open letter to soc.men.moderated readers
Clif...@soc.men.moderated
by the ECHELON system.
The first is that the magnitude of the global network is a product of
decades of intense Cold War activity. Yet with the end of the Cold War
it has not been demobilized and budgets have not been significantly cut.
Indeed the network has grown in power and reach. Yet the public
justifications, for example that 'economic intelligence is now more
important', do not even begin to explain why this huge spy system
should be maintained. In the early 1980s the Cold War rhetoric was
extreme and global war was seriously discussed and planned for.
In the 1990s, the threat of global war has all but disappeared and
none of the allies faces the remotest serious military threat.
The second point about the ECHELON capabilities is that large parts of the
system, while hiding behind the Cold War for their justification, were
never primarily about the Cold War at all.
The UKUSA alliance did mount massive operations against the Soviet Union
and other 'communists', but other elements of the worldwide system, such
as the interception of Intelsat communications, microwave networks and
many regional satellites, were not aimed primarily at the Russians, the
Iraqis or the North Koreans.
Then, and now, they are targeting groups which do not pose any physical
threat to the UKUSA allies at all.
But they are ideal to use against political opponents, econ
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Ric...@soc.men.moderated
over Potts' role in
Ruby Ridge prompted Freeh to remove him from the position, to politically
cover his own tush.
Potts and four other top FBI officials have been suspended while a federal
criminal probe investigates the destruction of documents related to the
incident.
A total of twelve agents were disciplined. None have yet been prosecuted.
The Federal government subsequently named after a U.S. Marshal who was
killed, but who also shot Randy Weaver's son dead in the back: a new
Marshals training center.
The Federal government's behavior in the incident can only be described as
sickening: targeting a citizen (a veteran, no less) who committed no crime
AND EVEN HAD NO CRIMINAL RECORD (but had politically incorrect views) for
blackmail, then acting vengefully when he wouldn't act as their rat fink.
Shoot-to-kill. Sniper team. Military fatigues.
A terrorizing organization: how else to explain the cruel cruel taunting.
A terrorist organization by virtue of shoot-to-kill orders.
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Waco.
Gun charges.
The deaths of all those people were 80% the fault of the government.
I say that even though I belie
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A...@soc.men.moderated
decided it was time to go through her office on the
: sixth floor of Main Justice.
:
: The deeper Scruggs got into the FISA files, the more uneasy he grew.
:
: Reading the FISA applications in Lawton's files, Scruggs began finding
: errors. The volume of FISA cases was so heavy that the lawyers could spend
: only so much time on each one.
:
: "The review process to prevent factual and legal errors was virtually
: nonexistent," Scruggs recalled.
:
: In high school, Mary Lawton had won a debate about the meaning of the
: U.S. Constitution.
Nor was it an aberration: the 1980s joined the 1960s and 1970s with yet
another massive use of this Orwellian technology for political purposes.
And these are when they were caught.
It's currently used for the "Drug War", a highly political endeavor.
Of course, once CISPES was designated as a terrorist organization...
: The Washington Post Magazine, June 23 1996
:
* The CISPES investigation expanded. The FBI conducted a MASSIVE NATIONWIDE
* investigation that put under surveillance ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED THIRTY
* liberal groups, many of them religious or political organizations.
By definition, ECHELON surveillance of 1,330 groups is NOT an "aberration".
The state of Congressional oversight (and punishment of FISA violations)
is horrifying.
Not only did the NSA/FBI use FISA in a criminal manner, they then cross-
referenced through everyone ev
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Ra...@soc.men.moderated
For NSA, it is Fort Meade in Maryland, USA.
* "Brain of the Firm", Stafford Beer, 1986, ISBN 0 471 27687 1
*
* Project Cybercyn consisted of four major tools:
*
* Cybernet, a national network of industrial communications to a centre
* in Santiago, through which anyone could consult anyone else.
*
* Cyberstride, the suite of computer programs needed to provide
* statistical filtration for all homeostatic loops at all levels
* of recursion, and provide alerts via an 'arousal filter'.
*
* Checo, the model of the Chilean economy, with simulation capacity.
*
* Opsroom, a new environment for decision, and dependent for its
* existence on the existence of the other three.
*
* Cybernet was a system whereby every single factory in the country,
* contained within the nationalized social economy, could be in
* communication with a computer.
*
* The intention of Cybernet was to make computer power available to the
* workers' committees in every factory.
*
* How could this be done?
*
* The basic idea was that crucial indices of performance in every plant
* should be transmitted daily to the computers, where they would be
* processed and examined for any kind of important signal that they
* contained. If there was any sort of warning implied by these data,
* then an alerting signal would be sent back to the managers of the
* plant concerned.
What are 'arousal filter' and 'homeostatic loops'?
The scope of Cybernetics is, in a word, awesome.
A cyberneticist can talk from atoms to cells to nervous systems, to
management of a company, country, world, solar system.
Whether an organism is mechanical, biological or social, it requires
a feedback mechanism to survive.
Your nervous system
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Ron...@soc.men.moderated
-smuggling charges be returned to face trial here,
# American officials insisted United States extradition laws be followed.
#
# Hamidullah Kansi said, "What is American law? Is it fair?
# Does American law say you go anywhere and pick up anybody?"
According to the U.S. Supreme Court: yep.
We don't have to respect other countries' laws.
We are the New World Order.
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And judges have agreed we should be mass monitored for fluid correctness.
Which unwittingly added to the beating of the War drums, not in any way
solving the drug problem...judges themselves are now monitored for
politically correct mandatory minimum prison sentences.
What goes around, comes around...
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# "Minister Who Sought Peace Dies in a Botched Drug Raid"
# By Sara Rimer, The New York Times, March 28, 1994
#
# Boston, March 27--- Tensions between the police and black Bostonians
# intensified after the murder of Carol Stuart in 1989. Charles Stuart
# said that a black robber had killed his pregnant wife.
#
# Police subsequently stopped AND SEARCHED many black men in the Mission
# Hill neighborhood, where the shooting had occurred, and eventually
# arrested a suspect, a black man with a criminal record.
#
# A month later, Mr. Stuart was implicated by his brother in the murder,
# and he committed suicide by jumping into Boston Harbor.
#
# An elderly Methodist minister, described as a quiet and dignified man
# who has for decades comforted and counseled people throughout the
# Caribbean and struggled against drug abuse on the islands, died Friday,
# when a SWAT team burst into his apartment unannounced, looking for drugs.
#
# They misread a floor plan by "an inform
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