-Caveat Lector- As long as the courts judged a law enforcement officer's suspicions to be justifiable, you didn't even have to gain a criminal conviction in order to seize a person's car or cash or even, on occasion, their other property and bank accounts. And, as a result, agencies had fallen over themselves trying to take advantage of their easy new source of revenue. Asset forfeiture was proving such a bonanza that even the Bureau of Land Management had set up their own anti-drug SWAT team. Six in ten of these inmates were serving sentences for drug crimes. Fully 56,238 were African American. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Prison_System/Prison_Nation.html
You Heard Them Right, the National Guard Is Considering Shooting Old Ladies http://www.freep.com/news/nw/terror2001/quar7_20011107.htm Fascism was forged in the crucible of post-World War I nationalism in Europe. The national aspirations of many European peoples--nations without states, peoples arbitrarily assigned to political entities with little regard for custom or culture--had been crushed after World War I. The humiliation imposed by the victors in the Great War, coupled with the hardship of the economic Depression, created bitterness and anger. That anger frequently found its outlet in an ideology that asserted not just the importance of the nation, but its unquestionable primacy and central predestined role in history. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/WhatisFascism.html For years Colombia was banned from receiving U.S. military or drug fighting money due to its poor human rights record and its failure to cooperate in the drug war. In 1998 they received $89 million, and this year the total reached $289 million. Despite continued human rights abuses. Colombia is now the third largest recipient of U.S. military aid after Israel and Egypt. Direct U.S. military intervention looms on the horizon for this region, which exports more oil to the U.S. than the entire Middle East. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIACocaineDeathSquads.html COINTELPRO changed the political environment. It changed how people perceived those individuals who fought for change. Police agents infiltrated the Panther Party and caused the leadership to abandon the struggle. We were placed in jail. We had to fight constantly to raise bail. Once the atmosphere changed, the support that had been there initially disappeared. When I was finally convicted, there was nobody in court but the police, district attorneys, and the prosecutors. They were successful because there was no one in court for me. They believed the hype. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Prison_System/SpeakingTruthPower.html The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Trilateralism/Trilateralism_Sklar.html Just remember that whatever you do, MAKE SURE DRUGS STAY ILLEGAL. It would cause us to lose our market in America if you did anything different. That would take away the profit we use to support our gangs, dealers and other illegal activities. We know we can count on you just like we have in the past. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=657&mode=thread&order=0 The FBI has a dual role, the familiar crime busting role and a lesser known counter-intelligence role (equivalent to MI5 in the UK). It is in counter-intelligence that the worst excesses have occurred. Under J Edgar Hoover, the FBI instigated COINTELPRO. To Hoover, hunting down Commies was far more important than crime busting, anything left of Genghis Khan was a threat to national security. As a result organised crime was allowed to flourish, for many years Hoover refused to admit to the existence of the mafia. http://www.heureka.clara.net/sunrise/spooks2.htm While many nations have a terrible record in modern times of dealing out great suffering face-to-face with their victims, Americans have made it a point to keep at a distance while inflicting some of the greatest horrors of the age: atomic bombs on the people of Japan; carpet-bombing Korea back to the stone age; engulfing the Vietnamese in napalm and pesticides; providing three decades of Latin Americans with the tools and methods of torture, then turning their eyes away, closing their ears to the screams, and denying everything ... and now, dropping 177 million pounds of bombs on the people of Iraq in the most concentrated aerial onslaught in the history of the world. http://members.aol.com/bblum6/iraq2.htm The United States began supporting Afghan Islamic fundamentalists in 1979 despite the fact that in February of that year some of them had kidnapped the American ambassador in the capital city of Kabul, leading to his death in the rescue attempt. The support continued even after their brother Islamic fundamentalists in next-door Iran seized the US Embassy in Teheran in November and held 55 Americans hostage for over a year. Hekmatyar and his colleagues were, after all, in battle against the Soviet Evil Empire; he was thus an important member of those forces Ronald Reagan called "freedom fighters". http://members.aol.com/bblum6/afghan.htm Following is a list of prominent foreign individuals whose assassination (or planning for same) the United States has been involved in since the end of the Second World War. The list does not include several assassinations in various parts of the world carried out by anti-Castro Cubans employed by the CIA and headquartered in the United States. http://members.aol.com/bblum6/assass.htm It's not just people in the Middle East who have good reason for hating what the US government does. The United States has created huge numbers of potential terrorists all over Latin America during a half century of American actions far worse than what it's done in the Middle East. If Latin Americans shared the belief of many Muslims that they will go directly to paradise for martyring themselves by killing the great enemy, by now we might have had decades of repeated terrorist horror coming from south of the border. http://members.aol.com/bblum6/sep11.htm The exercise of U.S. power is intended to preserve not only the international capitalist system but U.S. hegemony of that system. The Pentagon's "Defense Planning Guidance" draft (1992) urges the United States to continue to dominate the international system by "discouraging the advanced industrialized nations from challenging our leadership or even aspiring to a larger global or regional role." By maintaining this dominance, the Pentagon analysts assert, the United States can insure "a market-oriented zone of peace and prosperity that encompasses more than two-thirds of the world's economy". http://members.aol.com/bblum6/parenti.htm Far from being the terrorists of the world, the Islamic peoples have been its victims, principally the victims of U.S. fundamentalism, whose power, in all its forms-military, strategic, and economic-is the greatest source of terrorism on Earth.... People are neither still nor stupid. They see their independence compromised, their resources and land and the lives of their children taken away, and their accusing fingers increasingly point north: to the great enclaves of plunder and privilege. Inevitably, terror breeds terror and more fanaticism. But how patient the oppressed have been. Their distant voices of rage are now heard; the daily horrors in faraway brutalized places have at last come home. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/ The combat aircraft now flying over New York are only the beginning. Gradually, Americans, Europeans, and others will find themselves surrounded by an endless number of security systems. These systems are meant to defend people, but actually make them feel more upset and less secure. Myriad policemen, security guards, special forces troops, and overt and covert detectives will be stationed at the entrances to cinemas, theaters, and shopping centers. Guards will check those who enter schools and preschools. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Sept_11_2001/How_Fear_Kills_Soul.html Government harassment of U.S. political activists clearly exists today, violating our fundamental democratic rights and creating a climate of fear and distrust which undermines our efforts to challenge official policy. Similar attacks on social justice movements came to light during the 1960s. Only years later did we learn that these had been merely the visible tip of an iceberg. Largely hidden at the time was a vast government program to neutralize domestic political opposition through "covert action" (political repression carried out secretly or under the guise of legitimate law enforcement). http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Third_World_US/COINTELPRO90s_WAH.html "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people."' So spoke Henry Kissinger at a secret June 1970 White House meeting. The topic under discussion that day was ... what covert actions the CIA should take against Salvador Allende, but the sentiment reflected American behavior in many countries and could have come from the lips of any of the key American foreign-policy managers of the post-World-War-II era. These men-presidents and their chief advisers-felt that they knew best; that if other countries acted in a manner they considered irresponsible, they had the right, and even the duty, to intervene with American power. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/NSA/CIA_AroundWorld_LS.html In July 1969, the Department of Defense opened a new war room in the basement of the Pentagon. Staffed by some 180 people and packed with all the latest equipment -data processing machines, closed circuit television, teletype networks, elaborate situation maps-the new operation was a marvel of military technology. The most striking aspect, however, was not the imposing technology, but the purposes that were being served. This was not a regular command center but a very special operation-a "domestic war room," the headquarters of the Directorate for Civil Disturbance Planning and Operations. It was the coordinating center for the Pentagon's domestic war operations. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/NSA/Military_Intelligence_LS.html Corruption of language is a special form of deception that recent administrations and the Pentagon have brought to a high degree of perfection. Bombing is "protective reaction"; precision bombing is "surgical strikes"; guerrilla insurgents are "freedom fighters." What would we have thought had Britain designated the Confederates of 1861 as "freedom fighters"? Even Orwell's 1984 does not imagine a doublethink as deceptive as that which now emanates from Washington. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Moyers/Intro_IC_CCW_TSG.html While walking through New York's Little Italy, I passed a novelty shop that displayed posters and T-shirts of Benito Mussolini giving the fascist salute. When I entered the shop and asked the clerk why such items were being offered, he replied, "Well, some people like them. And, you know, maybe we need someone like Mussolini in this country." His comment was a reminder that fascism survives as something more than a historical curiosity. http://www.michaelparenti.org/RationalFascism.html "I've had grown men wet this floor with tears, begging for a job. We have to pray with some to keep them from killing themselves. So many say they just want to die," says Charlie Tarrance, a director of a private social agency. His task is to deal with growing lines of despairing people looking for jobs, housing, and food. The place is Gadsden, Alabama, but it could be anywhere in the United States. http://www.michaelparenti.org/HiddenHolocaust.html By "imperialism" I mean the process whereby the dominant politico-economic interests of one nation expropriate for their own enrichment the land, labor, raw materials, and markets of another people. http://www.michaelparenti.org/Imperialism101.html Nothing illustrates the global rogue's lack of principle and propensity to unilateralism better than its treatment of the UN and World Court. When the UN or Court have failed to serve its purposes, the global rogue has assailed them, refused to pay its dues (in violation of the law), withdrawn from UN organizations (UNESCO, ILO), and ignored a UN consensus or Court ruling. The U.S. has used the UN as a cover for its own agenda, but not allowed the UN to function where its positions were inconsistent with that agenda. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Terrorism/Global_Rogue.html The biggest secret of all is beginning to emerge: That "the enemy" of this government is anyone, here or abroad, who won't put up with control of the world by Chase Manhattan, Exxon, General Motors, I.T. & T. It is chilling but suddenly believable that a government willing to kill Vietnamese peasants and put Asian protesters in tiger cages will also assassinate native Americans and put citizens here in concentration camps. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Terrorism/BiggestSecret_ZR.html In 1989, when British Columbia's logging industry flooded the public airwaves with a massive PR campaign, Kalle Lasn and his colleagues developed their own campaign to present an environmentalist perspective. When they took their ads to the TV stations, however, they found that nobody would sell them airtime. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Dissent/Right_%20To_Be_Heard.html Media Control in the United States http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/MediaControl_US.html "They just don't come in contact with people not in their [income] bracket. They've lost touch with their community." Stan Opotowsky of ABC News, about the journalistic elite http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media_control_propaganda/Media_Control.html >From his fourth floor office in Los Angeles, Dr Toga has enlisted the help of dozens of scientists from around the world, including the UK, to help draw up this new brain map. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1694000/1694173.stm Amnesty International today reiterated its call for an urgent inquiry into the large-scale killing of captured Taleban fighters and others at a fort on the outskirts of Mazar-i Sharif. It urged the US and UK to consider requesting a preliminery investigation by either the United Nations or the International Fact-Finding Commission. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1341 Think of a conglomerate which is made up of a number of semi-autonomous companies. Then one day the CEO announces that he's installing a centralized administration to micro-manage each operation, disempowering local managements. Pre-neoliberal Western nations were like the semi-autonomous companies; globalization strips them of their autonomy and relegates governments to the status of Mandarin functionaries - subservient to the WTO/IMF administrative regime and to the whims of corporate operators, banks, and financial traders. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1343 The Independent newspaper's Richard Lloyd Parry travelled to the destroyed village, which he caustically described as "the village where nothing happened." http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=937337280 The Army, pressed by unusually high demand for Special Forces in Afghanistan, invoked a rarely used authority to stop about 1,000 soldiers from leaving the service, officials said Tuesday. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=2056659927 US Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Ankara Tuesday to rally support for actions of the US-led counterterrorism alliance after the campaign in Afghanistan. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=317929704 Although none of the former officials interviewed for this article questioned the value of fine-tuning FBI operations in light of Sept. 11, they contended that Ashcroft's new policies will weaken the FBI's primary strategy for penetrating terrorist cells. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1344 A few critics, led by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), have been vocal about what they regard as overreaching by the executive branch, Attorney General John D. Ashcroft in particular. But even they doubt the wisdom of seeking legislative remedies in the current climate, pinning their hopes instead on hearings aimed at spotlighting the administration's anti-terrorism activities as a way of keeping them in check. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1345 The newspaper states that the idea of exposing the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in a drama series took shape in Subhi's mind as the result of two events. The first of these was the "London Convention" [sic], which he considered the greatest single calamity ever to affect the Arab region. This agreement, Subhi claimed, was the work of three Zionist rabbis, promoters of the Zionist idea, who concocted an elaborate plot according to which Palestine would be annexed to Egypt, and Britain would subsequently conquer Egypt and hand Palestine over to the Zionists. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1346 While below will seem remote without knowledge of the board members, trust me, they jump out from the Keiretsu model completely, and include Keiretsu preachers such as Richard Jaedicke, an accounting prof from Stanford GSB and then Dean of GSB 1983-1990, coupled with the Harvard Business School wired Pug Winokur, both on an Enron board since 1985, but whose names never showed up on anything until Nov. 8, 1996. This is the linking of the east and the west to influence peddle into the investment banking sectors on both coasts ... And who was doing a lot of the dealing in trading? Why Japan, and their top five funds took huge and crippling baths -- just how the laundering was going on, one never knows. But that whole thing is intell wired into Yakuza, that's for sure. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1348 It may be time--yet, then it may be too late--for Israel to confess to its true intentions in the Palestinian territories. The sustained and myopic focus on the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, has little to do with stopping "terrorism." What removing Arafat will do is induce a Palestinian civil war and, by extension, give Israel a pretext for re-occupying the Palestinian territories. The campaign behind this strategy has been ongoing, but it has rapidly intensified since the U.S. military action in Afghanistan. As the U.S. focuses its efforts on Osama bin Laden, Israel appears to be making parallel moves against Arafat. http://www.fpif.org/commentary/0112arafat.html Vast fields of carbon dioxide ice are eroding from the poles of Mars, suggesting that the climate of the Red Planet is warming and the atmosphere is becoming slightly more dense. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=668&mode=&order=0 After years of searching and months of sifting through data, scientists have still not found the elusive subatomic particle that could help to unravel the secrets of the universe, a science magazine reported Wednesday. The Higgs boson, the missing link that could explain why matter has mass and other fundamental laws of particle physics, is still missing -- and physicists fear it may not exist. http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/12/06/physics.reut/index.html >From the Arctic Sea to the Straits of Gibraltar, European police are on high alert as armored vans and military convoys carry hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of Europe's new currency to shops and banks across the continent. http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1207/p6s1-woeu.html Social Security reform has slipped way down the national agenda since Sept. 11. But the American public needs a thorough discussion of the issue, so elected representatives don't give it a knee-jerk response. http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1207/p10s1-comv.html The antiterrorism pact recently announced by Attorney General John Ashcroft made it clear that "the longest undefended border in the world" will no longer be a hallmark of the US-Canadian relationship. http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/1207/p10s2-comv.html U.S. building up forces near Iraq http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25566 >From Hitler To Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden � Insider Connections and the Bush Family�s Partnership with Killers of Americans http://www.copvcia.com/stories/oct_2001/carlyle.html The president of the Middletown Township Education Association said the striking union and the school district were inching toward a settlement last night, after judges jailed 111 more union members and warned the teachers that they faced severe penalties if they did not return to work. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=670&mode=&order=0 For the first time in two decades, panhandlers, street sleepers and longer soup kitchen lines resurfaced noticeably in New York when the economy stalled this year, but the World Trade Center attacks have forced even more working families to seek charity. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1351 It has too often been the case in the last decade or so, the truth about important events is first published either on the Internet or in a foreign newspaper. And it usually is in direct contradiction to the (authorized) leaks from "knowledgeable" but unidentified government officials propagated by the "mainstream" media. The subject of mailed anthrax has followed this pattern. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1335 Explorers using a miniature submarine to probe the sea floor off the coast of Cuba said on Thursday they had confirmed the discovery of stone structures deep below the ocean surface that may have been built by an unknown human civilization thousands of years ago. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1353 On the evening of Dec. 05 the underground Animal Liberation Front raided Marshall Farms in upstate New York, rescuing 30 dogs and 10 ferrets. The ALF released a Communique early this morning taking responsibility for the action, stating they had outsmarted "constant security patrols ... scaled the electrified fence" and had broken through one of the 50 animal shed doors to effect the rescue operation. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1352 �In June l967, we had a choice. The Egyptian Army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.� - Menachim Begin http://www.mediamonitors.net/mosaddeq24.html To read the self-congratulatory American press, one would think the people of Afghanistan were all joyfully celebrating their liberation from the Taliban. Now it turns out they are not celebrating, but starving to death in the snow. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0149/ridgeway2.php Why is the Western media so inconsistent when reporting on the military occupation in Palestine? When 26 Israelis were killed by bombings this weekend, it created a crisis that mobilized the whole world and saturated the media, whilst the targeting and killing of hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians, one third of them children, and the suffocation by siege of three million more is simply background noise unworthy of attention? http://www.mediamonitors.net/abdullahvawda1.html Eight years after US President Clinton engineered the Oslo Peace Framework Accord installing the exiled Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with self-determination for his people, George W. Bush has taken the lead in the effort to end his reign. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3106 An outbreak of hemorrhagic fever which doctors suspect could be the deadly Ebola virus has killed 17 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the health ministry said on Thursday. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3109 Ping-fa (the art of war) - by sun tzu http://www.constitution.org/sun_tzu/artofwar.htm On June 26th, 1975, FBI agents Ron Williams and Jack Coler, entered the Jumping Bull's property in Oglala, South Dakota. A firefight between the agents and members of the American Indian Movement ensued, which left both agents and an AIM member, Joe Stuntz Killsright dead. It also left AIM member Leonard Peltier falsely incarcerated for the murders of Williams and Coler. Pine Ridge, at the time was living under what is known as the "Reign of Terror" years, where murders and shoot-outs happened on a daily basis by the "GOON" squad. 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