-Caveat Lector-
RadTimes # 73 - October, 2000
An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities.
"We're living in rad times!"
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QUOTE:
"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not
sufficient capital to form a corporation."
--Howard Scott
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Contents:
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--Activist leader held on felonies for convention protests
--The Antiglobalization Movement Gets Global
--Interpol looks for new directions in fighting cybercrime
--School shooters: Secret service findings
--The choice: Arm all or arm none
--Israeli-U.S. Agreement Near For Spy-Planes Procurement
Linked stories:
*US Election Fraud & Scams
*Anti-Olympics Protests 2000
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Begin stories:
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Activist leader held on felonies for convention protests
AP Wire Service
Oct 14, 2000
PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ A Philadelphia judge has upheld four felony charges
against a nationally known activist accused of directing demonstrations and
inciting vandalism by protesters during the Republican National Convention.
Kate Sorensen, 38, of the Direct Action Network, was ordered held Friday
for trial on charges of riot, causing or risking a catastrophe, criminal
mischief and conspiracy to commit all three crimes.
She initially faced 20 charges including 10 felonies, which were later
reduced. She also was initially held on $1 million bail;
she is out on $100,000 bail.
A trial date has not been set.
Nearly 400 demonstrators were arrested during sometimes violent clashes
with police and street-blocking protests coinciding with the GOP convention
this summer. Fifteen police officers were injured and more than 20 city
vehicles damaged during the mayhem.
Assistant District Attorney David E. Desiderio said Sorensen should be held
responsible for vandalism caused by members of the group that she led. He
said Sorensen directed people in the crowds to move to block streets.
``When you run with the crowd you are liable for the acts of the crowd,''
Desiderio said.
Defense attorney Lawrence Krasner said Sorensen merely was a participant.
He said all the evidence pointed to one thing: ``It's a description of a
walk around the city. She's not telling people to block the road,'' Krasner
said.
Sorensen is one of three high-profile activists accused of leading
disruptive demonstrations. Also charged with more serious offenses as
activist leaders were John Sellers, director of the Ruckus Society of
Berkeley, Calif., and Paul Davis, leader of Philadelphia ACT-UP.
All three groups _ Ruckus, DAN, and ACT-UP _ were key organizers
of recent mass demonstrations, including the 50,000-person protests in
Seattle during the World Trade Organization meetings last fall.
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The Antiglobalization Movement Gets Global
<http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=9889>
Tamara Straus, AlterNet
October 3, 2000
If you were watching news coverage of the protests in Prague the other
week, then what you probably saw were bleeding cops, Molotov
cocktail-throwing anarchists and thousands of youthful radicals in a
disorganized protest. But the truth was far from those images. Although
violence did break out among some demonstrators and up to 55 Czech cops did
get injured, the protests organized by the Initiative against Economic
Globalization in Prague (INPEG) were largely nonviolent and successful.
Come September 26, 10,000 protesters from practically every major city in
Europe and North America gathered in the city of spires. Black-clad
anarchists from Bristol could be seen rubbing shoulders with Slovak
environmentalists. Members of the Italian group Ya Basta!, which takes its
name from its support of the Zapatista revolutionaries, could be found
marching in matching white fire suits, followed by Greek workers in red
bandanas carrying flags with the hammer and sickle. There were Canadians
and Americans, Swedes and Poles. And their target was the World Bank and
the International Monetary Fund, the two international lending institutions
which were holding their 55th annual meetings in Prague and which
protesters insist have increased world poverty, wrought environmental
damage and sought to make the world over in terms that best suit the United
States.
Franz Kafka was the true host of last week's events. His ghostly presence
loomed over the sea of 12,000 dark-suited bureaucrats, bankers and
politicians who had gathered in a meeting hall intended for apparatchiks of
the Communist Party. Surely the author of The Castle would have appreciated
that the financial elite were forced to share the same medieval city with a
gang of postmodern flower children. He also would have been amused by the
presence of hundreds of representatives of non-governmental organizations,
environmentalists, human rights activists and church leaders, who had made
a pilgrimage to Prague to denounce the Bank and the Fund. I am certain the
Czech misanthrope was present when David Hawley, a spokesman for the
International Monetary Fund, announced in perfect bureaucratese that the
meetings were closing ahead of time. "They moved more quickly than
anticipated," said Hawley. "It has nothing to do with protesters."
But the protesters knew better. They had pulled off much of what they
intended: disruption of the Bank meetings and a media spotlight, however
weak, on the darker sides of globalization. "We have continued the spirit
of Seattle," said Scott Codey, an American organizer with INPEG. "The
atmosphere was positive, celebratory. Thousands of people from all over the
world shared their views on antiglobalization."
However there was much not to celebrate in Prague. After dozens of
demonstrators broke through police barricades and got within yards of the
bankers' meeting hall for a one-hour battle with cops, and after protesters
were covered in tear gas after the more radical types smashed storefront
windows in the Wenceslas Square neighborhood, Czech police abandoned the
restraint that had been so admirable the first day of the protests. Come
the second day, the 11,000-member force rounded up activists for no
apparent reason and put them in jail. There things got decidedly
worse. Among the 859 protesters in jail, many were denied food, water and
phone calls. In numerous cases, they were severely beaten. Reports were
flooding in of broken limbs and ribs, black eyes and other kinds of abuse.
Suddenly, the benign image of the fledgling Czech democracy had endured
some serious tarnishing.
"I was pleasantly surprised by the professionalism of the police at first,"
said Marek Vesely, a legal observer with Citizens Legal Watch, a Czech
nonprofit. "But it seems that the emotions repressed were released
elsewhere." In addition to investigating a range of human rights
violations, Citizens Legal Watch is tying to determine if police
provocateurs urged on the crowds and, as was widely rumored, if the FBI
provided names of those activists who were not allowed to cross the Czech
border.
With almost a tenth of their number in jail, Prague activists spent the
latter part of their stay in Prague protesting not the IMF and the World
Bank but the Czech police system. It was not unlike Seattle, Washington,
D.C, Philadelphia or L.A. But there was an increased sense that violent
protest, and police brutality, can no longer take center stage of
anticapitalist demonstrations.
"If we're really serious about doing an action," said Tedd Cain, an INPEG
activist from Chicago, "then we need to make certain there are
de-escalation teams, people who are responsible for breaking up the
violence." Other activists were not so sure of this possibility. They
talked about different traditions of protest, particularly those of
Europeans, some of whom see violence as a means toward radical reform. "You
cannot control who comes to the protests," said Scott Codey.
What activists uniformly would like to control is their media presentation.
They are deeply frustrated the press describes them as ignorant and
rebellious simply because of their youth. Also among activist frustrations
is the way the term antiglobalization is used against them. Activists argue
they are not against the benefits of globalization: speedy travel, mass
communications and quick dissemination of information (especially through
the Internet, which is a key weapon in the activist arsenal.) "We have a
fleet of messenger pigeons and we'll be using them in the next protest,"
joked INPEG organizer Patrick Twomey in reference to the usual Luddite
accusations.
Rather activists say they seek to get out a complex message: that
multinational corporations and the institutions that support them (the WTO,
the World Bank, the IMF and many a Western government) are causing vast
economic imbalances between rich and poor and tremendous third world debt.
They are anticapitalists not because they are against private business but
because they believe capitalism has gone too far.
It is unclear what the reactions to the Prague protests will be. Certainly,
many in the United States are horrified by protesters' brawls with Czech
police and the $2.5 million in property damage Prague incurred. But among
the financial elite there are signs that opinions about economic
globalization are changing. Even before the Prague protests Alan Greenspan,
chairman of the Federal Reserve, acknowledged there is a "deep-seated
antipathy toward free market competition." And the day after protests sent
delegates scurrying to the safety of their hotels, World Bank President
James Wolfensohn told an audience of central bankers, finance ministers and
financiers: "Outside these walls, young people are demonstrating against
globalization. I believe deeply that many of them are asking legitimate
questions, and I embrace the commitment of a new generation to fight
poverty. I share their passion and their questioning."
Whether or not Wolfensohn's statement is the stuff of empty rhetoric
remains to be seen. But what is clear is that the World Bank, largely
because of Wolfensohnn, is taking steps toward reform. In the Bank's World
Development Report 2000/2001 the focus was on reducing poverty not only
through macroeconomic restructuring but also through attention to health,
environmental and educational issues. This is what the NGO community has
been advocating for over 30 years. And though very few Bank critics felt
change was happening quick enough, 350 of them were permitted to attend
this year's annual meetings (as opposed to the two NGOs who were let in
five years ago).
As for the International Monetary Fund's declarations of reform,
encapsulated by IMF Managing Director Horst Kohler who said "we need to
make the globalization work for the benefit of all" the response among
institutionalized activists was generally bleary-eyed. Ryan Hunter, who
works for Friends of the Earth, Slovakia, told me, "We cannot do needed
environmental research because the IMF refuses documents on its Slovakian
programs, even though the Slovakian government has written to Kohler in
support of our request." Unlike the World Bank, which has begun to make
some documents available for public scrunity, the IMF remains an
institution with zero transparency.
Whither the antiglobalization movement? you might ask at this point. Will
it continue to hopscotch from protest to protest? Will it remain mired in
police brutality scandals that shed harsh light on the limits of civil
disobedience? The best answer I heard was from an environmental activist
from Seattle. "I think many people from many international communities will
go back home and organize against corporate power and corporate control,"
said Robin Denburg. "Prague has created connections that we can use to
organize ourselves."
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Interpol looks for new directions in fighting cybercrime
October 16, 2000
By ANGELA DOLAND
Associated Press Writer
LYON, France (AP) _ The elusive Russian gang made big sales of
child pornography in cyberspace, where it lured international
clients emboldened by online anonymity and willing to pay thousands
of dollars for unspeakable images.
Italian and Russian investigators made the initial raids on the
shadowy group and its clients late last month. But they were
powerless to make arrests beyond their national borders.
So Italian authorities called Interpol, the global police force,
whose agents immediately went into action to coordinate worldwide
sweeps to try to put an end the transnational network.
Interpol's potential as the world's top cybercrime fighter is
clear: It has a membership of 178 countries, a global roster second
only to the United Nations. And Internet-related crime is, by
definition, international.
But the Lyon, France-based organization's staff worries that it
lacks the resources to organize better police training and broaden
international raids against online criminals. And it's counting on
the private sector for help.
``It's make-or-break time,'' said Rainer-Diethardt Buhrer, the
South African head of Interpol's economic crime branch, which
tackles most cybercrimes.
In an interview at Interpol headquarters, a shining glass tower
beside the Rhone River, Buhrer said Interpol must push forward to
coordinate more training initiatives for the world's police forces,
who often know too little about cybercrime and lack resources to
fight it.
Some countries, especially in Eastern Europe, don't even have
the money for airline tickets to send investigators to low-budget
training courses, Buhrer said.
A weak link in one country can foil law enforcement efforts from
San Francisco to Manila because cyberspace has now borders.
In the wake of the disastrous ``ILOVEYOU'' computer virus, world
leaders have been quick to show interest in the growing danger.
At a high-level international conference in Paris this May,
French President Jacques Chirac called for countries to bolster
Interpol's role in fighting cybercrime.
But the world's governments haven't been forthcoming with money
_ not even for their own anti-cybercrime units.
Interpol only has a half-dozen people who work part-time on
information technology crimes. Interpol operates on a budget of
about dlrs 27 million a year, a negligible part of which goes
toward fighting cybercrimes, which range from data destruction to
hacking to online child pornography.
So Interpol has scratched off an old taboo in the conservative
world of law enforcement: It is asking for help from the private
sector.
The organization hopes information technology companies will
join the struggle because of their interest in cleaning up the Net.
Private companies lose hundreds of millions of dollars each year to
such crime.
Interpol staff says such assistance could come as software or
hardware, for example, or in training programs.
The Internet Alliance has already offered help. The Washington
D.C.-based group of major companies including America Online,
Microsoft and IBM is helping Interpol make a video and CD-ROM to
help teach the world's police forces about Internet-related crimes.
And this summer, Interpol revealed it was in talks with Atomic
Tangerine, a Silicon Valley security company, about pairing up to
fight cybercrime.
Companies and police are still hammering out the standards for
how much cooperation is acceptable in the still-mysterious field of
information technology crime.
``There are some areas where we can collectively use our
resources,'' said Ron Teixeira, a specialist on law enforcement for
the Internet Alliance. ``But we need to understand the line between
voluntary cooperation and industry being the agents of the state.''
For police, too, such teamwork can be tricky.
``You have to be careful who you deal with,'' Buhrer said. But
``getting even the most elementary evidence requires cooperation
with the private sector.''
Case in point: Last year, after a Swiss man's racy virtual
friendship soured, his former correspondent registered an e-mail
address in his name. Eventually, the woman used the phony address
to implicate the man's company in a case of chemical trafficking.
Trying to track down the woman behind the disastrous messages,
Swiss Federal Police asked Interpol to help secure the needed
information from Microsoft in the United States, which cooperated
by turning over records.
``This happens on a daily basis,'' Buhrer said.
Despite the difficulties of coordinating efforts in 178
countries with varying police laws, Interpol has showed signs of
promise in fighting cybercrime.
It coordinated a 1998 sweep against an elaborate child
pornography ring, the ``wOnderland club,'' which culminated in
simultaneous arrests in 12 countries.
Based on that success, Italian investigators contacted Interpol
after the Sept. 27 arrest of eight Italians and three Russians
linked to a pornography ring that offered a gruesome catalog on the
Internet. Its inventory included films of children being tortured
and killed.
Agnes Fournier de Saint Maur, the Interpol specialist
coordinating the crackdown, said the international agency's job is
sometimes complicated by countries who prefer to turn a blind eye
to cybercrimes.
``Some countries are actually using sex deviance ... to make
money on the Internet,'' she said, citing the example of countries
that sell access to perverse Web sites or chat rooms.
With vastly different legal systems and cultures, countries
can't seem to decide on exactly what activities should be outlawed.
And computer attack is still not universally recognized as a crime.
Efforts are underway to standardize international cybercrime
law, but they may take some time to implement. The 41-nation
Council of Europe _ working with the United States, Canada, Japan
and South Africa _ released a draft treaty on information
technology crime, but it won't be ready for signature until at
least the fall of 2001.
Such efforts, despite their good will, often don't make
police work in the tough field much easier.
``Unfortunately, the product that is presented is often not
quite what law enforcement wanted,'' Buhrer said. ``It's rather
watered down, and sometimes certain chapters are missing
completely.''
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School shooters: Secret service findings
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/find15.html>
October 15, 2000
Bill Dedman
Here are preliminary findings from the Secret Service's study of 41 school
shooters in 37 incidents.
The Secret Service shared the findings with the Sun-Times, without
confidential information from the files. The Sun-Times selected quotations
from public records to illustrate the findings.
PLANNING: They don't "snap." These attacks were neither spontaneous nor
impulsive. In almost all cases, the attacker developed the idea in advance.
Half considered the attack for at least two weeks and had a plan for at
least two days.
Two years before the shootings at Columbine near Littleton, Colo., Dylan
Klebold wrote in his journal, "I'll go on my killing spree against anyone I
want."
One student showed his friends four bullets: three for people he hated and
one for himself. And that's just how he used them.
CONCERN: Almost all attackers had come to the attention of someone (school
officials, police, fellow students) for disturbing behavior. One student
worried his friends by talking often of putting rat poison in the cheese
shakers at a pizza restaurant. Others wrote poems about homicide and
suicide.
Adults usually didn't investigate, remaining unaware of the depth of the
problem. Few of the boys had close relationships with adults. Few
participated in organized sports or other group activities.
Q. Where were the grown-ups?
A. Luke Woodham in Pearl, Miss., recalls, "Most of them didn't care. I just
felt like nobody cared. I just wanted to hurt them or kill them."
Before Columbine, the local sheriff had been given copies of Eric Harris'
Web site, describing his pipe bombs, with page after page of threats: "You
all better f------ hide in your houses because im comin for EVERYONE soon,
and I WILL be armed to the f------ teeth and I WILL shoot to kill and I WILL
f------ KILL EVERYTHING."
COMMUNICATION: They aren't "loners." In more than three-fourths of the
cases, the attacker told someone about his interest in mounting an attack at
school. In more than half the incidents, the attacker told more than one
person. Some people knew detailed information, while others knew "something
spectacular" was going to happen on a particular date. These communications
were usually with friends or schoolmates; in only two cases was the
confidant an adult. In fewer than one-fourth of the cases did the attacker
make a direct threat to the target.
"I'm going to kill her sometime today or tomorrow," a student warned.
BYSTANDERS: Those who knew in advance sometimes encouraged the attack and
sometimes urged an escalation of the plan, but only rarely told anyone or
shared their concern with others before the attack. In about one-third of
the cases, the attack was influenced or dared by others or a group.
A friend of Harris' asked him what he was going to do with bomb-making
equipment. "He said he was going to blow up the school."
A friend of of one shooter was told what would happen. "I was his friend.
Calling someone would have been a betrayal. It just didn't seem right to
tell."
MENTAL ILLNESS: Few shooters had been diagnosed with a mental illness, or
had histories of drug or alcohol abuse. But more than half had a history of
feeling extremely depressed or desperate. About three-fourths either
threatened to kill themselves, made suicidal gestures or tried to kill
themselves before the attack. Six killed themselves during the attack.
Luke Woodham's journal: "I am not insane. I am angry. I am not spoiled or
lazy, for murder is not weak and slow-witted, murder is gutsy and daring. .
. . I killed because people like me are mistreated every day. . . . I am
malicious because I am miserable."
Woodham says now, "I didn't really see my life going on any further. I
thought it was all over with. . . . I couldn't find a reason not to do it."
MOTIVES: Many shooters had more than one motive. The most frequent
motivation was revenge. More than three-fourths were known to hold a
grievance, real or imagined, against the target and/or others. In most
cases, this was the first violent act against the target.
In his journal, Kip Kinkel of Springfield, Ore., wrote, "Hate drives me. . .
. I am so full of rage. . . . Everyone is against me. . . . As soon as my
hope is gone, people die."
Eric Houston: "My HATEtrid tord humanity forced me to do what I did. . . . I
know parenting had nothing to do with what happens today. It seems my sanity
has slipped away and evil taken it's place. . . . And if I die today please
bury me somewhere beautiful."
PROBLEM SOLVING: Many saw the attack as a way to solve a problem. Bullying
was common. Two-thirds of the attackers described feeling persecuted,
bullied or threatened--not teasing but torment. Other problems they were
trying to solve: a lost love, an expulsion or suspension, even a parent
planning to move the family.
Loukaitis: "Some day people are going to regret teasing me."
"I just remember life not being much fun," a shooter recalls. " `Reject,
retard, loser.' I remember `stick boy' a lot, 'cause I was so thin."
Houston: "Maybe to open up somebody's eyes to see some of the stuff that
goes on, . . . of how the school works, and make them understand a little
bit some of the stuff I went through.
STRESS: In more than three-fourths of the incidents, the attackers had
difficulty coping with a major change in a significant relationship or loss
of status, such as a lost love or a humiliating failure.
Woodham: "I actually had somebody I loved and somebody that loved me for the
first time in my life, the only time in my life. And then she just, all of a
sudden one day she broke up with me and I was devastated, I was going to
kill myself."
TARGETS: These weren't rampage killers. Many of the killers made lists of
targets, even testing different permutations of the order of the killing.
Students, principals and teachers--all could be targets. In about half the
cases, someone in addition to the target was attacked. In half the
incidents, the actions appeared designed to maximize the number of victims.
Scott Pennington says he did not dislike his English teacher, Deanna
McDavid, whom he killed in 1993 in Grayson, Ky. His writings had concerned
her; she shared her concern with the school board, which told her it was his
family's responsibility to get him help. He says his only goal was to kill
two people, any two people, making him eligible for the death penalty.
VIOLENCE: Most were not bullies, were not frequently in fights, were not
victims of violence, had not harmed animals. Six in 10 showed interest in
violent themes in media, games, or, more frequently, their own writings.
Scott Pennington says he read Stephen King's Rage, about a school murder,
after his killing, not before as has been reported.
WEAPONS: Getting weapons was easy. Most of the attackers were able to take
guns from their homes or friends, buy them (legally or illegally), or steal
them. Some received them as gifts from parents. More than half had a history
of gun use, although most did not have a "fascination" with weapons.
"F--- you Brady," Eric Harris wrote in his journal about the Brady gun law.
"All I want is a couple of guns and thanks to your f------ bill I will
probably not get any! Come on, I'll have a clean record and I only want them
for personal protection. It's not like I'm some psycho who would go on a
shooting spree."
POLICE: Most incidents were brief. Almost two-thirds of the attacks were
resolved before police arrived. The attacker was stopped by a student or
staff member, decided to stop on his own, or killed himself. SWAT teams
would not have helped. In only three cases did police discharge their
weapons.
Q. Would metal detectors have stopped you?
A. Luke Woodham: "I wouldn't have cared. What's it going to do? I ran in
there holding the gun out. I mean, people saw it. It wasn't like I was
hiding it. I guess it could stop some things. But by the time somebody's
already gotten into the school with a gun, it's usually gonna be just about
too late."
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The choice: Arm all or arm none
<http://orlandosentinel.com/automagic/columnists/2000-10-03/OPEDreese03100300.html>
October 03, 2000
by Charley Reese
Let's play let's pretend. Let's pretend that Suzy, an innocent citizen, and
Joe, a cop, are forced to deal with the same criminal, Zack.
Now Zack one night catches Suzy on the way to her car in a parking lot,
beats the stew out of her, and rapes her. Now the gun-control crowd
absolutely insists that Suzy does not need a handgun in order to deal with
Zack. So an unarmed Suzy becomes a victim of Zack.
Now Joe, the cop, tracks down Zack and puts his worthless carcass into the
can. What's the difference?
Joe was armed with a handgun when he had to deal with Zack.
Now you tell me what warped, sick logic says that the victim of a criminal
should not have a handgun while the policeman who arrests the very same
criminal should have a handgun. If, as the gun-control crowd purports, Suzy
doesn't need a handgun in her encounter with the criminal, why does the
policeman?
After all, Joe, the cop, is bigger than Suzy. Why does he need a weapon?
How can people who live in gated communities with armed guards argue that we
common folk must be disarmed?
I say, take down your gates and fire your armed guards. I say to
politicians, get rid of your bodyguards. I say to Congress, tell the Capitol
police to go write traffic tickets; you no longer need their arms to protect
you. I say to the president, get rid of the Secret Service or at least take
its guns away. Disarm every one of the 60,000 federal officials authorized
to carry handguns.
It seems to me that either we all disarm or we all arm. It seems to me
unacceptably illogical to argue that crime victims must be unarmed while the
police, dealing with the very same criminals, should be armed. This business
of the elitists, living behind the protection of pistols, telling the common
folk you must not have firearms smacks of totalitarianism.
It was clearly the intent of the Founding Fathers that every American be
armed. That's why the ancient Anglo-Saxon right to keep and bear arms was
included in the Bill of Rights. And the amendment states "right of the
people" not right of the states or right of the militias. All honest
scholars agree that in every instance the Bill of Rights uses the word
"people," it is referring to individual rights.
I know that millions of Americans today suffer from urban psychosis, in
which their world view is distorted by dishonest politicians and even more
dishonest news media and their miserable environment of stone, concrete and
asphalt. But the facts are simple. A handgun is a tool, just like a saw or a
hammer. It is an ideal tool for self-defense.
With a handgun, 90-pound Suzy can stop 200-pound Zack. After Samuel Colt
invented his revolver, a common saying in America was, "God created all men,
but Sam Colt made them equal."
And so he did.
You don't have to be built like a linebacker or invest five years of sweat
in becoming a martial artist. You can defend yourself quite well with a
handgun with just a little bit of practice and common sense. It is, in fact,
an ideal tool for women and for the elderly.
Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common
folk. It always has been racist. New York City's first gun-control laws were
aimed at those immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe whom the
hoity-toity types viewed as vermin. In the South, gun-control laws most
often applied only to blacks.
Nevertheless, if the urban insane wish to be prey for predators, that's
their privilege. But no one has the right to tell someone else that he or
she cannot possess the tools necessary to defend his or her life and the
lives of loved ones.
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Israeli-U.S. Agreement Near For Spy-Planes Procurement
by BARBARA OPALL-ROME
Defense News Correspondent
TEL AVIV - Israeli defense officials say they are concluding an
agreement with Washington that will jump-start an estimated $250 million
spy plane procurement program stalled for more than a year due to U.S.
technology transfer concerns.
Once finalized, the agreement will allow the Israeli Ministry of
Defense to integrate locally developed avionics with U.S.-made airframes
for purposes of electronic surveillance and signals intelligence.
The three-aircraft program - known simply as the SIGINT, or signals
intelligence - will bolster the Israel Air Force's ability to gather
intelligence, perform surveillance and engage in information warfare
missions similar to those performed by the U.S. Air Force's fleet of
RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft, U.S. and Israeli sources here said.
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