-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- AN AMERICAN POLICE STATE- Don McAlvaney http://www.mcalvany.com/samples/sample_APS_W.html Without the card, you will not be able to travel on airplanes, as this will become the new ID required to board domestic flights across the nation. [ED. NOTE: Already airline personnel are demanding that your picture ID (now required to get on a plane) must be government issued - either state or federal.] There is even a proposal by the Department of Health and Human Services, recommending the establishment of the Unique Patient Identifier. It would have a person's entire medical record stored in a national database. The list of other daily activities for which the national ID card could be required is far too long to include here.Biblically, the question comes to mind as to whether this is the forerunner to the Mark of the Beast as detailed in the book of Revelation: "He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and talk and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." (Rev. 13:15-17, NKJV) Regardless of what rapture version you believe, we must still consider this question. Is this the mark or a precursor? Honestly ask yourself, "How much further would it be to place a microchip under the skin in the forehead or hand?" I think we would agree that it is not a giant leap. [End of Article.] - Monetary and Economic Review - FAMC, Inc. - 3500 JFK Pkwy, Ft. Collins, CO 80525An odd mix of groups combined in September to oppose the National Drivers License ID (i.e., the ACLU, Christian Coalition, Libertarian Party, the CATO Institute, etc. and the card program has been temporarily postponed. In a State of Emergency due to Y2K, terrorism, etc., Clinton could quickly move to implement the ID card issuance - in spite of present Congressional objections.2. BANKS ABOUT TO START SPYING ON YOU FOR BIG BROTHER - The FDIC issued rules in early December that, if implemented, will turn banks - to an even greater extent than they already are, into surveillance agents for the government. As the Orange County Register (12/15/98) wrote in an article entitled: "Enforcement Banking:" The rules would make mandatory a similar, voluntary program called `Know Your Customers' at federally chartered banks and extend that program to state-chartered banks that aren't FDIC members but have FDIC insurance, and to other institutions. Specifically, the regulation `would require each nonmember bank to develop a program designed to determine the identity of its customers; determine its customers' sources of funds; determine the normal and expected transactions of its customers; monitor account activity for transactions that are inconsistent with those normal and expected transactions; and report any transactions of its customers that are determined to be suspicious, in accordance with the FDIC's existing suspicious activities reporting regulation,' according to the FDIC's summary of the proposed rule. It was published Dec. 7 in the Federal Register. Members of an alliance forming against the rule include the conservative Free Congress Foundation as well as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The federal government already requires that banks report cash transactions of $10,000 or more, a requirement justified as a way to catch money-laundering drug dealers. In addition, banks are supposed to report patterns of suspicious activity, such as repeated cash transactions just under the $10,000 limit. But economist Richard Rahn, CEO of Novacon and author of the forthcoming book `The End of Money,' believes the regulations will substantially increase the cost of doing business and are another example of government asking the private sector to do its investigative work in catching criminals in the illegal drug trade. Do you really want your bank wondering whether or not your account activity is `suspicious' on an ever-larger variety of grounds?On 11/23/98, World Net Daily carried an article by David Bresnahan entitled: "Big Brother Banks? FDIC Has Snooping Plans," which wrote: Are you a potential criminal? Are you a threat to banks, airlines, a potential spy, or perhaps an IRS tax protester? The government would like to know and they are about to force banks to be their detectives. The federal government wants banks to investigate you. Soon your banker will know more about you than anyone else in town. Banks must not only determine your correct identity, they must also know how you make your money, and how you spend it. Once you establish a pattern of deposits and withdrawals, banks must inform federal agencies when you deviate.Bank customers may soon find themselves explaining to the FBI, Internal Revenue Service, and the Drug Enforcement Agency why they made a $15,000 deposit to their bank account. According to the current Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation plans, banks will soon establish profiles of their customers and report deviations from those profiles. If you sell a car, for example, and place the proceeds in your account while you shop for a new one, a red flag may go off in the bank computer. Such a situation puts law abiding citizens in a situation where they must prove they are innocent, says Scott McDonald of the watchdog group Fight the Fingerprint. A recent announcement by the FDIC provides for citizen comment prior to implementation of their new banking regulations. The deadline for comments is Dec. 27, 1998. The FDIC is proposing to issue a regulation requiring insured nonmember banks to develop and maintain `Know Your Customer' programs, according to a recent FDIC information package sent to Congress to provide notice of proposed rulemaking, and to banks for comment.As the FDIC document wrote: "By requiring insured nonmember banks to determine the identity of their customers, as well as to obtain knowledge regarding the legitimate activities of their customers, the proposed regulation will reduce the likelihood that insured nonmember banks will become unwitting participants in illicit activities conducted or attempted by their customers. It will also level the playing field between institutions that already have adopted formal `Know Your Customer' programs and those that have not. Many banks across the country have already begun to implement such programs, according to the FDIC. A quick search of the Internet found many stories in press accounts of problems reported at such banks. There have been a number of stories dealing with banks requiring fingerprints to open accounts and to cash checks. There are several lawsuits presently underway testing the right of banks to make that requirement. The FDIC is selling the planned regulations by pointing out the need for prevention of financial and other crime." By identifying and, when appropriate, reporting such transactions in accordance with existing suspicious activity reporting requirements, financial institutions are protecting their integrity and are assisting the efforts of the financial institution regulatory agencies and law enforcement authorities to combat illicit activities at such institutions, says the FDIC.The proposed regulation is, according to FDIC spokesperson Carol A. Mesheske, authorized by current law. It comes from the statutory authority granted the FDIC under section 8(s)(1) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 18189s(1), as amended by section 259(a)(1) of the Crime Control Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-647). The FDIC claims that the law requires them to develop regulations to require banks to establish and maintain internal procedures reasonably designed to ensure and monitor compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act. Effective `Know Your Customer' programs serve to facilitate compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act. The proposed regulations will mandate that all banks insured by the FDIC must maintain an intelligence gathering department that screens out customers and keeps an eye on existing customers. Before you decide to move your money to a credit union, you should know that the FDIC is not the only federal organization making such plans. Each of the other Federal bank supervisory agencies is proposing to adopt substantially identical regulations covering state member and national banks, federally-chartered branches and agencies of foreign banks, savings associations, and credit unions. There also have been discussions with the Federal regulators of non-bank financial institutions, such as broker dealers, concerning the need to propose similar rules governing the activities of these non-bank institutions, reports FDIC attorney Karn L. Main in the proposal.Current customers will be subjected to the new regulation in the same way new customers will be scrutinized. The FDIC does not wish to permit any loop hole which would leave any bank customer unidentified or unsupervised. Each bank will create profiles. The first profile will determine the amount of risk a potential customer might present by opening an account. The system of profiling potential customers will be different from one bank to the next, since the FDIC does not provide a uniform program. The purpose of the profile is to identify potential customers who might use a bank account for funds obtained through criminal activity.The next profile will be one that is used by automated computers to determine when suspicious activity is taking place in an account. When activity in the account does not fit the profile, banks will notify federal authorities so they can investigate. Banks are expected to identify their customers, determine normal and expected transactions, monitor account transactions, and determine if a particular transaction should be reported.The FDIC has sent copies of the proposal to all banks and is asking for input. The questions asked by the FDIC in the proposal do not ask whether the regulations should be put into place, only how to implement them in the best way. None of the questions in the proposal are directed to bank customers. The FDIC reassures banks that because the requirements will be universally applied to all banks it will not hurt their business and drive away customers. The proposal does not mention penalties for non-compliance, nor is there any mention of regulations to provide access to bank records by customers so errors can be found and corrections made. If `Know Your Customer' programs are required, insured nonmember banks can more easily collect the necessary information because customers cannot turn readily to another financial institution free of such requirements, stated the proposal.Protests from the public may be sent to Robert F. Feldman, Executive Secretary, Attn: Comments/O.E.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th Street N.W., Washington, DC 20429 or faxed to (202) 898-3838 or e-mailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [End of Article.] [ED. NOTE: Write, call, or fax your Congressman or Senator and register your strong opposition to this Nazi-style intrusion on our financial privacy, wherein every customer is treated as a criminal and placed under government-mandated surveillance.]The above article referred to automated computers to determine when suspicious activity is taking place. The Americas Software Corporation advertises on the Internet a software package called ASSIST to help banks implement their Know Your Customer rules and to monitor suspicious activity: What is ASSIST? ASSIST or Americas Software - KYC Transactions Trend Monitoring is a Windows-based software that allows you to effectively manage suspicious account activity as required by the regulating authorities in the area of BSA/Know Your Customer and Transaction Trend Monitoring of Suspicious Activity. ASSIST provides daily, weekly and monthly reports of suspicious account activity based on irregular transaction volume and amounts. ASSIST gives you the ability to create personalized client profiles based on transactional activity. The system automatically develops unique account profiles based historical data. ASSIST analyzes transactional activity to determine suspicious trends by account, branch, officer, dates, and types of transactions and/or country. ASSIST maintains user-defined comment histories of client activity changes. ASSIST maintains a history of all activity and reports performed for internal and external auditors. ASSIST interfaces with formatted text files whether from a mainframe system or other PC driven systems.[ED. NOTE: With the advent of the Know Your Customer rules and banks being forced to spy on their customers and report them to the government, the last vestiges of financial privacy (and freedom) will quickly disappear. No one will trust their bankers or bank tellers, and bankers and bank tellers will not trust their customers. Would Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, or Castro have profited from having such a system? Will Bill Clinton utilize such a system - especially against those who are politically incorrect? What do you think?] SUSPICIOUS TRANSACTIONS CAN RESULT IN CONFISCATION OR IMPRISONMENT - Mark Nestmann wrote in his June '98 ACCESS newsletter: The U.S. Bank Secrecy Act and similar legislation in most other industrialized nations and many offshore asset havens require banks and other financial institutions to report suspicious activities to a central authority. In many countries, insurance companies, securities brokers, gold dealers, casinos and even attorneys must also spy on their clients, or risk imprisonment. These laws impose Draconian penalties on financial institutions for not complying with Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) requirements. And funds involved in any suspect transaction may be frozen before trial or indictment. In some countries (particularly the USA), you must prove that the funds are not the proceeds of criminal activity to get them back. (Students of logic realize that proving a negative - in this case, that the funds have not somehow been tainted by illegal activity - is virtually impossible.) In some cases, a person convicted of the crime of engaging in suspicious transactions can even be imprisoned.These initiatives, justified as always by the War on Crime (and freedom), reflect a shift from the government's zealous protection of privacy to its aggressive, proactive intervention in all financial transactions. And they turn virtually every person who does business with the public into an involuntary informant.In so doing, these initiatives breach the fundamental rule of law that every accused person is presumed innocent of a crime until proven guilty. They also violate human rights treaties such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that provide the same protections. (Governments get away with this chicanery by passing laws stipulating that you need not be charged with a crime to be deprived of your property.)BANKS MUST REPORT SUSPECTED VIOLATIONS OF ANY LAW OR REGULATION - The earliest Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) requirements came into effect in 1988 in the USA. These requirements, constantly expanded, now require banks and other financial institutions to notify the Treasury Department's intelligence unit, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and complete Form 90-22-47, Suspicious Activity Report, whenever a customer engaged in one or more suspicious transactions that in aggregate exceed $5,000. The regulations read in part:Every bank shall file with the Treasury Department...FinCEN...a report of any suspicious transaction relevant to a possible violation of law or regulation.Any law. Any regulation. And the penalties for banks not acting as informants are severe: fines as high as $25,000/day for each offense. Individual employees, officers or directors may face criminal prosecution even when all statutory requirements appear met.YOU ARE A CITIZEN, YOU ARE A SUSPECT - How do banks identify suspicious transactions? Increasingly, by using neural networking software that identified transactions that are not reasonable given your past account history. In other words, your bank's computers may be continuously trolling through your accounts, examining them for suspicious activity. Not all banks are yet equipped with neural networking software. But even without it, banks have plenty of guidance to help identify suspicious customers.Guidance - but not concrete guidelines. That's because the suspicious activities to which banks are instructed to be alert are not themselves illegal.The Treasury asks banks to report to FinCEN persons who fit any of dozens of seemingly innocuous customer profiles; e.g., changing large bills to small bills, or vice-versa. Or engaging in transactions having no business purpose. In other words, trying to protect their privacy.Indeed, one 17-year career IRS agent recently testified under oath that concern for reestablishing privacy in personal financial transactions was all the `proof' he needed to know that a person is engaged in criminal activity.Other suspicious activities, according to guidelines distributed by the UK's Joint Money Laundering Steering Group (themselves adapted from U.S. practice) include: Not having sufficient identification.Presenting a letter of introduction from a bank in a `known money laundering center' (in practice, any major country).Paying down a delinquent loan all at once.Purchasing or selling unregistered securities made payable to the bearer.Changing currency from small to large denominations.Making deposits in currency, then having the money wired somewhere else.Ordering internal transfers between accounts, followed by large outlays.Engaging in transactions backed by secured loans.Making a transaction without counting the currency first.Some of these suspicious activities could implicate anyone. No one wants to be deeply in debt, but paying off a loan may now mark you as a money launderer. And if you want to build up your credit with a secured loan (where you must deposit collateral in an account first), that action now brands you as a criminal.GEORGE ORWELL WOULD BE IMPRESSED - Why don't national anti-laundering authorities simply issue concrete regulations on the types of transactions for which banks must be alert? According to Communications Week columnist Bill Frezza: The problem with making regulations precise is that what software algorithms can define, other algorithms can evade. Instead, regulation by `raised eyebrow' is becoming the norm. Federal bank examiners have been given significant latitude to invoke Draconian penalties against uncooperative banks. Because bank officers have few due process protections under this regime, it is no surprise that most of them have become sniveling toadies. The objective is to insure the banks `voluntarily' introduce even more aggressive, unpredictable and intrusive monitoring than the government would ever dare mandate. And to make sure nothing slips through the cracks, human surveillance will be supplemented with artificial intelligence agents that can perform pattern analysis on the aggregate flow of electronic transactions, flagging anything remotely suspicious. George Orwell would be impressed. [End of Nestmann Article.]3. TELEPHONE TAPPING IN THE U.S. AND ABROAD - It has been known for a long time that government agencies such as the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. regularly tap phone calls - both domestic and international. NSA eavesdrops and/or records most international phone calls to and from America, with over a hundred key words which trigger their recorders. For several years FBI director Louis Freeh and Janet Reno have been pushing for broad authority to tap most phones, faxes, and telexes in America.Though the official numbers show only 1186 wiretaps (state and federal) in 1997, the real number (including illegal wiretaps by government agents) is far higher. For some time the FBI has been seeking the authority to track the location of cell phones (i.e., to know the precise location of cellular phone users) without having to get a court order.It has long been known that cell phones are not private, that even amateurs with a scanning device can listen in on a cell phone conversation. But few users realize that a cell phone, when turned on, can be used as a homing or tracking device.On 10/23/98, the Federal Communications Commission ruled that cell phone companies must make technical changes so that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies can use cell phones like locator beacons. As always, the excuse is to give the government better tools to track terrorists and drug dealers among America's 66 million cell phone users.Constitutional scholars believe that this unlimited access to track the location of 66 million U.S. cell phone users is a violation of the Fourth Amendment's protections against illegal searches. It is certainly one more tool in the surveillance arsenal of Big Brother. But, there is one partial solution to the problem - simply leave your cell phone turned off except when making outgoing calls. Privacy experts believe that Americans who desire privacy will also have to learn as Europeans and people in Communist countries have long known - never say anything of a highly private, sensitive, or controversial nature over the phone - not even in jest. Big Brother may be listening! In Europe, sensitive phone calls are often made from pay phones - although they may not always be private either.[ED. NOTE: For a better sense of what it is like to live in a Big Brother/surveillance society, talk to someone who lived behind the former Iron Curtain, in Red China, or Cuba. Their experiences could be a preview of coming attractions for Americans.]4. ECHELON - THE GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE NETWORK - Mark Nestmann, editor of Access: The International Guide To Asset Protection and Privacy, recently wrote regarding international electronic surveillance:With the touch of a button, governments can: track suspicious transactions in bank accounts as they occur, worldwide; monitor telephone conversations; freeze international financial accounts.Yes, you are being watched. Governments worldwide now monitor offshore financial transactions via sophisticated computer networks. International agreements require governments to freeze accounts on the mere suspicion of their association with crime. International "Deposit Tracing Systems, "Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties" and "Financial Intelligence Units" are just part of this complex and growing worldwide network of technology and law. To protect your privacy and wealth, you must now deal with global surveillance.a) BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU - If you live or do business in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand, or any of their dependent territories or associated states, your phone calls are automatically screened by intelligence agency supercomputers for words that might indicate clandestine financial activity. Do you call your Swiss banker from the United States with investment instructions? Or your mutual fund manager in the Isle of Man from the United Kingdom? If you believe these conversations are private - hidden from government scrutiny - you're only fooling yourself.Another example: U.S. and UK banks must spy on their customers, or risk losing their licenses. This includes banks in most UK dependent territory tax havens such as Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands.b) ECHELON - According to Nicky Hager's book Secret Power, the 1947 UK-USA intelligence-sharing agreement was implemented in a global surveillance network called ECHELON. Within the NSA and other national intelligence agencies, a keyword analysis program called DICTIONARY has for decades been used to monitor global telephone traffic, and more recently, fax traffic: Keywords include all the names, localities, subjects, and so on that might be mentioned. Every word of every message intercepted at each station gets automatically searched whether or not a specific telephone number or e-mail address is on the list. The keywords include such things as the names of people, ships, organizations, country names and subject names. They also include the known telex and fax numbers and Internet addresses of any individuals, business, organizations and government offices that are targets... The best set of keywords for each subject category is worked out over time, in part by experimentation. The staff sometimes trial a particular set of keywords for a period of time and, if they find they are getting too much `junk,' they can change some words to get a different selection of traffic. The Dictionary Manager administers the sets of keywords in the Dictionary computers, adding, amending and deleting as required. This is the person who adds the new keyword for the watch list, deletes a keyword from another because it is not triggering interesting messages, or adds a `but not *****' to a category because it has been receiving too many irrelevant messages.The computers used in ECHELON, according to Hager, can monitor conversations in hundreds of languages and can adjust for different tones and accents. Calls containing keywords are identified, recorded and routed to the appropriate intelligence analyst for further examination.Details of the ECHELON operation are classified but its existence and the accuracy of Hager's account have been confirmed by the former Prime Minister of New Zealand, who wrote the preface for Secret Power.Could these operations be extended to Internet traffic? Strassman and Marlow imply that it already has. Keyword searches on Internet Search Engines may be some of the most fertile fishing ground for NSA Internet monitors. [End of Article.][ED. NOTE: Mark Nestmann's excellent newsletter, ACCESS, should be subscribed to by those with a strong interest in privacy (P.O. Box 2697, London WIA 3TR, England, UK. Phone: (44) 171 447-4055; one year - $195).]c) GERMAN SURVEILLANCE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE NAZI ERA - On 2/6/98, the Bundesrat, the Upper Chamber of the German legislature, gave final approval to a law that will allow police to bug private homes and offices in Germany for the first time since the days of Hitler (1933-'45). Proponents argued that the measures are similar to those already in effect in America. 5. NAZI-STYLE SEARCHES, SEIZURES, AND FORFEITURES - Each year in America, local, state and federal law enforcement officials seize several billion dollars in assets from about 250,000 Americans (about 5,000 per week) - including cash, homes, cars, boats, planes, property, businesses, jewelry, etc. (See Section D of USA Today each Wednesday for a list of 600-700 such forfeitures.) Less than 10% of those seizures are drug related. Most are taken from honest, law-abiding citizens who have run afoul of one or more of the tens of thousands of laws, rules and regulations on the books - most of which they never heard of.Seizure and forfeiture of cash is probably the largest category of government takings. Anyone with a substantial amount of cash on his person (i.e., over $1,000) is now considered to be a money launderer, drug dealer, or other form of criminal. Most of the victims are never charged with a crime or ever have their day in court. A high percentage of these seizures and forfeitures are simply legalized theft by government officials, judges, etc.EVEN THE ULTRA-LIBERAL ACLU IS WORRIED ABOUT CASH CONFISCATION - Ira Glasser, Executive Director of the very liberal American Civil Liberties Union, ran the following ad in the New York Times (12/11/98): Let me ask you something... Did you know there's a three out of four chance that the money you're carrying could be legally confiscated? Why? Because 75 percent of American money is contaminated with cocaine. What's more astonishing is that the courts have ruled that cocaine residue is enough to warrant the forfeiture of your cash! In 1984 Congress gave police the right to keep and spend any `drug related assets' they seize. Police have since taken cars, homes, restaurants, and cash in epidemic proportions. And they can use these assets for anything from patrol cars to parties. Right now there is $2.7 billion in the federal government's `Asset Forfeiture Fund.' And local police departments have filled their own coffers as well. Most of the victims of forfeiture aren't criminals. Like the 75-year-old grandmother who lost her home because her drug-dealing son had once lived there. Or the landscaper whose $9,000 was seized at the airport because `only drug dealers carry that much cash.' These people were never arrested or even charged with a crime. And they weren't entitled to a fair hearing, either. It could happen to you. One leading historian has called this nothing less than a government `license to steal.' The war on drugs has become a war on the Constitution. What kind of country rewards its police for shaking down its own citizens? Think about it. [End of ACLU Ad.]A letter from a subscriber in New Mexico (one of dozens of such letters MIA receives each year) describes seizure/forfeiture activity in that state: I have been watching our local situation for more than 25 years. I am not now nor have I ever been a drug user. I would not be if it were legalized tomorrow. But I am seeing more and more that the War on Drugs is an excuse to roust people, steal their property, and profit from the forfeitures and seizures. Our local sheriff's department, city police, Border Patrol and New Mexico state police work in combined units and split the profits with the court system. Those who have their property seized are then put in the position of trying to retain an attorney (who are all `officers of the court') with no assets. If they get representation at all, it is usually from a court-appointed public defender. It has been my experience that public defenders are usually newly certified lawyers or those who cannot make it in private practice, and are unable to represent the defendants in any meaningful way. It is a fact that 85% of those who have their property seized are never even charged with a crime!THE DRUG CURRENCY FORFEITURES ACT - The Financial Privacy Report (P.O. Box 1277, Burnsville, MN 55337) recently described a new cash forfeiture initiative in Congress:If a bill now before the Senate Judiciary Committee becomes law, carrying too much money will soon be a crime. The law would allow police to seize cash from anyone in a drug transit area who's carrying $10,000 or more. A drug transit area is defined as any airport, highway or port of entry to the United States.The police could simply take your money - and keep it - legally. You would have to prove that you're innocent before you could get it back. They would need no evidence of any wrong-doing. They would not have to get a warrant or show probable cause. The mere existence of a large amount of concealed money is sufficient rationale for them to seize it.This bizarre law is called the Drug Currency Forfeitures Act. It is a direct, full frontal assault on financial privacy. While police have been seizing large amounts of cash from business travelers and tourists for years, sometimes they would lose in court when the judge would rule that the seizure was improper.If this law passes, they will be able to seize your money - and keep it - and you would have to prove that you are not a drug dealer to get it back. How do you prove that you're not a drug dealer? Why should you have to? Isn't everyone in this country innocent until proven guilty? And what business is it of theirs how much cash you're carrying, anyway?And why should they stop at $10,000 in cash? Why not $5,000? Or $1,000? Or $100 for that matter? If the existence of cash is a crime, then why should it matter how much you have?One subsection of the law says that you are presumed to be guilty if you conceal the cash in a highly unusual manner. So, if you're carrying $10,000 cash - and it's in a money belt to prevent you from being robbed - that's sufficient to justify a police seizure. [End of Article.] [ED. NOTE: The socialists who run America, from Clinton and Gore on down, hate cash - which represents financial privacy and freedom. They want to drive all Americans into the computerized banking or credit/debit/smart card system where all transactions can be monitored, recorded, and scrutinized. It's called "people control" through "financial control." And in the future Y2K crisis, it is possible that Clinton or Gore will ration cash or bottle it up in the banking system - pushing us overnight into a near-cashless, electronic funds transfer system. Hitler would have loved it. Pity the man, that didn't have computers and our high-tech surveillance systems.] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- CLICK HERE TO REQUEST A FREE COPY OF THE COMPLETE TEXT OF THIS ARTICLE FROM OUR INFORMED RESPONSE SERVICE Or Call 1-800-525-9556 <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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