open letter to rec.gambling.blackjack.moderated readers
El...@rec.gambling.blackjack.moderated
privacy and constitutional rights of Americans but to our very lives!
*
* A Hitler, a Pol Pot, or a Stalin would have loved to have had the
* microchips, surveillance cameras, lasers, computers, satellites, weapons,
* wiretap circuits and communications gadgetry of today's Dick Tracy Police
* State.
*
* Perhaps FBI Director Louis Freeh said it best shortly after his
* appointment to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1993. Referring
* to the incredible array of computerized control and battle gadgetry
* available to federal law enforcement, Freeh, stressing cooperation
* between his own FBI and the other alphabet police agencies, sardonically
* remarked, "LET'S SHARE OUR TOYS."
*
* Dick Tracy, of course, was a good guy. But Dick Tracy would have
* recognized as unconstitutional the worldwide comprehensive Orwellian
* system that has been installed, and reject it as a menace to true law
* and order.
! "Welfare Recipients Lose Benefits Through Glitches in Computers"
! By Joe Sexton, The New York Times, 5/16/96
!
! The fingerprint-imaging system that is a central element of the Giuliani
! administration's effort to crack down on welfare fraud has resulted in
! hundreds of recipients cases being closed.
!
! The public advocate's office has been inundated with complaints from
! improper case closings.
!
! The failure seems to stem from the local offices not transmitting the
! fingerprints to Albany's central computer. This resulted in AUTOMATICALLY
! TERMINATING BENEFITS OF PEOPLE THE COMPUTER THOUGHT WERE NOT FINGERPRINTED.
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Prior to the fingerprint "final solution" of control over us, there were
other attempts---which would have required a vote---which tried to roll
out a National ID Card.
* "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs, 1996, ISBN 1-884302-02-5
*
* Since total and absolute control can be obtained only by
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She...@rec.gambling.blackjack.moderated
happy to steal money from
* grandmothers. In fact, the IRS can get your bank records WITHOUT YOUR
* PERMISSION.
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: ftp ftp.fourmilab.ch, cd /pub/kelvin/documents, get unicard.doc
For more than a decade, the United States Internal Revenue Service
has allowed taxpayers with only regular wage income and the
standard deduction to simply sign their return and have the IRS
calculate the tax. With increased reporting of all financial
transactions to the IRS by banks, stockbrokers, mutual funds, real
estate title companies, etc., IRS officials have stated on several
occasions over the last few years that the day when the
overwhelming number of taxpayers could have their taxes calculated
automatically was not very far in the future.
]
* Again, telling people to get a "social security" number was
* about CONTROL, not "protecting" us. Who is in control now? (Did you
* know you are not REQUIRED to have or use a social security number by ANY
* law?)
*
* Being required to pay money to the state for these licenses means
* that licensing is also another form of TAX. Did YOU get to vote on
* whether the police could "require" you to give up your finge
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Br...@rec.gambling.blackjack.moderated
have been systematically denied the information
required to do that job.
If a democratic society wants to control its secret agencies, it is essential
that the public and politicians have the information and the will to do so.
P113
Good encryption systems, such as PGP, developed privately by American Phil
Zimmerman, are publicly available, although they are still used only by
relatively few people in the know.
The UKUSA agencies have been attempting to curb the spread of this technology,
which is a major threat to their influence, so far without enough success to
stop it.
It remains to be seen how much the public can find a technological answer to
maintaining privacy in a world with systems like ECHELON.
*** end of 'Secret Power' excerpt
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Throughout the Cold War, the United States government pounded into us again
and again how Russia and China were evil because they monitored and controlled
the political expression of their people, had sham laws and sham courts, all
dedicated to maintaining the power of the all-important State.
How the philosophy of communism was the rights of the individual were
subservient to the needs of the State, as determined by the State.
i.e. the antithesis of constitutional democracy
Ironically, it was the United States that built
the ultimate Orwellian surveillance mechanism.
There was no public discussion about it.
And used sham laws: Executive Orders and Congressional legislation.
To create a secret agency and a secret sham court.
Used repeatedly to control lawful domestic political protest.
The Soviet Union and China we were told to fear.
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Part 2:
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"Smoke and Mirrors---The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure"
# By Dan Baum, ISBN 0-316-08412-3, 1997
#
# The War on Drugs made the criminal justice system one of the top growth
# industries during the eighties and nineties.
#
# Police jobs at all levels of government swelled by 36 percent and prison
# jobs by 86 percent during the Reagan years alone, while overall government
# employment rose by only 16 percent. Federal prosecutors doubled under Bush.
# For those in the enforcement trades, the War on Drugs was boom time.
#
# For everybody else, the period was marked by a commensurate increase in
# police intrusion. There are rarely victims or witnesses in drug crimes.
#
# Drug use usually takes place in private, and drug dealing occurs between
# a willing seller and a willing buyer.
#
# So to wage the Drugs War an expanding army of police had to use ever more
# wiretaps, dog sniffs, snitches, warrantless searches, surveillance, and
# undercover operations.
#
# The administration elected on a promise to remove government from people's
# lives had turned the country---in one law professor's phrase---into a
# "society of suspects."
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War #2 - Guns
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# www.gunowners.org
#
# The Police even pointed a machine gun at the
# head of Mrs. Kuriatnk's six-year-old daughter.
Actu
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Cha...@rec.gambling.blackjack.moderated
government views us little people: all are potentially guilty.
The government hysteria over drugs has led to students being suspended
for having Advil, under school Zero Tolerance for drugs policy.
Reefer madness leads to Advil insanity.
It is a "gateway" madness. ;-)
No wonder kids don't respect the government's anti-drug crusades.
They are subject to random drug testing if they want to play sports.
* Boston Globe, June 12, 1997
*
* PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - A full-time plainclothes police officer and
* drug-sniffing dogs will be put to work at Portsmouth High School to
* control drug use. The plan also calls for volunteer drug testing of
* pupils and creating a Scholastic Crimeline, a tip service for the
* kids to snitch on friends, parents.
1984 means a constant State of War.
The government is totally nuts, hooking our flesh up to machines to verify
the pureness of our "precious bodily fluids" [Dr. Strangelove].
Isn't a government demand that our flesh be logically hooked together with
machines the definition of 'cyborg'?
* "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1
*
* A new billboard has appeared in Ventura, California, promoting the
* "Zero Tolerance" campaign. It says: "Help a friend, send him to jail."
$ "Gingrich Suggests Tough Drug Measure", NYT, August 27, 1995
$
$ Speaker Gingrich said he would ask Congress to enact legislation imposing
$ the death penalty on drug smugglers, and suggested MASS EXECUTIONS of
$ people convicted under the law might prove an effective deterrent.
$
$ Mr. Gingrich told about 1,500 people at a youth football and cheerleading
$ jamboree, "And they'd have only one chance to appeal, then we'd kill them
$ within 18 months."
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