Re: while circuits violently threaten parliaments, the squads often invest after the usual pains
Ziad al-Bar
: to 3,000 the number of FBI agents working counter-intelligence and counter-
: terrorism.
:
: With the new legislation, the funding for just the FBI's counter-intelli-
: gence/terror goals is now ONE BILLION DOLLARS a year, and their activities
: will rise to a LEVEL HIGHER THAN AT ANY TIME DURING THE COLD WAR.
1984 means a constant State of War.
Here's a new war: "cyberwar".
# "Head of CIA Plans Center To Protect Federal Computers"
# By Tim Weiner, The New York Times, 6/26/96
#
# John Deutch, Director of the CIA, is building a "cyberwar" center in the NSA.
#
# Mr. Deutch said cyberwar could become a 21st-century national security threat
# second only to nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
#
# "The electron," Mr. Deutch warned, "is the ultimate precision-guided weapon."
Haven't I heard bad dialogue like this on Mystery Science Theater 3000?
It is simply another in an endless series of requests for funding, for misuse
of our tax money.
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Louis Freeh's FBI:
* "FBI Scare Tactics", By Richard Moran, The New York Times, 1996
*
* When the FBI reported that serious crime declined for the fourth year
* in a row, it was still making the statistics sound worse than they
* actually were.
*
* That's because Government tends to exaggerate the violent nature of crime.
*
* According to the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, less
* than a third of the 6.6 million violent crimes committed in the U.S in 1992
* resulted in injury; most of the victims suffered only minor cuts, scratches
* or bruises.
*
* About 20 percent of them needed minor medical care; 7 percent went to
* emergency rooms. Only 1 percent of the victims were hurt seriously enough
* to require hospitalization.
*
* The incongruity arises because of the way the law defines violent crime.
*
* For example, aggravated assault is defined as either intentionally c