nd Amendment and then giving
away other parts of the Bill of Rights -- I've decide to stir the pot a bit on
a couple of the firearms nets and within the NRA itself.
Since nomination for the NRA Board of Directors can be done by petition (I
believe only 250 signatures of NRA members are need) -- I think it would be a
smart move on the part of all Libertarians in all states to work at taking
over the NRA's Board of Directors and setting a new course for the
organization. Even a very serious challenge by the Libertarians to the
statists now controlling the NRA would have to be recognized by their current
Board of Directors, National Officers, and Executive Council -- forcing them
to make changes in policy if they don't want to lose their current positions.
If every Libertarian joined the NRA and signed in mass the petitions of
Libertarians running for the Board of Directors -- within a few years the NRA
would be clearly under the guidance of Libertarians. Let's put some real fear
into statists of the right -- and of the left!
Are you up to the activist challenge -- or are you just going to continue
whining about and trashing the NRA?
== Johann Opitz (W) johann...@smtp.svl.trw.com ==
(H) joh...@aimnet.com
== All Disclaimers Apply (so as to protect my employer) ==
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 11:47:14 -0400
From: Walke...@aol.com
Subject: Texas regulating hair braiding
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
The mighty High Lords of Texas High Hair, aka the Cosmetology Commission,
have decided to expand their empire into the inner city by regulating
braiders working at home. The Commission wants to force them to take a
nine-month (irrelevant) course in hair cutting. I seem to remember this was
recently done in Washington D.C.; can someone refer me to an article on this?
Thanks, Patty Lee-Walker
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 19:17:57 -0400
From: free...@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
Subject: The Problem with Patriots...
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
FWD by: Dennis Carney <dca...@freenet.columbus.oh.us>
From: Dan Druck <73543...@compuserve.com>
Subject: The Problem with Patriots...
THE PROBLEM WITH PATRIOTS...
...is that most of our resources (time and money) are spread too
thin. Because of this, many times we feel that what we can afford
to contribute to a worthy cause will not make a difference. Or we
feel that "someone else will take care of it". Therefore, many
end up not making *any* contributions.
Last month I posted the following message:
__________________________________________________________________
YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO HELP...
On October 22, '95, Utah's Governor Leavitt and his pro-Conference
of the States (COS) gang will converge on Cincinnati, Ohio to kick
off their "Federalism Summit" a.k.a. Conference of the States.
Because their COS was soundly defeated (at least for now) by
main-stream grass roots groups this year, they're holding this
"summit" to further rally support for their plans which have
included a Constitutional Convention, re-writing Article 5 of our
Constitution and gutting the 10th Amendment. Their meeting date
coincidentally falls on the 50th Anniversary of the establishment
of the United Nations (October 24th).
To show America that true patriotism is alive and well, the Ohio
group "E. Pluribus Unum" will host an anti-UN/pro-American
Sovereignty rally on the Columbus, Ohio Statehouse Lawn, October
21, '95. Long-time CDR networkers will recall we have never
solicited funds for rallies. However, in view of its critical
timing and location, we feel this rally is of particular
importance so we're assisting "E Pluribus Unum" by seeking
donations to help cover the cost of the speakers' air fare.
If we are successful, such Constitutional champions as Colorado
State Senator Charles Duke, Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack, and Nye
County (Nevada) Commissioner Dick Carver may be able to attend and
speak at the rally. This will draw a much-needed large turnout
and possible press coverage. If donations exceed air fare costs,
the remaining amounts will be donated to "E Pluribus Unum" to help
them with their ancillary costs.
We must help show America that our Constitution must not be
tampered with and our national/state/individual Sovereignty is not
negotiable.
As many Americans won't be able to come to the Ohio event, "E
Pluribus Unum" will help bring the event to America. A complete
video recording will be made available to those who send a
donation of $40 or more.
Please send donations to:
CDR - Air Fare
P.O. Box 138
Carlinville, Illinois 62626
Please copy and/or refax this message to family, friends,
associates and patriotic groups.
In pursuit of liberty,
Dan Druck, Council on Domestic Relations
__________________________________________________________________
I'm saddened to say that, to date (9/21), we have received only
$260. Sen. Duke's air fare alone is close to $400. A networker
who had already made a $40 donation has promised to make up the
difference so that at least Sen. Duke may attend.
If everyone reading this message who agrees that this is a VERY
important event would send just $5 we would be able to bring in
one or two more speakers like Sheriff Mack or Dick Carver.
However we're almost out of time so please mail your donation
today!!!!!
Please don't think that someone else will "take care of it". We
must all pitch in a little bit so that our voice will be heard in
Columbus.
In pursuit of liberty,
Dan Druck, Council on Domestic Relations
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 21:16:13 +0500
From: cla...@cnct.com
Subject: USA! WHITE HOUSE DOWNLOADING PORNO!
To: sne...@world.std.com, "USA Forever List" <usa-f...@webcom.com>
I've got some concerns about this log from (I assume) netcom
COULD THIS BE A TROLL OR TRAP???
: While the FBI is snooping into private people's accounts on America OnLine
: computer service, have a look at what the WHITEHOUSE has been grabbing on
: line: THE WHITEHOUSE IS DOWNLOADING PORNO!
:
: PROOF: Below is the ftp log from netcom. gatekeeper.eop.gov
:
: Netcom.gatekeeper.eop.gov is the White House.
:
: The directory /pub/sa/sailscan/GROUP/ on machine ftp.netcom.com is
: a PORNO site whose current contents include teen images.
:
: The file names ending in .jpg are the dirty pictures:
[snip]
: Mon Sep 11 10:17:44 1995 1 gatekeeper.eop.gov 4285
: /pub/ac/acornbks/acorn.html a _ o a ro...@gatekeeper.eop.gov ftp 0 *
First entry is root access. Who's this??? Doesn't this root access from
the firewall BOTHER anyone?
Somebody's got root and next this johns.ostp.eop.gov is d/l'ing teen-porn
or whatever. Could "johns" NOT be the one doing this? Could it instead be
root?
What if johns.ostp.eop.gov ISN'T downloading this? What if johns is someone
like a Secret Service guy or a Kaman Sciences cryptotroll waiting to receive
harrassing e-mail, or fingers, or whois attempts?
... The better to obtain warrants for the originating system?? Hmmmm???
This really bothers me. It could be someone at ostp or it could be a troll
or a trap. I'm not brave enuf to finger or whois to see which. Anyone
who checks this, use the phone & tape the call.
Best, Clark
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 95 12:23:12 PDT
From: Tom Isenberg <to...@microsoft.com>
Subject: Williams 8/2/95: The Lame Game
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU, lib...@jazzie.com
"The Lame Game" by Walter Williams
James Bovard has an article about the lunacy of the Americans
with Disabilities Act in the July 1995 American Spectator that will
make your day. In August 1993, the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission announced that obesity was a protected disability.
Therefore, a 300-pound woman who was turned away as a nurse's aide
could sue the hospital. A 360-pound woman brought a $1.5 million suit
against a Memphis theater for her emotional distress when she found
out she couldn't fit into any of the theater's seats. Not to be
outdone, a 410-pound man, denied a promotion from cleaner to train
operator, sued the New York Transit Authority for discrimination.
A Santa Monica, Calif., deaf woman sued Burger King, claiming
its drive- through windows illegally discriminated against deaf people.
Burger King settled the lawsuit by agreeing to install visual
electronic-ordering devices at 10 restaurants. In March 1993, a
federal judge ruled that the District of Columbia's practice of
excluding blind people from jury duty was a violation of the ADA.
The Americans with Disabilities Act also has been a godsend to
dumb college students. Thousands have successfully dodged required
courses by getting a shrink to certify them as "math-disabled." A
Tufts University student claimed that under the ADA the university was
obliged to accommodate her aversion to test taking. The president of
Boston University said ADA lawsuits and threats have resulted in
demands to "accommodate foreign language majors who have
foreign-language phobia (and) to comfort physics students who suffer
from dyscalculia, the learning disability that prevents one from
learning math."
University professors also benefit from the ADA. A Suffolk
University professor sued the law school, claiming she was denied
tenure because she had a disease that results in lethargy and lower
productivity. Professor Donald Winston, an English instructor at
Central Maine Technical College, was fired for kissing students and
having sex with them. Winston sued the college, claiming discrimination
against the handicapped. Two doctors at his trial testified the
professor suffered from "sexual addiction."
Some attempts at blatant extortion and special privilege have
been thrown out of court. Others have cost companies millions of
dollars. Even when a case is thrown out, companies spend thousands of
dollars defending themselves against frivolous suits. And who pays?
You and I, through higher product prices or less convenience. But
lawyers love it. In fact, in some quarters, the ADA is taken to stand
for "Attorney's Dream Answered."
We can't blame the ADA on mush-headed liberals. It was passed
at President Bush's urging in 1990 along with those other Bush
economy-crippling favorites such as the Clean Water Act and the 1990
Civil Rights Act. What Bush did, and what Clinton is trying to
perfect, is producing an economic nightmare for local jurisdictions as
well. According to the National Association of Counties, county
governments will be forced to spend almost $3 billion by 1998 to
comply with ADA mandates. Cities are ordered to put wheelchair curb
cuts at intersections where even an Olympic-class sprinter might not
hazard crossing.
What's Williams' solution to ADA mandates? I'm not smart. I
depend on our Constitution for guidance. Amendment Ten says, "The
powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States
respectively, or to the people." Then I checked Article I, Section 8,
and found no authorization for the ADA. That being the case, the
solution is a broad-based refusal to comply with ADA mandates. After
all, neither the states, nor the people, have a moral duty to obey
unconstitutional acts of Congress.
*** Walter Williams, Ph.D., is a libertarian columnist, frequent
guest-host for Rush Limbaugh, and Professor of Economics at George
Mason University. And for those blinded by color, he's a handsome
black man, too. ***
--
Tom Isenberg (to...@microsoft.com)
"The worst aspect of industrial capitalism is that it protects the
Unibomber from starvation."
<The opinions expressed are the author's.>
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 95 12:21:49 PDT
From: Tom Isenberg <to...@microsoft.com>
Subject: Williams 8/23/95: A Better Agenda
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU, lib...@jazzie.com
A MINORITY VIEW BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
A Better Agenda
There are two questions, easily answered, to determine whether
or not the new Republican majority will become big-government
Democrats in elephant garb.
The first is: From whence comes the money the federal
government spends on welfare, food stamps, school lunches and other
entitlements? If you said: It's taken from the earnings of people like
you and me, who pay tribute to Washington, go to the head of the class.
The next question is: What's one of our constitutional
guarantees? Article IV, Section 4, says in part, "The United States
shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of
Government ... " That means the people and their states are sovereign
but bound together with common interests as principals who delegate
certain powers to their agent -- the central government.
With those two basic questions answered, let's evaluate the
Republican cutting- down-the-size-of-government agenda.
Block-granting entitlement programs is the Republican newspeak.
Instead of Congress and its Washington bureaucrats dictating to the
states how welfare, food stamps, school lunches and other federal
programs are run, Republicans propose sending the money to the states
in the form of block grants. With strings attached, governors and
mayors will be permitted to experiment and design programs they think
work best in their states and local communities.
Aside from Democrats, disgruntled federal bureaucrats, handout
advocates and lobbyists who see their empires crumbling, there is
fairly widespread support, particularly from governors and mayors, who
want the handout power and who'd like their states to function as "50
laboratories."
Block grants are an improvement over the status quo, but like
other Republican proposals for greater federalism and more
constitutional government, they're timid and not likely to have
long-run success. After all, a future Congress can increase the
strings and control. Republicans are simply talking about clipping
noxious weeds when, as every homeowner knows, getting rid of weeds
requires uprooting and killing. If they're simply clipped,
bureaucracies, like weeds, will grow back stronger and healthier.
If the new Republican Congress had more character and
foresight, it would work on getting Washington out of the handout
picture altogether. Here's a rough guide of what it might do.
First, figure out federal spending on the programs it proposes
to block-grant. Then, enact personal income tax reductions of an
equivalent amount. Then, Brother Newt can tell governors and mayors
that the money the fed used to take from the citizens of your state is
now back in their pockets. If you think a particular entitlement
program is important for your state, then you enact state and local
taxes to get the money.
Of course, governors and local officials would go ape for a
very simple reason. No politician likes to be known for raising taxes.
Moreover, social activists would have far less success getting
governors and local politicians to raise taxes to support their
socialist agenda.
Citizens could make a more direct comparison between the value
of the programs and their pocketbooks. It's much easier for social
activists to get remote politicians in Washington to impose burdens on
states and local communities. After all, for example, if House
Minority Leader Richard Gephart shepherds a tax increase through
Congress, what does he care about the anger and resentment of the
citizens of Atlanta, Ga.? Georgia's governor and Atlanta's mayor would
be far more sensitive to their feelings and opinions.
If Republicans really respect the Constitution, and its
guarantee of a republic, they'll stop this block-grant talk and
replace it with entitlement-program elimination and tax cuts. Or is
that too much to expect?
*** Walter Williams, Ph.D., is a libertarian columnist, frequent
guest-host for Rush Limbaugh, and Professor of Economics at George
Mason University. And for those blinded by color, he's a handsome
black man, too. ***
--
Tom Isenberg (to...@microsoft.com)
"The worst aspect of industrial capitalism is that it protects the
Unibomber from starvation."
<The opinions expressed are the author's.>
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 95 12:20:52 PDT
From: Tom Isenberg <to...@microsoft.com>
Subject: Williams 8/30/95: Liberty's Only Equality
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU, lib...@jazzie.com
A MINORITY VIEW BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
Liberty's Only Equality
Merely to ask certain questions is to invite scorn and
ridicule, but what the heck. Bothering me for some time is the
question: In what sense are women equal to men? Here's why I ask. I've
never seen sexually integrated professional boxing matches, football
games, basketball games, 100-yard dashes or ice hockey games. Is that
because male chauvinists deny women the chance to compete?
The military response to the conspicuous absence of women in
male- dominated areas suggests a remedy for professional sports. Army
fitness standards call for 80 push-ups for men and 56 for women. Male
soldiers ages 17 to 25 must run two miles in 17 minutes and 55
seconds. Females are given 22 minutes and 14 seconds. Male Marine
trainees must climb 20 feet of rope in 30 seconds; women are given 50
seconds.
The military's "gender-norming" might be implemented in sports.
In football, new rules might allow the offensive team's female pass
receiver to take up an uncovered position one-half the distance to the
goal behind the defensive team's line. In the 100- yard dash, women
could get a 25-yard head start. In baseball, a mid-field hit might
count as a home run. I'm at a loss for what can be done to gender-norm
boxing. All that I come up with to level the playing field between a
woman and George Foreman or Mike Tyson is to give the woman a gun.
Some might be offended by these musings, but I ask: Why? If
gender-norming tactics are acceptable for something as critical as
national defense, why not obtain their benefits for less important
activities? Feminists themselves wouldn't want sports desegregated and
gender-normed. The folly and disastrous consequences would be obvious
to all. For them, gender-norming is best left to areas where its
effects are more readily concealed. The fact of business is
that we humans are not equal. Some of us are women and some are men.
Some are smart and some are not so smart. Some are colored, others are
uncolored. Some are tall, and some are short. Some of us are poor, and
others wealthy.
The differences -- inequalities -- are endless.
Equality before the general rules of law is the only kind of
equality conducive to liberty that can be secured without destroying
liberty. It is an equality that neither requires nor assumes people
are, in fact, equal. Our attempt to make people equal by rigging law
to produce equal results destroys civility and generalized respect for
the law. Government cannot create an advantage for one person without
simultaneously creating a disadvantage for another.
Unfairness to women and minorities is a part of our history,
but we shouldn't make the cure more destructive than the disease. We
should use common sense. Take the trucking industry as an example. For
decades, minorities and women were conspicuously absent. It was a
result of a government-sponsored transportation collusion managed by
the Interstate Commerce Commission. Greater fairness came when
trucking was deregulated. Afterwards, the number of minority and women-
owned trucking firms exploded.
Very few Americans are even aware of the progress. It occurred
without the rancor, conflict and bitterness that would have resulted
had quotas and set-asides been employed to address the unfairness. We
simply eliminated the government- sponsored unfairness and allowed each
person to compete.
This is the kind of inequality -- privilege granting -- to
which we should give greater attention. Government agencies have no
right telling one American he or she can go into a business and
another, who is just as able, that he or she cannot.
*** Walter Williams, Ph.D., is a libertarian columnist, frequent
guest-host for Rush Limbaugh, and Professor of Economics at George
Mason University. And for those blinded by color, he's a handsome
black man, too. ***
--
Tom Isenberg (to...@microsoft.com)
"The worst aspect of industrial capitalism is that it protects the
Unibomber from starvation."
<The opinions expressed are the author's.>
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 95 12:19:51 PDT
From: Tom Isenberg <to...@microsoft.com>
Subject: Williams 9/13/95: Unappreciated Miracles
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU, lib...@jazzie.com
A MINORITY VIEW BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
Unappreciated Miracles
Think about shopping for food. In effect, each of us tells our
supermarket: "I'm not going to tell you when I'm coming to shop. I'm
not going to tell you how much and what I'm going to buy. When I do
shop, you'd better have what I want, or I'm going to fire you by
taking my business elsewhere." That's a tall, uncompromising order, but
it's filled so routinely that we think it nothing. if you think it's
nothing, contemplate shopping in the former Soviet Union, a nation
with the genius to compete with us in space and weaponry but a nation
that couldn't hold a candle to our supermarkets.
The average American supermarket stocks over 20,000 different
items. Who arranges all that? What's necessary to have those items on
the shelves? Who and how many people are involved? The answer's easy:
Nobody knows. The process defies comprehension. "C'mon, Williams," you
say, "it's easy. The manager goes to a wholesaler and buys what he
needs." If you think that's all there is, you trivialize the miracle.
Pretend Congress appointed you U.S. supermarket czar charged
with making all the arrangements for Americans to have just one of
those 20,000 items -- bananas. How will you get people in Costa Rica,
some of whom may not like Americans, to work hard to grow, harvest and
ship bananas? What are all the arrangements necessary for the shipping
crates? Do you know how to make a chain saw or ax to chop down trees
for the wood to build crates? What's necessary to mine iron ore so as
to make nails and wire for the crate? Then we have to keep in mind
that the bananas have to get from Costa Rica to the supermarket. That
means ships and trucks are needed. What do you know about truck and
ship building and navigation?
There are literally millions upon millions of inputs and people
cooperating with one another to get just one of those 20,000 items to
your supermarket. Somehow these inputs show up to do their job at the
right time and right place, as if, to use Adam Smith's phrase, they
are "guided by an invisible hand." All that good effort occurs without
love and caring. The Costa Rican farmer, the crate manufacturer and the
ship captain don't give a hoot about you, but you have the bananas as
if they did.
The coordination that makes all those other items available at
your supermarket is nothing short of a miracle. To think that one
human being, or a group of humans, can possess the knowledge and
information to accomplish the task is the height of human arrogance
and conceit. That knowledge and information is widely dispersed across
society in bits and pieces. That's why top-down central planning always
produces disappointments, shortages and bottlenecks. The banana czar
might have remembered everything except a compass and the banana boat
is lost at sea. Think back to the '70s during our government-sponsored
energy crisis. Our energy czar had some parts of our country awash
with gasoline and home heating oil while other parts were dry. Better
yet, how would we like our groceries to be delivered by the same
people who deliver our mail?
The forces behind all that coordination and cooperation that
put those 20,000 items in your supermarket are three simple things:
prices, private property and human lust for more. That's the beauty
and simple magic of markets.
*** Walter Williams, Ph.D., is a libertarian columnist, frequent
guest-host for Rush Limbaugh, and Professor of Economics at George
Mason University. And for those blinded by color, he's a handsome
black man, too. ***
--
Tom Isenberg (to...@microsoft.com)
"The worst aspect of industrial capitalism is that it protects the
Unibomber from starvation."
<The opinions expressed are the author's.>
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 95 12:18:45 PDT
From: Tom Isenberg <to...@microsoft.com>
Subject: Williams 9/6/95: Scum Rises to the Top
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU, lib...@jazzie.com
A MINORITY VIEW BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
Scum Rises to the Top
Ask the average person his opinion of politicians. You'll hear
words like crooks, hustlers and tyrants. The reason for this dim
assessment of politicians is that in all societies, the scum, with few
exceptions, tends to rise to the top. Let's look at it.
People want government to do all manner of things, things that
if done privately would lead to condemnation and jail sentences. Some
want government to give money to farmers, poor folk, college students,
senior citizens and businesses. There's no Santa Claus or tooth fairy.
The only way government can give money to one person is to forcibly
take it from another person. If I privately used the same method to
raise money for a "deserving" college student, homeless person or
businessman, I'd face theft charges. Others among us want government
to protect wild wolves, bears and the Stephens kangaroo rat even if it
results in gross violations of private property and loss of lives.
The problem is that some people disagree with having their
earnings taken to satisfy someone else's wishes. They don't want the
Corps of Engineers and the Fish and Wildlife Service dictating to them
what they can and cannot do with their property to ensure a habitat
for the kangaroo rat. Force and threats must be used.
Here's the question: Could the average American kill a person
who resolutely refuses to give up his earnings so Congress can give it
to farmers? Could you kill a person who insists on using all of his
property, even though some wolves have set up a den on it? You say,
"What do you mean, Williams -- kill?" Here's a scenario: The Corps of
Engineers commands me not to remove debris from a drainage ditch on my
property, placed there by beavers building a dam, because the debris
creates a wetland. I remove it anyway. The Corps of Engineers fines
me. I refuse to pay the unjust fine. The Corps of Engineers threatens
to seize my land. I say no, you won't; it's my land, and I'll protect
it. A politician sends marshals to take it, and I get killed defending it.
Few Americans have the stomach or ruthlessness to do what is
necessary to make their governmental wishes come true. But they are
willing to abandon constitutional principles and rule of law so that
those with the stomach for ruthlessness have the tools of massive
central government power to achieve those wishes.
The path we're embarked upon, in the name of good, is a
familiar one. The unspeakable horrors of Nazism, Stalinism and Maoism
did not begin in the '30s and '40s with the men usually associated
with those names. Those horrors were simply the end result of a long
evolution of ideas leading to the consolidation of power in central
government in the name of "social justice." It was decent but misguided
Germans, who would have cringed at the thought of extermination and
genocide, who built the Trojan Horse for Hitler to take over.
We Americans promote disrespect for our Constitution, rule of
law and private property in our pursuit of "social justice." But the
scum that rises to the top has an agenda of command and control that's
leading toward totalitarianism. And, incidentally, it's no coincidence
that most of those at the top are lawyers -- people with a special,
seemingly tutored, contempt for our Constitution and rule of law.
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(Fwd) Institute of Economic Affairs WWW site Ian Geldard
ACTION: PA Act 17 (Brady Implementation) Repeal And Reform Effort Under Way
Jeff Chan
Additions to The Freedom Pages... Cory Brickner
Army Intelligence death squads? Sec Hume
Canadian Authorities Harassment of First Nations R. Leland Lehrman
COLIN POWELL: Allegiance is to the UN Charles Zeps
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Subject: (Fwd) Institute of Economic Affairs WWW site
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 01:11:41 -0700
From: Jeff Chan <ch...@shell.portal.com>
Subject: ACTION: PA Act 17 (Brady Implementation) Repeal And Reform Effort
Under Way
To: firearm...@shell.portal.com
From: GUN.OWNERS...@prn-bbs.org (GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA)
Subject: ATTN PA: Alert to Action!
To: firearm...@shell.portal.com
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 22:05:29 GMT
(09/13/95)PA Alert to Action -- Act 17 Repeal And Reform Effort
Under Way
Calls and FAXes to Sen. Michael Fisher Needed Right Away
by Gun Owners of America -- 703-321-8585
Your gun rights took a big hit in Harrisburg back on June 5,
1995. Governor Tom Ridge, who as a Congressman passed President
Clinton's semi-auto ban by a single vote, teamed up with Handgun
Control, Inc., Senator Vince Fumo (D-1) and Senator Mike Fisher (R-37)
to pass a law to tax and register virtually all gun purchasers in
Pennsylvania.
This unholy alliance of anti-gun advocates and weak-willed
"pro-gun" compromisers passed Act 17 using a "shell bill" trick
play. They amended a trivial House-passed bill in the Senate
and then rammed it through the House before the grassroots could
oppose it vigorously.
But now politicians like Mike Fisher are feeling the heat from
the grassroots.
So Senator Fisher and his co-conspirators are planning to trick
you and other pro-gun activists. Their plan is to pretend to "fix'
Act 17 with so-called technical changes which really do nothing to
protect your rights.
The fact is Act 17 cannot be fixed... it needs to be killed.
You and I together can stop the bait and switch they're planning
behind closed doors and force Mike Fisher and his cohorts out into the
open.
The only way to repeal Act 17 and restore your gun rights is by
forcing Mike Fisher to make a choice -- either fight for a recorded
vote on an amendment to repeal Act 17 or else face the wrath of the
voters when Mike Fisher runs for Attorney General in 1996.
A proposal has been made to Mike Fisher by pro-gun activists who
weren't part of the "deal" back in June: offer an amendment to roll
back the existing handgun registry and repeal Act 17 -- but keeping
the few good things in it. You and I can call this real reform
proposal the "grassroots reform" proposal as opposed to the "insider"
do-nothing proposal the political establishment wants.
Right now I need you to pour on the heat on Senator Fisher with
FAXes and calls.
You must contact Mike Fisher, your state Senator and
Representatives both at home and in Harrisburg between now and
September 19, 1995. Make it clear that nothing short of a repeal of
Act 17 and a roll back of the handgun registry will do. Urge your
legislators to fight any attempt to water-down the "grassroots reform"
proposal when it is introduced.
With everything that goes on you and I will have to watch Mike
Fisher like a hawk. He could flip-flop on us without warning.
GOA staff has tried to contact Mike Fisher to get a written
commitment to introduce the "grassroots reform" proposal. So far he
has not returned their calls.
A suprised Mike Fisher did speak with Dennis Fusaro, GOA's
Director of State and Local Affairs, on AM 1330 in Erie, PA this
morning, but he would not commit to repeal and reform of Act 17.
GOA is still waiting for a call and commitment for Senator Fisher.
Here's what has to happen on the Senate Side:
First, someone, possibly Mike Fisher, must introduce the
"grassroots reform" proposal and then fight any amendments and "trick
plays" offered to weaken it or water it down.
Second, the sponsor, hopefully a repentant Mike Fisher, must be
reminded that you want public, roll call votes on any and all
procedural votes and final passage in the Senate.
If the real reform -- the "grassroots reform" proposal -- gets
through the Senate it then goes to the House of Representatives.
Depending on what happens in the Senate here's what has to happen on
the House side:
If the Senate fails to pass the real reform -- the "grassroots
reform" proposal -- then we will need to try to force a recorded vote
to suspend the rules and offer an amendment to kill Act 17 and
rollback the existing handgun registry.
Your help again will be needed to pour on the heat with
postcards, letters, FAXes and phone calls.
When the House move is made we will be fighting the entire
political establishment that doesn't want to do a thing about Act 17.
You and I will be going up against the House Speaker, the Majority
Leader, anti-gunners and weak -willed "pro-gun" compromisers.
You will have to back our House leader by putting the heat on
your own Representative, the Speaker and the Majority leader in the
House.
If you act immediately, you and I can force the politicians
returning to Harrisburg on September 18, 1995 to vote publicly to
restore your gun rights.
__
Here's what I need you to do:
Write a personal letter after you send a FAX and/or make a phone
call. Get your family and neighbors to FAX, call and write also.
Here are the key phone and FAX numbers:
Maj. Whip Mike Fisher (R-37)
717-787-5839/FAX 717-783-5021 or 772-4437
412-831-9898(Dist)/FAX 412-565-2609
Speaker Matthew J. Ryan (R-168)
717-783-3797(H'burg)/215-565-3800(Dist)
Majority Leader John Perzel (R-172)
717-787-2016(H'burg)/215-331-2600(Dist)
Don't let Governor Ridge's slavish apologists fool you. Act 17
is bad legislation and can be overturned even now -- while keeping the
few good things in it.
Public, roll call votes in the State House to amend Act 17 would
hold politicians accountable and give us the best chance to win a
repeal. Amendments can be offered through various procedural moves by
solid pro-gunners like Rep. Teresa Brown (R-6). A majority of each
body -- Senate and House -- will decide what are or are not "technical
amendments," including a complete repeal of Act 17.
If enough grassroots gun owners turn up the heat, the politicians
, even Governor Tom Ridge, will have to see the light. Pennsylvania's
gun owners deserve a public roll call vote -- win or lose -- so they
can know which politicians are for them and which are against them.
Please contact Sen. Mike Fisher, your own state Senator and your
own state Representative right away and let them know you want Act 17
repealed and the pre-existing handgun registry eliminated. One
initial warning:
You will likely be told by politicians that PA must ratify and
mimic the federal Brady Act in order to comply with federal law. But
this is just political blame-shifting. What they won't tell you is
that Brady has an unconstitutional mandate to state and local
governments that they carry out unfunded background checks. Brady
violates the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Bill of Rights; 5 out of 6
U.S. Federal District courts have said so.
Why should Pennsylvania's legislature cave into such an obviously
unconstitutional law?
The heart and soul of the Brady Act is NOT the waiting period.
The heart and soul is the mandated background check requirement,
"instant" or otherwise. Such a mandate is defacto registration. It
is dangerous in spite of legal "safeguards."
The federal Brady Act's mandates a background-check
registration-mechanism which the courts are finding unconstitutional
on 10th Amendment grounds. But establishing a state-based background
check registration-mechanism ala a Brady's "instant check" removes
any effective 10th Amendment claim by Pennsylvania. The federal
politicians will use state Brady bills as an excuse to do nothing
about Brady at the federal level and state politicians will use
federal Brady as an excuse to do nothing about their own state Brad
bills.
You should reject Act 17's false solution to the federal Brady
Act's violation of the 10th Amendment.
GOA has draft legislation -- "Brady Act Cutoff "-- that preserves
Pennsylvania's 10th Amendment position without instituting its own
Brady-style "instant check" registration- mechanism. "Brady Act
Cutoff " has been introduced in Georgia by pro-gun legislators who
want to roll back a Brady-style "instant check" set up there.
One Final WARNING! Some people will try to defend Act 17 the
same way they'll try to defend giving you a choice steak laced with
Arsenic. It tastes real good at first and then the poison sets in and
kills you. Under Act 17, and because of the way it was passed, your
gun rights are being poisoned and will be killed eventually.
ANY ?s Call GOA
703-321-8585
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From: GUN.OWNERS...@prn-bbs.org (GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA)
Subject: PA Act 17 Analysis by GOA
To: firearm...@shell.portal.com
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 22:04:51 GMT
BRIEF ANALYSIS of ACT 17
The following are only a few of the harmful provisions contained
in Act 17. A more detailed analysis is available for $2.00 from GOA.
Under the guise of crafting legislation to relieve Pennsylvania
gun owners of Brady Bill requirements, anti-gunners worked with
misguided pro-gun forces to pull a bait and switch to create Special
Session H.B. 110 -- now called Act 17 -- which strips gun owners of
rights already held and ...
... Act 17 even creates a file of virtually every gun owner in
Pennsylvania, even shotgun and rifle owners!!
You see, under current law every handgun purchaser -- private or
dealer sales -- must fill out a form which is sent to the State
Police. But Act 17, the Brady "Instant Check" on all firearms does
the following:
1) Every gun purchaser -- not just handguns -- will be required
to have their name filtered through an electronic background
check; this goes beyond the requirements even of Brady.
2) The State Police still get a copy of the written form
(including social security number). They get a
differentiated registration list of gun buyers -- long gun
versus handgun.
3) The language in Act 17 vaguely says no registry of gun
owners is permitted but anti-gunners like Senator Fumo say
that doesn't mean they can't register sales which amounts to
the same thing. Plus Act 17 contains no criminal penalties
for officials who do keep registration records.
As you can see, Act 17 does not expand your rights, it takes them
away. And if anti-gunners ever move to confiscate guns, Act 17
provides the information for them to find not only handgun owners, but
everyone who ever legally bought a handgun, shotgun or rifle.
In 1991 in Virginia this same expanded Brady "instant check"
registration mechanism on all firearms -- pistols, rifles and shotguns
-- very soon became something "worse." In 1993 the anti-gun governor
and weak-willed Republicans used the "instant check" registration
mechanism to impose one-gun-a-month rationing on gun buyers. Don't
let it happen in Pennsylvania!
That is not all that is wrong with Act 17. There is much, much
more to restrict your rights and threaten your freedom including:
* For the first time, a fee will be charged for every
background check ... yet another tax by the state on
your rights.
* Makes it a felony for you to carry a handgun on your person
or in your car without a license. Even if your life
is in danger, you will become a criminal barred from
owning any firearms in the United States.
* Makes parents felons for leaving a handgun in the home which is
in the "constructive possession" of their minor children. Even
in the case of legitimate self-defense a parent could be made a
felon when a son or daughter use a gun to stop a home-invading
rapist or murderer.
* Allows state authorities to strip you of your fundamental right
to own a gun if you get forcibly "evaluated" for emotional
problems. Even if you are found competent (i.e. not crazy) you
lose your gun rights under Act 17 because of your "involuntary
commitment. Apparently it is very easy for "mental health"
professionals to have you "evaluated," and they enjoy immunity
from law suits by their victims.
* Creates liability problems for honest gun dealers who do
nothing illegal.
Votes on Act 17 will come as soon as this Monday, September 18, 1995.
Act 17 expands the registry of and tax on gun owners far beyond current
law, and even beyond the requirements of the Brady Bill. It is gun
registration, and registration leads to confiscation. Protect your
rights by contacting your state Senator and Representative today and
tell them to repeal Act 17 and rollback the handgun registry.
If you or your group need a roster of legislators -- Senate and House
-- call GOA and one will be faxed to you.
Copy, Clip and FAX this note to your legislators.
Especially Sen. Fisher, Rep. Ryan and Rep. Perzel
_____________________________________________________________________
Dear ____________________________:
No more insider tricks, backroom deals, voice votes, closed
rules or gun control.
I strongly urge you to cast your every vote for complete
repeal of Act 17 and rollback of the handgun registry... including
procedural votes, votes on amendments and final passage.
Gun Owners of America and I will be watching what you do.
Sincerely,
NAME: ___________________________________________
ADDRESS: ___________________________________________
CITY/ZIP ________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
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From: GUN.OWNERS...@prn-bbs.org (GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA)
Subject: PA Alert - Ltr to Fisher
To: firearm...@shell.portal.com
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 22:06:20 GMT
September 14, 1995
The Hon. Michael Fisher
Capitol Building
Harrisburg, PA 17120
Via Facsimile: 717-783-5021
Dear Senator Fisher,
It was good to be on with you during Pat Campbell's show on
Flagship 1330 in Erie, Pennsylvania the other day.
I eagerly await your promised phone call to GOA. And I hope
to get an answer as to whether or not the gun owners of
Pennsylvania have your commitment to repeal Act 17 and the
handgun registry -- while keeping the very few good things in it.
By the way, looking at Section 611(C)(A)2 several attorneys
I have spoken with believe the language in Act 17 retains the 48
hour waiting period. Besides the registration expansion, maybe
that's why Handgun Control's Sarah Brady supported it.
The alliance of anti-gun advocates and weak-willed "pro-gun"
compromisers that snuck through Act 17 using a "shell bill" is
coming under intense pressure from the grassroots. Their efforts
to turn down the heat and divert the issue is not working. In
fact, it only exacerbates the problem they face.
There is a plan afoot to pretend to "fix" Act 17 with
so-called technical changes which really do nothing to protect
your constituents gun rights.
The fact is Act 17 cannot be fixed... it needs to be killed.
The only way to repeal Act 17 and restore your constituents
gun rights is by forcing a fight for a recorded vote on an
amendment to repeal Act 17 and repeal the pre-existing handgun
registry. From the word I am hearing at the grassroots your
involvement in the earlier deal is under intense criticism. Thus
anything short of your full effort will likely leave you facing
the wrath of the voters when you run for Attorney General in
1996.
A proposal has been made to you by pro-gun activists who
weren't part of the "deal" back in June: offer an amendment to
roll back the existing handgun registry and repeal Act 17 --
while keeping the very few good things in it. You can call this
real reform proposal the "grassroots reform" proposal as opposed
to the "insider" do-nothing proposal the political establishment
wants.
Here's what GOA's tens of thousands of members and
supporters across Pennsylvania want to see happen on the Senate
Side.
First, you must introduce the "grassroots reform" proposal
and then fight any amendments and "trick plays" offered to weaken
it or water it down.
Second, you should fight for public, roll call votes on any
and all procedural votes and final passage in the Senate.
Our members and supporters understand that you can only be
responsible for forcing the issue. The point is that you do
everything possible to make this happen.
Whether or not other Senators want to revisit this issue is
not nor should it be your problem. The grassroots is looking for
your leadership. That is what they want to see.
Please contact me to discuss this matter. Our members and
supporters across Pennsylvania would really like your support on
this effort.
I am hopeful that I can count on you to do what's best for
your gun owning constituents.
Sincerely,
Dennis Fusaro
Director of State and Local Affairs
cc GOA Pennsylvania member or supporters
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 14:00:26 -0700 (MST)
From: Cory Brickner <bric...@IMAP2.ASU.EDU>
Subject: Additions to The Freedom Pages...
To: Libernet List <libe...@Dartmouth.EDU>,
The Freedom Pages
http://aspin.asu.edu/~brickner/
Added on September 16, 1995:
http://aspin.asu.edu/~brickner/alerts/alerts.html
Freedom Alerts
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o Pennsylvania's Act 17 - Gun Owners of America 9/13/95 update.
Wake up Pennians!!! GOA tells you how the Penna legislature is
trying to put one over on you. It gives the story, who to call, and what
to write. This is must read for everyone, because if it can happen in one
state, it can happen in the other 49.
----
http://aspin.asu.edu/~brickner/1stam/1stam.html
1st Amendment Page
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o Genocide - The 20th century's dark side.
This is a 9/16/95 AP story that says 95% of the stuff JPFO has
been telling everyone for years. Send it to your congressmen and woman
and say "See, I told you so! How dare you take my guns away!"
o Pennsylvania D.A. worries jurors will get 'misimpressions' - Story by
Vin Suprynowicz.
A story about the Mase family and how a father is fighting for
his son's right to self protection. You may have seen Mr. Mase post
about his sons ordeal and not know the whole background. Well, here it is.
o Ruby Ridge Hearings Update - NRA ILA update on the first 3 days.
o Ruby Ridge Justification - FBI sniper's say shooting was justified.
o Sheriff: Put all prints on file - Tucson Citizen article by David L.
Teibel.
A Tucson Sheriff thinks everyone should be in a database and we
have nothing to fear from it!
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"We are somewhat amused by the hysteria manifest in the press at the
suggestion by Gordon Liddy that if one is menaced by bad guys
(particularly the ninja) one is wise to shoot for the head. That
statement has got a whole bunch of journalists and commentators bleeding
from the nose. One wonders why it should. Where else should you shoot a
man if he is probably wearing an armored vest? If you decide to shoot you
have made the big decision. Where you place your shot is merely a
technical matter." -- Jeff Cooper's Commentaries, Independence Issue, 1995.
Cory Brickner The Freedom Pages
bric...@imap2.asu.edu http://aspin.asu.edu/~brickner/
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 14:48:13 -0400
From: sec...@aol.com (Sec Hume) (by way of Charles Zeps <sec...@aol.com>)
Subject: Army Intelligence death squads?
To: p...@garnet.msen.com
Claims regarding the existence of death squads in America have usually
been met with disbelief and scornful skepticism. Those who have tried to
publicize evidence that such squads may exist have usually been branded
"conspiracy nuts." Nonetheless, many educated, rational, intelligent
investigators have concluded that such squads were born in America as long
as three decades ago.
There is good reason to believe that such squads were formed and trained
by the Military Intelligence Division in the 60s. And there is good
reason to suspect that one of these squads was involved in the murder of
Martin Luther King.
Due to the current interest in these clandestine dispensers of death,
sparked most notably by Sarah McClendon's claims and recent postings on
the Net, I exhumed this piece to offer as historical background.
Reprinted from Franklin's Focus, June '93.
DID ARMY INTELLIGENCE KILL MARTIN LUTHER KING?
In 1917 the United States Army Intelligence launched a domestic spying
division that would grow into the largest internal surveillance system
ever created in a democracy. By 1968, 304 offices were spread throughout
the country and nearly 20 million dossiers were filed in the Index of
Investigations. Army spies routinely opened over 100,00 pieces of private
mail weekly. In their frenzied overkill, the military snoops used U2 and
SR71 spy planes to photograph civil rights demonstrations in the South. A
vast number of black churches were bugged. Church ministers, board
members, and even janitors were kept under surveillance.
To enlarge the scope of their spy network, the Military Intelligence
Division (MID) recruited the Ku Klux Klan as an arm of government.
Weapons, training camps, and other logistical support were given to the
KKK. Green Beret units returning from Vietnam were placed in mobile spy
and assassination units. Sniping maps of American cities were plotted.
Fanatics such as Major General William Yarborough were running the MID in
1967. At that time, Yarborough saw Martin Luther King as a traitor who was
seeking to overthrow the Government by fomenting armed insurrection.
Prolific and semi-hysterical surveillance of King was carried on under the
general's aegis.
The MID learned that King would be in Memphis to support a labor strike. A
special eight-man unit of the Green Berets (not the usual 12 men) was
dispatched to Memphis before King's arrival. The unit left Memphis
immediately after King's assassination.
James Earl Ray, serving 99 years for the assassination, says he was
working under orders from a mysterious Raul. This shadowy figure allegedly
sent Ray to buy a sniping rifle with a scope. When Ray returned with a
perfectly good rifle and scope, Ray claims Raul made him exchange it for a
30.06 with scope-a demand that Ray saw as eccentric.
The MID considered the 30.06 to be the *only* rifle for sniping. The MID
stole thousands of these weapons from Army depots and supplied them to the
KKK, Southern police departments, and the MID's special Green Beret units.
Why has nobody looked into possible links between the MID and the slaying
of MLK? The answer is simple: everybody has focused attention on the FBI,
the Justice Department, and Southern racist groups. The MID has been
ignored.
Those who are interested in a more exhaustive treatment can download
(thru Dialog) a long investigative article by Stephen Tompkins, published
in the March 21, 1993 edition of The Commercial Appeal, a Memphis, Tenn.,
newspaper. This was a piece that merited consideration for a Pulitzer
Prize but was studiously ignored by every national news organization.
Richard L. Franklin
Publisher, Franklin's Focus
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 14:46:22 -0400
From: "R. Leland Lehrman" <ga...@id.wing.net> (by way of Charles Zeps
<cz...@icis.on.ca>)
Subject: Canadian Authorities Harassment of First Nations
To: usa-f...@webcom.webcom.com
http://www.islandnet.com/~jwight/enviro/Sundancemess8.html#one
Gustafsen Lake Standoff-Messages Received
Background Documents #8
The Path Of Confrontation
With First Nations People Continues at Peace Arch
demonstration-Canada/US border Sept 16
Bruce Clark vs collaborators Sept 16
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 4:21pm
From: Ernie Yacub yac...@mars.ark.com
Subject: Peace Arch demonstration Canada-US border
Canadian Authorities Continue To Pursue The Path Of Confrontation
With First Nations People
We received the following message tonight:
"September 15, 1995
On Friday evening (September 15, 1995) an international
vigil for First Nations people took place in the Peace Arch Park
at the U.S./Canadian border. The vigil, calling for a peaceful
resolution to the stand-offs in Gustafson Lake and Ipperwash,
consisted of prayers, ceremonies and honour songs. Information
leaflets were also handed out. While this took place, 4 RCMP
officers conducted surveillance on the vigil participants from
the roof of a customs building.
As members of the Shuswap Nation, organizers and supporters
of the vigil were leaving the site they were stopped by RCMP
officers and immigration officials on Highway 99 enroute to
Vancouver. RCMP officers threatened a number of the passengers in
the 4 car caravan. Also, in a violation of the Jay Treaty (which
states that First Nations people can travel freely between the
so-called U.S./Canadian border), ID was taken from a number of
First Nations people in the caravan. The RCMP also threatened to
arrest an outside observer of this incident and charge them with
"obstruction". Why does the Canadian government and the RCMP
continue to pursue this path of confrontation at yet another
prayers vigil?
In a separate incident, Bill Simmonds (sp?), a member of
International Indian Treaty Council (an NGO with observer status
at the UN) was refused entry into Canada from the U.S. and is
currently being detained by Canadian immigration authorities at
Vancouver International Airport.
We appeal to progressive people around the world to protest
against this violation of human rights."
The above statement was received by us, Arm The Spirit,
tonight and as we post this we don't have the appropriate phone
or fax numbers with the exception of an unconfirmed phone number
for Canadian Immigration offices at Vancouver International
Airport: 604 666 1185. You can call the RCMP Public Complaints
Commission at: 1 800 665 6878.
As this situation will be changing quickly we suggest
contacting the following groups for more information. We will
post more info as it becomes available.
International Indian Treaty Council
Phone: 415 512 1501
Splitting The Sky
Phone: 403 865 1784
Settlers In Support Of Indigenous Sovereignty
E-mail: uc...@freenet.victoria.bc.ca
Also check out this WWW site for background info about the stand-
offs at Gustafson Lake and Ipperwash:
http://www.islandnet.com/~jwight/enviro/Sundancefrm.html
And of course, we'll provide any info we can...
Sovereignty For First Nations!!
In solidarity,
Arm The Spirit
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 00:45:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ernie Yacub yac...@mars.ark.com
Subject: Bruce Clark vs collaborators
GUSTAFSEN LAKE/IPPERWASH PARK: the collaborators and the police vs the
resistance people
For immediate release
Thursday, September 14, 1995
Monday 11 September 1995: The allegedly collaborating Gitksan Indians
Don Ryan, main political leader, and Gordan Sebastian, lawyer, stayed
together at the same bed and breakfast, Arcona Lodge, near Gustafsen
Lake, Bruce ClarkUs abode while in the area.
Tuesday 12 September 1995: In the Supreme Court of Canada hearing the
Gitksan lawyer, Stuart Rush, Q.C., scuttles the attempt by the Indian
resistance movement to force the Court to address the legal issue
whether
the Court's assumption of jurisdiction constitutionally constitutes
"Misprision of Treason" and "Fraud" and internationally constitutes
"Complicity in Genocide." He tells the Court that the vast majority of
the Indians do not want that issue to be considered. Native sovereignty
depends upon forcing that issue to be addressed, because the Mohegan
case
has already resolved that issue in the Indians' favour.
Wednesday 13 September 1995: Bruce Clark, legal counsel for the Indians
under siege at Gustafsen Lake writes to lawyer Nancy Sandy, the
associates of the said Gordan Sebastian, pointing out that she is in a
conflict of interest that precludes her acting for Clark's clients.
Please see accompanying letter Clark to Sandy.
Wednesday 13 September 1995: Shaukeens, the hereditary or traditional
chief of the Ipperwash region delivers a statement to Indian Affairs
Minister Ron Irwin, accusing him of complicity by necessary implication
in the murder by the police of the Indian Dudley George. Irwin ignores
Shaukeens and announces to the media that he and the collaborating
Indians have made a deal that profits the collaborators in consequence
of
the death of Dudley George. This is termed by the media to be
significant peace progress. Please see accompanying statement of
Shaukeens.
Thursday 14 September 1995: Clark attends at police headquarters near
Gustafsen Lake and demands to see his clients. Access is denied, on the
ground that the clients allegedly have fired Clark and hired the
aforesaid lawyers Nancy Sandy and Gordan Sebastian. Clark is denied
access to his (former?) clients for the purpose of clarifying their
intent and, if they wish, turning over his files to the "new" lawyers.
Clark observes that the collaborating Indians have moved into quarters
for the purpose of assisting the police to bring matters to a "peaceful
conclusion," meaning a surrender by the Gustafsen Lake people without
any
guarantee in return that the law upon which they rely in justification
of
their occupation will ever be addressed before the constitutionally
appropriate independent and impartial third party tribunal.
Thursday 14 September 1995: The national police convention being held
in
Vancouver publishes a report that Indians are using violence to gain
political ends., citing Gustafsen Lake and Ipperwash as illustrations,
but ignoring that in both of those situations the Indians occupations
are
defensive not aggressive. The police thus continue consciously to
publish demonstrably false hate literature against the Indian resistance
movement. The police are willfully blind to the sole demand of the
resistance movement. The police continue to prejudge the underlying
issue of their own jurisdiction, and foster public animosity toward the
Indians as a smokescreen to their own ongoing crimes of violence against
the aboriginal people. Please see the accompanying demand of the
Gustafsen Lake Indians.
Friday 18 September 1995: Court is scheduled to sit in relation to
Clark's (former?) clients. He will appear and demand access to them
before any legal steps that may further prejudice their interest in
having the jurisdiction addressed according to the rule of law.
(108 Mile House, Arcona House)
Bruce Clark, counsel
******
Bruce Clark, LL.B., M.A., Ph.D. (Law)
92 Stanley Avenue, Ottawa Ontario, Canada KLM JP4
phone (613) 741-7065 fax (613) 741-7077
By fax and mail
September 13, 1995
Nancy Sandy
Barrister and Solicitor
Nenqay Deni Yajelhkig Law Center
17 South First Avenue
Williams Lake, British Columbia
V2G 1H5
Dear Ms Sandy:
I act as legal counsel pro bono for the occupants of the Indian
encampment under siege at Gustafsen Lake British Columbia. The police
illegally have denied my clients and I access to each other. I am
informaed that, instead, the police have been steering my clients to you
in lieu of me, and that you have been
accepting the work.
My clients' legal position is as disclosed in their accompanying demand
dated 25 August 1995. As a member of the bar of British Columbia you
are
in a profound conflict of interest in relation to that legal position.
The conflict deepens to the extent that you are on retainer with the
Indian Act band council system whose interest under domestic legislation
conflicts with the traditionalists' interest under constitutional
legislation.
Anything that you say or do that directly or indirectly results in my
clients or any of them being duped, whether in hope of favour or fear of
prejudice or otherwise, into attorning in any way to the usurpation of
jurisdiction by the police and domestic court system aids and abets the
crimes of "Misprision of Treason,' "Fraud' and "Complicity in Genocide,"
as well as breaches the most fundamental ethical principles of the legal
profession.
Sincerely,
Bruce Clark
Encl
Copies:
Law Society of British Columbia. fax 604-669-5232
RCMP 100 Mile House. fax 604-395-3605
Attorney General of British Columbia. fax 604-387-6411
RCMP Commissioner. fax 613-993-0260
******
posted September 15, 1995
by ernie yacub
yac...@mars.ark.com
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 12:49:37 GMT
From: cz...@icis.on.ca (Charles Zeps)
Subject: COLIN POWELL: Allegiance is to the UN
To: usa-f...@webcom.webcom.com, sne...@world.std.com, p...@garnet.msen.com,
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in public schools. On the basis of these stands, he would seem to fit in the
moderate wing of the Republican Party or, just as easily, in the desperately
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But on many other key issues, he appears to be a man very much in the midst
of studying up. He said he received position papers from groups as diverse
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 20:49:12 -0400
From: One4...@aol.com
Subject: Communist Revolution in Israel, footnotes
To: conser...@dragon.com
Footnotes:
1 Fritz, S. and Jackson, R.C., "Federal authorities expect additional arrests
in trade center bombing." Los Angeles Times, Sat., 3-13-93, p. A16.
2 Goldman, J.J. and Jackson, R.L., "Eight suspects seized in plot to bomb
U.N., other N.Y. targets." Los Angeles Times, Fri., 6-25-93, p. A1;
Neumeister, L., Associated Press, "U.S. charges sheik with terrorist plots."
Orange County Register, Thur., 8-26-93, p. 1.
3 Newsday, "Palestinian reportedly questioned in N.Y. blast." San Francisco
Chronicle, Thur., 5-6-93, p. A11.
4 "N.Y. bombing tied to international plot." San Francisco Chronicle, Fri.,
7-16-93, p. A12.
5 Turque, B., Waller, D., Cohn, B., and Beachy, L., "An Iranian connection?"
Newsweek, 3-22-93, p. 33; Neumeister, Op cit.
6 "N.Y. bombing tied to international plot," Op cit.
7 Reuters, "IRA blast injures 27." San Francisco Chronicle, Wed., 12-2-92, p.
A10.
8 "Bomb injures 17 in Northern Ireland." San Francisco Chronicle, Tues.,
7-6-93, p. A8.
9 Schmidt, W.E., "Bomb tied to I.R.A., the 8th in 6 days, injures 5
Londoners." New York Times, Tues., 10-13-92, pp. A5-6.
10 "8 people wounded by two bomb blasts in Northern London." New York Times,
Fri., 12-11-92, pp. A3, A9.
11 New York Times, "Anti-terrorist roadblocks set up in Central London." San
Francisco Chronicle, Tues., 7-6-93, p. A8.
12 Protzman, F., "Head of top West German bank is killed in bombing by
terrorists." New York Times, Fri., 12-1-89, p. A1.
13 "German official is fatally shot in Dusseldorf." Wall Street Journal,
Tues., 4-2-91, pp. A17, A21; "Berlin city official is killed by letter bomb
at his home." New York Times, Fri., 6-14-91, p. A9.
14 "Turkey says Kurd rebels killed 35." San Francisco Chronicle, Wed.,
5-26-93, p. A14.
15 Hoffman, D., Washington Post, "Gunmen attack Israeli bus - 4 die." San
Francisco Chronicle, Fri., 7-2-93, p. A16.
16 Kelly, D., "Egypt tries to suppress fundamentalists." San Francisco
Chronicle, Tues., 2-16-93, p. A7.
17 New York Times, "South African group vows more attacks." San Francisco
Chronicle, Wed., 12-2-92, p. A12.
18 Shenon, P., New York Times, "Another ambush by Khmer Rouge - 13 die on
train." San Francisco Chronicle, Fri., 5-7-93, p. A10.
19 de Villamarest, P.F., Histoire secrete des organisations terroristes.
Famot-Beauval, 1976; Sterling, C., The Terror Network. Holt, Rinehart and
Winston, New York, 1981.
20 Farah, D., Washington Post, "'Terrorist' arsenal uncovered." San Francisco
Chronicle, 7-14-93, pp. A1, A15.
21 U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, "Nicaragua Today." Republican
Staff Report, August, 1992, 138 pp.
22 Associated Press, "Czech revolution: A secret police plot?" Los Angeles
Times, Fri., 6-1-90, p. A10 (about "Czech-Mate: Inside the Revolution," aired
on BBC-TV 5-30-90).
23 Ellison, B.J., "Behind the facade." The New American, 5-21-91, pp. 21-30.
24 Micheletti, E. (translated by McColl, A.), "Puppet Revolution," Soldier of
Fortune, July, 1990, pp. 48-55.
25 Golitsyn, A., New Lies for Old. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, 1984, p. 331.
26 McAlvany, D.S., "Russian strategic deception: The 'new' Communist threat."
The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, Jan., 1994, p. 9.
27 See, for example, Ellison, B.J., "Behind the facade," Op cit.; Epstein,
E., "Spies who still haven't come in from the cold," (World Insider), San
Francisco Chronicle, 3-30-90, p. A25; Epstein, E., "Some spies won't quite
their old ways," (World Insider), San Francisco Chronicle, 6-15-90, p. A19;
Emerson, S., New York Times Magazine, "Keeping watch on the Stasi machine,"
San Francisco Chronicle, Wed., 8-15-90, pp. Briefing 1,4,5; Fisher, M.,
Washington Post, "Spies keep popping up in Germany," San Francisco Chronicle,
10-11-90, pp. A1, A22; Tagliabue, J., "Secret-police scandals outlive East
Germany," New York Times, Sun., 10-28-90, International;New York Times, "New
links to East German secret police," San Francisco Chronicle, 3-28-91, p.
A19; and others.
28 McAlvany, D.S., "Russian strategic deception: The 'new' Communist threat,"
Op cit., pp. 7-9.
29 Ibid., p. 12.
30 Ibid., p. 14; Klebkinov, P., "Prizewinner's ways," Forbes, 1-7-91.
31 Personal communication with Avraham Shifrin, director of The Research
Center for Prisons, Psych-prisons, and Forced-Labor Concentration Camps of
the USSR, based in Jerusalem, Israel; Zalman Shoval, former Israeli
ambassador to the U.S., confirmed that most Jews still cannot leave the
Soviet Union (speech at the University of California, Berkeley, 12-8-92).
32 Sinai, R., Associated Press, "Cold war over? Not for spies," Contra Costa
Times, 3-5-92, p. B1; McAlvany, "Russian strategic deception: The 'new'
Communist threat," Op cit., pp. 20-22.
33 McAlvany, D.S., "The rebirth of an empire: What is really happening in the
Soviet Union," The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, Sep./Oct. 1991, pp. 18-22;
McAlvany, "Russian strategic deception: The 'new' Communist threat," Op cit.,
pp. 15-18.
34 Cheung, T.M., "China's buying spree: Russia gears up to upgrade Peking's
weaponry," Far Eastern Economic Review, 7-8-93, pp. 24-26; Washington Post,
"Soviets offer to keep sending Nicaragua aid," San Francisco Chronicle,
2-28-90, p. A13; Collier, R., "Chamorro tries to hold onto Communist aid,"
San Francisco Chronicle, Wed., 3-7-90, pp. A13, A15; "Czechs rebuff U.S. on
Syria arms sale," San Francisco Chronicle, 5-9-91, P. A20; Gordon, M.R., New
York Times, "Russians flew N. Korea arms parts to Syria," San Francisco
Chronicle, Sun., 12-12-93, p. A15; McAlvany, "The rebirth of an empire: What
is really happening in the Soviet Union," Op cit., pp. 21-22; "Islamic
fundamentalism: The threat to peace," American Jewish News, Thurs., May 6,
1993, p. 7.
35 "Poland won't allow Red Army through," San Francisco Chronicle, 1-11-91,
p. A21; "Soviet army starts on the long way home," San Francisco Chronicle,
3-13-91, p. A11; McAlvany, "The rebirth of an empire: What is really
happening in the Soviet Union," Op cit., p. 21; Kinzer, S., New York Times,
"A bitter good-by to Germany," San Francisco Chronicle, 3-4-94, p. A14.
36 Associated Press, "Russia preparing to join new NATO partnership," San
Francisco Chronicle, 3-18-94, p. A16; McAlvany, "Russian strategic deception:
The 'new' Communist threat," Op cit., p. 10.
37 "NATO opposes repositioning of Russian troops," San Francisco Chronicle,
4-4-94, p. A10; Cooperman, A., Associated Press, "Yeltsin OKs bases in
ex-Soviet Union," San Francisco Chronicle, 4-7-94, p. A12.
38 McAlvany, "Russian strategic deception: The 'new' Communist threat," Op
cit., p. 10.
39 Golitsyn, Op cit., Chapter 25.
40 Lenin, V.I., "What is to be done?", 1902, in Connor, J.E., Ed., Lenin on
Politics and Revolution, Pegasus, Indianapolis, 1968, pp. 61-72.
41 Ibid., p. 73.
42 Lenin, V.I., "Left-Wing" Communism, an Infantile Disorder, International
Publishers, New York, 1940, p. 9.
43 Ibid., pp. 31-32.
44 Ibid., p. 82.
45 Goodman, E.R., The Soviet Design for a World State, Columbia University
Press, New York, 1960.
46 Lenin, "Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder, Op cit., pp. 12,
18-19.
47 Ibid., pp. 14, 20-21, 34, 37-39, 42-48, 62, 65, 76-77, 80, etc.
48 Stalin, J., Marxism and the National Question, International Publishers,
New York, 1942, p. 38, passim.
49 Foster, W.Z., Toward Soviet America, Elgin Publications, Balboa Island,
CA, 1961 (originally published 1932), pp. 39-40.
50 Petrenko, F., and Popov, V., Soviet Foreign Policy: Objectives and
Principles, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1985, pp. 285-287.
51 Golitsyn, A., New Lies for Old, Op cit., pp. 341-342.
52 Foster, W.Z., Toward Soviet America, Op cit., pp. 272-273.
53 Gromyko, A., Africa: Progress, Problems, Prospects, Progress Publishers,
Moscow, 1983, pp. 41-51.
54 Agwani, M.S., Communism in the Arab East, Asia Publishing House, New York,
1969, pp. 9-20.
55 As quoted in Sterling, Op cit., pp. 21-22.
56 Sterling, Op cit., pp. 151, 171.
57 Reed, D., "South Africa: Glimmers of hope?", Reader's Digest, Aug., 1987;
McAlvany, D.S., "Revolution and betrayal: The accelerating onslaught against
South Africa," The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, July, 1986, pp. 10-11;
Bureau for Information, Talking with the ANCx, Government Printer, Pretoria,
South Africa, 1986, p. 24.
58 For example, see Sterling, Op cit.; Batista, F., Cuba Betrayed, Vantage
Press, New York, 1962; Weyl, N., Red Star Over Cuba, Hillman Books, New York,
1961; Smith, E.E.T., The Fourth Floor, Random House, New York, 1962; Clark,
M.K., Algeria in Turmoil, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1959; True Aspects of
the Algerian Revolution, French Interior Ministry, Paris; Kai-shek, C.,
Soviet Russia in China, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, 1957; Welch, R.,
Again, May G-d Forgive Us, Belmont Publishing Company, Belmont, MA, 1952;
Somoza, A. and Cox, J., Nicaragua Betrayed, Western Islands, Boston, 1980;
Pahlavi, M.R., Shah, Answer to History, Stein & Day, New York, 1980; Pike,
H.R., A History of Communism in South Africa, Christian Mission International
of South Africa, Germiston, South Africa, 1985; de Villamarest, P.F., The
Strategists of Fear, Geneva, Switzerland, 1981; and many others.
59 Marx, K., "On the Jewish Question," in Tucker, R.C., ed., The Marx-Engels
Reader, second edition, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1978, p. 49.
60 Lumer, H., ed., Lenin on the Jewish Question, International Publishers,
New York, 1974, p. 47.
61 Agwani, Op cit., pp. 9-13; Webster, N.H., The Surrender of an Empire,
London, 3rd ed., 1931, pp. 360-365.
62 Sterling, Op cit., pp. 14-15.
63 Livingstone, N.C. and Halevy, D., Inside the PLO, William Morrow & Co.,
New York, 1990, pp. 68-70.
64 Sterling, Op cit., pp. 272-276.
65 Livingstone and Halevy, Op cit., pp. 201-211.
66 Ibid., pp. 67, 73.
67 Livingstone and Halevy, Op cit., pp. 64-65; Rees, J., "Why Americans must
oppose the P.L.O.," The Review of the News, Oct. 17, 1979, pp. 31-44 (p. 41);
Parry, A., Terrorism, From Robespierre to Arafat, Vanguard Press, New York,
1976, p. 131.
68 Livingstone and Halevy, Op cit., p. 67; Sterling, Op cit., p. 277;
Israeli, R., ed., PLO in Lebanon: Selected Documents, Weidenfeld and
Nicolson, London, 1983, pp. 34-73.
69 Livingstone and Halevy, Op cit., pp. 77-78.
70 Sterling, Op cit., pp. 272-285; Israeli, Op cit., p. 7; Alexander, Y. and
Sinai, J., Terrorism: The PLO Connection, Crane Russak, New York, 1989, pp.
126-127.
71 Sterling, Op cit., pp. 272-285; Israeli, Op cit., pp. 74-157; Rees, J.,
"Why Americans must oppose the P.L.O.," Op cit., pp. 42-43; Alexander and
Sinai, Op cit., pp. 121-136.
72 Rees, J., "Why Americans must oppose the P.L.O.," Op cit., p. 33.
73 Ibid., pp. 31-44; Livingstone and Halevy, Op cit., passim; Israeli, Op
cit., passim; Sterling, Op cit., pp. 113-130, 272-285; Laffin, J., The P.L.O.
Connections, Corgi Books, London, 1982, passim; Israeli Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, The Threat of PLO Terrorism, Jerusalem, 1985, pp. 17-22; Merari, A.,
PLO: Core of World Terror, Jaffee Centre for Strategic Studies, Tel Aviv
University, Carta, Jerusalem, 1983, pp. 10-21; Alexander and Sinai, Op cit.,
passim.
74 Livingstone and Halevy, Op cit., pp. 158-160.
75 Ibid., p. 159.
76 Sterling, Op cit., p. 121.
77 Ibid., p. 122.
78 On Algeria, see Clark, M.K., Algeria in Turmoil, Op cit.; editorial staff,
"If you want it straight," "Testimony of Raoul Salan," and du Berrier, H.,
"The opposition," American Opinion, Sept. 1962, pp. 1-45, 49-58, 59-62; on
Libya, see Sterling, Op cit., chapter 14, especially pp. 268-269, and
ElWarfally, M.G., Imagery and Ideology in U.S. Policy Toward Libya,
1969-1982, University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 1988, chapter 3;
on Syria, see Hopwood, D., Syria 1945-1986: Politics and Society, Unwin
Hyman, London, 1988, especially chapter 4 and p. 56; Syria completed its
invasion and annexation of Lebanon in October, 1990, as recounted in Bard,
M.G. and Himelfarb, J., Myths and Facts, Near East Report, Washington, D.C.,
1992, p. 106; the takeover of South Yemen by Habash's Arab Nationalist
Movement is mentioned in Livingstone and Halevy, Op cit., p. 202, and its
final conversion to full Communism in Sterling, Op cit., pp. 89-90, 253-254;
Communist influence over, and attempts to conquer, North Yemen are referred
to in Davis, L.J., Myths and Facts 1989, Near East Report, Washington, DC,
1988, p. 36, in Bard and Himelfarb, Op cit., pp. 238-239, in Sterling, Op
cit., p. 257, and in Alexander and Sinai, Op cit., p. 116, and the final
merger with South Yemen is mentioned by Carapico, S., in Middle East Report,
Nov./Dec. 1992, pp. 43-44; on Iraq, see Darwish, A. and Alexander, G., Unholy
Babylon, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1991, especially pp. 20-24, and
al-Khalil, S., Republic of Fear, University of California Press, Berkeley,
CA, 1990, especially pp. 12-13, 66, 183-184ff, 226-227, and chapter 7 passim.
79 Rees, J., "How Jimmy Carter betrayed the Shah," The Review of the News,
Feb. 21, 1979, pp. 31-48.
80 Taheri, A., Holy Terror: Inside the World of Islamic Terrorism, Adler &
Adler, Bethesda, MD, 1987, p. 79; Alexander and Sinai, Op cit., pp. 72-73;
Livingstone and Halevy, Op cit., pp. 150-154.
81 "Islamic fundamentalism: The threat to peace," American Jewish News, Op
cit.; McAlvany, "Russian strategic deception: The 'new' Communist threat," Op
cit., pp. 11, 20; "Gorbachev's gulf, too," The Economist, Oct. 24, 1987, pp.
13-14.
82 Sterling, Op cit., chapter 12.
83 Davis, Myths and Facts 1989, Op cit., pp. 134-135; Alexander and Sinai, Op
cit., pp. 11-14, chapters 6-7.
84 For examples of Shi'ite opposition to the Ayatollah Khomeini, see Taheri,
Op cit., p. 163, and Pahlavi, Shah Mohammed Reza, Answer to History, Op cit.,
chapter 11.
85 Taheri, Op cit., p. 217.
86 Rees, J., "How Jimmy Carter betrayed the Shah," Op cit., pp. 39-47;
Taheri, Op cit., p. 175.
87 Taheri, Op cit., pp. 95-99.
88 Ibid., pp. 100-102.
89 Ibid., 177; Laffin, J., Holy War: Islam Fights, Grafton Books, London,
1988, p. 79.
90 Livingstone and Halevy, Op cit., pp. 212-216, 267-275; Alexander and
Sinai, Op cit., p. 186.
91 Taheri, Op cit., pp. 76-84.
92 Schiff, Z. and Ya'ari, E., Intifada, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1990,
pp. 56-57; Black, I. and Morris, B., Israel's Secret Wars, Grove Weidenfeld,
New York, 1991, p. 468.
93 Abu-Amr, Z., "Hamas: A historical and political background," Journal of
Palestine Studies, XXII (4), Summer, 1993, pp. 5-19 (pp. 16-17).
94 Netanyahu, B., A Place Among the Nations, Bantam Books, New York, 1993,
pp. 220-221.
95 Livingstone and Halevy, Op cit., p. 84.
96 Davis, L.J., Op cit., pp. 90-93.
97 Israeli, Op cit., pp. 281-288.
98 Davis, L.J., Op cit., p. 92.
99 Emerson, S., The American House of Saud, Franklin Watts, New York, 1985,
chapter 14.
100 Rees, J., "Why Americans must oppose the P.L.O.," Op cit., pp. 43-44;
National Lawyers Guild, 1977 Middle East Delegation, Treatment of
Palestinians in Israeli-Occupied West Bank and Gaza, National Lawyers Guild,
New York, 1978.
101 Bard and Himelfarb, Op cit., pp. 117-118; "U.N. Council condemns Hebron
killings," San Francisco Chronicle, 3-19-94, pp. A1, A15.
102 Journal of Palestine Studies, XXII (3), Spring 1993, pp. 157-159.
103 Davydkov, R., The Palestine Question, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1984,
pp. 23-24.
104 Ibid., pp. 233-248.
105 Arafat, Y., "We are optimistic," World Marxist Review, Sept. 1987, pp.
47-50; "Stronger solidarity with the Palestinian people's struggle in the
occupied territories: Statement by the Communist and Workers' Parties of the
Arab East," Information Bulletin, Feb. 1988, p. 37; "Israeli actions are
state terrorism: Statement by the Central Secretariat, Communist Party of
India," Information Bulletin, March 1988, p. 25; "For speeding up a Middle
East international conference: Joint statement by the Communist Parties of
Jordan, Palestine and Israel," Information Bulletin, March 1988, pp. 25-26;
"Gus Hall: The Middle East - the moment of truth," Information Bulletin,
March 1988, p. 26.
106 Tamari, S., "Left in limbo: Leninist heritage and Islamist challenge,"
Middle East Report, Nov.-Dec. 1992, pp. 16-21; Cobban, H., "Palestinian
relationships inside and outside the occupied territories," American-Arab
Affairs, Winter 1989-90, pp. 38-42; Sosebee, S.J., "The palestinian women's
movement and the intifada: A historical and current analysis," American-Arab
Affairs, Spring 1990, pp. 81-91; Lockard, J., "U.S. aid: Subsidizing
collective punishment of palestinians," American-Arab Affairs, Summer 1989,
p. 68; Schiff and Ya'ari, Op cit., passim.
107 Schiff and Ya'ari, Op cit., chapter 2 and pp. 101-105, 198-202.
108 Ibid., chapter 7; Cobban, Op cit., p. 40; Livingstone and Halevy, Op
cit., pp. 44-45.
109 Abu-Amr, Z., Op cit., pp. 14-15; Bard and Himelfarb, Op cit., p. 171.
110 See, for example, the number of PLO-affiliated professors in the
delegation to the peace talks, "The Madrid peace conference," Journal of
Palestine Studies, XXI (2), Winter 1992, pp. 122-123.
111 Bard and Himelfarb, Op cit., pp. 170-172; "Israel reopens West Bank
university," San Francisco Chronicle, 8-22-91, p. A21.
112 "Israelis blow up homes," Orange County Register, 10-13-88, p. A22;
"Arabs demand U.N. protection," San Francisco Chronicle, 3-27-92, p. A19.
113 Rosenthal, D., "The geography of fear," San Francisco Examiner Image,
10-6-91, pp. 8-15, 32; Schiff and Ya'ari, Op cit., passim.
114 Tamari, S., Op cit., p. 18.
115 Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Threat of PLO Terrorism, Op
cit., p. 21; Rees, J., "Why Americans must oppose the P.L.O.," Op cit., pp.
35-37.
116 Emerson, S., "Meltdown," The New Republic, Nov. 23, 1992, pp. 26-29; Bard
and Himelfarb, Op cit., pp. 168-170.
117 Emerson, "Meltdown," Op cit., p. 26.
118 J.H., "Intrafada violence continues," Near East Report, Dec. 14, 1992, p.
229.
119 Rosenthal, D., "The geography of fear," Op cit., p. 14; Los Angeles
Times, 1-20-88, pp. 1, 8.
120 "The war of stones," Simon Wiesenthal Center Response, May 1988, pp. 5-7.
121 New York Times, "Rights group lays blame on PLO for Arab deaths," San
Francisco Chronicle, 1-10-94, p. A9.
122 Netanyahu, Op cit., p. 224.
123 Abu-Amr, Z., Op cit., p. 17.
124 Emerson, S., "Meltdown," Op cit., p. 26; Bar-Illan, D., "Israel's new
pollyannas," Commentary, Sept., 1993, pp. 27-32 (p. 30).
125 Rubin, B., "How low will we stoop for Arafat?", Los Angeles Times,
3-22-90; Emerson, S., "The Bush administration's PLO cover-up," The Wall
Street Journal, 3-22-90.
126 Williams, D., "Likud blames U.S. for Shamir's downfall," Los Angeles
Times, 3-22-90, p. A6.
127 "Christopher leans on Israeli, Arab negotiators," San Francisco
Chronicle, 4-28-93, p. A11; Washington Post, "U.S. makes proposal on
palestinian self-rule," San Francisco Chronicle, 5-13-93, p. A12.
128 Ibrahim, Y.M., New York Times, "Israel-PLO deal for mutual recognition,"
San Francisco Chronicle, 9-9-93, pp. A1, A13; Broder, J.M. and Kempster, N.,
Los Angeles Times, "Israel, PLO give peace a chance," San Francisco
Chronicle, 9-14-93, pp. A1, A13.
129 Kempster, N. and Parks, M., "Israel, Syria near accord, negotiators say,"
Los Angeles Times, 9-3-93, pp. A1, A15; "Rabin reaffirms Israel's offer to
withdraw from Lebanon," San Francisco Chronicle, 9-17-93, pp. A1, A18.
130 "U.N. Council condemns Hebron killings," Op cit.
131 Lockard, J., Op cit., pp. 65+.
132 Goshko, J.M., Washington Post, "U.S. issues global call to help
palestinians," San Francisco Chronicle, 9-21-93, pp. A1, A13.
133 Bard and Himelfarb, Op cit., p. 241.
134 Livingstone and Halevy, Op cit., pp. 167-169.
135 New York Times, "Saudis asked to aid palestinians again," San Francisco
Chronicle, 4-29-93, p. A14.
136 Sutton, A.C., The Best Enemy Money Can Buy, Liberty House Press,
Billings, MT, 1986.
137 Bard and Himelfarb, Op cit., pp. 120-121.
138 Alexander and Sinai, Op cit., pp. 182-183; Viorst, M., Reaching for the
Olive Branch: UNRWA and Peace in the Middle East, Middle East Institute,
Washington, DC, 1989.
139 Alexander and Sinai, Op cit., pp. 182-183; Schoenberg, H.O., A Mandate
for Terror: The United Nations and the PLO, Shapolsky Publishers, New York,
1989, chapter 9; Laffin, The PLO Connections, Op cit., pp. 57-58; Israeli, Op
cit., pp. 294, 296.
140 Schiff, M., "How U.S. tax dollars pay for PLO terrorism," Soldier of
Fortune, Winter 1977, as quoted in The Review of the News, 6-16-82, pp.
37-38.
141 Compare the current budget, nearly $250 million (Viorst, Op cit., p. 60),
with one estimate of PLO annual spending, at about $400 million (Livingstone
and Halevy, Op cit., p. 171).
142 Schoenberg, Op cit., chapters 7, 9; Alexander and Sinai, Op cit., pp.
183-186; Lockard, J., Op cit.
143 Schoenberg, Op cit., chapter 8; Laffin, The PLO Connections, Op cit., pp.
58-59
144 "Arafat urges U.N. to prevent 'extermination'," San Francisco Chronicle,
5-26-90, pp. A1, A20; "Arabs demand U.N. protection," San Francisco
Chronicle, 3-27-92, p. A19.
145 "New plan to put foreign force in Israel territories," San Francisco
Chronicle, 3-23-94, pp. A1, A13.
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 20:47:08 -0400
From: One4...@aol.com
Subject: Communist Revolution in Israel, prt1
To: conser...@dragon.com
The following is the transcript of an audio tape released by Inside Story
Comm. Inside Story has generously agreed to let this special report be posted
on the net. This information should help clarify the nature of international
communism and, hopefully, put to rest any misguided ideas that communism is
somehow "dead" or simply "just another economic system." Following is part I
(of 4) of this hard hitting information.
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The autumn months of 1989 saw the apparent collapse of Communism in Eastern
Europe, followed by growing instability in the Soviet Union itself. In 1991,
the Communist regime in Moscow declared itself dead. To Americans, the Cold
War finally seemed to be over. With the disappearance of the Soviet military
threat, as well as the end of Soviet-sponsored revolution and terrorism, the
world could now settle in for a new era of peace.
But that hope was shattered on February 26, 1993, when a massive explosion
ripped through the basement parking garage of New York City's World Trade
Center. Days after the blast, which killed five people and wounded 1,000
others, authorities found and arrested Mohammed Salameh, the man who had
rented the truck containing the deadly bombs. Further clues led authorities
to a second suspect in New Jersey, Nidal Ayyad.1 Eight more arrests unveiled
a horrifying plan to bomb a series of prominent New York targets, including
the FBI headquarters, the United Nations building, and two crowded commuter
tunnels, as well as to assassinate several prominent political leaders and
carry out kidnappings.2 The intended carnage can only be imagined.
The expanding investigation began uncovering an international conspiracy
behind the arrested men. Within weeks of the original bombing, the list of
suspects had grown to include a member of Fatah, the main group of the
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).3 Egyptian intelligence reported that
the plot had been funded by the German branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, a
shadowy organization believed to be behind insurrectionary violence in the
Middle East. According to the same sources, agents of the Iraqi and Iranian
governments helped coordinate the planned bombings.4 The trail soon led to
Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, the head of a New Jersey mosque and an outspoken
supporter of violent revolution. Several of the arrested terrorists had
discussed their plans at Sheik Rahman's mosque, and Rahman himself had
received money from the government of Iran. He and his followers were linked
to the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and to the 1991
assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane.5
Some fifteen men were arrested in America for their roles in the New York
bombing plot, the largest single terrorist attack in United States history.
This was certainly no random act of mindless violence. One conspirator,
arrested by the Egyptian government, confessed that the World Trade Center
was targeted to influence U.S. policy toward the Middle East.6 Specifically,
the foreign organizations and governments behind the attack had all for years
been waging war against the nation of Israel, a U.S. ally.
Common belief today holds that the PLO and other terrorist groups targeting
Israel are fighting for a Palestinian cause, motivated by some combination of
Arab nationalism and Islamic religious fundamentalism, with Arab-Jewish
historical tensions as the underlying cause. But the truth is virtually the
opposite. Regardless of their official propaganda, these terrorist groups are
driven by an ideology of international Marxism-Leninism, using a carefully
designed strategy to achieve geopolitical ends. Even now, they receive their
support, not from Palestinian people or from sympathetic Arabs, but from the
United Nations and the Soviet Bloc. And most importantly, they are extremely
vulnerable to destruction by the United States, which could easily cut off
their badly-needed financial support. The only obstacle to our victory over
the terrorists is our failure to understand who really controls and supports
them.
During the next hour, this recorded presentation will tell the full story
behind the growing war against Israel and the United States. Side A will
uncover the forces behind a new wave of global terrorism; side B will expose
how those forces are now preparing to destroy Israel, and what we can do
about it. The evidence comes from a variety of books, articles, and news
stories that are available in public libraries but largely ignored by the
politically biased, national-level news media. The terrorists can be stopped
before it is too late, but only if we understand the purpose behind their
global war. If we, the American people, do not wake up soon to the shocking
reality, we ourselves will become a "Beirut" of terrorist chaos - for WE ARE
THE NEXT TARGET.
This program is a special project of Inside Story Communications.
Copyright c 1994 by Inside Story Communications, all rights reserved.
Terrorism is defined as violent attacks on civilians for political purposes.
Its goal is to create fear in the general population, forcing the target
government to make otherwise unthinkable concessions. The sheer number of
people involved in bombing the World Trade Center, and the extensive foreign
coordination, suggest that this incident was only the tip of the iceberg.
More terrorist attacks can be expected in this country and elsewhere,
sponsored by similar forces. Indeed, during the past four years, many nations
have been sent reeling from an unexpected worldwide revival of terrorism:
* In Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, the Irish Republican Army
(IRA) injures 27 people with a bomb blast in "a crowded shopping area" during
the Christmas season.7
* Months later in the same city, the Ulster Freedom Fighters initiate riots
that involve "fire bombs and car hijackings," injuring at least 17 innocent
civilians. Within two days, the IRA sets off nearly a ton of explosives in a
nearby town, wounding twelve more residents and five police officers.8
* In London, England, the IRA explodes eight bombs in six days, creating
massive destruction.9 This continues a three-year campaign of dozens of
similar London bombings, signalling that the IRA has expanded its terrorism
beyond Ireland. Two months later, the group injures yet another eight
Londoners with two explosions on the same day.10 By mid-1993, the ongoing
terror campaign forces police to establish permanent roadblocks around
downtown London.11
* In Bonn, Germany, top banker Alfred Herrhausen is assassinated with a
powerful bomb planted in his car. Shocked authorities discover that the Red
Army Faction is responsible, although this terrorist group was thought to
have disintegrated after the fall of the Berlin Wall.12 This begins a wave of
such killings by the group, including the shooting of political official
Detlev Rohwedder in Dusseldorf and the mail-bombing of Berlin official Hanno
Klein.13
* In southeastern Turkey, terrorists of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
kidnap 49 people from a bus, then turn the guns on their hostages. At least
33 soldiers and two civilians are killed. This follows a series of similar
massacres within days.14
* In Jerusalem, Israel, three members of Hamas use guns to attack a bus and
hijack a car, killing two women and injuring the bus driver. Fellow
terrorists had carried out a series of stabbings in previous months.15
* In Egypt, El-Gama'a el-Islamiya (The Islamic Group) conducts a bomb attack
on a tourist bus carrying 15 South Koreans. In other incidents, guns and
knives are used against English, German, and Russian tourists, and the Group
wages incessant war against civilians in Egypt's Coptic Christian
community.16
* In South Africa, terrorists of the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army kill two
couples and injure 17 other civilians who were tasting wines at a golf club.
A spokesman for the terrorist group boasts that "There will be more attacks
of this nature with more frequency, especially in white areas."17
* In Cambodia, members of the Khmer Rouge attack a train, throwing it off the
tracks. They then proceed to slaughter at least 13 passengers with
rocket-propelled grenades and gunfire.18
As the terrorist revival grows, public confusion and desperation rise. Many
target governments are now effectively surrendering to the terrorists. South
Africa is preparing for a coalition government with the African National
Congress. England is negotiating for the IRA to take control of Northern
Ireland. Israel is handing over control of its Gaza Strip and portions of the
West Bank to the PLO. And nations ranging from El Salvador to the Philippines
are now rapidly following suit.
To understand this crisis, we must first step back to examine who is
supporting and directing the terrorists.
Though having been a recognized danger for over a century, terrorism had not
forced its way into world consciousness until the 1970s. During that decade,
terrorist violence broke out simultaneously in virtually every Western
country and rapidly became a fact of everyday life. Its very senselessness
helped create the public fear on which it thrived.
But as the evidence accumulated, a pattern began to emerge. Major exposes,
such as the four volume work by French intelligence expert Pierre de
Villamarest or the 1981 book The Terror Network by Claire Sterling, revealed
that the nearly 200 terrorist groups formed an international network so
well-coordinated that they constituted a single organization.19 At the center
of this network was the KGB, the secret police arm of the Soviet Union.
Terrorists would typically be trained in Middle Eastern camps run by the PLO,
supervised by Eastern European agents, and armed by Moscow or Communist
China. Regardless of whether individual groups professed an official
Marxist-Leninist doctrine, all terrorists cooperated to destabilize
non-Communist governments.
Naturally, the apparent death of Communism in 1989 led many people to believe
the terrorist threat would quickly end. Some governments used the opportunity
to arrest top leaders of terrorist groups, and confidently declared victory.
Thus the revival of terrorism caught many authorities off guard. From where
are these radical groups getting their weapons, their financing, and their
training? Who is directing the new wave of violence?
The shocking answer is that terrorism is being orchestrated by the very same
governments, and even the same Communist Parties, as before. A glaring
example of this surfaced on May 23, 1993, when three explosions damaged a
neighborhood just outside the capital city of Nicaragua. This was not a
terrorist act, but an accident that revealed an underground bunker operated
by the Sandinista National Liberation Front. According to one diplomatic
observer, the depot was "a one-stop shopping center for terrorist activities,
where you could get guns and documents." It contained anti-aircraft missiles,
as well as "hundreds of AK-47 assault rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled
grenades and tons of ammunition and explosives, including some C-4 plastic
widely used in terrorist bombings." Hundreds of forged passports and other
documents, from dozens of nations, were also found. The bunker was actively
supporting terrorists ranging from the Basque ETA separatists of Spain to the
Farabundo Marti guerrillas of El Salvador. Even one of the suspects in the
World Trade Center bombing had been caught weeks earlier with phony passports
from Nicaragua.20
The "death" of Communism
When the Moscow- and PLO-trained Sandinistas first seized control of
Nicaragua in 1979, they brought that country into the Soviet orbit,
transforming it into a center for supporting terrorism. But eleven years
later, the Sandinistas followed the trend in Eastern Europe and supposedly
yielded power in free elections. In reality, this democratic transition was
an illusion. The new president is merely a figurehead, while the Sandinistas
retain total power. The Sandinistas openly control the military, the police,
the intelligence service, the secret police, the courts, and virtually every
other branch of the government. They can continue operating with impunity,
and have been caught numerous times in the last few years sending weapons to
terrorists throughout Latin America.21 If they so decided, the Sandinistas
could easily nullify the Nicaraguan elections at any time.
The same holds true for the nations of Eastern Europe. In the transition to
new governments, the Communists were neither killed nor forced to flee, nor
did they retire. In fact, members of the Communist ruling structure simply
relabeled themselves as "ex-Communists" or "reformers," and continued to
rule; fellow Communists simultaneously played leading roles in the opposition
parties, thus ensuring nothing could go wrong. For example, a 1990
documentary aired on BBC television revealed that the Czechoslovak and Soviet
secret police had themselves orchestrated the protests against the
Czechoslovak Communist regime in 1989;22 since the alleged revolution,
Czechoslovak Communists have retained control over such vital posts as
foreign policy, economic policy, and the military.23 In another example, a
1990 article, first published in France, exposed the Romanian revolution as
having also been engineered by the Soviet KGB, in which the ruling Communists
renamed themselves the "National Salvation Front" without yielding any
power.24 In Poland, the Solidarity movement had been permeated with Communist
Party members years before the 1989 transition to limited democracy; since
the reforms, Polish Communists have continued to head the courts, the secret
police, and the military,25 while the Polish secret police and military have
been strengthening ties with their Soviet counterparts.26 There is even
growing evidence that the Stasi - the secret police of East Germany - is
still operating as an underground organization within united Germany.27
Meanwhile, all fifteen Soviet republics are firmly controlled by so-called
"former" Communists or by the Russian military.28 Russian leader Boris
Yeltsin has himself been a Communist Party member since 1961.29 Soviet
opposition movements, including the anti-Semitic group Pamyat and the
political party of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, also appear to be under KGB
control.30 And thousands of Soviet concentration camps remain in full
operation today, while Soviet citizens still cannot leave their country.31
Contrary to popular impression, the Soviet alliance is actively preparing for
a state of war. The FBI reports that, under Boris Yeltsin, KGB spying efforts
in the United States and elsewhere have intensified,32 while the Soviet
republics are collaborating in a crash military buildup program. According to
such Western intelligence sources as the U.S. Defense Department, the Soviets
are modernizing and expanding, rather than dismantling, their vast nuclear
and conventional forces.33 This growing military power is being shared with
traditional Soviet allies and Communist regimes around the world, including
Communist China, Nicaragua, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Iran, and others.34
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Soviet troops are still stationed in Poland
and East Germany.35 Russia itself, and several East Bloc nations, are now
entering a partnership with NATO for joint military exercises,36 while Soviet
troops returning from Eastern Europe are being placed in strategic positions
near Soviet borders.37
In short, Communism is fully alive, and is accelerating its global war of
terrorism and revolution - even as our Western news media indulges in wishful
thinking, waiting for political and economic reforms that never occur. But
why should the Communists fake their own funeral? Two reasons stand out: (1)
the Soviet Union is now receiving tens of billions of dollars in U.S. aid
each year, money that is desperately needed to finance the expensive military
buildup,38 and (2) as terrorism heats up, the disbelieving West becomes
paralyzed, choosing to give in to terrorist demands rather than retaliate
against, and thereby risk undermining, the so-called "democracies" of the
Soviet Bloc. Anatoliy Golitsyn, the highest-level Soviet KGB official ever to
defect to the West, revealed that the Soviet high command had planned this
strategic deception many years earlier, in order to confuse the West
temporarily during a phase of rapid Communist expansion. Golitsyn accurately
predicted all of the changes in the Soviet Bloc in his 1984 book, New Lies
for Old - five years before the events themselves.39
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 20:44:05 -0400
From: One4...@aol.com
Subject: Communist Revolution in Israel, prt 2
To: conser...@dragon.com
The goals and methods of Communism
Yet it seems almost incredible that any ideology could lead to
well-coordinated deception on such a huge scale. Whenever the word
"Communism" is mentioned, most people think of a philosophy, a political
theory, an economic system, or perhaps a political party. But Communism is
none of these. Before we can understand the Communist role in strategic
deception and terrorist warfare, we must answer one critical question: What
is Communism?
Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin are widely known as the founders of Communism.
However, not everyone who professes the ideology of Marx and Lenin is a true
Communist. Lenin himself defined Communism as an international organization,
akin to the Mafia, whose members would constitute an elite corps of
professional revolutionaries.40 As he described it in 1902, "In form such a
strong revolutionary organization in an autocratic country may also be
described as a 'conspiratorial' organizationx such an organization must have
the utmost secrecy."41 Shortly after seizing control of Russia in 1917, Lenin
revealed the secret of Communist success in a booklet, declaring that "The
Bolsheviks could not have maintained themselves in powerx unless the
strictest, truly iron discipline prevailed in our Party."42 Naive believers
in Marxist ideology are constantly purged from the Party, for the
organization can rely only on those people blindly willing to obey orders.43
Communism explicitly disavows all moral rules, and its members must
constantly shift tactics, sometimes even carry out seemingly anti-Marxist
actions, as its leadership adapts the revolution to changing circumstances.44
Thus Communists possess the fanatic discipline needed to carry out deception
on a scale beyond the imagination of most outsiders, including staging their
own alleged "collapse."
The ultimate goal has been stated openly by every major Communist leader
since Karl Marx: a world government dominated by the Communists.45 Lenin
described how, to overthrow existing governments, the Communists organize
parallel revolutions in each country. Most of the Communist Party structure
must operate underground, invisible to the larger population, while it uses
both legal and illegal methods, including deception and, in Lenin's own
words, "terrorism."46 Its secret members, operating under strict orders,
infiltrate the highest levels of the target government and its military, as
well as the labor unions and other popular movements, the communications
media, and even the anti-Communist opposition itself.47 From these positions,
the Communists can orchestrate an apparently spontaneous, violent revolution,
while paralyzing the efforts of the target government to respond effectively.
The confused population, unaware of the well-organized forces behind the
crisis, negotiates a series of compromises leading to further instability and
finally to the victory of Communism.
As growing numbers of nations fall to the revolution, it becomes possible to
reunite them under a Communist world regime.48 This is being carried out in a
two-stage process. The transition step to this "new world social order," as
American Communist William Z. Foster called it,49 involves merging the newly
captive nations into regional governments.50 The Communists have explicitly
worked toward creating a united Europe,51 a united American hemisphere,52 a
pan-African regional entity,53 and, for the Middle East, a pan-Arab regime.54
Marxism-Leninism, then, is not an ideology, but a strategy for achieving
world revolution. Communists are the disciplined members of an international
organization that uses Marxist-Leninist techniques. And terrorism is a key
ingredient in the success of such revolution. To see how the entire strategy
works, we now turn to an overview of Communist revolutions in action.
Wars of national liberation
Because open warfare against target governments would simply lead to defeat,
the Communists always disguise their revolutions as civil wars. They
camouflage their intentions by pretending to fight for the liberation of one
class of people from another, using a divide-and-conquer technique against a
nation's social structure. This method is referred to as a "war of national
liberation," and it adapts its tactics to the unique circumstances of each
country. Such a war can pit industrial workers against capitalists, as in
Russia, Catholics against Protestants, as in Northern Ireland, blacks against
whites, as in South Africa - or Arabs against Jews, as in Israel. The
Communists do not openly identify themselves, acting instead as
representatives of the supposedly "oppressed" class of people.
By painting their revolution as a spontaneous uprising of "oppressed masses,"
the Communists hope to convince the target population that it faces an
unwinnable war rooted in fundamental social tensions. If the government is
also paralyzed and cannot stop the terrorism, public morale quickly drops and
the weakening government loses popular support. Believing that the revolution
must eventually win, the population abandons active opposition to the
terrorists and instead sues for peace at any cost. The perception ultimately
becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as the government collapses altogether.
Any "war of national liberation" can be divided into seven steps:
Step 1) To establish themselves in the minds of the target population as a
force to be reckoned with, the revolutionaries must first force a
heavy-handed reaction by the government. Their tactics are based on a 1969
book by Brazilian Communist Carlos Marighella, the Mini-Manual for Urban
Guerrillas, which has been translated and distributed to terrorists
throughout the world. Marighella explained how to use such frightening
violence that "the government has no alternative except to intensify
repression. The police roundups, house searches, arrests of innocent people,
make life in the city unbearablex The political situation is transformed into
a military situation, in which the militarists appear more and more
responsible for errors and violencex The urban guerrilla must become more
aggressive and violent, resorting without letup to sabotage, terrorism,
expropriations, assaults, kidnappings and executions, heightening the
disastrous situation in which the government must act."55
Step 2) Having provoked a harsh reaction by the target government, the
Communists now flood the Western news media with stories of government
atrocities, real or fabricated. The goal is to begin isolating the government
from Western, primarily American, support. The revolutionaries label
convicted terrorists as "political prisoners"; they invent elaborate stories
of secret prisons and "death squads"; and they hide among civilians during
fighting, causing the government to kill innocent people accidentally. Such
heads of state as Chiang Kai-shek of China, Anastasio Somoza of Nicaragua,
and the Shah of Iran have been portrayed as corrupt and repressive. The South
African government has been painted as being violently racist, while the
French colonial administration in Algeria and the British rule in Northern
Ireland have been labeled as undemocratic. Similar publicity attacks have
been used against South Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Rhodesia, El
Salvador, Argentina, and dozens of other nations. The news media has always
cooperated in these smear campaigns, never allowing the target regime a fair
chance to respond to the charges.
Step 3) The Communists can now count on the U.S. State Department to pressure
the target government to begin giving in to the revolutionaries, supposedly
for the sake of "human rights." The regime offers compromises, including
political reforms, the release of captured terrorists, and military
cease-fires, which allow the terrorists to regroup and seize territory. But
the revolutionaries also increase their demands, taking advantage of the
government's weakened image.
Step 4) As the government loses prestige, the Communists escalate the
revolutionary violence and general unrest. They organize mass demonstrations,
which agitators turn into riots. Labor unions go on strike, building toward a
general labor strike that cripples the entire economy. Marxist professors in
the universities indoctrinate and recruit naive youth, who join the growing
ranks of Communists and terrorists. And some Communist agents even infiltrate
local religious organizations, masquerading as priests or other clergy so as
to neutralize opposition and recruit more people into the revolution. This
can be seen, for example, in the Liberation Theology movement in the Catholic
and Protestant churches, which teaches that Jesus was a Marxist
revolutionary. Liberation Theology is active today in many parts of Latin
America, Africa, and the far East.
Step 5) Since the Communists are only a tiny minority of the population, they
must create the illusion of popular support. By waging terrorist warfare
against the very people they claim to be liberating, the revolutionaries can
frighten the people into passive or even active support of the revolution. In
China and Nicaragua, the Communists murdered peasant farmers in rural
villages; in Algeria, they maimed and killed Arab muslims; in Northern
Ireland, they have killed thousands of Catholics while "kneecapping"
thousands more with guns and electric drills;56 in South Africa, they have
burned to death many hundreds of blacks with "necklaces" - tires soaked in
gasoline, placed around the victim's neck, and lit on fire.57 The
revolutionaries accuse the victims of "collaborating" with the government,
sending a powerful message to the rest of the population not to resist.
Step 6) Now the Communists are ready to enter the final phase of their
revolution. With the target government steadily losing control over the
country, the revolutionaries step up general terrorist violence while
simultaneously negotiating for a new government. To accomplish this, the
Communists often must split their revolutionary movement into two wings: an
extremely violent faction pretending to oppose any peace agreement, and a
more political faction that projects an image of pragmatism. The two factions
secretly coordinate their activities, carrying out a "good cop/bad cop"
scenario. Frightened by the escalating terrorism of the revolutionaries, the
government makes concessions to the seemingly moderate faction, hoping to
discourage the forces of violence. As the Communists tighten the vise, the
government bargains away its remaining strength.
Step 7) Finally, in the name of democracy and "human rights," the U.S. State
Department withdraws its support from the embattled regime, using diplomatic
pressure to force out the old government entirely and replace it with
another. The Communists have by this time maneuvered themselves into position
to join the new coalition government. Because this new regime is weak and
divided, the Communists quickly move to consolidate total power for
themselves. Their naive liberal allies are executed, followed by systematic
mass terror against the whole population. A Communist regime has been
imposed.
These seven steps describe the pattern of a war of national liberation. This
strategy has been used, with slight variations, against almost every nation
now under Communism, and is well under way for many remaining non-Communist
nations.58 As we have seen, terrorism is a cornerstone of this strategy.
During the first half of this program, we have analyzed the rise of terrorism
and the Communist strategy behind it. We have shown how the international
terrorist network is being financed and coordinated to bring about world
revolution. But now we must turn our attention to the one revolution that is
becoming the focus of world Communist efforts - the war to destroy the nation
of Israel. The inside story of this impending danger to the free world, how
the Communists have brought the revolution against Israel to the brink of
victory, and what you can do to stop the terrorists, is explained on Side B
of this program.
When Karl Marx wrote his book, A World Without Jews, he permanently set the
tone for Communist anti-Semitism. He called for "the emancipation of mankind
from Judaism" and for the end of all religious faith.59 V. I. Lenin applied
this principle against the Jewish longing for Israel in 1903, declaring that
"this Zionist idea is absolutely false and essentially reactionary."60
The Communist drive to abolish Judaism took on a special urgency after World
War I, when Jewish settlement in Palestine began interfering with Communist
plans for a socialist, pan-Arab government. Over the next few decades, the
Communists instigated Arab riots against Jews and organized anti-Zionist
movements.61 These tactics failed, and the nation of Israel was reborn in
1948.
But in 1964 the Soviet KGB made a decision to escalate wars of national
liberation around the world. Its spending on terrorism grew ten-fold, and
training centers were set up throughout the Communist Bloc. In less than two
years, Cuba hosted the Tricontinental Conference - a meeting of 513
representatives from 83 terrorist groups. The Cuban Communist regime thus
became a coordinating center for this growing international terrorist
network.62
Israel was vaulted to the top of the list of target countries. The pro-Soviet
dictator of Egypt, Gamel Abdel Nasser, launched a new revolutionary group in
1964 - the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).63 Declaring the
palestinian Arabs an "oppressed class" who needed to be "liberated" from
Israeli rule, the PLO announced that it would destroy the nation of Israel
altogether and replace it with a socialist government of Palestine.
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 20:48:52 -0400
From: One4...@aol.com
Subject: Communist Revolution in Israel, prt 3
To: conser...@dragon.com
As we can see, the PLO is truly the central organization in the world
terrorist network. But now we must turn our attention to its role in the
Communist war to destroy Israel.
The PLO's war of national liberation
The West Bank of the Jordan River lies on Israel's eastern side, but is so
large that it extends well into the middle of Israel itself. At its closest
point, the West Bank's border is only nine miles from the Mediterranean Sea.
Half the city of Jerusalem, Israel's capital, lies inside this territory. If
a hostile military force were to occupy the West Bank, it would control
strategic air space that now buffers against air and missile attacks, and it
could position troops near the heart of Israel. A lightning invasion launched
from the West Bank would easily cut the tiny nation of Israel into northern
and southern halves within minutes, giving an enemy an enormous military
advantage during a war.
Following the 1973 Yom Kippur War against Israel, the Communists could see
that a People's Republic of Palestine would never replace Israel without
first taking control of the West Bank, as well as of the Gaza Strip and Golan
Heights, two other territories under Israeli control. Thus in 1974 the ruling
council of the PLO officially adopted a two-phase strategy for destroying
Israel, in which an armed state of Palestine would be established in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip before attacking the rest of Israel. PLO official Abu
Iyad boasted in 1988 that "According to the Phased Plan, we will establish a
Palestinian state on any part of Palestine that the enemy will retreat from.
The Palestinian state will be a stage in our prolonged struggle for the
liberation of Palestine on all of its territory."94
Because of the Phased Plan, the PLO claimed that it was willing to allow
Israel to exist - if only temporarily - and that it only wished to create
Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza. In other words, the PLO could now
pretend to be moderate, while actually stepping up the revolution. But to
gain control of the territories in the first place, the PLO had to turn to
the time-tested Communist strategy of a war of national liberation. This has,
in fact, been the PLO's master plan since the 1960s, and has recently taken
the form of the intifada, Arabic for the "uprising," now seen in the riots of
the West Bank and Gaza. A careful analysis of the intifada reveals that it is
indeed part of a classic, seven-step Communist revolution:
Step 1) At a secret 1983 meeting of the PLO, Yasir Arafat explained that the
PLO had followed the Communist tactic of provoking a reaction by the target
government, in this case Israel. As summarized by authors Neil Livingstone
and David Halevy, "The first phase, from 1967 to 1974, said Arafat, involved
shocking the world by means of brutal terrorist acts into recognizing the
Palestinian issue and placing it at the front of world concerns."95 Using the
methods outlined by Brazilian Communist Carlos Marighella, the PLO has forced
Israel to invade Lebanon several times to stop artillery and missile attacks.
By hiding its military installations in residential areas, the PLO has caused
civilian deaths during Israeli retaliation, which the PLO has then blamed on
Israel.96
Step 2) The PLO owns or operates dozens of newspapers and other publications
in the Middle East, some of them written in English. It produces films
labeled as documentaries, operates news services, and broadcasts numerous
radio programs. It is known to bribe or threaten journalists covering the
Middle East.97 It also maintains influence through organizations not widely
known as PLO front groups; for example, Arafat's brother runs the Palestinian
Red Crescent Society,98 while PLO-affiliated organizations calling themselves
"charities" or "educational" groups are active in the United States.99 And
leftist groups ranging from the National Lawyers Guild to various civil
rights, feminist, and anti-nuclear groups also work with the PLO.100 As a
result, the PLO and its allies have been able to plant stories in our news
media about alleged Israeli atrocities against civilians, and have created
the widespread impression that Israel systematically violates human rights of
Palestinians. By painting the revolution as a "spontaneous" uprising of
Palestinians, the PLO has also convinced many Americans that Israel cannot
hope to win the interminable conflict with the PLO. Such disinformation has
eroded sympathy for Israel, setting the stage for further revolution.
Step 3) With the Israeli reputation having come under fire, the U.S. State
Department has pressured Israel to begin making concessions to the PLO. When
Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, President Reagan rescued the PLO and forced
Israel to abandon Beirut. The Bush and Clinton administrations have supported
several United Nations resolutions against Israel,101 and President Clinton
forced Israel to take back 400 Hamas terrorists after they had been
expelled.102 Most importantly, the 26th Congress of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union, held in 1982, began the call for an international Middle
East peace conference, where foreign powers could pressure Israel to yield
the West Bank to the PLO.103 The United Nations adopted an identical plan the
following year,104 and by 1987 the PLO and the Communist Parties of the
United States, Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Tunisia, Syria, Egypt, Bahrain,
Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, and India had also adopted this
plan.105 Now the U.S. government has followed suit, with the Bush and Clinton
administrations having forced Israel to change its mind and participate in a
series of such international conferences.
Step 4) The intifada was born from an extensive network of PLO front groups
in the West Bank and Gaza, including medical, agricultural, and women's
associations as well as labor unions and student groups.106 The violence
itself was sparked by the Islamic Jihad and the Palestinian Communist Party
in 1986 and 1987,107 and soon a Unified National Leadership of the PLO was
formed to coordinate the protests and riots.108 The revolution is now being
accelerated through religious institutions, schools, and labor unions. Hamas,
the so-called "Islamic" group of terrorists, organizes actions through the
mosques.109 Many PLO members work as professors at the universities, where
they indoctrinate palestinian students.110 Schools and universities in the
West Bank and Gaza have become such focal points for violence that Israeli
authorities have been periodically forced to shut them down; stores of knives
and clubs have been found in the schools, used by radicalized students during
riots,111 and guns and hand grenades are now becoming more common.112
Palestinian labor strikes are also on the rise.113 One pro-PLO professor
noted that the PLO-dominated labor unions are "a critical weapon in the hand
of the Palestinian national movement: at a decisive moment they could
paralyze the Israeli economy."114
Step 5) As in any Communist revolution, the PLO must use terrorism against
the very people it claims to be liberating, in order to create an illusion of
popular support for the intifada. For many years, the PLO had already been
directing many of its terrorist attacks against palestinians and Arabs in
general.115 In the intifada, this violence is now used against palestinians
in the West Bank and Gaza. Terror squads receiving money and orders from the
PLO, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas attack people they accuse of collaborating with
Israel, although the PLO itself admits the majority of such accusations are
false.116 As one journalist has described it, the purpose is purely to
intimidate: "Palestinians live in daily terror of these squads. Some common
murder techniques are beheading, mutilation, gouging out eyes, cutting off
ears or limbs, and pouring molten plastic or acid on a victim's face."117
Often the victim is shot or stabbed in broad daylight, in full view of
palestinian bystanders.118 Merchants who fail to close their shops when a
strike is called, or who do not pay taxes to the PLO, have their shops burned
to the ground;119 buses that carry palestinians to work in Israel are also
burned, keeping the workers from earning the money to feed their families.120
Some one thousand palestinians have been killed by the terror squads, and
many others injured.121
Step 6) As the PLO moves into the final stages of the revolution, it must
begin negotiating for Israel's surrender of the territories while
simultaneously escalating the violence. The PLO itself, and particularly
Arafat's group, Fatah, is playing the role of the moderate, sending
delegations to the peace conference and asking only for the West Bank and
Gaza. Islamic Jihad and Hamas, products of the "Islamic Marxist" movement,
angrily condemn the peace meetings. The "good cop/bad cop" strategy was
spelled out by a PLO official: "[Hamas says] all of Palestine is ours, and we
want to liberate it from the river to the sea in one blow. Butx the PLO feels
that a Phased Plan must be pursued. Both sides agree on the final
objective."122 Both sides also cooperate closely. The PLO has funded Hamas,
for example,123 and some terror squads in the West Bank and Gaza are operated
jointly by the PLO's Fatah with Islamic Jihad and Hamas.124
Step 7) The final step involves betrayal by the U.S. State Department, which
pulls the rug out from under the target government and forces it to
capitulate to the revolution. Under the Bush administration, the State
Department issued a report whitewashing Yasir Arafat and Fatah of involvement
in terrorism,125 while the administration itself showed open hostility to the
conservative Shamir government, causing nervous Israelis to elect the
far-left Labor Party under Yitzhak Rabin.126 The Clinton administration,
likewise, exerted direct pressure on Israel to surrender territory to the
PLO,127 although Clinton carefully avoided taking credit when the Rabin
government finally agreed to give up the Gaza Strip and part of the West
Bank.128 Although Arafat simultaneously boasted that the PLO flag "will soon
fly over Jerusalem" - Israel's capital - the Rabin government has since made
more concessions to Communist Syria, promising to withdraw from southern
Lebanon and the Golan Heights.129 The Clinton administration has meanwhile
pressured Israel to disarm the Jewish settlers living in the territories, and
to allow United Nations troops to protect incoming PLO forces.130 Naturally,
the PLO-orchestrated violence will only accelerate as Israel surrenders more
and more strategic land.
The solution: attacking the Achilles' Heel
If the PLO is allowed to consolidate a new Communist state, it will surely
destroy Israel and launch an unlimited global war of terrorism. On the other
hand, the PLO's revolution is not an Arabic or Muslim war. It is a Communist
war of national liberation, and it depends entirely on Israeli and American
cooperation for its victory. Unless we voluntarily surrender to the PLO, it
will never have the strength to conquer Israel. Its support, after all, does
not come from the Arabs. So who is really funding the PLO?
The surprising but widely ignored truth is that the United States taxpayer
pays virtually the entire bill for PLO terrorism. This has been accomplished
through a variety of avenues. The most direct example can be seen in our
foreign aid program; the U.S. Agency for International Development has given
over $100 million to PLO front groups in the West Bank and Gaza since
1975.131 With the new Israeli agreement to allow a PLO state in the
territories, the U.S. has now promised at least $250 million more in such
direct financing.132 Indirectly, the U.S. has given the PLO tens of millions
of dollars per year through its foreign aid program to Arab nations, which
have received as much American aid as Israel since 1948.133 The Arab nations,
responding to PLO blackmail and U.S. diplomatic influence, have forwarded
some of this American aid to the PLO.134 Saudi Arabia, for example, has been
pressured by the Clinton administration to restore its PLO funding.135
Furthermore, U.S. aid to the Soviet Bloc, in the form of industry,
technology, and tens of billions of dollars per year, translates into the
weapons found in PLO arsenals.136
But by far the largest aid program for the PLO can be found in the United
Nations, which is funded primarily by the United States. During the 1948 war
that established the nation of Israel, some half a million palestinian Arabs
panicked and fled to surrounding areas.137 Rather than allow them to
resettle, the United Nations set up its Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) to
maintain these refugees in special camps as welfare dependents. These dozens
of camps, in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and the West Bank and Gaza, remain under
UNRWA administration to this very day. The UNRWA has spent billions of
dollars, mostly from the United States, supposedly on such humanitarian
projects as education, medicine, welfare, and other basic services, as well
as to hire some 17,000 local palestinians to operate the program.138
In reality, the palestinians on staff have largely been PLO members who have
seized control of the UNRWA. Much of this was discovered when the Israelis
drove the PLO out of Lebanon in 1982. The refugee camps, and the schools and
hospitals in particular, had been transformed into military bases containing
vast stores of weapons. All U.N. schools indoctrinated palestinian youth in
revolutionary PLO ideology, and some had even become terrorist training
centers complete with weapons, uniforms, and modern technology. The UNRWA
published various propaganda materials on behalf of the PLO, and some
evidence indicated that the agency had secretly funneled money directly into
PLO terrorist operations.139 In 1977, one PLO official told an undercover
reporter that the UNRWA budget, then about $200 million per year, constituted
almost the entire income for the PLO.140 Although estimates of the PLO budget
vary widely, UNRWA spending may now pay for about half of all PLO
activities.141
Since the 1970s, other U.N. agencies have also provided their resources to
the PLO or its front groups in the West Bank and Gaza. These include the
International Labor Organization, the World Health Organization, UNESCO, the
U.N. Development Program, and about a dozen other agencies. The PLO helps
direct the spending of these programs, and its members are trained on U.N.
grants. Many U.N. agencies produce PLO propaganda materials, or host forums
for PLO spokesmen. But most importantly, these agencies have been funding the
growing PLO infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza, which now organizes and
sustains the intifada.142
The United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL), a peacekeeping force
that operated from 1978 to 1982, was a spectacular example of U.N.
collaboration with the PLO. UNIFIL ignored the formation of PLO military and
terrorist bases in the "demilitarized" zone, allowed armed PLO units nearly
unhindered movement, and refused to stop brazen terrorist attacks. UNIFIL
provided supplies, including sophisticated communications equipment, to the
PLO, and gave the PLO intelligence reports on Israeli military positions.
Some UNIFIL troops were even caught smuggling explosives into Israel for
terrorist purposes. Israel was finally forced to invade when the PLO began
conducting attacks from within UNIFIL territory, sometimes even under the
U.N. flag.143
It is little wonder that Yasir Arafat and other PLO leaders, and the Soviet
Union, have since 1990 called for U.N. peacekeeping troops to protect a new
PLO state in the West Bank and Gaza.144 The Clinton administration has
recently joined this chorus, and the Rabin government of Israel is preparing
to give in.145
The war to destroy Israel is waged against Jews and Arabs alike by a
relatively small handful of Communists. However, it is not only the Holy Land
that is in danger, for the PLO sees itself as part of a world revolution. If
the PLO succeeds, the Communists will unleash global terrorism on an
unprecedented scale. The hijackings of airplanes, kidnappings of Americans in
Iran and Lebanon, and bombing of the World Trade Center are mere hints of the
firestorm to come.
But at the same time, the Communist revolution and the PLO depend almost
entirely on U.S. aid, and thus can easily be stopped. The American public
would never approve such aid to Communists or terrorists, but most people
have no idea that this is happening. The national news media simply buries
the story. And therein lies the solution to stop the terrorists. We must
educate our fellow Americans about the betrayal of Israel, and we must join
together to withdraw the United States from the United Nations - not just
from the UNRWA or some other agency, but from the entire U.N. The PLO and its
Marxist allies have permeated that organization, guaranteeing that the war
against Israel will always receive U.N. support until the United States
leaves altogether.
This is easier to accomplish than it sounds. The U.S. House of
Representatives, the lower house of Congress, is composed of 435
representatives, each elected from a district of about half a million
citizens. The Constitution grants the House the sole power to initiate
funding bills for all federal programs. This means that the House, by a
simple majority vote, can override the Senate and even the President by
cutting off the funding to any program it chooses, effectively abolishing
that program. By voting to stop financing the United Nations, and to withhold
foreign aid from countries backing the PLO, the House could destroy the PLO
and assure Israel's security. We need only 218 votes in the House - a
majority by one - to achieve this goal.
The success of this campaign depends on you, as an informed citizen. You can
pursue two activities that will help win the victory.
First, you must educate your fellow Americans. Tell your family, friends, and
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Second, encourage your newly informed friends to join you in political
action. Your congressman's address and phone number can be found in the
government pages at the beginning of your phone book. Write letters to your
representative. Visit his district office. Show up at town hall meetings by
political candidates. Always ask the tough questions about the PLO, the peace
conference, and the United Nations, and demand straight answers on how your
representative stands on the issues. Your country is at stake, and you have
the right to defend it. Because this is an election year, politicians will
pay extra attention to what you say. But this educational work will continue
after the election, with letters and other contacts to remind your
congressman that he represents you.
If you and your friends get involved while there is still time, the U.S.
could withdraw from the United Nations within as little as one or two years.
This would spell the end of the PLO, and severely disrupt the world Communist
revolution. With your decisive involvement, we don't have to be the next
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 18:01:51 -0600
From: dhe...@itsnet.com (Don Henson)
Subject: Constitution for the United States
To: digita...@phantom.com, libe...@Dartmouth.EDU, lpt...@io.com,
Does anybody know what happened to the Constitution for the United States Web
page? It used to be located at:
http://www.lm.com/~damon/Constitution.html
but when I try it, the server says there is nothing there. If it has been
deleted due to lack of Web space, let me know and I'll put it up on my Web
page. It was a really good job.
Don Henson, Managing Director (PGP Key ID = 0X03002DC9)
West El Paso Information Network (WEPIN)
email: wepi...@colossus.net
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 20:33:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: James Rowh <fro...@iia.org>
Subject: DNC Trying to Stop CityVote! (fwd)
To: Libernet <libe...@Dartmouth.EDU>
LP candidate Harry Browne is scheduled to appear at the CityVote debates.
Pity the Dems (and apparently some Reps) are afraid of a real, honest, and
open debate forum...
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:10:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: CityVote <city...@igc.apc.org>
To: Recipients of cv-list <cv-...@igc.apc.org>
Subject: DNC Trying to Stop CityVote!
CityVote learned on Friday that Democratic National Committee
Chairman Don Fowler has been contacting Democratic mayors of
CityVote participating cities, urging them to drop President Bill
Clinton from the ballot. As indicated in the following Reuters
article, the intent is to avoid a potential "embarrassment" for
Clinton by not allowing voters to express a preference at the
ballot box.
Fowler has already persuaded St. Paul MN Mayor Norm Coleman to
unilaterally attempt removal of Clinton from the ballot. Other
St. Paul City Council members have strenuously objected to this
last-minute attempt to manipulate the election. Coleman's
actions will be brought before the City Council this Wednesday
for a vote.
We urge you to express your opinion on this matter. Mayor
Coleman's office can be reached at (612) 266-8510. DNC Chairman
Fowler can be reached at (202) 863-8000. (Sorry, we've been
unable to locate either fax numbers or e-mail addresses for these
individuals.)
You can reach CityVote by sending e-mail via the Internet to:
* * * * *
DEMOCRATS MOVE TO SINK URBAN PRESIDENTIAL POLL
By Alan Elsner
Reuters Political Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (Reuters) -- The Democratic Party is moving
to undermine a plan to hold a major presidential straw poll of
city dwellers in November that could embarrass President Clinton,
organizers said Friday.
The poll, called "CityVote", is to be held Nov. 7 at the same
time as local elections in 20 cities, including the twin cities
of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn.; Newark, N.J.; Rochester,
N.Y.; Spokane, Wash,; and Tucson, Ariz.
The organizers prepared a ballot with the names of current and
potential presidential candidates, including all the declared
Republican candidates as well as President Clinton, civil rights
leader Jesse Jackson, retired Gen. Colin Powell and billionaire
businessman Ross Perot.
Voters would mark the ballots at the same time as voting in local
city council and mayoral elections.
But Democratic National Committee chairman Don Fowler recently
called several mayors, trying to persuade them to include on the
ballot only those candidates who expressly stated they wanted to
be included. The understanding is Clinton will not participate.
Political sources said the White House was worried that anything
other than a big Clinton victory would be seen as a rebuff by
voters.
Fowler said the DNC opposed straw polls because they had a
disproportionate psychological and financial impact on the
presidential race.
"Since 1988, the DNC has had a policy that opposes premature and
false barometers of the nominating process such as straw polls,"
Fowler said.
CityVote executive director Larry Agran, a former Democratic
mayor of Irvine, Calif., said changing the ballot in this way
would wreck the project.
"This is a straight challenge to our mission to create an
inclusionary ballot, free of crass political manipulation for
partisan purposes," he said.
CityVote was conceived as a way of bringing urban issues to the
forefront of the presidential campaign.
Jackson, who is mulling a presidential bid either as a Democrat
or as an independent, is one of the few politicians to embrace
the project, saying he would take part in debates and campaign
energetically for the poll.
But Fowler's intervention seems to have derailed the process. St.
Paul Mayor Norm Coleman decided after speaking with Fowler to
change the ballot to include only candidates who indicate by
early next week that they want to be included. Minneapolis is
leaning in the same direction and will decide next week.
"Why force people to campaign if they don't want to and are not
ready? It would only benefit people on the political fringe,"
said Derek Mischle, an official in Coleman's office.
But Coleman's decision will be challenged this week at a city
council meeting, said council president Dave Thune.
"Everybody should be on the ballot, otherwise the whole thing
will become a farce. We spent two years setting this up and at
the last minute somebody, I don't even know who, wants to get
Clinton off the ballot," he said.
Some Republicans are also against the poll. An official in the
campaign of former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander said he would
probably not take part because it was "a weird Democratic thing
from California."
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 15:58:59 GMT
From: cz...@icis.on.ca (Charles Zeps)
Subject: FBI: Can We Afford Freeh ?
To: usa-f...@webcom.webcom.com, sne...@world.std.com, c...@oak.oakland.edu,
FBI Staging AOL/Porno Raids as Cover for Hearings ?
WASHINGTON (17 Sept.1995) Heavily criticised for the deadly 1993 Branch
Davidian cult raid in Waco, Texas, and a fatal shootout in Idaho, the FBI
has been hit by new charges that its crime laboratory slanted evidence in
high-profile cases.
The controversies, which have sparked congressional hearings and U.S.
Justice Department investigations, presented FBI chief Louis Freeh with his
biggest crisis since he took charge at the law enforcement agency two years
ago. President Bill Clinton, in appointing Freeh, called the former FBI
agent, prosecutor and judge a "law enforcement legend."
But Freeh has been unable to stop the criticism and put the embarrassing
incidents behind the agency.
"Morale is not exactly high with all this criticism," one FBI official
acknowledged last week. "We are under fire from Congress, the news media
and the American people."
The FBI has sought to defend its actions at the 1993 assault on the cult
leader David Koresh's compound in Waco, Texas, and the fatal 1992 shootout
involving white separatist Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
FBI officials warned that the damage from the Weaver case alone could be as
bad as the scandals in the 1970s, when widespread FBI abuses including
illegal spying against political protesters were revealed.
New questions arose last week after one of its own agents, Frederic
Whitehurst, a chemist at the FBI crime lab for nine years, renewed his
allegations that bureau forensic work had been flawed by a prosecutorial
bias. Whitehurst, who expressed his concerns about the lab's scientific
integrity in the World Trade Centre bombing case in New York, has been
asked to testify as a defence witness in the O.J. Simpson double-murder
trial. His accusations emerged as the Senate Judiciary Committee completed
a second week of hearings on the Ruby Ridge siege, in which an FBI
sharpshooter mistakenly killed Weaver's wife as she stood at their cabin
door holding her infant child.
The FBI has been blasted by Democrats and Republicans.
"I have looked at several cases involving the FBI, including Waco,"
Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa said at the Ruby Ridge hearings.
"A new culture is emerging. The swashbucklers are in control and it has to
stop now."
While Grassley denounced "the militarization of the FBI," Senator Herb Kohl,
a Democrat from Wisconsin, said confidence in the bureau has been lost and
had to be restored.
In the Weaver case, the Justice Department has begun a criminal investigation
into allegations that FBI officials lied or destroyed documents during
internal inquiries into the the FBI's use of an unprecedented "shoot-on-
sight" policy. While the probe continues, five senior FBI officials have been
suspended, including former Deputy Director Larry Potts.
The Justice Department's inspector general also has begun an investigation
into Whitehurst's charges. But Justice Department spokesman Carl Stern sought
to minimise the criticism of the FBI from Whitehurst and the Weaver hearings,
saying some of the claims were exaggerated.
He cited the FBI's role in the two-year, nationwide undercover investigation
of child pornography on a leading computer online service, a crackdown
announced last week.
"On balance, this was a good week for the FBI," Stern said.
But FBI officials are braced for new hearings later this month on the Waco
raid, in which the FBI used tanks to fire tear gas into the compound after
a 51-day siege.
Two House committees last summer had already examined the assault, which
ended in a fire that engulfed the compound and killed Koresh and about 80
of his followers. The new hearings will be held by the Senate Judiciary
Committee.
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From: lin...@iquest.net (Linda Thompson, American Justice Federation) (by way
of Charles Zeps <lin...@iquest.net>)
Subject: FBI says Weaver Shot His own Son
To: sne...@world.std.com
These people have no shame.
U.S. marshal: Weaver's friend fired first shot in Idaho gunfight
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(c) 1995 Associated Press
WASHINGTON (Sep 15, 1995 - 14:54 EDT) -- A federal marshal involved
in the gunfight that killed white separatist Randy Weaver's
14-year-old son and another marshal told senators today he never
fired at the boy and that Weaver himself is responsible for the
death.
The marshal said a Weaver family friend fired the first shot in the
exchange.
"I did not fire at Samuel Weaver," Deputy U.S. Marshal Larry Cooper
testified at a Senate subcommittee hearing. "I very strongly believe
that none of the rounds that I fired ... struck Samuel Weaver,
because I saw him running up the right fork ... after I fired my
second, and last, three-round burst."
"If Samuel Weaver was struck by other gunfire ..., we did not have
knowledge of that," Cooper said.
Weaver has said he believed that Cooper deliberately shot his son in
the exchange of gunfire at Weaver's mountainside homestead at Ruby
Ridge, Idaho, on Aug. 21, 1992.
The government concluded that the shot in the back that killed Sam
Weaver came from a 9-millimeter weapon that could have been fired by
Cooper or Randy Weaver. Weaver has said he never fired during the
gunfight, and that Sam was running uphill toward him when he was
shot. Another wound, not fatal, came from a weapon that could only
have been fired by Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan, who was killed
in the shootout.
Without admitting wrongdoing, the government recently agreed to pay
Weaver and his surviving children $3.1 million for the killing of
his wife, Vicki, and his son.
At a hearing on Thursday, senators accused FBI snipers of obscuring
the truth about events leading up to the killing of Mrs. Weaver.
The eight FBI sharpshooters, who were at Ruby Ridge during the
tragedy, testified that they heard a woman's screams, then silence,
after a member of their team fired the shot that killed Mrs. Weaver,
43.
A day earlier, Aug. 21, the Weavers' dog alerted members of the
family to the presence of the marshals as they were checking out his
homestead in anticipation of a military-style operation to arrest
him. Sam Weaver and Degan were killed in the shootout, which
involved three marshals, the Weavers and family friend Kevin Harris,
27.
Weaver and Harris were acquitted in 1993 of charges of murdering
Degan.
In his Senate testimony, Cooper's voice broke as he recounted
hearing Degan say, "Stop, U.S. marshals" and seeing Harris turn,
fire from the hip and shoot Degan.
"I have a clear mental picture of Kevin Harris firing that first
shot," Cooper told the panel. "There is no other aspect of this
tragedy about which I am more certain."
When today's hearing began, Subcommittee Chairman Arlen Specter,
R-Pa., read a letter from Degan's widow, Karen, in which she said
her late husband and members of his team have been described in
"terms that are incredibly inaccurate and unfair."
"Throughout our life together, Bill was often called away to make
tough arrests and to deal with the kind of dangerous situation the
rest of us see in the movies," Mrs. Degan wrote. "Not once in all
that time did he ever fire a weapon at anyone."
In his testimony, Cooper said, "I suspect Randall Weaver recognizes
in his heart that he is responsible for Samuel Weaver's death. That
is a tragedy, and a terrible cross for Randall Weaver to bear."
After federal prosecutors had Weaver indicted in March 1992 on a
charge of selling two sawed-off shotguns, the U.S. Marshals Service
was given the task of arresting him. Henry Hudson, the former head
of the agency, testified on Tuesday that the marshals had a plan to
lure Weaver away from the mountainside without a confrontation, but
a prosecutor rejected it.
At Thursday's hearing, with the snipers lined up in front of them,
Specter and Sen. Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin, the panel's senior
Democrat, questioned whether the shot that killed Mrs. Weaver should
have been fired at all.
Specter also accused the snipers of "giving erroneous information to
a lot of people" by saying there was a threat of immediate harm from
the Weavers sufficient to justify shooting Mrs. Weaver as she stood
behind the door of the family's cabin.
An FBI helicopter was flying nearby and "the threat was heightened
with the individuals inside the cabin," sharpshooter Dale Monroe
testified. He said Weaver and Harris could have fired from the
protection of the cabin.
"I believe" the shot was justified "as long as the helicopter is
airborne and contains individuals that could be harmed," said
Monroe.
Those individuals, FBI pilot Frank Costanza and Deputy U.S. Marshal
Duke Smith, were expected to testify at a later hearing.
Linda Thompson
American Justice Federation
Home of AEN News and "Waco, the Big Lie" "America Under Siege"
3850 S. Emerson Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46203
Telephone: (317) 780-5200
Fax: (317) 780-5209
Internet: lin...@iquest.net
"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear
to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
Harry Truman
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 09:45:00 -0700
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Date: Friday, Sept. 15, 1995
FROM:David Deming (UofOklahoma):FWD:by cz...@icis.on.ca
Here is the latest information on analysis of the seismic
data associated with the Oklahoma bombing.
This posting may be copied, distributed, and cross-posted.
I am an assistant professor of geology & geophysics at the University
of
Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. I have a Ph.D in geophysics and work in
the
same building as Ray Brown. Ray is a seismologist who works for the
Oklahoma Geological Survey and is the person who has been done most of
the
work on interpreting seismic data associated with the Oklahoma City
bombing.
Ray has a Ph.D in geophysics from MIT; his phone number is
405-325-3031.
This is a succinct summary of what we know at the present time
regarding
seismic data associated with the Oklahoma City bombing.
First, a brief historical summary.
Two seismographs recorded ground motion signals related to the bombing
of the Murrah Building last April 19. One seismograph was located at
the
OmniplexMuseum 4.21 miles northeast of the Murrah Building. The other
(station FNO) was located 16.23 miles south-southeast of the Murrah
Building
near the city ofNorman.
Both the Omniplex and FNO seismographs showed two distinct arrivals.
The
arrivals at the Omniplex were separated by 16 seconds, the arrivals at
FNO
were separated by about 10 seconds. These data led to the immediate
speculation that there were two explosions.
It is not possible to automatically conclude that 2 distinct arrivals
on a
seismogram represent 2 distinct source events because sound waves
propagating through the solid Earth are subject to dispersion,
refraction
and reflection. In other
words, the 2 arrivals could be a wave propagation phenomenon.
It is most useful to define 3 classes of hypotheses:
1. Hypothesis (1): the seismic data are consistent with 2 separate
explosions separated by several seconds.
2. Hypothesis (2): the seismic data are consistent with an extended
period
of explosive activity at the Murrah Building, as opposed to a single
explosion.
3. Hypothesis (3): the seismic data are consistent with a single
explosion.
Hypothesis (1) has now been discredited. Consider, for example, that
if the two
arrivals at the FNO station 16.23 miles from the blast site were
separated by 10
seconds, then the 2 arrivals at the Omniplex seismograph, 4.21 miles
from the
blast site, should have been separated by 10 seconds or less - yet they
were
separated
by 16 seconds. We now believe that the second arrival at the Omniplex
represents
a slower-traveling air blast which excited ground motion at the
seismograph
station.
On May 23, the remains of the Murrah Building were destroyed. The
demolition
was recorded on several seismographs set up at the Omniplex, station
FNO, and
intermediate sites by a team from the US Geological Survey (USGS) led
by
Tom Holzer
(415-329-5637). The USGS is holding these data confidential, but they
have been published in the August 7 issue of the New American Magazine.
Only a week after the demolition (June 1) the USGS issued a press
release
stating
(this is a verbatim quote): "Seismic recordings from the building's
implosion
indicate that there was only one bomb explosion on April 19".
Following this press release I called Dr. Holzer and asked if he had a
written
report I could review. He said "no". It was approximately 1.5 months
before the USGS produced a written report containing their data and
analysis.
This report is still being held confidential. However, Ray Brown
reviewed
the report and said that the USGS conclusions were "unsupported by the
data or
analysis", and asked that his name be taken off of it.
I don't know of any seismologist who agrees with the USGS conclusion.
For
example, Jim Pechmann, director of the seismograph station at the Univ.
of Utah
in Salt Lake City has written me: " I see no convincing evidence in
these
records to support the multiple blast hypothesis, although they can't
be used to
rule it out either". This is a conservative and reasonable
conclusion.
However,
Ray Brown believes the seismic data are more supportive of what might
be
called an extended period of explosive activity. Here is the reason.
During the May 23 demolition a seismograph was set up only 74 meters
from
the Murrah Building and recorded about 10 seconds of ground motion.
At the Omniplex 4.21 miles away, the ground motion was of the same
duration,
augmented perhaps by a second. In contrast, by the time the seismic
signals
from the Murrah Building demolition had traveled to station FNO 16.23
miles
away,
they had doubled in duration (to 20 seconds) due to dispersion. In
other
words, the demolition showed that the Omniplex seismogram is an
accurate
measure
of thelength of time the ground was moving during the April 19 bombing.
Both the
demolition andthe bombing coincidentally produced about 10 seconds of
ground
motion.
The demolition consisted of a series of staggered explosions lasting
4-5 seconds
followed by another 4-5 seconds of the building falling down, producing
a total
disturbance lasting 10 seconds. What we don't understand is how a
single truck
bomb could produce the same period of ground motion.
The most popular hypothesis is that the "extra ground motion" simply
represents the building falling down. The problem with this hypothesis
is
that the amplitude of the bombing signal is greater than the demolition
when
2/3 to 3/4 of the building collapsed.
Jim Pechmann of the Univ. of Utah seismographic station has suggested
the
possibility that the air blast excited buildings in the neighborhood to
move
for several seconds.
A similar phenomenon has been seen in Los Angeles where sonic booms
from the
Space Shuttle create seismic events. I believe this is a plausible
hypothesis.
Ray Brown also believes that the second arrival on the April 19
Omniplex
seismogram representing the air blast is a measure of the period of
time the
truck bomb was active. This is about 1/2 the length of time the ground
was
moving; thus, an apparent inconsistency.
In the past few days Ray Brown has obtained a higher-quality copy of
the
Omniplex seismogram from April 19 and now believes he can see 3
distinct
events in the April
19 bombing. He believes he could learn even more from an inspection of
the
original seismogram which is being held by the FBI. Ray has asked to
see
it, but I do not believe the FBI has responded to his request.
Ray has also told me that Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories
had
planned
a test ANFO explosion that would have been very helpful in
discriminating
between hypotheses. However, John Derr at the US Geological Survey in
Albuquerque reportedly told Ray that the test had been postponed until
after
the bombing trial due to a
request by an "Oklahoma District Attorney". Ray has Mr. Derr's phone
number for
anyone who wants to check this out.
Summary:
1. The June 1 press release by the US Geological Survey stating that
"Seismic
recordings from the building's implosion indicate that there was only
one bomb
explosion on April 19" is simply wrong.
2. More conservative seismologists have concluded that the data are
inconclusive with regard to single or multiple blasts.
3. The seismic data indicate about 10 seconds of ground
motion at the blast site on April 19, apparently inconsistent with a
single
explosion.
The seismologist who has worked the most on these data, Ray Brown,
favors
hypotheses related to "extra" explosive activity.
4. There are plausible alternative hypotheses such as the air blast
exciting ground motion that could explain the "extra" ground motion at
the
Murrah Building.
Addendum: An unidentified gentleman sitting in the back of the room
during
a presentation by Ray Brown last Wednesday, Sept. 13, said that a
friend
of his spotted 3 unexploded ANFO barrels inside the building shortly
after
the blast. He went on to speculate that the truck bomb had been shaped
in
such a fashion so as to blow some of the barrels into the interior of
the
building.
He explained how this could have been done by arranging the barrels in
a certain
geometric form (he described what form, I'm not going to).
This formation presumably would have created a focused pressure wave
that
would be
much more damaging than that created by a random arrangement. The
technique
presumably would also allow some of the barrels to actually detonate
inside
the building so as to be much more destructive. I don't know how this
would
be done.
The gentleman went on to say that this technique had first been
developed
by Gen. Patton to penetrate tank armor and it would have been taught to
McVeigh as part of his training as a tank crewman. If true, this
hypothesis
would answer some of the more
puzzling aspects of the bombing such as the fact that the largest
indentation
was not directly in front of the bomb crater. It would also possibly
answer
objections (i.e., General Partin) that the ANFO blast was not powerful
enough
to bring down the reinforced concrete columns.
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 00:07:58 EDT
From: URM...@prodigy.com (MR ROBERT L MCCARTY)
Subject: Gramm Strongest on Right to Bear Arms
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Subject: Gramm Strongest on Right to Bear Arms
Dear Friend of Phil Gramm,
Following are the candidates' positions--or refusals to take a position-
-on gun control. Clearly, Gramm's is the strongest, most unequivocal
rejection of gun control and defense of our right to bear arms.
Alexander tries to give the impression he's against gun control, but
doesn't actually say so.
Specter buries his plans for more gun control <laws removing the right
of parents to decide when to teach their children responsible gun
ownership; laws using taxpayer funds to disarm law-abiding citizens
through government "buy-back" programs> under the mere rhetoric of the
right to bear arms.
Dole, Buchanan, Wilson and Keyes all refused to make any attempt to
take a stand. Taylor tries to finesse the issue by opposing federal
gun control but supporting equally restrictive measures by local
government. Only Lugar makes little attempt to veil his support for
gun control. Gramm and Dornan are the only ones who fully and
unequivocally oppose gun control. Gramm goes even further, to outline
a real plan for deterring violent crime. We can always count on Gramm
to keep a firm, principled position and provide real solutions.
Sincerely,
David B. Levenstam, CPA, MT, MA
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--------------------------------------------------------> Gun Control:
: Do you support or oppose the waiting period now required for handgun
: purchases? What, if any, restrictions should there be on such
: purchases? (This question was asked of the candidates on Aug. 15,
: 1995.)
: --------------------------------------------------------------------
: LAMAR ALEXANDER:
: I have never thought gun control equaled crime control. If we
: are really interested in controlling crimes involving guns, we
: should have stricter penalties against those who commit the crimes.
: ----------------------------------
: PAT BUCHANAN:
: The Buchanan campaign declined to respond to PoliticsUSA's
: question on gun control.
: ----------------------------------
: BOB DOLE:
: The Dole campaign declined to respond to PoliticsUSA's question
: on gun control.
: ----------------------------------
: ROBERT DORNAN:
: The right of citizens to keep and bear arms must not be
: infringed. I have opposed the Brady Law and the proposed bans of
: semi-automatic firearms. We can not have any further violations to
: the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
: ----------------------------------
: PHIL GRAMM:
: If gun control laws stopped crime, Washington, D.C. would be
: the safest city on the planet. Recent gun control legislation, such
: as the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Public Law 103-159)
: and the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (Public Law
: 103-322), passed last year despite my opposition. I believe that
: targeting firearms in an effort to remedy rising crime rates is an
: infringement upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding
: citizens. I also recognize that restrictive gun control measures
: serve only as a symbolic and ineffective band aid.
:
: I am convinced that the best way to address violence is to grab
: violent criminals by the throat and put the 7 percent of criminals
: who are responsible for 70 percent of America's violent crimes in
: jail where they belong. To solve our crime problem we need swift and
: sure criminal control penalties applied to those who violate the
: law. Under my proposals, criminals convicted of a violent crime or
: drug felony in which a firearm is carried would face no less than
: ten years in prison without release; if the weapon was discharged,
: the criminal would serve at least 20 years; and if the gun was used
: to kill a person, the penalty would be either life-imprisonment
: without parole or death.
:
: I believe our citizens are best served by tough and effective
: anti-crime legislation and not a collection of new social spending
: programs. Therefore, I am working for a criminal justice system
: which focuses on building more prisons, giving police officers the
: resources they require to enforce our laws, and ensuring that
: convicted criminals serve their full sentences. I will continue my
: ardent fight against restrictive gun control measures and work for
: criminal control policies that strengthen, not weaken, our criminal
: justice system. The Second Amendment guarantees our Constitutional
: right, and I intend to see that it continues to do so.
: ----------------------------------
: Alan Keyes:
: The Keyes campaign declined to respond to PoliticsUSA's
: question on gun control.
: ----------------------------------
: Richard Lugar:
: I support the current waiting period required for handgun
: purchases that was established by the Brady bill. We should continue
: to move toward the instant check system envisioned in this
: legislation.
: ----------------------------------
: Arlen Specter:
: I have opposed legislation like the Brady Bill and other "gun
: control" measures for three fundamental reasons:
: 1.) My experience as District Attorney of the City of
: Philadelphia, which had a strict anti-gun ordinance, has
: convinced me that such laws do not keep guns out of the
: hands of criminals.
: 2.) Gun control laws focus governmental and law
: enforcement resources in the wrong direction by putting
: emphasis on the issue of who owns a gun as opposed to the
: criminal use of guns.
: 3.) Gun control laws do impinge on the legitimate rights
: of law-abiding Americans to own and use firearms for self
: defense and recreational purposes.
: There are significant measures that can be undertaken to
: undertaken to combat criminal violence and the unlawful use of
: firearms which I support, including:
: * Laws to provide life sentences to career criminals who use
: firearms.
: * Increased law enforcement efforts directed at identifying the
: sources of illegal guns, and closing off that gun traffic
: through prosecution.
: * State and local gun buy-back programs, to reduce the number of
: guns in circulation without restricting individual rights to
: gun ownership.
: * Laws to prevent juveniles from owning or using handguns.
: * Provision of adequate police presence and adequate prison space
: so that those who commit crimes of violence with guns can be
: arrested, prosecuted, and put in prison.
: I have consistently supported policies of all kinds -- from
: mandatory life sentences for three-time violent offenders to
: increased federal funding for rehabilitative programs -- in an
: effort to reduce criminal violence and provide for public safety.
: ----------------------------------
: Morry Taylor:
: A federal gun control program is undesirable. Historically,
: governments that ban guns have been repressive in all ways. Gun
: registration requirements that deny permits to individuals with
: criminal records is reasonable.
: ----------------------------------
: Pete Wilson:
: The Wilson campaign declined to respond to PoliticsUSA's
: question on gun control.
: ----------------------------------
: [ Campaign '96 | Forums | Rec Room | Marketplace | Resources | Web
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 14:46:50 -0400
From: lin...@iquest.net (Linda Thompson, American Justice Federation) (by way
of Charles Zeps <lin...@iquest.net>)
Subject: How to find out if you are sniffed at AOL
To: sne...@world.std.com
: America Online Opens Private E-mail to Federal Sting
: (c) 1995 N.Y. Times News Service
:
:(14 Sept. 1995 ) Responding to court orders related to a
:nationwide crackdown on the electronic transmission of child pornography,
:America Online, the nation's largest information service, gave law
:enforcement agents access to the private electronic mailboxes of an unknown
:number of its subscribers, company officials confirmed Thursday.
From: Eric Muetterties <eri...@ix.netcom.com>
All you America online users would be wise to check out your
software...(WINDOWS)
Use a file viewer that will allow you to view in hexadecimal.Or use
the DOSSHELL.EXE program in your DOS directory and use the menu to VIEW
file contents
Find your Aonline directory and find the directory marked IDB.
This should have two files marked with your screen name and a
suffix of either .arh or .pnd (eg. ericmuette.arh)
With the file loaded in the viewer you will see the hex dump of
these files. In the side pane will be the equivalent ascII of the
hexadecimal dump (in laymans terms... if there is text you will
recognize it...)
Use PAGE DOWN to move down through the files.... soon you will
recognize the first files you downloaded and references to where you
were on the internet and what directory you saved the file to.
Make these files READ ONLY with the file attributes menu in your
file manager and they can not use this facility../
You will get an error message when you first start up ("XFER ERROR
- could not create database") Click on "OK" and program will continue.
Then when program gives you messages when you try to save to disk
or download something just click on "IGNORE" till program continues
(usually 3 times).
When they realize everyone is defeating this they can easily come
up with a more covert way of tracking you but in the meantime...
... better to change to another provider...
You will be amazed at your freinds expressions when you get on
their computer and tell them what they have downloaded.
If you view the files in the TOOLS directory , at the end of the
files you will find the internal names for these programs such as
"Internal DAtabase" , ETC. !!! Have fun...
Big Bro is here in a BIG WAY... MIND YOUR P's and Q's on the NET
!!!
E. Muetterties
If you can't figure out how to do this email me with what is in
your "IDB" directory and I'll tell you which files to view.
Linda Thompson
American Justice Federation
Home of AEN News and "Waco, the Big Lie" "America Under Siege"
3850 S. Emerson Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46203
Telephone: (317) 780-5200
Fax: (317) 780-5209
Internet: lin...@iquest.net
"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear
to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
Harry Truman
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 14:47:38 -0400
From: Charles Zeps <cz...@icis.on.ca>
Subject: How to find out if you are sniffed at AOL
To: sne...@world.std.com
: America Online Opens Private E-mail to Federal Sting
: (c) 1995 N.Y. Times News Service
:
:(14 Sept. 1995 ) Responding to court orders related to a
:nationwide crackdown on the electronic transmission of child pornography,
:America Online, the nation's largest information service, gave law
:enforcement agents access to the private electronic mailboxes of an unknown
:number of its subscribers, company officials confirmed Thursday.
From: Eric Muetterties <eri...@ix.netcom.com>
All you America online users would be wise to check out your
software...(WINDOWS)
Use a file viewer that will allow you to view in hexadecimal.Or use
the DOSSHELL.EXE program in your DOS directory and use the menu to VIEW
file contents
Find your Aonline directory and find the directory marked IDB.
This should have two files marked with your screen name and a
suffix of either .arh or .pnd (eg. ericmuette.arh)
With the file loaded in the viewer you will see the hex dump of
these files. In the side pane will be the equivalent ascII of the
hexadecimal dump (in laymans terms... if there is text you will
recognize it...)
Use PAGE DOWN to move down through the files.... soon you will
recognize the first files you downloaded and references to where you
were on the internet and what directory you saved the file to.
Make these files READ ONLY with the file attributes menu in your
file manager and they can not use this facility../
You will get an error message when you first start up ("XFER ERROR
- could not create database") Click on "OK" and program will continue.
Then when program gives you messages when you try to save to disk
or download something just click on "IGNORE" till program continues
(usually 3 times).
When they realize everyone is defeating this they can easily come
up with a more covert way of tracking you but in the meantime...
... better to change to another provider...
You will be amazed at your freinds expressions when you get on
their computer and tell them what they have downloaded.
If you view the files in the TOOLS directory , at the end of the
files you will find the internal names for these programs such as
"Internal DAtabase" , ETC. !!! Have fun...
Big Bro is here in a BIG WAY... MIND YOUR P's and Q's on the NET
!!!
E. Muetterties
If you can't figure out how to do this email me with what is in
your "IDB" directory and I'll tell you which files to view.
Linda Thompson
American Justice Federation
Home of AEN News and "Waco, the Big Lie" "America Under Siege"
3850 S. Emerson Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46203
Telephone: (317) 780-5200
Fax: (317) 780-5209
Internet: lin...@iquest.net
"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear
to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
Harry Truman
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 01:27:42 +0000
From: "Institute.of.Economic.Affairs."<i...@iea.org.uk>
Subject: Institute of Economic Affairs WWW site
To: me9...@sable.ox.ac.uk
The Institute of Economic Affairs is proud to unveil its new site on
the World Wide Web. This enables anyone with access to the Internet
to read summaries of any IEA title published since June 1990. Details
of lectures, conferences, and all other IEA activities are also
available.
Included are the publications and activities of the IEA Environment
Unit and the IEA Health and Welfare Unit.
The URL, or address, of the Web site is:
The IEA is committed to maintaining and updating the Web site, so it
is a good way to keep an eye out for new publications.
Please feel free to copy and distribute this message widely.
Malcolm Hutty. mal...@ivision.demon.co.uk
Internet Vision Ltd.
Webmasters for the Institute of Economic Affairs.
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Institute of Economic Affairs E-mail: i...@iea.org.uk
2 Lord North Street, London SW1P 3LB, UK.
Tel: +44 (0)171 799 3745 Fax: +44 (0)171 799 2137
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 20:09:28 -0400
From: mpr...@inri.com (Mike Price)
Subject: Issues
To: mjs...@planetx.bloomu.edu, tho...@solbrn.dseg.ti.com,
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A Statement of My Position on Several Key Issues Facing The Nation
by Alan L. Keyes
You have asked for my position on several issues that reflect or are part
of America's moral crisis. In responding, I must first make clear the
approach I take in thinking about these issues.
I believe that we are not dealing with a number of separate and discrete
issues, but with what is essentially one moral challenge which manifests
itself in many areas. Simply stated, that challenge has to do with the
corruption of our understanding of freedom, due mainly to the abandonment
of the ideas of respect for law and individual responsibility that ought to
undergird it.
As a free people our way of life depends on certain moral ideas. As a
matter of personal conscience and belief, I believe that Christianity most
perfectly embodies those ideas. But since Americans come from many
different religious and moral backgrounds, I believe that, in dealing with
issues of public policy, we must derive these ideas from sources that are
open to support from people of all religious backgrounds. Nothing meets
this purpose more completely than the principles and logic of the American
Declaration of Independence. I have therefore made the Declaration the
explicit basis for dealing with the moral crisis we face.
The Declaration is first and foremost a statement of the principles of
justice that define the moral identity of the American people. It presents
a certain concept of our human nature and draws out its political
consequences. All human beings are created equal. They need no title or
qualification beyond their simple humanity in order to command respect for
their intrinsic human dignity, their "unalienable rights". The purpose of
government is to secure these rights, and no government is just or
legitimate if it systematically violates them.
But the Declaration is more than an assertion of rights. It also makes a
clear statement about the ultimate source of authority which commands
respect for those rights. God, the Creator, the author of the laws of
nature, is the source. If God does not exist, or if worldly powers are not
obliged to respect God's authority, there is no reason to recognize or
respect the rights with which he has endowed all human beings.
Thus the effective prerequisite for human rights, and for the idea of
government based on consent (i.e., government based on representation,
elections, due process of law, etc.) is respect for God's authority and
God's eternal laws. If we accept the logic of the Declaration, this
reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the
foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic.
Our freedom is therefore derived from and based on respect for law,
especially the highest law as embodied in the will of the Creator. Thus
rightly understood freedom cannot be confused with mere licentiousness. It
first of all involves the duty to respect its own foundations in the laws
of nature and nature's God. That's why our rights are "unalienable", which
means that we do not have the right, by our choice or actions, to destroy
or surrender them.
Indeed, if we make the judgment that they are being systematically
violated, we have the duty to resist and overthrow the power responsible.
This duty involves both the judgment and the moral and material capacity to
resist tyranny. Taken together these things constitute our character as a
free people, which it is our duty to maintain.
This briefly summarizes the principles and logic that underlie my thinking
about the major issue of our day. In light of these principles, I will now
summarize my stands on the issues you asked about.
Abortion(/Euthanasia)
The assertion of a right to abortion epitomizes the corrupt concept of
freedom that has tragically (and we may hope temporarily) achieved
ascendancy in our times. If the Declaration states our creed, there can be
no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of
all to human offspring in the womb. One human being has the right to take
the life of another only in defense of his own life, or when through acts
of war an aggressor forfeits his immunity from harm.
This means that, except where necessary to save the physical life of the
mother, abortion involves the unjust taking of a human life. The mere fact
that the individual in the womb is wholly in its mother's physical power,
and completely dependent upon her for sustenance, gives her no right
whatsoever with respect to its life, since the mere possession of physical
power can never confer such a right. Might does not make right. Abortion
is therefore a breach of the fundamental tenets of our public moral creed.
Of course, some people assert that human beings have the right to draw the
line which determines which human offspring have rights we must respect,
and which do not. If we accept this view, we utterly vitiate the doctrine
of human rights presented in the Declaration. According to that doctrine,
the laws of God command respect for the rights of all human beings. But if
human beings can arbitrarily decide who is human and who is not, this
command has no fore or effect.
Whenever we wished to deny someone's human rights, we could deny their
humanity and escape the force of the command. So, when whites wished to
enslave blacks, they denied their humanity, and so construed the right to
hold slaves as a property right. To avoid this absurdity, and the
injustices that follow from it, we must acknowledge that God has drawn the
line that separates human from non-human life, and human beings have no
choice but to respect his will.
The Declaration also clearly indicates how we can recognize this line,
since it states plainly that we are all created equal, which means that the
criterion of our humanity must be such as to provide no grounds for
invidious distinctions between one human being and another. Only one
criterion meets this requirement, i.e., that we are all of equal parentage.
Because our parents were human, we are human. After conception, life in
the womb is in this respect no different than life outside the womb. We
are therefore obliged to treat the human being, once conceived, with the
same respect that we demand for ourselves.
As for the so-called "right to suicide", and related practices such as
euthanasia, whatever emotional arguments we make on their behalf, they
represent a violation of the Declaration's principles. Our rights,
including the right to life, are unalienable. We therefore do not have the
right to destroy or surrender them. Now, if we kill ourselves or consent
to allow another to do so, we both destroy and surrender our right to life.
We act unjustly. We usurp the authority that belongs solely to the
Creator, and thus deny the transcendent basis of our claim to human rights.
Religious Freedom/School Prayer
The doctrine of separation of church and state as it has been articulated
in recent years by our Courts, including the Supreme Court, is an erroneous
misinterpretation of the Constitution, that actually provides the framework
for massive violations of our first amendment rights. The first amendment
was never intended to exclude all references to God and religion from our
governmental institutions or our public life. The surest sign of the
absurdity and danger of this doctrine is the fact that its application
means that the Declaration of Independence itself can only be taught in our
government schools as an historical artifact, rather than as the living
expression of our moral identity as a people.
I believe that the first amendment prohibition of established religion aims
to forbid all government sponsored coercion of religious conscience. It
does not forbid all religious influence upon politics or society. The free
exercise of religion means nothing if, in connection with the ordinary
events and circumstances of life, individuals are forbidden to act upon
their religious faith. Recent administrative attempts to banish religion
from the workplace, or Court decisions that prevent teachers and other
government workers from personally pursuing or displaying their faith
constitute, in my opinion, clear efforts to prohibit the free exercise of
religion.
If elected to the Presidency I would do everything in my power, through
public speeches and persuasion, legislation, and careful scrutiny of
candidates for judicial appointments, to turn the tide against
Constitutional interpretations that undermine religious freedom. Of
course, I would also strenuously oppose any efforts to use government power
to coerce religious belief or conscience, including efforts to impose views
that contravene religious conscience on matters such as homosexuality and
abortion.
I would also support the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution to
clarify the doctrine of religious freedom outlined above, in particular
with respect to school prayer.
School Choice
I believe however that the court initiated prohibition of school prayer was
only the symptom of a deeper problem in our educational system, which is
the neglect of moral education and character formation. The value-free
education offered by the government run schools has all too often proven to
be education without value. This is especially true now that Outcome Based
Education and other such concepts have been used as an excuse to establish
curricular elements that amount to politically correct brainwashing of our
children.
To reverse this neglect, and thwart such indoctrination, I would strongly
favor and promote school choice approaches that empower parents to send
their children to schools that reflect their faith and values. We not only
need prayer in schools, we need schools that are in the hands of people who
pray. We must break the government monopoly on public education.
Sex Education/Condom Distribution
Human sexuality is primarily a matter of moral, not just physical health.
So called health-based sex education programs have done more harm than
good. They too often encourage adolescents to consider sexual activity
apart from marriage and family life. Especially in the government schools,
where teachers purport to deal with sexual matters without reference to
moral authority, they result in a vapid, context free presentation of
sexual mechanics which degrades and debases the meaning of relations
between the sexes and prepares and encourages premature sexual activity.
As a rule I believe that sex education is the private responsibility of
parents. The government should not usurp this role. Where parents choose
to encourage school based instruction, I would strongly support and
encourage abstinence based approaches for young adults. On the whole,
however, I believe that education regarding relations between the sexes
should be home and church based, or at the very least conducted in schools
and programs that reflect the faith and values of the parents. Since
government schools eschew moral instruction, they declare themselves
incompetent to instruct in matters such as this, which involve
intrinsically moral reasoning and judgments.
Women in Combat
Though I believe strongly in the equality of the sexes, I resist with
similar conviction the idea that equality means that the sexual difference
makes no difference. I would restore fully the exemption of women from
involuntary service in land combat units, and institute an in depth review
and re-examination of the policy of assigning female volunteers to combat
duty. Our military forces are not fit subjects for questionable social
experimentation. Military preparedness should be the top priority. As
President I would try to be a line of defense between our military
establishment and those political and other forces that seek to impose
politically correct agendas at the expense of military judgment.
Homosexual Rights
It is wrong to treat sexual orientation like race where discrimination is
concerned. Race is a condition. Sexual orientation involves behavior.
What's more it involves behavior in response to passion. If we equate
sexual orientation and race, we are saying that, like race, sexual behavior
is beyond the individual's control and moral will. This completely
vitiates the concept of sexual responsibility, and implies the rejection of
moral responsibility in every case where human action results from the
influence of passion. We cannot embrace such an understanding of rights
without denying the human moral capacity, and with it the fitness of human
beings for life in a free society.
I also believe that the effort to equate homosexual or lesbian relations
with heterosexual relations for public purposes such as legal marriage,
etc. represents a destructive assault on the heterosexual, marriage-based
family. For public purposes, the regulation of marriage has as its special
aim the establishment of the rights and responsibilities connected with
procreation and child-rearing. As an institution therefore marriage
transcends the mere self-gratification of the married couple.
By admitting homosexual and lesbian relationships to the privileges of the
married state, we would devalue this transcendent status, and weaken the
duties and the sense of obligation it entails. Of course, the regime of
easy divorce established in many states has already weakened the fabric of
obligation that supports marriage and family life. Recognition of
homosexual/lesbian marriages would threaten to destroy it utterly.
Taxation/Government Spending
If we allow the government to consume too much of our earnings and
resources, we erode the resource base of our freedom and our moral
responsibility. Excessive government spending, and the excessive taxation
and borrowing it produces, are therefore not only a threat to our economic,
they threaten our moral character and our ability to sustain our liberty.
The best way to curtail government spending is to cut taxes. They can't
spend what they don't get. But we must also take away the government's
credit card. With limits on both tax revenue and borrowing, the Federal
government would finally be forced to get serious about spending cuts. it
is absurd to believe that in the absence or these limits, serious cuts will
be made.
That's why a balanced budget constitutional amendment, with barriers to
both borrowing and spending, is the way to secure budget discipline. (If
you have a child in college who spends too much and keeps asking for more,
you don't keep sending money until he figures out where he can cut back on
his expenditures. You cut back the flow of funds, which forces the
collegian to change his spending habits. This is simple common sense. Why
do our leaders demand that we abandon this common sense when dealing with
the government?)
Beyond a structure of government discipline, however, we must redefine our
understanding of the problem we are dealing with. Most of our expensive
government programs aim to deal with problems that are related to the
breakdown of moral standards and self-discipline. We will go bankrupt as a
nation if we continue trying to pay the ever-increasing costs of our moral
disintegration.
We must begin to deal with the moral causes, starting with an effort to end
government programs (like family-destroying welfare efforts, and
sex-education courses that encourage promiscuity) that actually hasten the
moral breakdown. Our first priority should be restoring the moral and
material support for the marriage-based two parent family.
The disintegration of the family is the major contributing factor in
poverty, crime, violence, the decline in educational performance, and a
host of other expensive social problems. Restoring a strong sense of
inter-generational family responsibility would even help to address the
financial problems facing the social security system.
I believe that tax cuts and reforms aimed at reducing government's
extortion of family income are essential elements of the program to restore
America's moral health. Fiscal sanity and moral revival go hand in hand.
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 09:03:19 -0400
From: lib...@gate.net (Jim Ray)
Subject: Issues of Negligable Import.
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
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I am sure that Mrs. CHENOWETH is a fine windbag er...woman, but
her longwinded special orders don't belong here, even if she is
less disagreeable than some other politicians. She is (last I
checked) a _Republican_! We are (last I checked) _LIBERTARIANS_!
She agrees with the tax-and-spend drug war. I do not. Congressional
record transcripts are available elsewhere on the Internet. Her
words are also available on on C-SPAN. I have an idea...
If you think that she has said something useful, why not follow
my example (see? -- I practice what I preach!) and forego yet
another interminable post the ENTIRE EXONING LIST!
I just got an anonymous e-mail describing in detail certain
vulnerabilities of various cryptosystems, and if you e-mail me
by midnight Wednesday, I will forward it to you. There. That
wasn't so hard, was it? I just spared all the people in our
little community who couldn't care less [or who have it anyway].
JMR
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 15:53:03 -0400
From: mpr...@inri.com (Mike Price)
Subject: KEYES
To: Natha...@aol.com, klu...@u.washington.edu, rd...@cosi.stockton.edu,
Headline: KEYES' EMPHASIS ON SOCIAL ISSUES EXCITES GOP ACTIVISTS
Sub-Headline: POLITICS: Presidential candidate says abortion is at root of
moral decline. He has all but eclipsed Dornan.
By Gebe Martinez: Times Staff Writer
Berlin, MD -- Carolie Patton remembers how she felt when she heard the
booming voice coming from the radio.
It was several weeks ago on the conservative syndicatd show "Focus on the
Family." A Republican presidential candidate was sermonizing about the
failing moral character of the country.
"That speech," the Maryland Republican said recently with a gleam in her
eyes, "that eight-minute speech; that went: Pow!"
The speaker was Alan L. Keyes, and after hearing him on the radio, Patton
arranged for the talk show (continued in interior of paper under headline
"KEYES: Conservative Ideologue") host to speak here at her town's Memorial
Day observance. Her reaction fit the pattern of Keyes' campaign. No one
really believes Keyes has much of a chance to win the Republican Party's
presidential nomination, but there is no doubt about the excitement he has
generated for GOP activists.
To take just one example, "Focus on the Family" aired Keyes' speech twice to
meet audience demands, drawing a response of more than 10,000 telephone
calls and letters, according to Paul Hetrick, a spokesman for the program.
Delivering his message with the sort of impassioned pulpit style that takes
predominantly white Republican audiences by surprise, Keyes has brought the
party faithful to their feet at gatherings across the country with an ardent
conservative message warning that moral decline is at the root of all of the
nation's problems. Abortion, he insists, is the root of that moral decline,
and he routinely compares the fight against the procedure to the
19th-Century struggle against slavery.
In the process, Keyes has demonstrated the power of conservative radio to
spread the message of a highly ideological candidate with limited money.
(Sub-headline: Eclipsing Dornan)
He also has all but eclipsed Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Garden Grove), his
kindred spirit on social issues who had hoped that his own experience on
talk radio and his years as one of Congress' most fiery conservative orators
would help him dominate the stylistic and political niche that Keyes has now
grabbed.
At the outset of the campaign, Dornan was convinced that he would become the
social conservatives' favorite underdog, based on his colorful record in
Congress and his passionate speeches about the "cultural meltdown" of the
country.
Unafraid to take on President Clinton, Gov. Pete Wilson, Sen. Phil Gramm or
any other political rival, Dornan was widely seen as the man who would drive
the debate more to the right on social issues, such as abortion and gay
rights.
Then along came Keyes. Today, he is living Dornan's dream, speaking up as
the unabashed voice of full-throttle social conservatism.
Even Dornan's daughter has come under the spell. At the first GOP candidate
forum of the year in New Hampshire, she was seen at the back of the room
with a slack-jaw gaze as Keyes spoke, mouthing the words: "He's wonderful."
Dornan "has been a spear-carrier for the right on the right-to-life issue
for decades," said James P. Pinkerton, a lecturer at the Graduate School of
Political Management at George Washington University and a former George
Bush Administration official. But "Dornan's misfortune is that Keyes, who
does not have nearly as much of a record, is the most dynamic speaker in
current American politics today."
Not only has Keyes almost blocked Dornan out of the race, he is also "making
it harder for [Patrick J.] Buchanan to corner the market on moral issues,"
said William Kristol, a Republican strategist who was Keyes' roommate at
Harvard University. Even Kristol, however, gives Keyes no chance of winning
the nomination, noting that his former roommate's rhetorical job is made
easier by the fact that he is not really in the race to win.
"It's easy to be lively and interesting when you don't need to modulate your
message to get 51% of the vote," Kristol said.
(Sub-headline: Born in New York)
Lively and interesting Keyes has proved himself to be. Each time C-SPAN
broadcasts a candidate forum, interest in Keyes picks up in New Hampshire,
scene of the campaign's first primary next February, said Charles
Arlinghaus, executive director of the New Hampshire GOP. Keyes' speeches, he
said, prompt people to ask: "Whoa, wait. Who is this guy?"
Alan Lee Keyes was born in New York City almost 45 years ago and brought up
in a devout Roman Catholic military family. He had relatively little
political experience before entering the presidential contest -- a stint as
a mid-level State Department official in the Ronald Reagan Administration
and two unsuccessful runs for the U.S. Senate from Maryland, in 1988 and
1992. In recent years he has worked as a radio talk-show host.
Despite help from Kristol, Keyes received only 38% of the vote in his first
Maryland race. On the second go-round, he was even less successful,
gathering only 29% after disclosing he paid himself a salary of $8,500 a
month from his campaign fund - a move that was legal but controversial.
Keyes also created controversy when he criticized the GOP hierarchy for
refusing to back his candidacy and failing to court the African American
vote.
That same issue -- the impact of Keyes' race on his political prospects --
continues to hover around the edges of this campaign.
On the one hand, being black means Keyes "has standing," Dornan said. "Being
of African American descent, when he compares abortion to slavery, it has a
resounding impact that makes moderates avert his gaze with shame."
At the same time, many analysts and Keyes wonder just how open the GOP
really is to reaching minority voters.
"I think that there have been some Republicans who were not, and maybe still
are not, open to the tremendous opportunity that exists for the Republican
Party to reach out to peoples in all different kinds of communities; bring
them in on the basis of . . . conservative values," Keyes said. "Part of it
is because some of the Republicans who thought in those terms thought that
it would be done on an economic basis, like [former Housing and Urban
Development Secretary] Jack Kemp."
But Keyes said his message about "moral priorities" is a unifying theme that
reaches across all segments of society -- from white Christian evangelicals
to African American communities.
"I don't run as a black candidate. But neither am I going to forget that I'm
black while I'm running."
(Sub-headline: Bluntness Welcomed)
The bluntness of Keyes' appeal, which has cost him politically in the past,
is now welcomed by activists.
"Some of his beliefs, I know, are controversial, particularly on the
abortion issue, but the way he articulates that is something that I think I
have not heard anybody else present," said Roger O'Bryon, a 52-year-old
medical sales representative who rarely took his eyes off Keyes as he
listened to the candidate's Memorial Day speech here.
Keyes' style, said O'Bryon and his wife, Ruth, makes him seem sincere --
something they and many others find lacking in other candidates. "I think
he's so strong in his basic beliefs and his basic principles that he comes
across as if he does not waver from those beliefs," Roger O'Bryon said.
Using his hands and arm movements to add emphasis, Keyes exhorted the
Memorial Day crowd to think about the moral values and the belief in God
that he said are needed to steer the nation toward a greater destiny.
"Remember not only what human beings have done to make this nation great,
but what God may do to make it greater still."
"I think if we can somewhere find once again that spirit of humbleness, that
spirit of real conviction about the power that transcends and shapes and
disciplines our all, then we shall find our way back to the path of freedom
that leads not to the crime and violence and the broken families and the
lost hopes, but to the freedom that instead leads to the finer destiny of
mankind," he said.
It is speeches like this, seen and heard largely through the unfiltered
medium of C-SPAN and on conservative radio, that have generated Keyes'
reputation as a candidate willing to speak bluntly because he has nothing to
lose.
While others, even Buchanan, have tried to downplay the abortion
controversy, arguing that Repulicans should not make the issue a "litmus
test," Keyes has vowed precisely the opposite, warning Republicans that
anti-abortion activists will abandon the party if it abandons its
anti-abortion stand.
He has criticized Gramm, saying that the GOP senator's focus on reducing the
federal budget deficit ignores the fact that money alone cannot cure the
country's moral bankruptcy. And during a recent speech before foreign policy
experts, he labeled as "extreme" Buchanan's nationalist message, maintaining
that the United States has international leadership responsibilities and the
issue is knowing when to get in or stay out of international conflicts.
Polls continue to show Keyes and Dornan at the bottom of the GOP heap. But
by another barometer, Keyes has clearly won some hearts.
"I got two standing ovations in South Carolina, and he got four," Dornan
said.
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 16:48:10 -0500
From: vthu...@ping.ch (thueler)
Subject: Liberty Network
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
Dear Sirs,
I would like to have, please, the places if interest about Liberty Network.
Thank you for your rapidly answer.
Greetings of Vincent T. / Switzerland
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 17:43:22 -0400
From: lin...@iquest.net (Linda Thompson, American Justice Federation) (by way
of Charles Zeps <lin...@iquest.net>)
Subject: Militia Expose FBI Chief on TV in Alabama
To: alt-con...@cs.utexas.edu
Here's how the Gadsden Militia members, Mike Kemp, along with "Good Ol'
Boys" Tape producer Rich Haywood, attorney Mike Seibert from Alabama faired
in a Television debate with North Alabama FBI Chief Bob "Lamer" Langford:
Report is from Jim Floyd <jimf...@python.viper.net>:
Bob Langford, Chief FBI, North Alabama, walked into the studio of channel 42
Birmingham enveloped in an air of haughty confidence. Doubtlessly he thought
that this would be a cake-walk. He planned to portray Mike Kemp as a pot
head caught by 'local law officers', not the FBI, so all that he had to do
was deny involvement and 'political' motivation for the raid. Surprise! Mike
and others quickly and articulately made the point that even if all the
people who did the expose' of the 'Good O Boys' were in fact criminals; the
worst of the worst, "HOW DOES THIS IMPROVE THE MORALS, CHARACTER, or explain
the myriad expressions of hate-mongering shown so vividly on the Rich
Hayward film?
Langford's illusions of adequacy evaporated before our very eyes. This
taping of two programs which will be shown in November started out with an
embarrassed FBI Chief and proceeded to worsen.
When Richard Hayward told of his betrayal by the hierarchy within these
agencies, who had promised him anonymity and then used the threat of
disclosure to get the original tape, Chief Bobby just dropped his head in
silence.
Chief Bobby faired no better when confronted with a statement he made on
Gadsden radio. When asked if he still maintained that Vicky Weaver, the
breast-feeding mother of a ten month old baby, shot dead with her child in
her arms at Ruby Ridge was"hit by a 'riochet", he said that he was
"sticking with his
statement."
This confrontation was a classic example of how to handle the enemy. Yes,
the enemy! Anyone who kills or CONDONES the killing of children, old church
women, and others are my enemies. Only one person tried to paint Langford as
a good guy, (un-named).
This fellow with a pony-tail wanted us to beleive that the nefarious 'bad
guys' were far away and that this arrogant defender of the indefensible was
in some mysterious way different from the real thugs. It did not resonate
with the well informed and couragous audience.
The most elating show of raw temerity came from a very nervous and dear
Black lady. She stood to tell Bobby, "we don't trust you sir"," you keep
talking about 'confidence' in you and your people; we have no confidence in
any of you." Langford said that no FBI agents were at the 'round-up' ever.
Langford said that the FBI was "separate from the Justice Department."
Langford said that the FBI was not a 'secretive' organization, yet had no
answer for disallowing a citizen from obtaining investigative files.
Langford said that we should "jump on the Congress for making the laws and
not them for just enforcing the law". Irony of ironies! This writer jumped
on Charlie Schumer with a neat piece of satire last month and Charlie sent
it to WHOM? The very group of which Langford is the Big Chief.
This stammering amateur at spin-control was at once out of his league. The
point was well made that the real value of the 'round-up' film was a rare
insight into the psyche of those who knock down doors in the middle of the
night and arrest people who sell moonshine, do drugs, make known their
racist feeling, etc. all of which were clearly demonstrated at this law
gathering.
A BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK FOR THE CHIEF
Langford's discomfiture began even before the show as he sat quietly on the
stage. Some clown a few feet away did a convincing imitation of the crying
malignant who testified that, 'WE WAS OUT NUMBERED CHIEF, BUT WE DONE THE
BEST WE COULD." "THEY AMBUSHED US, CHIEF - THEY GUNS SOUNDED LIKE CANNONS
AND OURS LIKE LITTLE POP-GUNS, SOB, SOB".
Then after the show Bobby was accosted again with the ludicrous proposal
that the FBI/ATF come clean and admit wrong doing at both Waco and Ruby
Ridge - make it clear that the Rambos from shooters to desk-jockies will be
punished, and assure the American people that it will never happen again. He
was asked to drop this less than convincing, childish, and now cruel
enterprise of cover-up and disinfomation.
Vivid descriptions of his comrades before the committees as B-grade actors
and the hearings as bad theater sent this inadequade apologist home to the
head-ache powders. The Church bulletin always ends a description of a
gathering with, "and a good time was had by all." Last night a good time
was had by all but one. Good night Chief where ever you are.
James Floyd
185 Co. Rd. 254
Cullman, Al. 35057
Linda Thompson
American Justice Federation
Home of AEN News and "Waco, the Big Lie" "America Under Siege"
3850 S. Emerson Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46203
Telephone: (317) 780-5200
Fax: (317) 780-5209
Internet: lin...@iquest.net
"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear
to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
Harry Truman
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 06:58:09 -0400
From: Mark White <ic...@world.std.com> (by way of Charles Zeps
<cz...@icis.on.ca>)
Subject: National ID card Intrusive
To: sne...@world.std.com
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 08:11:17 -0500
From: Cato Institute <ca...@cato.org>
Subject: National ID card intrusive
STUDY RELEASE
September 7, 1995
National ID card ineffective and intrusive, study says
Congressional Republican proposals to create a national
computerized registry and an ID card for all American workers
would establish "a dangerous, invasive, and unworkable new
expansion of federal police-state powers," according to a new
Cato Institute study.
In "A National ID System: Big Brother's Solution to Illegal
Immigration" (Policy Analysis no. 237), John J. Miller and
Stephen Moore say Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Rep. Lamar Smith
(R-Tex.) are taking the "critical first step" toward implementing
a potentially invasive national worker authorization system.
Moore is director of fiscal policy studies at the Cato Institute,
and Miller is vice president of the Center for Equal Opportunity.
An Orwellian system
The authors say that Smith and Simpson want to require an ID card
and computerized worker registry for the 150 million Americans
and legal immigrants in the U.S. labor force. Sen. Dianne
Feinstein (D-Calif.) wants that national ID card to include such
information as a photograph, fingerprint, and retina scan.
The study says such a system would, in effect, "require employers
to submit all of their hiring decisions for approval to a federal
bureaucrat." The authors call the proposed registry and national
ID card "Big Brother's solution to illegal immigration." They
say the national ID card would
constitute a massive invasion of privacy and violation of
basic civil liberties;
cost the government $3 billion to $6 billion to implement;
subject workers to the effects of potentially huge error
rates, with perhaps millions of legal aliens denied jobs
because of faulty government databases (even a 2 percent
error rate would lead to 1.3 million Americans being
wrongfully denied jobs);
increase discrimination against Latin and Asian Americans;
and, ultimately,
fail to affect illegal immigration.
Moore and Miller say that, once established, the computer
registry could be easily expanded and applied to other areas,
vastly increasing the size and scope of government. Some of the
potential uses of the system include
implementing a Clinton-style health care plan and security
card;
ensuring employer compliance with affirmative action
requirements;
tracking child support payments;
verifying that parents are getting their children
vaccinated; and
conducting background checks on would-be gun purchasers,
among others.
Better approaches available
After spending a year defeating the Clinton administration's
health security card, Moore and Miller say, the new GOP Congress
now wants every American to carry a "work authorization card"
that would create similar potential for intrusion and abuse.
The authors claim there are ways to address the problem of
illegal immigration that would expand, rather than curtail,
Americans' basic freedoms. We could, for example,
expand legal immigration quotas,
eliminate employer sanctions law,
establish greater economic integration between the United
States and Mexico,
restrict welfare eligibility of legal and illegal
immigrants,
facilitate the deportation of criminal aliens,
tighten visa control, and
improve border enforcement.
Why it matters
It is an iron rule of politics that whenever there is a perceived
"crisis" in Washington, Congress responds by passing bad laws
that expand the powers of government. Moore and Miller say the
immigration issue is fertile ground for such laws. The
implications of a national ID system would range far beyond
today's debate over illegal immigration. The study says the
proposed worker registry system has no redeeming feature. It will
not curtail illegal immigration, and it will create opportunities
for abuse. At a time when Americans are loudly demanding more
freedom and smaller government, Moore and Miller say a computer
registry is a giant step in the wrong direction.
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 17:37:50 -0400
From: w...@ora.com (Wes Thomas) (by way of Charles Zeps <w...@ora.com>)
Subject: New World Order on C-SPAN
To: sne...@world.std.com
Source: C-SPAN home page: http://www.c-span.org/
C-SPAN Monday Sept. 18:
Newsweek National Security Forum
"Are We Ready for the New World Order"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
LIVE 9am-12pm
Rick Smith, Editor, Newsweek; John White, Deputy Defense Secretary; General
Brent Scowcroft; John Deutch,
Director, Central Intelligence; Howard Baker; Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-IN); others
TAPE 1pm Sen. Dole Luncheon Address
9am-2pm Dirksen Auditorium
Info: Wash Post Co., 1150 15th St NW, WDC 20071
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 95 02:35:41 PDT
From: ed...@highnrg.sbay.org (Edgar Swank)
Subject: Packwood should have used SecureDrive
To: Libernet <libe...@Dartmouth.EDU>
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Jim Cooper recently said,
The Sen. Packwood case once again points out dramatically that in
this 'land of the free' one DARE NOT even record one's own
personal inner thoughts and daily experiences in any media that
will not evaporate as soon as it's put away...
It seems the only wise thing for any amerikan to do these day is
NEVER, EVER write down anything you think, see or experience!
whoa are those of use with poor memories.
Sen. Packwood and others who want to keep private thoughts private
should record their diaries, etc. on computer hard drives or diskettes
strongly encrypted by SecureDrive or similar products. SecureDrive is
a "real-time" disk encryptor/decryptor. Data is always encrypted on
disk and exists in plaintext form only in the volatile computer
memory.
SecureDrive 1.4 has just been released. It has a new feature designed
as a defense against "rubber-hose cryptanalysis" i.e. involuntary
divulgence of your pass-phrase through intimidation or court order.
SecureDrive Version 1.4 is already available for download on the
following public BBS's as SECDR14.ZIP:
Flying Dutchman (408)294-3065
Colorado Catacombs BBS, 303-772-1062 (up to 28,800 bps, log in with
your own name, answer the questions, and download SECDR14.ZIP).
ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/I_will_not_export/crypto_???????/disk/secdr14.zip
see ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/README for the ???????
ftp://miyako.dorm.duke.edu/mpj/crypto/disk/secdr14.zip
See ftp://miyako.dorm.duke.edu/pub/GETTING_ACCESS for access instructions.
Edgar Swank
SecureDrive Co-author
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Keep Freestyle Alive!
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 20:31:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Sidwell <sid...@rain.org>
Subject: President Powell
To: 3r...@pinn.net
In reply:
***********************************************************************
Committed to bringing serious attention to the alien presence...
***********************************************************************
On Sun, 17 Sep 1995 3r...@pinn.net wrote:
:
: >
: > I'm taking all odds that the next President of the Unites States was
: > interviwed by Barbara Walters on Friday, September 15th, 1995.
: >
: > President Powell is a giant of a man - and one who's time has come to
: > serve our great country. The right man at the right time, IMHO.
: >
: > My $.02 worth,
: >
: > Steve
: >
:
: I don't think so since the Rightwing of the Repubs will never accept him-
Yes, they will. Watch and wait.
: He might run with Dole, which is his only chance.
No, he won't. I don't even see Dole on the Veep ticket.
: But if any of you dislike Clinton for what he stands for, Powell would
: seem to be from the same vein of coal.
Apples and Oranges. Clinton's lame duck position is a given at this
point in time.
: But only the other hand, Republicans could use a social consciousness in
: the party instead of being vindictive and supporting big business with
: corporate welfare.
Whatever.
Powell *is* the next President of this country. Period.
Hail to the Chief!
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 20:33:44 -0500 (EST)
From: 3r...@pinn.net
Subject: President Powell
To: Steve Sidwell <sid...@rain.org>
:
: I'm taking all odds that the next President of the Unites States was
: interviwed by Barbara Walters on Friday, September 15th, 1995.
:
: President Powell is a giant of a man - and one who's time has come to
: serve our great country. The right man at the right time, IMHO.
:
: My $.02 worth,
:
: Steve
:
I don't think so since the Rightwing of the Repubs will never accept him-
He might run with Dole, which is his only chance.
But if any of you dislike Clinton for what he stands for, Powell would
seem to be from the same vein of coal.
But only the other hand, Republicans could use a social consciousness in
the party instead of being vindictive and supporting big business with
corporate welfare.
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 13:45:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Sidwell <sid...@rain.org>
Subject: President Powell
To: sne...@world.std.com
My $.02 worth,
Steve
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 95 03:22:21 PDT
From: Scott Lieberman <Scott.L...@f6.n143.z1.fidonet.org>
Subject: Reason Foundation e-mail
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
X-Fido-Echo: LIBERTY
X-Fido-To: Libernet ("Frank.Conte.)
X-Fido-Date: 15 Sep 95 08:42:14
L(> From: fco...@world.std.com ("Frank.Conte.)
L(> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 11:33:27 +0059 (EDT)
L(> Does anyone has the email address to the Reason Foundation?
I don't have a general e-mail address for them, but the editor, Virgina
Postrel, has the following address
--- Maximus 2.01wb
* Origin: Liberty Bell BBS, Santa Clara CA. (1:143/6)
--
Forwarded from the LIBERTY echo via dehnbase.fidonet.org
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 11:36:52 -0400
From: Dan Druck <73543...@compuserve.com> (by way of Charles Zeps
<cz...@icis.on.ca>)
Subject: Religion Attacked in FL
To: sne...@world.std.com
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
From: Mike Johnson, 102052,3716
DATE: 9/16/95 10:56 PM
RE: Religion Attacked in FL
The following information given below has been extracted from a
flyer which was sent out to several different fax networks:
*****************************************************************
On May 9, 1995, Pastor Richard Mooneyhan, pastor of Calvary
Baptist Church, Citra, Florida, was arrested, jailed, and charged
with two felony counts by the State of Florida, alleging the
concealing or removing children from the state of Florida, in
violation of a court order. The penalties, if found guilty, range
from three to five years in prison and up to $10,000 fines for each
charge. The charges were initiated by allegations of the Department
of Health and Human services of Florida ("HRS"). The allegations
are unfounded and untrue. In fact, the State's Attorney's office
has said that Pastor Mooneyhan is really being persecuted for his
outspoken advocacy of the sanctity of church and family, and
concerns which Christians have regarding the assault on the
Constitution by anti-Christian forces.
Pastor Mooneyhan counseled a young preacher and his family from
his church, who has been falsely accused of possible child abuse 8
- 10 years ago, by members of the family unhappy with the family
turning from their old way of life to living for Christ. Pastor
Mooneyhan investigated, counseled, took the family to Christian
Family counselors. There are absolutely no grounds for the charges.
When the family refused to allow the State of Florida to break up
their home and take their children, the State went to court to get
an order to take the children. Not only did the judge hold the
hearing without the family there, he signed an order demanding the
removal of the children, and demanding that they not have any
contact with their pastor, including attending church. When the
family decided to take a vacation from the state, they asked their
Pastor to intercede and try to resolve the situation. HRS was
angered that they could not get the family or the children, and had
Pastor Mooneyhan arrested to put pressure on the family to return.
The family is safe and left their jobs, home, church, and
belongings behind. They are in another state, keeping their family
together.
The "persecution/prosecution" of Pastor Mooneyhan is really a
frontal attack on Christianity. In the future, more and more
Christians will be persecuted for their beliefs. Therefore, we are
asking the body (family) of Christ to move forward in one mighty
voice and let the State of Florida know that this persecution must
stop. (The State's Attorney is a deacon at a Baptist Church in
Ocala.)
Pastor Mooneyhan needs thousands of calls to state senators and
other representatives, including congressmen, judges, law
enforcement personnel, etc. Personal calls and faxes to the
principals involved would be a great help. Express your outrage at
this harassment. Contact radio and television talk shows, as well
as write letters to the editor.
The following is a list of agents or agencies in the state of
Florida who are involved in this matter:
Brad King, State Attorney: (904) 620-3700
Victor Musleh, Presiding Judge: (904) 620-3570
Tim Nichols, complaining HRS worker: (904) 620-3049
Ocala Star-Banner, newspaper: (904) 867-4126 (fax) (sign all
letters) PO Box 490, Ocala, Florida, 34478
George Albright, Florida Representative: (904) 732-1313
Call and have others call; we need to be vocal on this! Ask for
fax numbers and provide these to others. If we exhort them with
calls, letters, and faxes, they may get the idea that we will not
put up with harassment and denial of religious liberty and
constitutional rights.
The legal battle is costly, expenses are adding up fast and
little money is available to fight the battle. Pastor Mooneyhan has
an immediate need to purchase transcripts of two hearings which
have already been conducted, and which are vital to the defense. We
need help quickly. Several "Christian" law organizations have said
they only get involved in civil matters and cannot help in this
type of case. They can help the family, but not Pastor Mooneyhan.
With bail money and other costs to put on a defense so far, the
costs have been over $3,000, and will be over $10,000 if this
matter goes to full trial. Pastor Mooneyhan's church is less than
half of the "100" regular attendance. The offerings barely pay
missions and keep the lights on, and Pastor Mooneyhan has not taken
salary for 16 weeks. He will not cut the missionaries budget to pay
his own salary. HE NEEDS YOUR HELP!
Pastor Mooneyhan has put his liberty on the line. Won't you
consider thus your fight as well? If you can help in this regard,
a defense fund has been established to help Pastor Mooneyhan fight
this momentous battle. You can show your support by sending your
gifts to:
Pastor Mooneyhan Legal defense Fund
c/o 717 N.E. 17th Avenue
Ocala, Florida 34470 (904) 867-7945
*****************************************************************
I have personally met Pastor Mooneyhan on a couple of different
occasions. I have not found any reason to doubt the man's integrity
or any other aspect of his character. He has been very outspoken in
his defense of Christianity and the Constitution, and has traveled
throughout the state of Florida speaking at numerous
constitutionalist/patriot events. Among the points at issue are
whether or not a family is free to choose which Church they will go
to, which Pastor they will follow, and what type of counseling
services that Pastors may provide to their parishioners. What
happens to Pastor Mooneyhan could be a precedent setting case that
could shatter the First Amendment protection of religion against
governmental interference.
Last Thursday (9/14/95) there was a rally of Pastors in Ocala to
attempt to address these issues and make their position known to
the government. They wanted there to be no doubt in anybody's mind
that the government has no business interfering in such matters.
Alas, only a handful of Pastors were in attendance. Quite a few of
their colleagues were simply too afraid of the possible
ramifications of such a stand to show up. I believe this shows the
unfortunate state that a lot of the clergy in this country have
sunk to in their positions as employees of 501 (C) (3) religious
businesses in this country vice Pastors of Churches.
The bottom line, however, is that Pastor Mooneyhan needs the
support of as many people as he can get in fighting his way through
the legal system in order to ensure that the First Amendment
protection against the interference in religious matters by the
state remains intact.
- Mike/North Central Florida Regional Militia
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 13:15:02 -0400
From: One4...@aol.com
Subject: Soviet Communism Alive Today, And DEADLY
To: conser...@dragon.com
Reprinted from the Newsletter "Inside Story: World Report" by permission of
the publisher.
SOVIET MOLES IN THE CIA, prt 1:
The Destruction of Western Intelligence
The Committee for State Security (KGB) has always been the foundation of the
Soviet police state. It has kept the borders tightly sealed against escape,
maintained thousands of concentration camps, and actively spied on the Soviet
population at home while arming terrorists and operating sophisticated spy
networks abroad. The Communists have depended on the KGB for their hold on
power.
Thus the "death" of Soviet Com-munism in 1991 should have ended the KGB.
Among other consequences, Soviet espionage against the United States should
have collapsed with the "end" of the Cold War. The Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), anticipating this change, has already diverted hundreds
of its officers from counterintelligence against Soviet agents into the war
on drugs and other campaigns.1
Instead, the opposite has happened. Immediately before resigning, Mikhail
Gorbachev increased the KGB's budget by 20%.2 Since Boris Yeltsin came to
power, the KGB's foreign section has been renamed the Federal Intelligence
Service (SVR in Russian), and its operations have been expanded yet again.
One news report admitted that "Russian President Boris Yeltsin has cultivated
the former KGB and even strengthened its authority," while according to
another source, "Russian spy operations against the US have shown little
decline following the collapse of the former USSR. Western intelligence
agencies report that Russian spying is on the rise around the world."3
Indeed, the FBI is now reporting a startling rise in the number of Soviet
agents operating in the US.4
Given the atmosphere of wishful thinking created by the news media, it is no
wonder that Americans were taken by such surprise on February 21, 1994, when
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer Aldrich Ames was arrested as a
Soviet spy. But the Ames case is only the tip of the iceberg. Western
intelligence agencies, including the CIA, are now so heavily infiltrated as
to render them virtually useless against Soviet aggression. Our own
intelligence agencies, in fact, are lulling the West to sleep by reassuring
us that Soviet Communism is probably dead.
Ames: agent of the new Cold War
The news media has largely downplayed the damage caused by Ames, as well as
the growing evidence of a much larger Soviet network inside Western
intelligence circles.
Ames was a major figure in the CIA. He joined the agency in 1962 and spent
the next two decades gradually working his way up the ranks. By 1985 he
became chief of counterintelligence for the Soviet Bloc Division-an
incredibly sensitive position, giving him authority over the debriefing of
defectors from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
During the next six years, serious problems developed. At least ten, and
possibly dozens, of CIA intelligence operations failed; covert foreign
contacts "suddenly stopped cooperating"; and at least eight CIA agents were
uncovered and assassinated, as were two FBI agents.5 By 1990, the CIA's
Counterintelligence Center finally noticed that Ames was paying cash for a
home and car too expensive for his salary, and that he had been involved with
some of the agency's recent disasters. The Center issued a memo to the Office
of Security, requesting an investigation. The memo was ignored.6
The CIA, meanwhile, was recruiting members of the Stasi (the East German
secret police) to act as spies for the United States. But in 1991, the CIA
and FBI discovered that all of these "spies" had been double agents-in other
words, they were secretly working for the Stasi, passing disinformation to
the CIA. Someone inside the CIA must have betrayed these operations to the
enemy.
The ensuing investigation found about twenty suspects. One was Aldrich Ames,
who had worked with some of the Stasi contacts. Ames was given a polygraph
lie-detector test, or "fluttered." Yet despite results that FBI officials now
admit were suspicious, and despite the 1990 memo, Ames was cleared.7
And promoted. Ames was now transferred to the "Black Sea Counter-drug
Offensive," a small but growing CIA operation inside the "former" Soviet
Union. Recent evidence shows that this project was, in part, a cover for
teams of the CIA and US Special Forces who were training elite military units
under Eduard Shevardnadze, the Communist dictator of Soviet Georgia. Merely
one month after Ames arrived in Soviet Georgia in 1993, CIA agent Fred
Woodruff was mysteriously assassinated-receiving a bullet in the head while
being driven on a remote road outside the city of Tbilisi.
British intelligence analyst Chris-topher Story has revealed that Soviet
Georgia is now a major route for shipment of morphine and other drugs into
Europe. During his involvement in the "Counter-drug" project, Ames began
receiving millions of dollars from the Soviets, leading to speculation that
he may have also helped the Communists set up their drug-smuggling operation.
Aldrich's wife, Maria del Rosario Ames, was later arrested along with her
husband for helping him in his espionage; she was Colombian, a possible link
to the drug cartels.8
During 1993, the FBI finally noticed that Aldrich Ames had been making
unauthorized trips to Colombia and Venezuela, had maintained contacts with
Soviet KGB officers in the United States and other countries without
informing the CIA, had illegally collected large numbers of classified CIA
documents in his office and home, and was receiving millions of dollars from
unknown sources. Finally, the FBI opened an investigation under the code name
NIGHTMOVER, leading to Ames' arrest this year.
Ames confessed to being a Soviet spy, and was convicted. But the real story
is far more ominous. Ames was only one of dozens of suspected spies in the
CIA's Soviet Bloc Division; indeed, he could not have single-handedly
betrayed all of the CIA projects that failed. More importantly, the FBI
revealed that Ames had been given many CIA documents from operations well
outside his authority, meaning that other spies must have worked with him.9
Although the CIA is refusing to look for more spies, several shocking
incidents over the past 40 years have proven the agency is heavily
infiltrated by Soviet moles.
Too many moles to count
Pentration of the CIA is certainly not a new Soviet goal. The Communists
found their best opportunity at the time the CIA was first created-during
World War II, when the new agency was known as the Office of Strategic
Services (OSS).
Nathaniel Weyl, who broke with the Communist Party, USA, wrote that "In the
Office of Strategic Servicesx employment of pro-Communists was approved at
very high levels provided that they were suited for specific jobs."10 As it
turned out, OSS director General William "Wild Bill" Donovan had
systematically recruited his OSS personnel directly from Communist Party
membership.
Nor was Donovan shy about admitting this. When confronted by the FBI with
clear evidence of Communist agents in the OSS, Donovan boasted, "I know
they're Communists; that's why I hired them."11
When the OSS became the CIA in 1947, the original personnel were largely
retained, Communists and all. By 1952, CIA director Walter Bedell Smith
publicly confirmed that hidden Communist agents were working inside his
agency.12
Since no one in the Executive branch seemed to be interested in rooting out
these spies, Congress began to take an interest. Joseph McCarthy's
subcommittee specifically raised the idea of a formal investigation, as later
described by legal advisor Roy Cohn:
"One desired investigation that never got started was that of the Central
Intelligence Agency, headed by Allen W. Dulles. Our staff had been
accumulating extensive data about its operations and McCarthy was convinced
that an inquiry was overdue.
Our files contained allegations gathered from various sources indicating that
the CIA had unwittingly hired a large number of double agents-individuals
who, although working for the CIA, were actually Communist agents whose
mission was to plant inaccurate data.x
xalthough we spent far more for intelligence than other countries, the
quality of the information we were receiving was so poor that at times the
CIA found out what was happening only when it read the newspapers.x"
When the news broke out that McCarthy was contemplating an inquiry into the
CIA, consternation reigned at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue [the White House].
Vice-President Nixon was assigned to the delicate job of blocking it.13
Block it Nixon did, and no outside investigation of spies in the CIA has ever
been held. The consequences were obvious. Even the Eisenhower administration
was forced to admit in 1954 that CIA intelligence measures against the Soviet
Bloc had been a dismal failure.14 Since the end of World War II and
continuing to this day, the United States has never been able to infiltrate
the KGB or recruit double agents of any significance.
But the final proof of massive Soviet penetration emerged during the 1960s,
with the spectacular defection of the highest-level KGB officer ever to reach
the West.
The Golitsyn coup
Anatoliy Golitsyn, a Ukrainian born in 1926, joined the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union in 1945 as he prepared to become a military officer. He
began several years of training in intelligence and acquired a position in
the KGB by 1948. By the early 1950s, he had risen to an important enough
position to co-author a plan for restructuring Soviet intelligence, which
brought him into direct contact with Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and other
top officials.
Four years of study at the KGB Institute in Moscow brought Golitsyn closer to
the inner circle of Communist power during the late 1950s. He then worked
until 1960 as a top analyst for the KGB in its Moscow headquarters,
ultimately reaching the rank of major.
Golitsyn was one of the youngest officers ever promoted to such a high
position, and the discovery of the KGB's innermost secrets rapidly
disillusioned him. He managed to have himself reassigned to Finland with his
wife and daughter in 1961. Three days before Christmas, he suddenly presented
himself at the US embassy to announce his defection. Within 72 hours, the US
Air Force evacuated Golitsyn and his family to Frankfurt, West Germany, just
before he had to return to Moscow. After lie-detector tests showed he was
telling the truth, he was transferred to the United States for a full
debriefing.
Golitsyn's shocking information plunged the CIA, and other Western
intelligence services, into a state of turmoil for over a decade. He revealed
that the KGB placed the bulk of its resources not on stealing secrets, as the
West commonly believed, but on deceiving and manipulating Western nations
into gradually surrendering to Communism. Every time our intelligence experts
would exploit some source of information from the Soviet Union, the KGB would
"poison" that source with disinformation. By sending false defectors who were
secretly working for the KGB, or by leaking falsified documents, or by
organizing phony opposition movements inside the Soviet Bloc, the KGB could
influence Western policymaking with seemingly reliable information. Using
such techniques, the Communists could make the West believe that the Soviet
and Chinese Communists were at war with one another. Or that Communism had
"died."
The Golitsyn revelations shook the CIA to the core. Much of the intelligence
being gathered could no longer be trusted; apparent successes in stealing
Soviet secrets were actually Communist victores in deceiving us. Many CIA
officials became furious with Golitsyn, and refused to listen.
To carry out such a huge but delicate operation, the Soviets needed spies in
Western intelligence agencies for feedback. These moles would tell the KGB
whether the disinformation was being believed, allowing the Soviets to alter
the deception to give it more plausibility.15
Because of his former access to KGB intelligence, Golitsyn was able to prove
the extent to which Soviet moles had infiltrated sensitive positions. For
example, through his ability to recognize a wide array of top-secret NATO
documents, he showed that the KGB had agents planted throughout the NATO
command structure. His evidence was further confirmed in 1967 by the
testimony of Giorgio Rinaldi, an Italian who admitted to being involved with
some 300 NATO officers in a massive Soviet spy network-one that was never
uncovered or removed.16 Recent years have seen further confirmation of
Golitsyn's allegations. On November 17, 1994, former NATO official Rainer
Rupp was convicted in a German court for his role as a Soviet spy. Operating
under the KGB code name TOPAZ during the 1970s and 1980s, Rupp and his wife
(code-named TURQUOISE) had passed "strategies, codes and military
preparedness plans" from NATO headquarters to the East German secret police,
who transferred the secrets to the KGB.17
Golitsyn also had knowledge of secrets from the highest levels of the French
government, and said the information had come from a Soviet spy ring
operating under the code name SAPPHIRE. His evidence implicated several
members of French Intelligence (SDECE), including the chief of
counterintelligence and President Charles de Gaulle's own intelligence
advisor. Rather than investigating and stopping the ring, however, the French
government and SDECE moved to cover up the evidence. Days after one of the
spies was identified, he was murdered-apparently to protect the rest of the
spy ring.
According to Golitsyn, Soviet control over the SDECE was so complete that the
French agency was already functioning as a virtual arm of the KGB. Based on
reports he had seen before defecting, he predicted that the KGB would soon
use the SDECE as a front for spying on American nuclear deployment. French
officer Philippe de Vosjoli, who was liaison between the SDECE and the CIA,
disbelieved Golitsyn-until a few months later, when he received precisely
such an order to set up a spy ring to monitor US nuclear facilities. De
Vosjoli refused to obey the order and, learning that he was targeted for
assassination upon his return to France, defected to the United States.18 The
SDECE subsequently carried out the operation against the US under the code
name BIG BEN.19
The information supplied by Golitsyn also revealed a powerful spy ring of
five Soviet agents operating at the highest levels of the British Ministry of
Intelligence. Three had already been exposed, and a fourth-Kim Philby-was
uncovered in subsequent years. Based on additional evidence provided by
Golitsyn, some members of the British MI5 conducted an investigation which
concluded that the "fifth man" of the Soviet ring was none other than Sir
Roger Hollis, the director of MI5. An MI6 officer, Stephen de Mowbray, tried
to warn the prime minister, but was fired. Hollis himself was never fully
investigated. Golitsyn's evidence also pointed to at least two close advisors
to Prime Minister Harold Wilson as being Soviet agents, but MI5 blocked an
investigation.20
Golitsyn was able to show Soviet infiltration in the intelligence services of
West Germany, Austria, Canada, Australia, and others. But his most important
spy revelations concerned infiltration of the CIA itself. He knew of one mole
code-named SASHA; months of investigation finally uncovered a lower-level
Soviet spy. But the stolen secrets Golitsyn had seen while in Moscow came
from much higher sources, and could not have come from a single agent. To
test Golitsyn's claim that many moles had burrowed into the highest levels of
the CIA, the Counterintelligence Division issued "marked cards"-tiny leaks of
information that can be traced. Using this method, the Office of Security and
the Counterintelligence Division proved the information was being leaked from
within the Soviet Bloc Division, and by multiple spies.21
The next logical step was to conduct investigations to identify the spies.
But, as we shall review in part II of this analysis, those probes were
blocked-with disastrous results.
The CIA, and virtually all of Western intelligence, has been thoroughly
compromised by networks of Soviet spies. Nor has the "death" of Soviet
Communism changed anything. Aldrich Ames, having worked for years as an agent
of the KGB, in 1991 made an effortless transition to the renamed KGB (SVR)
without any break in his activities.22 So, too, have hundreds of thousands of
other Soviet agents throughout the world, whose activities are now sharply
increasing.n
In Part II: The secret "inner" KGB, CIA intelligence disasters, suppression
of key evidence, and the CIA campaign to discredit Golitsyn.
REFERENCES
1 Story, C., Soviet Analyst 22:7-8, March 1994, p. 20.
2 McAlvany, D., McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, Sept./Oct. 1991, p. 22.
3 US News & World Report, Feb. 8, 1993, and Washington Times, Nov. 15, 1992,
as quoted in McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, Jan. 1994, pp. 20-22.
4 Ibid., p. 22; Sinai, R., Associated Press, "Cold War over? Not for spies,"
Contra Costa Times, 3-5-92, p. B1.
5 Story, C., March 1994, Op cit., p. 3.
6 Pincus, W., Washington Post, "CIA memo warned about Ames 3 years before
arrest," SF Chronicle, 8-2-94, p. A6.
7 Pincus, W., Smith, J.R., & Thomas, P., Washington Post, "East German Stasi
files pointed to Ames as long-sought mole," SF Chronicle, 3-7-94, p. A9.
8 Story, C., March 1994, Op cit., p. 18; Story, C., Soviet Analyst 22:4,
Sept. 1993, pp. 15-16; Story, C., Soviet Analyst 22:3, July 1993, pp. 7-8.
9 Pincus, W., Smith, R.J., & Thomas, P., Op cit.
10 Weyl, N., The Battle Against Disloyalty, Cromwell, New York, 1951, p. 180,
as quoted in Smith, R.H., OSS, Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1972,
p. 10.
11 Smith, R. H., Op cit., p. 11.
12 Burnham, J., The Web of Subversion, Western Islands, Belmont, MA, 1965, p.
182.
13 Cohn, R., McCarthy: The Answer to "Tail Gunner Joe", Manor Books, New
York, 1977, pp. 63-64.
14 Martin, D.C., Wilderness of Mirrors, Harper & Row, New York, 1980, p. 62.
15 Epstein, E.J., Deception, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1989, chapter 5.
16 "300 officers bared as red NATO spies," Los Angeles Herald-Examiner,
3-22-67, pp. 1, 10.
17 "Ex-spy jailed for selling NATO secrets to East Bloc," SF Chronicle,
11-18-94, p. A12.
18 Epstein, E.J., Op cit., pp. 65-66, 68-70.
19 Mangold, T., Cold Warrior, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1991, p. 131.
20 Epstein, E.J., Op cit., pp. 71-73, 80-82; Wright, P. with Greengrass, P.,
Spycatcher, Viking, New York, 1987, passim.
21 Epstein, E.J., Op cit., pp. 75-78.
22 Story, C., March 1994, Op cit., p. 5.
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Reprinted from the Newsletter "Rethinking AIDS" by authors permission.
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The Hidden Agenda behind HIV
by Bryan J. Ellison (author of the book "Why We Will Never Win the War on
AIDS)
Despite all assurances to the contrary, the AIDS establishment continues to
fund only research on HIV. Peter Duesberg inadvertently proved this blackout
on all alternative research when he recently submitted a grant proposal to
the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The Institute's clinical director of
AIDS research had personally invited the proposal, which outlined a plan to
test the long-term effects of nitrite inhalants, or "poppers," on the immune
systems of mice. The answer came back in December: the anonymous referees
had not only turned it down, but had even refused even to review the
proposal.
Why does such a political correctness continue to dominate the War on AIDS?
After all, public health officials cannot yet demonstrate they have saved
any lives from the syndrome, while its death toll rises steadily. The
scientific predictions have also failed miserably. In contrast to the
predicted spread of AIDS in the United States, the epidemic has remained
strictly confined to risk groups; nine of every ten AIDS cases have been
male, and ninety percent of all AIDS victims have been linked to heavy drug
use, whether intravenously or as "fast track" homosexuals. Indeed,
epidemiologists have yet to establish that any epidemic at all has struck
among blood transfusion recipients. Even individual AIDS diseases prefer
specific risk groups, such as Kaposi's sarcoma among homosexuals and the
near-absence of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia among Africans, whose lungs
all contain the microbe. And some thirty-nine percent of AIDS diseases in
America have nothing at all to do with immune deficiency - witness Kaposi's
sarcoma, various lymphomas, wasting disease, and dementia, for example. In
short, AIDS is not an infectious disease.
The obsession with an "AIDS virus" has little to do with science or medicine.
Writing in Nature in 1991 (June 21), British HIV researcher Robin Weiss and
American CDC official Harold Jaffe hinted at the real purpose in an attack on
Peter Duesberg: "But if he and his supporters belittle 'safe sex,' would
have us abandon HIV screening of blood donations, and curtail research into
anti-HIV drugs and vaccines, then their message is perilous." To whom? If
AIDS is not infectious, such recommendations would simply save the taxpayer
money and anxiety.
But perhaps this is the point. A 1989 report by the National Research
Council more explicitly revealed the hidden agenda. Originally sponsored by
the Rockefeller and Russel Sage Foundations and then funded by the Public
Health Service, AIDS: Sexual Behavior and Intravenous Drug Use laid out a
plan for social engineering on a massive scale - using AIDS as the excuse.
"The devastating effect of an epidemic on a community can evoke strong
political and social responses," the committee duly noted. "An epidemic
necessitates the rapid mobilization of the community to counter the spread of
illness and death" (p. 373). The power of such a method to force changes in
cultural values is based on careful manipulation of fear. "Ideally, health
promotion messages should heighten an individual's perceptions of threat and
his or her capacity to respond to that threat, thus modulating the level of
fear. . . . What is not yet known is how to introduce fear in the right way
in a particular message intended for a particular audience. Acquiring that
knowledge will require planned variations of AIDS education programs that are
carefully executed and then carefully evaluated," stated the committee coolly
(pp. 267-8).
The report then identified one of the major targets of change -
Judaeo-Christian moral values. "Historically, there has been a strong social
reluctance in the United States to speak or write about sexuality in explicit
terms. Despite recent indications of greatly increased tolerance for sexual
explicitness in the media and literature, that reluctance remains strong in
much of the population; it is particularly strong in instances that involve
the education of children and adolescents" (p. 379). The fear of a
supposedly infectious AIDS epidemic, however, could be used to fix such
problems. As the report declared, "The committee believes that, during an
epidemic, politeness is a social virtue that must take second place to the
protection of life" (p. 379).
Other public health officials have been even more forthright. As an officer
of the Centers for Disease Control, Donald Francis had in 1984 drafted the
CDC's proposed AIDS strategy. In his 1992 retirement speech at the agency's
Atlanta, Georgia headquarters, Francis voiced the ambitions held by many of
his fellow officers in describing "the opportunity that the HIV epidemic
provides for public health" (JAMA, 9-16-92). He stated in no uncertain terms
the radical nature of the plan:
"The cloistered caution of the past needs to be discarded. The climate and
culture must be open ones where old ideas are challenged. Those who desire
the status quo should seek employment elsewhere. The American HIV prevention
program should be the place where the best and the brightest come, where the
action is, where history is being made. This is the epidemic of the century,
and every qualified person should want to have a piece of the action."
The "action" described by Francis was a set of programs that would, as he
fully recognized, need strong political protection from angry taxpayers and
voters. For example, he bitterly attacked public opposition to condom
distribution programs, and called for powerful legal measures to bypass
parental discretion. "The ongoing controversies involving abstincence and
condoms typify the morass into which schools can fall," Francis complained.
"If, in the opinion of those far more expert than I, schools cannot be
expected to provide such programs, then health departments should take over,
using as a justification their mandate to protect the public's health."
Francis also included proposals for dealing with the AIDS risk of intravenous
drug use - including a call for "prescription of addicting drugs" with
Federal government sponsorship. Even libertarians who advocate legalizing
drugs would balk at such notions, which would ultimately create a massive
bureaucracy encouraging drug use. "Following a more enlightened model for
drug treatment, including prescribing heroin, would have dramatic effects on
HIV and could eliminate many of the dangerous illegal activites surrounding
drugs," he insisted, knowing that only fear of the AIDS epidemic might make
such proposals tolerable to the public. Ignoring the toxic, and possibly
AIDS-inducing, effects of drugs, Francis emphasized that "In addition to
treatment, safe injection [!] must be stressed both for those in treatment
programs and those out of treatment. The provision of sterile injection
equipment for drug users should be the standard of public health practice in
the United States."
Most chillingly of all, Francis saw the possibilities in harnessing other
epidemics to advance similar agendas. As he put it, "if we establish new
mechanisms to handle the HIV epidemic, [these] can serve as models for other
diseases."
The common denominator of these and similar plans is that they originate with
the Federal government's Public Health Service, and especially from its
frontline public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control. Public
perceptions often paint the CDC as a minor office that gathers and publishes
dull statistics on disease. The truth is shockingly different. A
sophisticated $2 billion-per-year operation, the CDC employs a staff of
thousands who see themselves as having an activist mandate. They view
epidemics as opportunities for control and for imposing lifestyle changes on
the population.
The CDC has traditionally specialized in contagious disease. Its initials,
in fact, originally stood for the Communicable Disease Center, from its
formation in 1946 until its name changed in 1970. And therein lies its bias,
for it tends to interpret almost any epidemic as being infectious. Certainly
the CDC has plenty of raw material with which to work; each year brings at
least one thousand outbreaks, or "clusters," of disease strike in the United
States - one every eight hours. These can range from flus and pneumonias to
closely-occurring cancers, but most outbreaks involve no more than a handful
of people each; since the polio epidemic, none have posed serious threats to
the general public. However, by falsely labelling any arbitrarily chosen
outbreak as infectious and blaming it on a virus or other microbe, the CDC
can quickly generate public fear and political mobilization behind almost any
agenda.
The CDC has actually engineered a number of false alarms or misdirected
campaigns over the past four decades, neutralizing scientific dissent and
calmer voices when necessary. AIDS, though not the first example, has now
become the most successful epidemic by far. Two powerful weapons in the
agency's arsenal, both unknown to the public at large, have made this
possible: a semi-secret wing of the CDC known as the Epidemic Intelligence
Service (EIS), and a quiet "partnership" program with private organizations.
The Epidemic Intelligence Service
Among epidemiologists, it is often half-jokingly referred to as the "medical
CIA." Founded in 1951 by public health professor Alexander Langmuir, the EIS
was first designed to act as an elite biological-warfare countermeasures unit
of the CDC. Langmuir was hired because he also served as one of the select
advisors to the Defense Department's chemical and biological warfare program.
The first EIS class of 21 recent medical or biological graduates underwent
several weeks of intense training at the CDC's Atlanta headquarters, before
being dispatched on their two-year assignments on loan to various state or
local health departments around the country. They acted as the eyes and ears
of the CDC, carefully monitoring for any possible outbreak of war-induced
disease. While on their tours of duty, each EIS officer could be sent
elsewhere in the country on a 24 hour-a-day basis. In case of war, the EIS
would operate under any emergency powers granted the CDC - potentially
including quarantines, mass immunizations, or other drastic measures.
In an article written for the American Journal of Public Health (March,
1952), Langmuir made clear that membership in the EIS did not end with the
two year assignment, but was permanent. He wrote that, "As a result of their
experience, many of these officers may well remain in full-time epidemiology
or other public health pursuits at federal, state, or local levels. Some, no
doubt, will return to civilian, academic, or clinical practice, but in the
event of war they could be returned to active duty with the Public Health
Service and assigned to strategic areas to fulfil the functions for which
they were trained."
Every year since 1951 has seen a new crop of EIS recruits, some classes over
one hundred members in size. The nearly 2,000 alumni have gone on to high
positions in society, though rarely advertising their affiliation. Indeed,
the CDC has now made the EIS more secretive than ever, having suppressed the
public availability of the membership directory since last year. Members can
be found in the Surgeon General's office and elsewhere in the Federal
government, as well as in the World Health Organization, state and local
health departments, universities, pharmaceutical companies, tax-exempt
foundations, hospitals, and even as staff writers, editors, or news anchormen
for major newspapers, scientific journals, and television news departments.
In these positions, EIS alumni act not only as the CDC's surveillance arm
and emergency reserve, but also as seemingly "independent" advocates for CDC
policies.
In time, the fear of artificial disease epidemics faded. But Langmuir and
other top CDC officials had always held bigger plans for the EIS. Langmuir,
for example, an apostle of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger,
involved the EIS in the population control movement by the 1960s. The CDC
has gained most, however, from EIS activities in natural disease epidemics,
to which its "disease detectives" have turned their attention.
The flu, being truly an infectious disease, often proved itself most valuable
to the CDC. Although the winter following the end of World War I was the
last time a flu epidemic caused widespread death, the CDC has pushed annual
flu vaccinations up to the present day. At times, the agency has even rung
the alarm over an impending flu crisis, hoping to use memories of the 1918
epidemic to gain emergency powers and impose mass vaccinations. By using
such tactics in 1957 over the Asian flu, the CDC managed to wrangle extra
money out of Congress to expand the EIS and crash-produce a vaccine. But the
flu season was already winding down by the time the vaccine was ready, and
the flu itself turned out to have been as mild as in any other year.
By 1976, CDC director David Sencer wanted to try again, though on a grander
scale. After one soldier in Pennsylvania died of a flu-related pneumonia in
January, Sencer predicted that a pig-borne human virus, nicknamed the "swine
flu," would soon devastate the United States. Panicked with visions of
impending doom, Congress moved to authorize the CDC's immunization plan for
every man, woman, and child in the country. Unexpectedly, the legislation
suddenly stalled when the insurance companies underwriting the vaccine
discovered that it had seriously toxic side effects.
Sencer had to do something fast. He immediately set up a "War Room" in
Auditorium A at the CDC headquarters, and put the EIS network on full alert
to search for any disease outbreak that might resemble the flu. Within
weeks, the War Room received word of a pneumonia cluster among men just
returning home from the Philadelphia convention of the American Legion.
Several Philadelphia-based EIS officers and alumni had detected the
outbreak, and acted as a fifth column that not only helped arranged an
invitation for the CDC to come in, but also took their orders from the
arriving team of CDC and EIS officers. Even the New York Times staff writer
sent to cover the story, Lawrence Altman, was himself an EIS alumnus.
The CDC team allowed media rumors to circulate that this Legionnaires'
disease was the beginning of the swine flu. Within days, Congress decided to
pass the vaccine bill. Only later did the CDC admit that the legionnaires
had not been infected by the flu virus, too late to stop the immunization
program. Some 50 million Americans received the vaccine, leading to more
than a thousand cases of nerve damage and paralysis, dozens of deaths, and
lawsuits awarding almost $100 million in damages. In the ultimate irony, no
swine flu epidemic ever materialized; the only destruction left behind by the
phantom swine flu resulted from the CDC's vaccine.
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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 12:57:49 -0400
From: One4...@aol.com
Subject: The Hidden Agenda Behind HIV--prt.2
To: conser...@dragon.com
The agency later blamed Legionnaires' disease on a common soil bacterium, one
that clealry fails Koch's postulates for causing the disease and is therefore
actually harmless. The legionnaires' deaths are not so hard to understand,
since the pneumonias struck elderly men, many of whom had undergone kidney
transplant operations, and who had become particularly drunk during the
Bicentennial celebration - the classic risks for pneumonia. Thus
"Legionnaires' disease" is not an infectious condition, but merely a new name
for old pneumonias.
Using its EIS network, the CDC has applied similar tactics to other outbreaks
of disease. During the 1960s, for example, the EIS helped fuel the National
Institute of Health's growing Virus-Cancer Program by tracking down every
small cluster of leukemia cases, trying to create the impression that some
virus was responsible for the cancer. Robert Gallo became one of many
scientists so impressed with the CDC investigations that he devoted the rest
of his career to finding a human leukemia virus.
More recently, the CDC managed to have a team of EIS officers invited into
New Mexico to investigate a cluster of pneumonia cases among Navajo Indians.
By June of 1993, the CDC began insisting that the brief and relatively small
outbreak was caused by a rat fecal virus, the Hantavirus. But as a letter in
the January [?] issue of the Lancet pointed out, most of the affected Navajos
actually tested negative for the virus. And unlike a contagious disease,
this pneumonia never spread beyond the first few dozen victims. Again, the
CDC's "disease detectives" used a high-profile investigation to create media
publicity and frighten the general population, rather than troubling
themselves with the scientific method and its more boring answers.
Of all the epidemics mismanaged by the CDC, AIDS proved the most spectacular
in achieving political success. By 1981, the EIS had so thoroughly
penetrated the medical and public health institutions in the United States
that it could now detect even the smallest and most loosely-connected
"clusters" of diseases, no matter how far apart the victims were in time and
space. The original AIDS cases were all found in homosexual men in the "fast
track" lifestyle - those having hundreds or thousands of sexual contacts and
using enormous amounts of hard drugs to make such promiscuous activity
possible. For the CDC, the trick was to make the illness seem contagious; a
simple drug-induced epidemic among homosexuals would hardly have frightened
the public, nor have allowed the CDC to accomplish its radical public health
agenda.
The epidemic officially began in 1980 after Michael Gottlieb, a new
immunologist at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, decided to test the
brand new T cell-counting technology. He put out an informal request to
fellow physicians to refer cases of immune deficiency to him. Over the next
several months, colleagues sent him four such cases, all male homosexuals
with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Sensing that the CDC might take an
interest, Gottlieb called active EIS officer Wayne Shandera in the Los
Angeles health department. Shandera had heard an isolated report of a fifth
homosexual with the same problem, and compiled a report for the CDC.
Ordinarily, each of the five cases would have been seen by separate doctors,
leaving nothing to suggest the word "epidemic" to anyone. But having a
pre-positioned EIS agent like Shandera certainly helped the CDC gather such
cases together as a potential cluster. Shandera's report fell on the desk of
James Curran, an official in the CDC's venereal diseases division; the 1987
book And the Band Played On records that Curran wrote "Hot stuff. Hot
stuff." on the report (p. 67). He had the agency publish it immediately.
By the time the report appeared on June 5, 1981, Curran was already
organizing a special Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (KSOI)
task force to lead an investigation of the five-victim epidemic. EIS members
Harold Jaffe and Mary Guinan, also from the venereal diseases division,
helped run the task force. The first order of business was to find as many
similar patients as possible, thereby causing the epidemic to "grow." Next
was to explain the syndrome; to the CDC, this meant trying to find an
infectious agent. This would be no simple task, since essentially all of the
first fifty cases admitted to heavy use of poppers, a drug preferred by
homosexuals as a means of facilitating anal intercourse. Even if this toxic
drug presented itself as the obvious explanation, the CDC investigators had
no intention of letting the evidence interfere. Accordinng to historian
Elizabeth Etheridge, "While many of the patients were routine users of amyl
nitrites or 'poppers,' no one in the KSOI task force believed the disease was
a toxicological problem" (Sentinel for Health, 1992, p. 326).
So the EIS was activated to prove AIDS infectious. EIS officer David
Auerbach and others confirmed that these extremely promiscuous homosexuals
were often linked to one another through long chains of sexual encounters.
To prove that AIDS was "spreading" to other people, other officers scoured
hospitals to find heroin addicts with opportunistic infections, and blamed
their needle-sharing rather than the heroin use, itself a classic risk factor
for pneumonias and other illnesses. Bruce Evatt and Dale Lawrence, both
members of the EIS, discovered one hemophiliac in Colorado with an
opportunistic pneumonia as a side effect of internal bleeding, but
rediagnosed the patient as an AIDS case. Even Haitians in Florida and Haiti
were interviewed by EIS officer Harry Haverkos, who renamed their endemic
tuberculosis as AIDS.
Not understanding the loaded nature of such investigations, the outside world
completely bought the CDC line. Soon the race was on for scientific
researchers to find the guilty virus. But this search, too, had been rigged.
Donald Francis, an EIS member himself since 1971, decided just eleven days
after the original Shandera report that the syndrome should be blamed on a
retrovirus - with a latent period, no less. Using his various contacts in
the retrovirus field, Francis spent the next two years pushing Robert Gallo
to isolate a new retrovirus. Eventually Gallo did take an interest, and
claimed credit for finding HIV.
With his April 23, 1984, press conference, Gallo completed the crusade begun
by the CDC and its EIS. As the cameras rolled and the cameras flashed, Gallo
and Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler launched the nation
into a War on AIDS. Few people knew the true story behind that announcement,
or of the political agenda that Don Francis and others were preparing to
foist on the American people.
The Partnership Program
The CDC's second major weapon for mobilizing public support lay in its
assistance programs for private organizations. By funding or otherwise
supporting groups not affiliated with the CDC, the agency could create
apparently spontaneous mass movements. Spokesmen claiming to represent
various communities could all simultaneously advocate policies identical to
those of the CDC, while allowing the agency to remain quietly in the
background and avoid direct criticism.
In 1984, the CDC began forming "partnerships," based on "cooperative
agreements," with large numbers of "community-based organizations," for the
purpose of AIDS "education" (read: indoctrination). At first the funding was
channeled through the United States Conference of Mayors, which dispersed the
money to a growing network of AIDS activist groups. By 1985, the CDC was
giving over $1 million to state governments, influencing their response to
AIDS.
After 1986, the money began flowing freely, and the CDC's corresponding
influence expanded quickly. The American Red Cross alone received over $19
million from 1988 to 1991, cementing CDC control among medical institutions.
Millions more were targeted to such groups as the American Medical
Association, the National Association of People with AIDS (which operates as
a coordinating center for much of the AIDS activist and gay rights
movements), Americans for a Sound AIDS Policy (which generates CDC-approved
materials for evangelical Christians), the National Education Association
(the major teachers' union), the National PTA, the National Association of
Broadcasters (which represents most television and radio stations and their
networks), the National Conference of State Legislatures, and dozens of
others. Even such groups as the National Urban League, the National Council
of La Raza, and the Center for Population Options receive CDC grants and
other technical aid. Many specifically AIDS-related groups actually depend
on CDC money for their very existence.
Naturally, the CDC has established mechanisms for ensuring that its money and
other aid are used for the intended purposes. Organizations wishing to
receive grants must not only file applications, but are pre-screened by
having to send representatives to CDC workshops on how to apply. These
meetings allow the CDC to meet and judge applicants directly. Furthermore,
any organization receiving aid winds up having CDC supervision of its
AIDS-related "educational" activities.
It is little wonder there is so much political pressure, from all sides, to
defend both the virus-AIDS hypothesis and the CDC's public health agenda.
As with so many non-contagious diseases in the past, the CDC has persuaded
the public that AIDS is infectious. Thus the taxpayer is manipulated with
fear to acquiesce to the radical measures being pushed by the agency. Where
"safe sex" programs, sterile needle exchanges, Federal subsidies of drug
addiction, and other CDC proposals would normally be thrown out - along with
the officials who proposed them - many Americans suspend judgment.
Most people do not yet realize that the entire campaign has been orchestrated
mostly by a single agency of the Federal government, rather than being a
spontaneous decision by independent experts and activists. As intended, the
CDC has been able to mobilize the scientists, the medical institutions,
political bodies, the news media, and a bewildering array of AIDS
organizations behind its hidden agenda. All such groups will lose their
credibility once the public discovers the real source of the campaign, and
honest skepticism will spread faster than AIDS itself.
Signs of imminent change are appearing. The CDC's public health measures -
condoms, sterile needles, contact tracing, and the like - have failed to
prevent the steady growth of AIDS. As this bad advice is recognized for what
it is, more voices are joining the chorus of dissent against the HIV-AIDS
hypothesis. The CDC may soon have to hold HIV research meetings all by
itself.
That is, if Congress doesn't abolish the CDC first.
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 06:55:33 -0400
From: lin...@iquest.net (Linda Thompson, American Justice Federation) (by way
of Charles Zeps <lin...@iquest.net>)
Subject: UN to Police Atlanta Olympics !!!
To: alt-con...@cs.utexas.edu
This answer to the question about whether UN troops are going to be used to
police American citizens at the Olympics in Atlanta comes in from:
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 20:57:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Travis_Beach <tbe...@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu>
In response to the question of whether UN Troops will participate in the
96 Olympics I offer the following:
I have been with the Ga. Dept of Corrections (GDC) Tactical Units for
Approximately 6 years, a veteran of 15 prison riots/disturbances in that
period. Prior to my joining this elite group I was recruited by the Tactical
Commander for the GDC because of my prior military experience (Marines) and
advised that while it was still 6 yrs away I would see extensive duty at the
Olympics and in return recieve a sizable chunk of overtime pay, (thousands
he said). He stated we would be training with
FBI SRT/HRT and the like. He stated that GDC Tactical teams would be the
backbone of security at Atlanta, that this was a State jurisdictional area
and the Feds would simply be there to advice and offer support. During this
time it was also reported that they where forming a MJTF unit involving us
extensively. We where going to recieve the best in training, supplies, and
equip. ( insert loud uproarous laughter here) RRRIIIGGGHHHTTT!
Today, 09-15-95 I recieved a briefing from the GDC trainer from the GA.
Public Safety Training Center, He stated that the once Grandious scheme of
GDC mass participation had been thrown to the wind by departmental bickering
and cutthroating. Every agency now wanting a piece of the Limelight pie. Our
participation has now dwindled to next to nothing, probably guarding gates
or some menial task versus the role we have diligently trained for for 6 years.
************************************************
And finally to answer your question, are there going to be UN troops at the
Olympics.... YES!!!
***********************************************
It is my understanding (unofficially) that upwards of several thousand UN
troops may be present to lend their "considerable international expertice"
to this truly "international event"!!! Imagine that!!! UN troops in
Ga!!"Fire up the grill Margie, the Rooskies is a commin, get up and get on
down to the Winn Dixie Store and get some o them GOOOOD wiennies, an some
BBQ tater chips and how bout some R-O-C colas and moonpies fo desert, lets
show them ole boys how we treat compeeny in gawja"
=====================
The above received from Travis Beach <tbe...@grits.valdosta.peachnet.edu>
Linda Thompson
American Justice Federation
Home of AEN News and "Waco, the Big Lie" "America Under Siege"
3850 S. Emerson Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46203
Telephone: (317) 780-5200
Fax: (317) 780-5209
Internet: lin...@iquest.net
"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear
to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
Harry Truman
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 19:01:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dennis Clark <de...@netcom.com>
Subject: USA! President Powell
To: usa-f...@webcom.com
Steve, Get a grip, this guy is a LIBERAL. He is on record as stating he
is an FDR NEW DEAL man. SHEESH
Dennis
On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Steve Sidwell wrote:
: > the point of becoming well-versed in election law, yet he genuinely seems
to
------------------------------
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 20:46:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Sidwell <sid...@rain.org>
Subject: USA! President Powell
To: sne...@world.std.com
Dennis,
: > > the point of becoming well-versed in election law, yet he genuinely seems
to
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 14:46:41 -0400
From: lin...@iquest.net (Linda Thompson, American Justice Federation) (by way
of Charles Zeps <lin...@iquest.net>)
Subject: WHITE HOUSE DOWNLOADING PORNO!
To: sne...@world.std.com
AEN News
Talk dirty to me, baby!
While the FBI is snooping into private people's accounts on America On Line
computer service, have a look at what the WHITEHOUSE has been grabbing on
line: THE WHITEHOUSE IS DOWNLOADING PORNO!
PROOF: Below is the ftp log from netcom. gatekeeper.eop.gov
Netcom.gatekeeper.eop.gov is the White House.
The directory /pub/sa/sailscan/GROUP/ on machine ftp.netcom.com is a
PORNO
site whose current contents include teen images.
The file names ending in .jpg are the dirty pictures:
132904.jpg
cummy01.jpg
close5.jpg
close8.jpg
close29.jpg
close4.jpg
wo794_j.jpg
Mon Sep 11 10:17:44 1995 1 gatekeeper.eop.gov 4285
/pub/ac/acornbks/acorn.html a _ o a ro...@gatekeeper.eop.gov ftp 0 *
Mon Sep 11 14:55:28 1995 8 johns.ostp.eop.gov 51168
/pub/sa/sailscan/GROUP/132904.jpg b _ o a Nets...@Johns.ostp.eop.gov ftp 0 *
^^^^^^
Mon Sep 11 14:57:47 1995 5 johns.ostp.eop.gov 45590
/pub/sa/sailscan/GROUP/cummy01.jpg b _ o a Nets...@Johns.ostp.eop.gov ftp 0 *
^^^^^^^^
Mon Sep 11 14:58:07 1995 9 johns.ostp.eop.gov 95190
/pub/sa/sailscan/GROUP/close5.jpg b _ o a Nets...@Johns.ostp.eop.gov ftp 0 *
Mon Sep 11 14:58:27 1995 9 johns.ostp.eop.gov 91953
/pub/sa/sailscan/GROUP/close8.jpg b _ o a Nets...@Johns.ostp.eop.gov ftp 0 *
^^^^^
Mon Sep 11 14:59:10 1995 8 johns.ostp.eop.gov 98200
/pub/sa/sailscan/GROUP/close29.jpg b _ o a Nets...@Johns.ostp.eop.gov ftp 0 *
^^^^^^
Mon Sep 11 14:59:33 1995 8 johns.ostp.eop.gov 87587
/pub/sa/sailscan/GROUP/close4.jpg b _ o a Nets...@Johns.ostp.eop.gov ftp 0 *
^^^^^^
Mon Sep 11 14:59:50 1995 10 johns.ostp.eop.gov 89466
/pub/sa/sailscan/GROUP/dirt03.jpg b _ o a Nets...@Johns.ostp.eop.gov ftp 0 *
^^^^^
Mon Sep 11 15:00:14 1995 3 johns.ostp.eop.gov 20680
/pub/sa/sailscan/GROUP/wo794_j.jpg b _ o a Nets...@Johns.ostp.eop.gov ftp 0 *
^^^^^^
These logs should still be there for a few days (or until KKKLinton
puts the axe on them, whichever comes first) but the logs are usually kept
for three weeks (I think).
Any netcom host can reach them in directory /ftp/logs/xferlog*.
This is the second scandal in government caught by militia members in the
past couple of months. Credit for this scoop goes to UMUS.
Linda Thompson
American Justice Federation
Home of AEN News and "Waco, the Big Lie" "America Under Siege"
3850 S. Emerson Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46203
Telephone: (317) 780-5200
Fax: (317) 780-5209
Internet: lin...@iquest.net
"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear
to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril."
Harry Truman
------------------------------
Date: (null)
From: (null)
George Habash, another PLO founder, is an open Marxist-Leninist who started
the Arab Nationalist Movement in the 1950s that imposed a Communist regime in
South Yemen. Supported by the Communist governments of Cuba, North Vietnam,
and China, Habash has since founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, another PLO group.65
Abu Iyad also helped found the PLO, and has headed its Intelligence and
Security Apparatus, making him the number two man in the organization. He has
publicly admitted his allegiance to the teachings of Chinese dictator Mao
Zedong and other leading Communists.66
But the most famous PLO figure is its leader, Yasir Arafat. As a student at
Cairo University in 1952, he became head of the General Union of Palestine
Students, and in 1956 represented that leftist organization at the Communist
World Festival of Youth, held in Czechoslovakia.67 Arafat has studied the
works of Mao Zedong and Che Guevara, and when he visits Moscow he meets with
top Soviet Communists.68 He is the head of Fatah, the largest and most
powerful group in the PLO.
The Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party, directly funded by the Soviet
Union, sits on the Executive Committee and all other ruling bodies of the
PLO.69 The Soviet Union lavishes the PLO with weapons ranging from machine
guns to heavy artillery and tanks.70 PLO terrorists are trained and recruited
by the KGB in the Soviet Union and other Communist nations.71 And, according
to one PLO defector, all key PLO decisions are made only on Soviet
approval.72 As a result, the PLO has become the largest and most important
terrorist group in existence. It has carried out bombings, hijackings,
tortures, and assassinations against civilian targets on six continents. It
has served as a conduit for weapons, training, and other support from the
Communist Bloc to hundreds of terrorist groups worldwide.73 And Yasir Arafat
has openly called for terrorist attacks on the United States.74 As already
noted, one of the conspirators in the bombing of New York's World Trade
Center was a PLO member.
The fact that the PLO is not merely an enemy of Israel, but is a cornerstone
of the global Communist offensive, has been admitted by Arafat himself. For
example, he has declared the United States, not Israel, to be the PLO's
ultimate enemy.75 PLO official George Habash likewise revealed in a 1972
interview that "our enemy is not just Israel, periodx We must recognize that
our revolution is a phase of world revolution: it is not limited to
reconquering Palestine. To be honest, what we want is a war like Vietnam's.
We want another Vietnam, and not just in Palestine but throughout the Arab
world."76 On another occasion, Habash revealed the PLO goal more completely:
"Palestine has joined the European Revolution; we have forged organic links
with the revolution of the whole world."77
The Communists have already seized control of several nations of the Middle
East since the 1950s, including Algeria, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, North and
South Yemen, and Iraq, often referred to as the "radical Arab states." Each
of these countries was conquered through some combination of military coup
d'etat, revolution, and invasion. Although some of these governments do not
call themselves "Communist," their leaders are all Marxist socialists whose
militaries and secret police have been built, and are directly supervised, by
the Soviet Union, and whose governments often include overt Communists at the
highest levels.78
The PLO has become a new vehicle for supporting Communist revolutions almost
anywhere. The so-called "Islamic" revolution of the Ayatollah Khomeini, for
example, was organized by KGB agents and the Communist Party in Iran.79 It
was also backed by the PLO, which conducted terrorist attacks against Iran,
trained Khomeini's followers in military and terror tactics, and provided a
steady supply of guns.80 Since coming to power, Khomeini's regime has been
armed by the Soviet Union and Communist China.81 Having delivered Iran to the
Communists, the PLO announced that it would next turn its attention to
Turkey. For years, the PLO had already been training and arming terrorists of
the Turkish People's Liberation Army, creating anarchy in that nation. In
1980, PLO terrorists infiltrated Turkey, disguised themselves as Armenian and
Kurdish people, and founded the Armenian Secret Army of Liberation and the
Kurdistan Workers' Party.82 These Communist groups are now stepping up the
revolution in Turkey. The PLO has also helped the Communist takeovers in
Lebanon, Nicaragua, and Angola, and has carried out or supported similar
revolutions against Jordan, El Salvador, South Africa, and many other nations
of Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.83
In recent years the PLO and its Communist bosses have created yet another
international revolutionary movement: the network of terrorists known as
"Islamic fundamentalists." Like their Liberation Theology counterparts in
Christian churches, the muslim fundamentalist leaders are actually atheists
and Marxist-Leninists disguised as religious fanatics. Indeed, they are
opposed by the traditional muslim leaders for violating the precepts of
Islam.84 This radical movement, also known as "Islamic Marxism," originated
in the Russian Bolshevik Party in the 1910s.85 Since the 1970s, the Communist
Parties of Afghanistan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia have officially promoted this
new ideology.86 To hide their Communist backing, however, pan-Islamic
revolutionaries frequently pretend to be anti-Communist.
Several terrorist groups have been founded on variations of "Islamic
Marxism." In Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini revived Hezballah (the Party of
God), which soon collaborated with Iranian Communists, Syria, Libya, and the
PLO in extending terrorism beyond the borders of Iran.87 When Hezballah
established training camps, the instructors came from such Communist nations
as North Korea and Syria, or were Iranians trained by the PLO or the
Communist government of Iraq.88 Abbas Zamani, who organized branches of
Hezballah in Lebanon and Pakistan, was himself trained by the PLO and has
been identified as a probable KGB agent.89 The PLO has provided money,
weapons, and intelligence to Hezballah, and has even placed Yasir Arafat's
elite terrorist units under Hezballah command; Hezballah, in return,
collaborates with the PLO.90 In Lebanon, meanwhile, members of the Amal
Militia have been trained in PLO camps, and the group has been financed by
Syria, Libya, and Iran.91 Islamic Jihad, the terrorist group involved in
bombing the New York World Trade Center, is armed and coordinated by several
top PLO commanders.92 And in the West Bank and Gaza Strip of Israel, Hamas,
meaning "Islamic Resistance Movement," receives aid from Iran as well as
financing from the PLO on the personal orders of Arafat.93
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Libernet Digest Sat, 23 Sep 95 Volume 112: Issue 4
Today's Topics:
- ALAN KEYES Mike Price
Action Needed on Flag Amendment Freematt
Conference:10/20 Quests for religious freedom: Wiccan/Pagan Civil Liberties Struggles
Matthew Gaylor
Demonstrations to support Rene Emry Douglas Friedman
Fax Networks Threaten Democracy? Virginia McMillan
HAARP BOOK Greenpeace Alaska
Is this Republinet? Jim Ray
Legal Scholarship Network LSN01
Legal Scholarship Network LSN01
Libertarian to run for Packwoods seat Bob Dobbs
MENA, ARKANSAS: Congressman Bill Alexander confronts the IRS
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New Hampshire Presidential Primary pages that accept Libertarians
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Senate Waco Hearings Postponed Carol Moore
September issue of Freedom Daily James A. Haworth
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 22:07:26 -0400
From: mpr...@inri.com (Mike Price)
Subject: - ALAN KEYES
To: Natha...@aol.com, klu...@u.washington.edu, rd...@cosi.stockton.edu,
:- ALAN KEYES -
:
:Dear friend of America,
:
:I offer for your consideration this summary of the strength of the
:candidacy of Ambassador Alan L. Keyes for the presidency. The views
:expressed here are entirely private, and are not necessarily endorsed in
:any way by Dr. Keyes or his campaign.
:
:I believe that this candidacy has a moral claim on men of conscience in
:America. If we have been waiting for someone to speak to the heart of the
:problems and promise of America, our wait is over. We must respond.
:
:Qualifications and Experience
:
:Dr. Alan L. Keyes - citizen activist, diplomat, educator, and scholar - is
:one of the best prepared candidates for the presidency the country has seen
:in decades. His depth of insight into the issues facing America, and the
:eloquence of his expression of that insight, have been compared seriously
:to those of Lincoln -- that is, by people who actually know something about
:Lincoln.
:
:* Ph.D. in Government Affairs: Harvard University.
:
:* Foreign Service Officer: 1977-81.
:
:* Ambassador to the U.N. Economic and Social Council under Ronald Reagan,
:1981-85.
:
:* Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations under Ronald
:Reagan, 1985-87.
:
:* Twice nominated for the United States Senate in Maryland, 1988 and 1992.
:
:* President of Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), 1989-1991.
:
:* Founder of CAGW's National Taxpayer's Action Day.
:
:* President of Alabama A&M University, 1991.
:
:* Author of "Masters of the Dream: The Strength and Betrayal of Black
:America, 1995".
:
:* Host of nationally syndicated radio talk show.
:
:Issue Summary
:
:"We can no longer afford to follow leaders for whom the moral challenge
:this nation faces is an afterthought, when it ought to be the primary focus
:of national policy. The American people are ready to deal with our moral
:identity crisis. All the signs are out there and 1994 was the best sign of
:all."
:
:"The moral problems of this country are its practical problems."
:
:"Our first priority should be restoring the moral and material support for
:the marriage-based two parent family. The disintegration of the family is
:the major contributing factor in poverty, crime, violence, the decline in
:educational performance, and a host of other expensive social problems.
:
:Restoring a strong sense of inter-generational family responsibility would
:even help to address the financial problems facing the Social Security
:system."
:
:"If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a
:matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship
:in our republic."
:
:"We're going to have to find the courage one of these days to tell people
:that freedom is not an easy discipline. Freedom is not a choice for those
:who are lazy in their hearts, and in their respect for their own moral
:capacities. Freedom requires that at the end of the day, you accept the
:constraint that is required, the respect for the laws of Nature and
:Nature's God, that say unequivocally that your daughters do not have the
:right to do what is wrong, that your sons do not have the right to do what
:is wrong.
:
:They do not have the right to steal bread from the mouths of the
:innocent.They do not have the right to steal life from the womb of the
:unborn."
:
:"Abortion is a Declaration issue. It is an issue that goes to the very
:heart of our principles and how we apply them. It is like the issue of
:slavery and the issue of civil rights: an issue of whether or not we really
:acknowledge the transcendent Authority on the basis of which we have our
:rights, or whether we are going to arrogate that authority to ourselves,
:and declare that we have the right to draw the line determining who is
:human and who is not."
:
:"[The] notion that your children exist for your convenience, for your
:pleasure, for your satisfaction, and, that if they don't serve that
:pleasure, satisfaction and convenience, you have the right to get them out
:of the way - that is the principle of abortion. And so we see that at the
:heart of this issue is an attitude that poisons and destroys the entire
:possibility of family life. It establishes as the principle of right in
:this society the notion that other human beings, including those who are
:closest to us of any human beings in the world, can be regarded by us as
:objects, de-humanized instruments of our pleasure and passion and
:convenience.
:
:Abortion strikes at the very heart and soul and principle of what it means
:to be part of a family."
:
:"The paradigm of all peace and security should be the peace of the unborn
:child in the womb."
:
:"Might does not make right. Abortion is a breach of the fundamental tenets
:of our public moral creed."
:
:"People shall never again be enslaved by the principle that one human
:being, whether it be a mother or a slave owner, has the right to treat
:another human life as property."
:
:"When you are morally disordered, you eventually get into the situation
:where you must sacrifice your liberty for the sake of order. No free
:society can survive when it has lost its self-control, its self-
:discipline, and the foundation of real authority in that society. And the
:Declaration states for us that foundation: our freedom comes from God; it
:must be respected out of respect for the authority of God."
:
:"I would strongly favor and promote school choice approaches that empower
:parents to send their children to schools that reflect their faith and
:values. We not only need prayer in schools, we need schools that are in the
:hands of people who pray. We must break the government monopoly on public
:education."
:
:"Affirmative action is a betrayal of the principles of the civil rights
:movement"
:
:"Tax cuts and reforms aimed at reducing government's extortion of family
:income are essential elements of the program to restore America's moral
:health. Fiscal sanity and moral revival go hand in hand."
:
:The Washington Post called Keyes at the U.N., "an uncompromising defender
:of the United States in an often hostile environment."
:
:"I still have a question in my mind, which I put personally to every
:senator who voted for it, as to why it was in the Fall of last year, after
:the American people sent the clear message that they wanted their money
:home and they wanted their power back in their hands at the grass roots,
:that so many of them chose to vote for a treaty that put that power in the
:hands of unelected foreigners in the World Trade Organization."
:
:The Power of the Word
:
:Keyes' candidacy has for its principle instrument the spoken word of the
:candidate. Testimonials are accumulating rapidly to the profound power of
:this word:
:
:"After listening to the Alan Keyes video-tape you sent me I am through
:fence-straddling. Abortion, the way we are using it today, is an
:abomination and there is no way to rationalize by qualifying modern demands
:on people. (letter from the first person I sent a tape to)
:
:"Keyes... has the ability to... move this campaign a certain degree to the
:right. [To] the moral right. Keyes is powerful on the stump. Keyes is
:absolutely amazing on the stump... There's nobody out there right now who
:is doing a better job of articulating the moral concerns, the moral
:positions of the Republican Party, and what they ought to be, than Alan
:Keyes.
:
:But that's the side of things that SCARE -- DEEPLY -- patrician mainstream
:old country-club Republican types. They wish that guys like Alan Keyes
:would drop off the edge of the earth." (Rush Limbaugh: May 31, 1995)
:
:"Dole was the fourth of five presidential aspirants to address the meeting
:of 600 party members from across the Midwest, who seemed to applaud loudest
:for the podium- pounding style of conservative radio talk-show host Alan
:Keyes. 'We need [people] in leadership who, for lack of a better word, are
:heroes,' Inez Jones, a retired secretary from Muskegon, Mich., said in a
:mild criticism of Gramm's politely received speech.
:
:'The programs (the government) have now are like putting Band-Aids on a
:bleeding ulcer,' she said, citing her belief that "family values" were the
:enduring issue in the campaign. 'Keyes is a tough act to follow,' said
:retired banker Elgin Gunderson of Hayward, Wis., reflecting the mostly
:white audience's enthusiastic reaction to the adamantly anti-abortion
:Keyes, who is black. 'I think Keyes is going to surprise a lot of people,'
:lawyer Jack Falasca agreed. 'Dole will win a couple of primaries but not by
:what he's expected to, then Gramm and others will move up.'" (Reuters story
:about May 20, 1995 Midwestern Presidential Forum at Green Bay, Wisconsin.)
:
:On May 17, two days before Keyes' speech to the Midwest Leadership
:Conference, a secular Milwaukee radio station, WISN, conducted a
:presidential poll on the air. The host was U.S. Senate candidate Bob Welch.
:Alan Keyes won the poll nearly 10:1 to the next nearest vote getter, Gramm,
:who received only about 4 votes. The screener stopped taking Keyes calls
:the last 15 minutes so that the few callers supporting other candidates
:could get in.
:
:The incredulous host and screener were convinced this was spontaneous and
:not an organized call-in effort. No one called in support of Tommy
:Thompson.
:
:Strategy
:
:Alan Keyes is the only candidate in either party able and willing to
:propose with clarity, authority, and conviction the moral restoration that
:the consciences of Americans are finally demanding. He understands the
:principles of American civilization, and he intends to raise the banner of
:those principles in this election.
:
:He is, predictably, gaining increasing media attention because of media
:interest in the "divisive" issues, which the media hope are dangerous to
:the party. They hope, rightly, that Keyes will start the fight within the
:Republican Party over the moral issues. When the media eventually cease
:dismissing Keyes as a "podium-thumping, fiery ideologue" and realize that
:they have a political leader of rare stature on their hands, Keyes will
:become a national phenomenon.
:
:And if Keyes is right in his claim that the American people really are
:finally demanding moral leadership, then they will settle for nothing less
:than what he offers.
:
:Keyes' emergence onto the national stage began with an eight-minute speech
:at a February candidate forum in New Hampshire. It was a performance that
:left Focus on the Family's James Dobson literally weeping with joy. Its
:re-broadcast on Dobson's radio show on two successive days generated an
:overwhelming wave of phone calls and letters from Americans who had almost
:ceased to hope that they would ever hear a politician speak moral truth
:with conviction.
:
:Keyes has since regularly received second or third place in straw polls at
:state conventions around the country - frequently from delegations most of
:whose members had never heard him speak until the day of the vote.. A
:grass-roots movement of distribution of recordings of his speeches is
:proceeding across the country.
:
:This movement constitutes a new instrument of populist politics, which
:entirely circumvents the media, is extremely cost effective, encourages the
:person-to-person contact which is the true source of political power, and
:brings people face to face as well with Keyes in his most powerful and
:inspiring contexts.
:
:Keyes is a master of crafting his presentation to the particular audience
:and medium before him. From talk radio, to stump speech, to state
:convention, to the G.O.P.A.C. convention in Washington, he speaks without
:text or notes directly to his audience and with great art. He is a polished
:and skilled debater.
:
:Meanwhile, as the first true populist movement in Republican presidential
:politics since the 1976 Reagan campaign gathers steam almost nine months
:before the first primary or caucus, speculation is rampant that other
:Republicans will enter the race. This speculation is a clear, if tacit,
:admission that the leading candidates in the party are largely failing to
:generate enthusiasm in a party almost assured of victory next year against
:an incumbent who is a manifest embarrassment to the office of President.
:
:Senators Dole and Gramm have hired or recruited operatives in almost every
:hamlet in the land, but Keyes is acknowledged in news account after news
:account to be generating far more enthusiasm wherever he is heard.
:
:Republican politics of the '90's is populist, conservative, and moral. If
:the response that Keyes is generating in this politics is sustained and
:organized, his campaign will soon emerge as a real challenge to the
:"front-runners." When this happens, it will be difficult to stop the
:candidacy of the man acknowledged by all to be the most eloquent and
:inspiring man in the race. It will be even more difficult to stop when it
:becomes clear that he is the most qualified.
:
:Keyes breaks all the categories of possible conservative appeal:
:
:He holds the promise of retrieving one-tenth of the American population,
:the blacks, from serfdom to the liberal Democratic machine. He has authored
:a book this year which considers black history in detail, from slavery
:times to the present, and presents a powerful proposal to liberate blacks
:from their miserable condition by returning to a real respect, in our
:policy choices, for the moral dignity of black America.
:
:He is the most highly educated conservative candidate for the presidency in
:decades. He received a true liberal education at the hands of Allen Bloom.
:He spent the years of his doctoral studies at Harvard studying the
:principles of the American founding, and the testing of those principles in
:the crucible of the Civil War. He would destroy the image of conservatism
:as flowing from the anger of the illiterate and the greedy, and reclaim in
:the public mind the intellectual high ground for the permanent things.
:
:He is a devout and loyal and educated Catholic. The implications of such a
:man gaining the presidency are staggering. That such a man should do so by
:moving the masses, and becoming the object of their deep respect, is also
:incalculably important.
:
:Finally, we must remember that we live in a time of extraordinary political
:ferment. The November election results were almost entirely unexpected, as
:was the much larger collapse of liberal ideology that is still playing
:itself out. In a very real sense, anything is possible in American politics
:today. Professional politicians are, if possible, distrusted more
:profoundly than ever.
:
:It would be difficult to claim that the money, campaign organizations, and
:name recognition of the prominent candidates will necessarily sustain them
:in the face of a populist candidacy speaking to the heart of the moral
:conservatives who are the heart of the party, and executed by the most
:intelligent, charismatic and powerful candidate of our era.
:
:What if We Lose?
:
:If men of conscience respond to Keyes, he will win. Still, the benefit to
:souls of his effort, apart from the prospect of electoral success,
:justifies by itself our wholehearted devotion to this cause.
:
:This campaign will be a campaign of moral instruction. Alan Keyes teaches
:his audience how to think and talk about their deepest moral sentiments,
:and how to apply those sentiments, in light of the history and principles
:of America, to their society and politics. He does this far better than any
:national politician of our time. Such instruction, as Socrates would have
:said, is real political action.
:
:The campaign therefore literally achieves a part, a real part, of its end
:every time someone is introduced to the words of Keyes. This effort may be
:compared in some ways to the effort of Rush Limbaugh to change the
:vocabulary and sentiments of our public discourse. To see a man of Keyes'
:gifts and authority refute decisively some received liberal doctrine will
:be for many citizens a moment of real instruction and encouragement. I know
:of two pro-choice or long undecided men who have heard him speak; each was
:profoundly moved, and one pronounced himself to be thenceforth pro-life.
:
:We can thus devote ourselves whole-heartedly to this effort apart from the
:inevitable calculations of the likelihood of electoral success.
:
:Keyes and Buchanan
:
:Buchanan does not convince the unconvinced. He speaks convincingly on moral
:issues only to social conservatives, and does not effectively encourage
:them to discover ways to lead others to moral truth. There is some truth to
:the charge that his language is divisive, because he has not crafted a
:rhetoric that is effective beyond his base. Keyes converts pro-choice,
:pro-abortion listeners by appealing masterfully to conscience, American
:history, and American principles. He invites his listeners to join him in
:the truth.
:
:He will be the most effective leader of the pro-life movement we have yet
:seen, because he will move the opposition, and he will teach them. The
:range of his appeal is open-ended. America is his base.
:
:Buchanan is an isolationist. He does not embrace the vision of America as
:the great exporter of the universal principles of American politics. Keyes
:is a foreign policy professional with ambassadorial rank, firmly committed
:to Ronald Reagan's principles in foreign policy, and capable of
:articulating them with great force and skill. As president, he would
:literally instruct the world anew in the great principles of the American
:political proposal.
:
:
:-----------------------------------------------------------
:
:I invite you to join me in supporting the candidacy of Dr. Keyes. Should
:you care to send a contribution to me here in Oak View, it will be used for
:this purpose. Much more important, however, would be efforts you can make
:personally, through the sharing of this tape with others, to make the
:extraordinary leadership of Dr. Keyes known to others who, like yourself,
:are in a position to shape the emerging campaign discussion.
:
:Sincerely,
:
:David Quackenbush
:P.O. Box 1159
:Oak View, CA 93022
:76752...@compuserve.com
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 12:25:12 -0400
From: Free...@aol.com
Subject: Action Needed on Flag Amendment
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
Subj: Flag Desecration Amendment
From: donna.reid...@ALA.ORG (Donna Reidy Pistolis)
Action Needed on Flag Amendment
The proposed flag "desecration" amendment (H.J.R. 79) continues
to be an issue that requires our attention. The amendment would
allow censorship of images of the flag in works of art, commerce,
or advertising that provide a physical representation of the
flag. Display of the flag in a painting, above a car dealership,
on a billboard, or in a book could be constitutionally
criminalized.
The amendment would also give the states and Congress the power
to adopt 51 different standards criminalizing use of the flag.
For example, a publisher's legal display of the flag in Indiana
might trigger prosecution if that same book or CD-ROM were sold
in Illinois.
The Supreme Court has stated that the destruction of the flag in
political protests is undeniably a political statement and
political expression. The Court has held that it is a "bedrock
principle underlying the First Amendment . . . that the
Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply
because society finds the idea itself offensive and
disagreeable." The First Amendment is designed precisely to
protect unpopular statements like flag burning, which deserve
the same constitutional protection as popular ones.
Several Senators are undecided on this issue and need to be
contacted. They are: Kent Conrad (D-ND), Byron Dorgan (D-ND),
Carl Levin (D-MI), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and Arlen Specter
(R-PA). If you are one of these Senators' constituents, please
contact them immediately.
Action on this issue is critical.
*********************************************
* Donna Reidy Pistolis *
* Associate Director *
* Office for Intellectual Freedom *
* 50 E. Huron Street *
* Chicago, IL 60611 *
* donna.reid...@ala.org *
* 312-280-4221 or 800-545-2433, ext. 4221 *
*********************************************
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 13:10:43 -0400
From: free...@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
Subject: Conference:10/20 Quests for religious freedom: Wiccan/Pagan Civil Liberties Struggles
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
From: Rab...@osu.edu (Lee Ann Rabe)
Subject: Shadowmas 1995-info
The Pagan Community Council of Ohio presents:
Shadowmas 1995, a retreat for Samhain.
Shadowmas 1995 will be held October 20-22, at Camp Wyandot, Ohio.
(directions given below).
Shadowmas 1995 will feature Selena Fox, Witch and priestess,
psychotherapist, ritualist.Fox is the founder and executive director of
Circle Sanctuary. She will be giving several workshops and presentations at
Shadowmas 1995.
10/20 Quests for religious freedom: Wiccan/Pagan Civil Liberties Struggles
and Concerns.
10/21 Celebrating seasons: Ancient and Contemporary Ways of Celebrating the
8 Sabbats.
Also on 10/21, Fox will be offering a special intensive workshop ($10 fee):
Spirits of Nature Inner Journeys, a group spirit journey to meet your
spirit animal. (If you wish to participate in this workshop, please bring a
blanket, mat or small chair to aid your comfort.)
Todd Alan is the featured musician at Shadowmas 1995.
Camp Wyandot has cabins available for rental at Shadowmas. Please be aware
that these cabins are dorm-style sleeping, and that you will have to share with
others, unless your group has enough paying members to fill a cabin. Cabin
space will be allotted on a first come first serve basis. (If you wish to
sleep as a group, PCCO suggests that you send your registrations in the
same envelope.) Tenting is permitted, but Octobers in Ohio are rather cold
(it's not unheard of to have real snow by that time of year...)
Merchants are welcome at Shadowmas 1995, but are asked to pre-register.
PCCO asks all attendees to bring one canned good for our food drive.
Admission to Shadowmas 1995 is $35 for members and $50 for non-members
through 10/10, and $45 for members and $65 for non-members at the gate. One
hour of
volunteer time is required as part of your admission.
To register, send your (legal) name, address, phone number and a check or
money order made out to PCCO to: PCCO, P.O. Box 82089, Columbus, Ohio 43202.
For more information about Shadowmas 1995, please call (614) 261-1022 or
email me.
Blessed Be
Lee Ann
Directions:
Camp Wyandot is located southeast of Columbus and Lancaster, Ohio, on SR
33. Approximately 7 miles south of Lancaster on 33, turn onto County Road
116, go about 2.5 miles. On the left side of the road, there will be an
iron bridge. Go across the bridge and turn left into Camp Wyandot.
--
lr...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
"We must all hang together, or we will most assuredly hang separately."
--- Ben Franklin
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 16:24:26 EDT
From: "Douglas Friedman" <douglas_...@ccmail.bus.umich.edu>
Subject: Demonstrations to support Rene Emry
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
Demonstrations will be held at the Washtenaw County Courthouse in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, this coming Monday, Sept. 25 at noon and Friday, Sept. 29,
also at noon.
Rene Emry is a multiple sclerosis sufferer who uses marijuana to relieve
her symptoms. Following her arrest for growing marijuana (to avoid having
to buy it on the street), she became Ann Arbor's most outspoken advocate
for the legalization of medical marijuana. She is the Libertarian Party
candidate for city council in Ann Arbor's 5th Ward.
On Monday, LP activists will be passing out FIJA literature. (Jury
selection will be Monday afternoon.) On Friday, her trial starts, and
there will be a Free Rene Emry rally. Please attend if at all possible.
For more information, E-mail me or Michigan LP Chair Emily Salvette (she is
at salv...@aol.com).
Doug Friedman
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 11:21:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Virginia McMillan <ji...@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Fax Networks Threaten Democracy?
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
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THE WASHINGTON POST devoted a MAJOR story to "no-name fax networks,"
warning that there are "thousands of outposts of a new
grass-roots political movement, a union of technology
and fear whose potency has begun to alarm established
politicians. It has no name, no headquarters and no
official leaders or spokesmen. What it has is members -
- millions, according to groups monitoring it -- linked
by fax machines and united by a radical distrust of
government borne of wide-ranging grievances about
American society." It concluded by lamenting how sad it
was that the Conference of States was defeated by
"angry taxpayers, property rights groups, states'
rights groups, gun owners, home schoolers, right-to-
lifers, John Birchers and Christian patriots," as well
as "conspiracy-theorists and militias," and even a few
"mainstream and middle class" members.
_________________________
ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY: WE NOTED ON the day of the OKC bombing how
much of a threat fax networks and the Internet now are to the
established media. Although they rarely acknowledge it, this story
gives credence to that argument. At over 2,600 words, it was almost
three times longer than the typical Post story, and not a bad
treatment of the subject.
POLITICIANS AND THE mainline press now identify with each other more
than the taxpayers and voters they are supposed to represent and
serve. They live in the same fashionable Washington enclaves, get the
same salaries, hire the same nannies, send their children to the same
private schools, buy and sell one anothers houses, and rarely venture
out of the beltway except on employer-paid expense accounts.
THEY ARE EDUCATED in the humanistic world view, while a majority of
their constituents and readers hold to a religious world view. Since
religion forms the basis for all values, these people not only lack
values, they have no understanding of how any of their constituents or
readers could hold any values. They therefore attack all expressions
of good and evil with equal fervor. Humanism has no values; whatever
is, is right.
AS WE FORECAST on the day of the Murrah building bombing, the press
and the government have both made significant efforts to discredit and
control the Internet. Television, a medium now sustained by
pornography and violence, warned about "porn on the Internet." The
federal government, which has already made a mockery of the Bill of
Rights and religious freedom, seeks still greater police powers, now
over the thoughts of Americans.
TELEVISION NETWORKS HAVE received free and exclusive use of the
airwaves for so long that they now believe this valuable commodity
belongs to them. In return, they have been careful to mouth the
government line when it comes to news. It is difficult to see how any
television station within recent memory could demonstrate that it has
served the public interest, unless that can be defined as providing
only government-approved news and information, floating on a sea of
filth and nonsense programming. What a waste!
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 20:58:24 -0700
From: Greenpeace Alaska <gpak>
Subject: HAARP BOOK
To: c...@igc.apc.org
:From civ Thu Sep 21 20:41:47 1995
:From civ Thu Sep 21 20:41:47 1995
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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 20:41:47 -0700
From: James Roderick <civ>
Message-Id: <1995092203...@igc2.igc.apc.org>
To: gp...@igc.apc.org
Subject: HAARP Book Information
Cc: alt.con...@conf.igc.apc.org
Status: RO
Environmental Warfare?
The U.S. government has a new ground based "Star Wars" weapon which
is being tested in the remote bush country of Alaska. This new weapon
manipulates the environment in a way which can:
*disrupt human mental processes
*jam all global communications systems
*change weather patterns over large areas
*interfere with wildlife migration patterns
*negatively affect your health
*unnaturally impact the Earth's upper atmosphere
The U.S. military calls its zapper HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral
Research Program). But this skybuster is not about the northern lights. The devi
The device will turn on lights never meant to be turned on.
Their first target is the electrojet--a river of electricity that flows
thousands of miles through the sky and down into the polar icecap.
The electrojet will become a vibrating artificial antenna for sending
electromagnetic radiation raining down on the Earth. The U.S. military
can then "x-ray" the Earth and talk to submarines. But there is
much more they can do with HAARP.
THE BOOK IS FINALLY IN PRINT
ANGELS DON'T PLAY THIS HAARP;ADVANCES IN TESLA TECHNOLOGY
controversial aspects of HAARP and contains 350 footnotes
covers all
documenting each significant detail. The book is 240 pages in an
8 1/2" x 5 1/2" format.
Interviews with the authors will soon be featured on BBC-TV
(HORIZONS) and the FOX NETWORK (SIGHTINGS).
The book has been written in a way to make plain this very controversial
weapon system.
TO ORDER A BOOK:
BY MAIL:
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 14:20:50 -0400
From: lib...@gate.net (Jim Ray)
Subject: Is this Republinet?
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
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Since it seems that we are being asked to consider and approve
certain REPUBLICANS on this *_LIBERTARIAN_* list, I think it
unfair and inappropriate not to include the rest of them. After
all, Heaven Forbid we actually discuss which *Libertarian* to
vote for. I will save some of our not-so-precious bandwidth,
then, by pre-empting whoever is going to do it, and I say:
"Vote for Bob Dole!" Because nobody has yet said it. Further,
to save even *more* space, I say:
"Vote for ______!" [Fill in the blank with those (few) other
Republicrook candidates not yet mentioned here.] There. Now,
can we concentrate on _Libertarians_, please?
JMR
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"People are deceived in masses, but enlightened one at a time."
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 10:27:59 -0400
From: LS...@aol.com
Subject: Legal Scholarship Network
To: AIR...@uni-bayreuth.de, CONST...@tomahawk.welch.jhu.edu,
The following is a notice about the Legal Scholarship
Network that is being formed to facilitate the distribution
of scholarly information related to law.
Information about how to subscribe to the abstract service
of the network is contained in the notice below (e-mail
requests should be sent to Sandy_...@Journal.Com and
include "subscribe to LEA" in the body of the message).
PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR REPLY TO THIS MAILING LIST
Thanks,
Professor Ronald J. Gilson
Professor A. Mitchell Polinsky
P.S. You may redistribute this announcement electronically
or in hard copy, provided it is redistributed in whole.
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ANNOUNCING THE "LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP NETWORK"
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Professors Ronald J. Gilson and A. Mitchell Polinsky are
pleased to announce the formation of the Legal Scholarship
Network (LSN). The goal of LSN is to facilitate the
distribution of scholarly information related to law -- to
legal, economics, and business scholars and practitioners
throughout the world. LSN is a division of Social Science
Electronic Publishing, Inc., which also sponsors the
Financial Economics Network (FEN) and the Accounting
Research Network (ARN).
The Legal Scholarship Network will soon begin publishing a
series of electronic journals of abstracts -- of working
papers as well as articles accepted for publication -- in
various areas of law. These journals will be distributed
principally via the Internet, but also may be provided by
paper, fax, or diskette. In addition to including abstracts
of scholarly papers, the journals will carry announcements
of professional meetings, calls for papers, and job
openings. Early plans are for journals in law and
economics, environmental law and policy, constitutional law,
corporate and securities law, intellectual property law, and
tax law. Journals in other major fields of law will follow
thereafter.
The Legal Scholarship Network will be Co-Directed by
Ronald J. Gilson and A. Mitchell Polinsky. Gilson is the
Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business at Stanford
Law School, and the Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and
Business at the Columbia University School of Law. Polinsky
is the Josephine Scott Crocker Professor of Law and
Economics and Director of the John M. Olin Program in Law
and Economics at Stanford Law School, and a past President
of the American Law and Economics Association.
Professors Gilson and Polinsky also will serve as the Co-
Editors of Law and Economics Abstracts (LEA), the first of
the electronic journals of abstracts to be published by the
Legal Scholarship Network.
To become a subscriber to the ELECTRONIC version of LEA and
subsequent journals published by the Legal Scholarship
Network, send an e-mail request to
Sandy_...@Journal.Com
Put "subscribe to LEA" in the body of the message. LEA (and
other LSN journals) will be offered free to subscribers
during an initial start-up phase of publication.
The Legal Scholarship Network also is considering whether to
offer a PAPER or FAX or DISKETTE version of LEA. If you are
interested in receiving LEA in one of these formats, please
send a letter or fax or e-mail message to
A. Mitchell Polinsky, Co-Editor
Law and Economics Abstracts
Legal Scholarship Network
P.O. Box 2329
Stanford, CA 94309
(415) 855-9966 fax
Mitchell...@Journal.Com
Include the name, title, organization, and postal address or
fax number of the person to whom issues of LEA should be
sent, and whether you prefer paper, fax, or diskette
delivery. (Also please include a voice number to call in
case there are fax transmission problems.) Depending on the
preferences of potential subscribers, LEA may be provided in
one or more of these alternative formats. Free trial
subscriptions also will be available for these versions of
LEA.
Authors interested in having abstracts of their articles
included in Law and Economics Abstracts should submit an
abstract (approximately 150 words) to Professor Polinsky.
It would be most helpful if it were submitted by e-mail, to:
Mitchell...@Journal.Com
A "hard copy" of the article also should be sent to
Professor Polinsky at his postal address above. Abstracts
also may be submitted on a diskette (please indicate format,
ASCII preferred) or by hard copy. If one of these options
is used, please send the abstract, plus a hard copy of the
manuscript, to the preceding postal address. Professional
announcements should be submitted to Professor Polinsky,
preferably by e-mail.
Professors Gilson and Polinsky welcome comments and
suggestions about the Legal Scholarship Network. They may
be reached at:
Ronald...@Journal.Com
Mitchell...@Journal.Com
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 10:33:58 -0400
From: LS...@aol.com
Subject: Legal Scholarship Network
To: AIR...@uni-bayreuth.de, CONST...@tomahawk.welch.jhu.edu,
The following is a notice about the Legal Scholarship
Network that is being formed to facilitate the distribution
of scholarly information related to law.
Information about how to subscribe to the abstract service
of the network is contained in the notice below (e-mail
requests should be sent to Sandy_...@Journal.Com and
include "subscribe to LEA" in the body of the message).
PLEASE DO NOT SEND YOUR REPLY TO THIS MAILING LIST
Thanks,
Professor Ronald J. Gilson
Professor A. Mitchell Polinsky
P.S. You may redistribute this announcement electronically
or in hard copy, provided it is redistributed in whole.
* * *
------------------------------------------------------------
ANNOUNCING THE "LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP NETWORK"
------------------------------------------------------------
Professors Ronald J. Gilson and A. Mitchell Polinsky are
pleased to announce the formation of the Legal Scholarship
Network (LSN). The goal of LSN is to facilitate the
distribution of scholarly information related to law -- to
legal, economics, and business scholars and practitioners
throughout the world. LSN is a division of Social Science
Electronic Publishing, Inc., which also sponsors the
Financial Economics Network (FEN) and the Accounting
Research Network (ARN).
The Legal Scholarship Network will soon begin publishing a
series of electronic journals of abstracts -- of working
papers as well as articles accepted for publication -- in
various areas of law. These journals will be distributed
principally via the Internet, but also may be provided by
paper, fax, or diskette. In addition to including abstracts
of scholarly papers, the journals will carry announcements
of professional meetings, calls for papers, and job
openings. Early plans are for journals in law and
economics, environmental law and policy, constitutional law,
corporate and securities law, intellectual property law, and
tax law. Journals in other major fields of law will follow
thereafter.
The Legal Scholarship Network will be Co-Directed by
Ronald J. Gilson and A. Mitchell Polinsky. Gilson is the
Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business at Stanford
Law School, and the Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and
Business at the Columbia University School of Law. Polinsky
is the Josephine Scott Crocker Professor of Law and
Economics and Director of the John M. Olin Program in Law
and Economics at Stanford Law School, and a past President
of the American Law and Economics Association.
Professors Gilson and Polinsky also will serve as the Co-
Editors of Law and Economics Abstracts (LEA), the first of
the electronic journals of abstracts to be published by the
Legal Scholarship Network.
To become a subscriber to the ELECTRONIC version of LEA and
subsequent journals published by the Legal Scholarship
Network, send an e-mail request to
Sandy_...@Journal.Com
Put "subscribe to LEA" in the body of the message. LEA (and
other LSN journals) will be offered free to subscribers
during an initial start-up phase of publication.
The Legal Scholarship Network also is considering whether to
offer a PAPER or FAX or DISKETTE version of LEA. If you are
interested in receiving LEA in one of these formats, please
send a letter or fax or e-mail message to
A. Mitchell Polinsky, Co-Editor
Law and Economics Abstracts
Legal Scholarship Network
P.O. Box 2329
Stanford, CA 94309
(415) 855-9966 fax
Mitchell...@Journal.Com
Include the name, title, organization, and postal address or
fax number of the person to whom issues of LEA should be
sent, and whether you prefer paper, fax, or diskette
delivery. (Also please include a voice number to call in
case there are fax transmission problems.) Depending on the
preferences of potential subscribers, LEA may be provided in
one or more of these alternative formats. Free trial
subscriptions also will be available for these versions of
LEA.
Authors interested in having abstracts of their articles
included in Law and Economics Abstracts should submit an
abstract (approximately 150 words) to Professor Polinsky.
It would be most helpful if it were submitted by e-mail, to:
Mitchell...@Journal.Com
A "hard copy" of the article also should be sent to
Professor Polinsky at his postal address above. Abstracts
also may be submitted on a diskette (please indicate format,
ASCII preferred) or by hard copy. If one of these options
is used, please send the abstract, plus a hard copy of the
manuscript, to the preceding postal address. Professional
announcements should be submitted to Professor Polinsky,
preferably by e-mail.
Professors Gilson and Polinsky welcome comments and
suggestions about the Legal Scholarship Network. They may
be reached at:
Ronald...@Journal.Com
Mitchell...@Journal.Com
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 10:47:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bob Dobbs <dav...@efn.org>
Subject: Libertarian to run for Packwoods seat
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
Paul "Stormy" Mohn has announced he will be seeking the
Libertarian Party nomination for the recently relinqushed U.S. Senate
seat in Oregon. Mohn has had previous political experience including 4
political campaigns in Colorado under the Libertarian ticket.
More information about Stormy and the campaign is available on
the World Wide Web at:
http://www.efn.org/~david_p
The campaign's email address is:
dav...@efn.org
-or-
do...@gladstone.uoregon.edu
Snail mail address is:
Stormy Mohn
Box 1167
Bandon, OR 97411
We can use any and all help you can afford to give financial and
otherwise. Any input is welcome . Please stay in touch, we will keep you
posted on the campaigns progress.
Thank you,
David C. Phelps
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 11:00:32 -0400
From: Duane Roberts <eao...@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu> (by way of Charles Zeps <cz...@icis.on.ca>)
Subject: MENA, ARKANSAS: Congressman Bill Alexander confronts the IRS
To: sne...@world.std.com
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IRS SENIOR EMPLOYEE MISCONDUCT PROBLEMS
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Hearings before the Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary
Affairs Subcommittee of the Committee on Government
Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred First
Congress, First Session, July 25, 26, and 27, 1989.
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Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs.,
Congressional Sales Office, U.S. G.P.O., 1989.
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GOV DOC # Y 4.G 74/7:Em 7/11.
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Congressman Doug Barnard, Jr. (D-Georgia) was Chairman of the Commerce,
Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee.
The following exchange is between William Alexander, Congressman (D-Arkansas),
Michael Murphy, Senior Deputy Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service,
and Fred Goldberg, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.
Excerpts are from pages 554-559.
Mr. BARNARD. Well - I want to take that back up. I think we need to.
I have invited Mr. Alexander, who is not a member of the committee, but
a former member of the committee, to come - to sit in at these hearings
and according the accommodations that we have in Congress, I will give
him the opportunity to ask any questions.
Mr. ALEXANDER. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.
First, I would like to thank the chairman, the minority, and the entire
committee for permitting these hearings and I would explain my reason for
being here, to state for the record and under oath, if you wish, Mr. Chairman,
that the House Appropriations Commitiee, specifically the Subcommittees
on Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary and Treasury, both of which I
am a member of, together and in cooperation with the Subcommittee on
Crime, Chairman Hughes of the House Judiciary Committee, the General
Accounting Office, and in cooperation with the Criminal Investigation
Division of the Arkansas State Police, have been investigating events
surrounding the Mena, AR, Airport for several years.
The allegations here are of the most serious nature involving allegation
of high crimes in high places in Washington.
They involve allegations that a C-123/C-130 operation, contract operation,
was operating out of Mena Airport transporting guns to Central America
and running drugs to Arkansas, and laundering money in Arkansas from the
sale of those drugs.
I wish at this point to state publicly my appreciation for the cooperation
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement
Administration, both of which agencies have cooperated with the House
Appropriations Committee, the General Accounting Office, the Subcommittee
on Crime, and the Arkansas State Police.
This investigation led us to the Internal Revenue Service about 1 year
ago, at which time I attempted to obtain that agency's cooperation by
asking IRS to provide access to one of the witnesses here today.
I believe it was in September of last year, because of the failure of
that cooperation, I wrote a letter to Mr. Gibbs, who was then Commissioner,
and I will submit a copy of that letter for the record, requesting the
cooperation of the Commissioner and specifically requesting the access to
information and testimony of Mr. Duncan.
I did not receive a reply to that letter by March of this year, and I
spoke directly to Mr. Murphy, who appeared before our Committee on Treasury
appropriations. Mr. Murphy appeared to be cooperative and stated his
cooperation, but as of this moment, except for the evidence that I have
heard here tody and through the General Accounting Office resulting
from the resignation of Mr. Duncan as a criminal investigator for the
Internal Revenue Service, the IRS has not provided any evidence or any
access to that evidence to me, to the Subcommittee on Crime nor to the
General Accounting Office or the Arkansas State Police Criminal
Division.
I will state for the record that it has only been through the resignation
of Mr. Duncan and his testimony here today that we have discovered part
of the truth that, we think will lead us to an indictment on money laundering
charges for drug trafficking in Arkansas.
The action of the Internal Revenue Service has prevented the Government
from investigating and prosecuting these cases in Arkansas.
I don't think that it is intentional on your part to do so, but I
would like to state to you that I have for over a year been trying to gain
access to Mr. Duncan's testimony.
It has been explained to me that you could not provide it because it
was prevented by the security provisions of the confidentiality requirements
on tax returns and grand jury information.
I might say that the emissary that you have sent to me has been
most polite in explaining that to me.
The effect of the failure of your cooperation has been to permit
the statute of limitations to continue to run on persons that we believe
to be drug traffickers, in effect, to protect drug traffickers and
their drug lords that are profiting from the illicit drug trafficking in
the United States and specifically in my State of Arkansas.
That is to say, that little children in Arkansas are buying drugs
because we are unable to discover sufficient evidence to bring indictments
to prevent that from happening. I don't think you intend to do that, but
that is the effect of the Government and the bureaucracy not cooperating
with law enforcement officials.
It is a serious problem in this country, and one of the most serious
obstacles to attacking the problem, the war on drugs, is the bureaucracy,
the rules and regulations, and the intentional prevention of the submission
of evidence that we have heard from the witnesses today.
I would just like to ask a couple of questions about those witnesses,
because my committee, together with the Subcommittee on Crime, and in
cooperation with this committee, will be subpoenaing you gentlemen in the
future if that is necessary to get all the information. We hope that is
not necessary.
Mr. Murphy, did you know that since I talked to you in March my
effort to acquire access to needed information to pursue a prosecution
in Arkansas has not been forthcoming?
Mr. MURPHY. Mr. Alexander, I am aware that there has been a serious
issue as to what information, if any, we could provide to you.
As you well pointed out, on the day that I testified before the House
Appropriations Committee, we met and I thought we had - a good
communication privately.
Mr. ALEXANDER. We had a good communication. We can stipulate that, but
we still don't have any evidence.
Mr. MURPHY. I understand that.
I thought you showed me a letter that you wrote to the Regional
Commissioner in Southeast and I also recall that I apologized to you for
not responding to it. I had.
Mr. ALEXANDER. You are correct. The letter was to the Regional
Commissioner in Atlanta.
I am mistaken about that. I will submit a copy of the letter for
the record.
[The information follows:]
BILL ALEXANDER, M.C. 233 CANNON HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING
ARKANSAS WASHINGTON, DC 20515
(202) 225-4078
COMMITTEE ON
APPRORIATIONS
Congress of the United States
September 26, 1988
Mr. Thomas A. Cardoza
Regional Comissioner
Internal Revenue Service
Southeast Region
Post Office Box 926 (Room 600)
Atlanta, Georgia 30370
Dear Mr. Cardoza:
Please be advised that the General Accounting Office Congressman
Willlam Hughes, Senator John Kerry and I are conducting a
Congressional investigation of illegal drug trafficking from
Latin American countries to the United States.
Of particular interest is the use of Mena Airport in Arkansas
as a staging area for the transport of arms to, and drugs
from Central America.
One of your special operations coordinators, Bill Duncan has
information relevant to this investigation. Accordingly, I herewith
request that you authorize Bill Duncan to share all relevant
information pertaining to the Congressional investigation which
I have herein described.
Thanking you for your cooperation in this matter, I am
Sincerely yours,
BILL ALEXANDER
Member of Congress
BA/js
Mr. MURPHY. The apology for being nonresponsive to the letter, whether
you wrote to the Regional Commissioner, to me, or to the Commissioner, we
should have responded.
Mr. ALEXANDER. It has been a year.
Mr. MURPHY. I know that.
Mr. ALEXANDER. The statute of limitations is running on the criminals.
Mr. MURPHY. I understand, but I had Ms. Morin with me. I am going to ask
Mr. Keightley to respond to the question because there were issues that,
upon the advice of counsel I gave directions that if there was some way that
we could legally cooperate with your committee and provide information to
you, that was my objective.
Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Murphy, I understand that you have rules and
regulations to operate by and we don't want to violate those rules.
It is not our purpose to do that.
Our purpose is to try to stop drugs from coming into this country.
Your interpretation of your rules and regulations are, in effect,
cooperating with the drug lords. Your bureaucracy is preventing us from
waging a war on drugs.
Mr. MURPHY. Mr. Alexander, before I ask Mr. Keightley to respond, I
would like to point out to you, IRS agents, including Special Agent
Duncan when he was with us, across the country have been partners in
dealing with the war on drugs.
We have gotten much, much recognition on that and I think we can
even do more on that. I think Mr. Keightley can respond to the specifics.
Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Keightley can respond for the record.
I have heard the explanation. The basic problem here is that while I
have the highest possible clearance that the Government can provide
for secrecy - being cleared for secrets that the President and no one
else gets, I have still been denied access to information in a criminal
investigation in my State.
Now, Mr. Duncan came in here this morning and he has testified
that he was prevented from offering evidence that he thought relevant
to that investigation. In effect he has testified that he was, in effect,
ordered to perjure himseif in evidence before a grand jury.
I have other information that Mr. Duncan believes that the prevention
of his testimony before the grand jury prevented an indictment on drug
money laundering charges - very serious charges - and you were all part
of that. What we want to do is to get to the bottom of this thing so that
we are all working together to fight this war on drugs instead of
fighting one another. We are fighting one another and we ought to be out
here fighting these drug lords. Now, will you and Mr. Goldberg order all
of the agents in the Internal Revenue Service to cooperate with these
investigations and will you submit a memorandum to that effect and send
us a copy of it?
Mr. GOLDBERG. Mr. Alexander, I will make crystal clear to every one
of our employees that they are obligated to and they will cooperate
to the fullest extent of the law with your investigation and any other
investigation conducted by the Congress of the United States.
Mr. ALEXANDER. And will you put in writing to me the reason that you
have not cooperated thus far?
Mr. GOLDBERG. Mr. Alexander, I have stopped beating my wife - I don't
know whether we have cooperated or not, but I assure you I will personally
look into this matter and I will personally be on your doorstep in the
future with my report.
Mr. ALEXANDER. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 11:10:05 -0400
From: Eric Werme USG <we...@zk3.dec.com>
Subject: New Hampshire Presidential Primary pages that accept Libertarians
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
Actually, I have two:
This looks really good, much, much better than the Concord Monitor
page. Foster's Daily Democrat and The Citizen appear to have actively
searched out candidates, home pages, campaign statements and schedules.
http://unhinfo.unh.edu/unh/acad/libarts/comm/nhprimary/nhprim.html
UNH has a polling group that historically been unfriendly to Libertarians,
but this page is better than I expected. (It lists four Libertarian
candidates.)
Junk: http://www.cmonitor.com/primary/
The Concord Monitor WWW page has headers for Republicans, Democrats,
and "Others" (i.e. Colin Powell). Being in the State capitol, they
also seem more interested in big government than Libertarianism and
their WWW page reflects that.
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 11:36:00 PDT
From: "Middleton, Tony/OMIDNV" <tmid...@omidnv.ms.ch2m.com>
Subject: Paranoid Delusions
To: "'cla...@cnct.com'" <cla...@cnct.com>
:Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 21:16:13 +0500
:From: cla...@cnct.com
:Subject: USA! WHITE HOUSE DOWNLOADING PORNO!
:To: usa-f...@webcom.com, sne...@world.std.com
:
:I've got some concerns about this log from (I assume) netcom
:
:COULD THIS BE A TROLL OR TRAP???
Clark...
You are not reading those logs right! Look:
: Mon Sep 11 10:17:44 1995 1 gatekeeper.eop.gov 4285
: /pub/ac/acornbks/acorn.html a _ o a ro...@gatekeeper.eop.gov ftp 0 *
This is an ftp log. Ftp users can use any name they wish when they log in
anonymous. This user chose ro...@gatekeeper.eop.gov as his password for
anonymous ftp. He could just have well chosen sp...@startrek.net. Of
course we can verify the site in the previous line. Whether or not he is
root is anybody's guess. This has nothing do with firewalls. He did not
login as root, but as anonymous like everyone else does.
Try to be a tad less paranoid. Whoising a site uses the INTERNIC! The
Internic is owned by AT&T. I doubt if AT&T reports anything they don't have
to the feds. Since you were afraid to check out the address, I did:
:Executive Office of the President USA (EOP-DOM)
EOP.GOV
:Executive Office of the President USA (EOP-HST) EOP.GOV
198.137.241.100
:
:The InterNIC Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet Information
:(Networks, ASN's, Domains, and POC's).
:Please use the whois server at nic.ddn.mil for MILNET Information.
This kind of baseless paranoid, conspiricy crap does not belong on the
Libernet Mailing list. In fact, Libernet Digest v112#2 is one of the worst
I have ever seen. Almost the entire thing was utter nonsense with no basis
in reality. What is happening here??? Has the party been taken over by
right-wing paranoid conspiricy freaks? I sure hope not. Where are the
discussions about prohibition? About anti-privacy legislation? About
wefare reform? About sexual freedom? About religious freedom?
This list is really going down hill. If we don't bring it up to par, who
will?
Tony Middleton
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 06:52:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Carol Moore <cmo...@CapAccess.org>
Subject: Senate Waco Hearings Postponed
To: Libernet <libe...@Dartmouth.EDU>
SENATE WACO HEARINGS POSTPONED
On September 19, when I dropped of galleys of my book THE
DAVIDIAN MASSACRE to the Senate Judiciary Committee the
receptionist confirmed that the Senate would hold Waco
hearings Tuesday and Wednesday, September 26 and 27. However,
this was also the day former Hostage Rescue Team commander
Richard Rogers--the mastermind of the 4/19/93 massacre of the
Davidians--took the Fifth Amendment and did not appear at the
Weaver hearings. (Some wicked person has even circulated a
"Wanted" poster with Rogers photo on it.) So though I was at
the hearing with my FREE THE BRANCH DAVIDIANS t-shirt, Rogers
was not.
Next day I called to check again--and low, the hearings
had been postponed until the end of October! (While I was in
the Committee office the receptionist took two calls about the
Waco hearings and noted them in his little book, so calls do
have some small affect.)
Personal comment-- a few things I told Senators in the
cover letter I distributed with galleys of my book:
Members of the Senate subcommittee investigating the Ruby
Ridge incident have refused to swallow whole-hog the lies and
disinformation being dished out by U.S. Marshals, BATF and FBI
agents. Yet the Senate plans only two days of hearings on Waco.
The Senate can do better. Millions of Americans believe that unless
there are prosecutions of responsible BATF and FBI agents for the deaths
of 82 Davidians, the U.S. Congress is telling federal law
enforcement it may murder dozens of Americans, cover up their
crimes and get away with it. Such belief strengthens the
conviction that citizens must organize to protect themselves
against out-of-control law enforcement.
These hearings will not be the end of American's efforts
to get to the truth: there are civil suits; there is the
possibility of a new trial for five Davidians on the aiding
and abetting manslaughter charge; there are more upcoming
television and book expos. And there is the certainty that
April 19 will become a symbol of federal crimes--and reaction
to those crimes--that will cause more and more civil division
over the years unless there is justice for the Davidian
victims, dead and living.
I also told them in a P.S.: "I hear the joke federal
agents tell is that if you want to do a massacre, don't go to
Idaho, they might prosecute--go to Texas! I hope that you
will invite Senator Gramm or Hutchinson to be a part of your
committee."
JOHNNY COCHRAN ON WACO:
O.J. Attorney Johnny Cochran said on 9/13/95 regarding
FBI agent Whitehurst's possible testimony about fabrication of
evidence in FBI labs:
"When you have an agent who has a propensity, a
proclivity to testify falsely, to perjure him or herself, to
fabricate evidence in high profile cases, whether it's Waco or
the New York Trade Center, they don't just do it in one case.
It becomes a pattern, because they can get away with it."
Between Mark Fuhrman's talk of fabricating evidence and
this new evidence the FBI does so, it would serve law
enforcement and prosecutors right that O.J. gets off cause
the jury just couldn't trust the government personnel and evidence!
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 08:19:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: "James A. Haworth" <fre...@fff.org>
Subject: September issue of Freedom Daily
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
The September issue of Freedom Daily is on-line. Articles include
"Killing Noncombatants," by Sheldon Richman of the Cato Institute, and
"The War Crimes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki," by Bumper Hornberger,
president of the Future of Freedom Foundation.
URL is http://www.fff.org/freedom/daily/index.html.
James Haworth
_________________________
The Future of Freedom Foundation, fre...@fff.org
11350 Random Hills Road, Suite 800, Fairfax, VA 22030
phone: 703/934-6101, fax: 703/803-1480
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 08:51:40 -0700
From: swa...@ix.netcom.com (Shelly Waxman)
Subject: Steve Forbes For President
To: libe...@Dartmouth.EDU
He is the best candidate libertarians could ever hope for. He is the closest
member of the establishment to the libertarian philosophy. He is worthy of
support. He will do what he says he is going to do.
Checkout my blockbuster online book, "In the Teeth of the Wind--Memoirs of a
Libertarian Lawyer." http://www.libertarian.com/shelly/ Listed by Point
Communications, Inc. as top 5% of all Web Pages.
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 14:17:18 -0700
From: James Roderick <c...@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Tesla Weapon in Alaska
To: c...@oak.oakland.edu
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 12:32:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Sidwell <sid...@rain.org>
Subject: USA! President Powell
To: sne...@world.std.com
Sheesh!
So many comments against Powell! Typical proof that criticism is the
first reaction to any new idea....
Be that as it may, please offer up any other candidate nor on the
political scene who has a greater chance than Powell of being elected.
Just a name please - no political commentary necessary.
Let's see who we come up with...!
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On Mon, 18 Sep 1995 3r...@pinn.net wrote:
:
: Yea, and if you want a lackey of the CFR/Trilateralism/UN axis support
: this guy. He's attractive because he transcends race but that is hardly a
: recommendation to be president.
: And as far as our great victory in the Gulf War, I suggest that anyone
: who believes that, read "Second Front" by John MacArthur (editor of
: Harper's Magazine.) That puts to rest the media-generated notion that the
: US military fought some terrible stupendous enemy. Iraq was nothing but a
: paper tiger who couldn't beat a lowly country like Iran with US support.
: It's amazing to me how much so many people buy everything hook, line and
: sinker! It's no wonder the US is in a perpetual crisis- the people are
: misinformed!
:
:
: On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, My Way wrote:
:
: > Steve: What is your problem? Powell is a supporter of the UN! He is
: > wishy washy - can't make up his mind which party he agrees with, and
: > overall he was a great leader during the action of Desert Storm, etc.,
: > but that is all! That is it. Why do people like you run after someone
: > whose credentials and longevity in the political circles are null and
: > void just because he is known in some other position? THINK IT OUT.
: > Do it: MY WAY.
: >
: > P.S.: Dole has cozied to all and everything to be at the top. Is that
: > what you want, Steve?
: > d On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Steve Sidwell wrote:
: >
: > >
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 19:56:34 -0500 (EST)
From: 3r...@pinn.net
Subject: USA! President Powell
To: Steve Sidwell <sid...@rain.org>
Hey guy, just because our nation is devoid of potential presidents
doesn't make Powell attractive.
My criticism is directed at those who would declare they are against the
good old boy network et al, but yet fail to see Powell for what he is. A
lackey of Casper Weinberger is hardly a recommendation. You might
remember that Weinberger would have been indicted for Iran/Contra but was
pre-pardoned.
Read SEcond Front and you'll see what I;'m saying and others who have put
posts on these groups. Just remember that facts are never criticism,
criticism is when someone has virtually nothing to attack a person except
by innuendo or personal derision.
It may come as a shock to you and those who see "comments against Powell"
as some kind of "typical proof" would also limit free speech that our
country still has the 1st amendment...
On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, Steve Sidwell wrote:
: Sheesh!
:
: So many comments against Powell! Typical proof that criticism is the
: first reaction to any new idea....
:
: Be that as it may, please offer up any other candidate nor on the
: political scene who has a greater chance than Powell of being elected.
: Just a name please - no political commentary necessary.
:
: Let's see who we come up with...!
:
: ***********************************************************************
: Committed to bringing serious attention to the alien presence...
: ***********************************************************************
:
: On Mon, 18 Sep 1995 3r...@pinn.net wrote:
:
: >
: > Yea, and if you want a lackey of the CFR/Trilateralism/UN axis support
: > this guy. He's attractive because he transcends race but that is hardly a
: > recommendation to be president.
: > And as far as our great victory in the Gulf War, I suggest that anyone
: > who believes that, read "Second Front" by John MacArthur (editor of
: > Harper's Magazine.) That puts to rest the media-generated notion that the
: > US military fought some terrible stupendous enemy. Iraq was nothing but a
: > paper tiger who couldn't beat a lowly country like Iran with US support.
: > It's amazing to me how much so many people buy everything hook, line and
: > sinker! It's no wonder the US is in a perpetual crisis- the people are
: > misinformed!
: >
: >
: > On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, My Way wrote:
: >
: > > Steve: What is your problem? Powell is a supporter of the UN! He is
: > > wishy washy - can't make up his mind which party he agrees with, and
: > > overall he was a great leader during the action of Desert Storm, etc.,
: > > but that is all! That is it. Why do people like you run after someone
: > > whose credentials and longevity in the political circles are null and
: > > void just because he is known in some other position? THINK IT OUT.
: > > Do it: MY WAY.
: > >
: > > P.S.: Dole has cozied to all and everything to be at the top. Is that
: > > what you want, Steve?
: > > d On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Steve Sidwell wrote:
: > >
: > > >
: > > > *************************************************************************
: > > > UCC 1-207 Unsubscribe info - send to usa-forev...@webcom.com the
: > > > word unsubscribe in the body of the message. | Listowner how...@pc-man.com
: > > >
: > >
: >
:
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