open letter to soc.support.fat-acceptance.moderated readers
T...@soc.support.fat-acceptance.moderated
with senior staff members at
# the White House, and the recent report by Attorney General Edwin Meese's
# Commission on Pornography came up, according to one of the participants.
#
# The commission majority had concluded that exposure to pornography "bears
# some causal relationship to the level of sexual violence, sexual coercion
# or unwanted sexual aggression," and Patrick J. Buchanan, the White House
# director of communications, proposed that the Administration use this to
# ban the sale of Playboy and Penthouse from all post exchanges on military
# bases.
#
# There was a long pause, and then, the source said, another White House
# official observed: "Well, that would certainly do wonders for our
# recruiting program."
#
# The room burst into laughter, in which President Reagan enthusiastically
# joined in, and then the idea was not raised again.
War against immigrants.
Imagine directing hospitals to turn illegal immigrant children into the police!
War against homosexuals.
When
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Ra...@soc.support.fat-acceptance.moderated
New York Times, 3/6/97
* Minister Gets Probation in Pornography Case
*
* A Baptist minister who copied child pornography images off the
* Internet received three years' probation in exchange for his
* guilty plea to a reduced charge.
*
* He must pay a $1,000 fine, forfeit his home computer, not have
* any unsupervised contact with children under 17 and undergo
* counseling.
*
* The minister, 47, was arrested in January.
*
* Computer technicians at a repair shop had found 30 pornographic
* images of children in his computer and notified the state police.
*
* The minister pleaded guilty on Monday in village court to a
* reduced obscenity count, a misdemeanor.
Of course, the Feds are not prosecuting these as misdemeanor cases.
* The New York Times, 5/10/97
* Ex-Prosecutor Indicted on Pornography Charges
*
* A former deputy district attorney who has prosecuted sex crimes has
* been indicted on child pornography charges. Peter Harned was charged
* with transporting, receiving and possessing child pornography from
* July 1995 to July 1996.
*
* Mr. Harned worked at the District Attorney's office for 11 years,
* where he handled child pornography as well as homicide cases. He
* was dismissed last summer after he was arrested on state charges
* involving child pornography. The Federal counts, which carry
* tougher penalties, will replace the state charges.
*
* The child pornography files were discovered in Mr. Harned's home
* computer when it was taken in for repair. The computer store
* alerted law enforcement officers.
Be careful what you...
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Also, there seems to be a disagreement bet
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Ra...@soc.support.fat-acceptance.moderated
dealers.
The Drug War is a great benefit for perpetuating
and expanding corrupt Governmental power.
# "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,
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Ya...@soc.support.fat-acceptance.moderated
a ten-year-old girl who reported a classmate
for having a joint was also suspended by the principal, under the school's
Zero Tolerance for drugs policy. Her offense: handling the joint to see if
the other student was kidding her before reporting the other student. The
principal said "too bad, that's what 'Zero Tolerance' means". The little
girl and her mother are shocked. [I am not making these up!!!!!]
6/18/97 NBC News Channel 4 NYC: A career teacher is forced to resign because
she thought her student was kidding about having a baggie of pot. Students
and parents are stunned. The teacher said she believed her students had better
sense than that, and since she inspected it and it smelled like oregano she
was sure they were kidding her. Students and their parents protest, the school
board asks her back, but she says no, she is too disgusted at her treatment.
Zero Tolerance victims, falling into the abyss.
State troopers really know their "business":
: Robert Fitches, a 22 year-old said in his Federal lawsuit that he was
: humiliated when state troopers ordered him to drop his pants during a
: drug search along Interstate 15 in Davis County.
: Source: Salt Lake City Tribune 7/8/95
Maybe this is an accurate analogy of why dragnet-monitoring is wrong:
: The Sheraton Boston Hotel was discovered videotaping employees changing
: clothes in locker rooms. The 1991 surveillance caught employees using
: drugs, Sheraton said. Source: Senate Labor Committee o
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Zebe...@soc.support.fat-acceptance.moderated
the ever-paranoid Militia.
I mean the ever-paranoid Military.
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Feds' Wacky Pro-GAK Logic
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Here are a couple of the wacky reasons they give for everyone wanting GAK.
o Business Will Demand It
They say setting up a GAK infrastructure will form a defacto standard for
interchange of public encryption keys, which business need for
interoperability of the various cryptography products.
Noone has clamored for crackable crypto to be the driving force
behind such a standard.
It's a very silly thing for them to assert.
* "Clinton's Encryption Plan Fits Law and Market"
* Letters to the Editor, Mickey Kantor, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 10/9/96
*
* Many companies are eager to market Key Recovery [compromised] products.
Exact same deal:
Here are the actual comments on Key Recovery's predecessor, Key Escrow:
: Charles R. Smith, master of FOIA, SOFTWAR, http://www.us.net/softwar
:
# "It is essential that the end-user's rights to and expectations
# of personal privacy be met by this technology. Multi-national
# companies are faced with strong privacy laws in many countries,
# some of which are far strict
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