open letter to misc.test.moderated readers
B...@misc.test.moderated
Persisting, a BATF informant persuaded Weaver, a DECORATED GREEN BERET
VETERAN of Vietnam with NO CRIMINAL RECORD, to sell him two shotguns,
but insisted that Weaver saw the barrels off one-quarter inch short of
the legal limit.
Monitoring him, they knew Mr. Weaver needed money for his family.
Why did the government target Mr. Weaver?
Blackmail.
One of the FBI's favorite activities is spying on political organizations.
They wanted to use him to infiltrate white supremacists groups for the
government. Or face prosecution.
When Weaver refused, he was indicted on guns charges. He was sent two
conflicting court appearance dates. He became paranoid the Government
was out to get him, so he didn't show up. [He was eventually acquitted
of all charges except the original not showing up in court!]
To justify a militaristic retaliation, BATF agents lied to the U.S.
attorney's office. BATF agents claimed that Weaver had a criminal record
and that he was a suspect in several bank robberies.
Both charges were fabrications, even accord
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Or...@misc.test.moderated
all the
arrangements with the 'partner' agencies.
P110 The GCSB introduces the new trainees to the world of codebreaking by
advising them to read two of the greatest exposes of signals intelligence:
James Bamford's 'The Puzzle Palace' and David Kahn's 'The Code Breakers'.
P22
In 1984, Glen Singleton of the NSA was formally appointed GCSB's Deputy
Director of Policy and Plans. Having an American inside the GCSB serving as
a foreign liaison officer would be one thing: allowing an officer from another
country to direct policy and planning seems extraordinary.
[ Unless you think of the NSA as the New World Order. ]
P28-29
Intelsat 7s can carry 90,000 individual phone or fax circuits at once. All
'written' messages are currently exploited by the GCSB. The other UKUSA
agencies monitor phone calls as well.
The key to interception of satellite communications is powerful computers that
search through these masses of messages for ones of interest.
The intercept stations take in millions of messages intended for the
legitimate earth stations served by the satellite and then use computers
to search f
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Ang...@misc.test.moderated
* orders every detective squad in New York City to collect yearbooks from
* the high schools and junior high schools in its precinct as an aid in
* investigations.
*
* For mugshots.
*
* Lionel Oglesby, 15, of Brooklyn, a sophomore at Washington Irving High
* School in Manhatten, said, "If I haven't done anything wrong, why should
* my picture be taken? Just the thought of having my picture in the Police
* Department makes me uncomfortable.
*
* Another student [NBC TV] said "They've ruined my high school memories that
* the yearbook represented. When I see my yearbook now, that's all I think
* about."
*
* Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a former Federal Prosecutor, said the yearbooks
* had no constitutional protection. "Too bad. It's not illegal," he said
* at a City Hall news conference on NY1 TV.
What is this?
* "E-Z Pass Living Up To Its Name", By Jane Gross, NYT, 3/25/1997
*
* 570,000 people have decided to use the new E-Z Pass system for commuting
* tolls. Lanes are being switched over to accept only the E-Z Pass.
*
* Under a five-state, 10-agency consortium agreement, E-Z Pass will work
* from Buffalo to Baltimore. [NY, NJ, PA, MD, DE]
*
* Users receive a minutely itemized statement each month on their trips.
*
* The E-Z Pass is a transponder people put in their windshield.
*
* Concerns about privacy were met with assurances that information about
* commuters' whereabouts would be released only under court subpoena.
People are buying the transponders because they eliminated the regular
discount tokens and moved the discount availability to E-Z Pass.
Wow.
It does have a kind-of Singapore feel to it...being able to track cars.
Well, it's not like they're going to go nutcake and
install a monitoring grid over the entire metropolis.
They wouldn't do that, right?
: "Above the Law", by David Burnham, ISBN 0-684-80699-1, 1996
:
: In New York City, the FBI
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Ste...@misc.test.moderated
cryptography guru at Community ConneXion.
:
: Then there's Kerrey's statement saying "there
: will be" restrictions on what encryption products
: you're permitted to buy from overseas firms. This
: contradicts Justice Department official Michael
: Vatis, who told me at a conference this year that
: the Clinton administration did not want import
: controls. Though Cabe Franklin, spokesperson
: for Trusted Information Systems, says Kerrey was
: misunderstood. "In the briefing afterwards, I found
: out he didn't mean that at all. He meant import
: controls, but more regulation than restriction. The
: same way they wouldn't let a car with faulty
: steering controls in the country. He meant more
: quality control," Franklin says. (I don't know
: about you, but I'm not convinced.)
[
What a bunch of hooey.
]
:
: Kerrey's sudden interest in cryptologic arcana
: likely stems from a recent addition to his staff:
: policy aide Chris McLean.
:
: McLean is hardly a friend of the Net. While in
: former Sen. Jim Exon's (D-Neb.) office, McLean
: drafted the notorious Communications Decency
: Act and went on to prompt Exon to derail
: "Pro-CODE" pro-encryption legislation last fall.
: Then, not long after Mc
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J...@misc.test.moderated
person had 220 pounds of cocaine.
A corrupt justice system from the U.S. Attorney General
all the way down to the lowest individual agents.
We're becoming more like Mexico every year.
----
* Internet posting...
*
* Joe Pinson
* 30 years old, MEDICAL MARIJUANA user.
* FIVE YEARS MANDATORY MINIMUM, FIRST OFFENSE.
*
* Mr. Pinson was a part-time bus driver for the Jewish Hospital before
* his arrest. He grew up suffering from severe asthma and tried all
* kinds of medicines to alleviate his problem. At age 18, he discovered
* that smoking marijuana made it easier for him to breathe. For the
* next decade he smoked marijuana and was able to enjoy activities he
* had never been able to do before.
*
* In 1993, at age 30, Joe decided to grow his own marijuana in the attic
* of the house he shared with his mother. He purchased some growing
* equipment from an indoor gardening store that was under surveillance
* by the DEA. The DEA traced Joe to his home, checked his electric
* bills to see if it was unusually high, and then flew over his house at
* 2:00 a.m. in a helicopter equipped with an infrared device. The
* infrared equipment showed a white light emanating from Joe's roof,
* indicating the escape of a large amount of heat, while the other roof-
* tops were black.
*
* Joe was arrested and took his case to trial. The jury found Joe
* guilty of cultivating marijuana, but not guilty of possessing it with
* intent to distribute.
I said before the Drug War was highly politicized.
It's a matter of politics over matter when t
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Ste...@misc.test.moderated
UNITED
* STATES CITIZENS FROM CRIME.
A constant state of war, for 'national security and national safety' reasons.
The novel '1984', about oppressive government, contains three key features:
o Massive surveillance mechanism
o Constant state of War
o Physical and psychological terror to
control targeted individuals and groups
The constant state of War is used by politicians to
control us little people. As it was in the book 1984.
Did you know the U.S. has been in a state of Drug War since the 1960s?
This section of the manifesto is about constantly beating the Drum of War...
* "1984", author George Orwell, 1949, ISBN 0-679-41739-7
*
* Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not
* been at war...war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking
* it had not always been the same war.
*
* The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.
* "Taking Control - Politics in the Information Age"
* Authors Morely Winograd & Dudley Buffa, 1996, ISBN 0-8050-4489-2
*
* From Richard Nixon's law and order campaign in 1968 to George Bush's
* infamous Willie Horton ad in 1988, Republicans have attempted to define
* their differences with Democrats by a no-nonsense position on crime and
* criminals.
*
* It helped Republicans win the presidency, and it also gave them the
* tool by which to control the Democratic majorities in Congress that
* might allow their opponents to label them as soft on crime.
*
* No Dem
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