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http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010510/558
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May 10, 2001
McVeigh and other angry, invisible men
What he did is evil. How the Feds responded is typical
Mark Steyn
National Post
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) wrote to Timothy
McVeigh last month urging him to make his last meal vegan. Innocent
people died in the Oklahoma City bombing, and innocent animals suffer
miserably and then are horribly slaughtered, wrote Bruce Friedrich,
suggesting McVeigh could set an example to prison governors across
the nation. Wiping meat off of all inmates' plates could help killers lose
their taste for blood. Feeding inmates bean burritos rather than baby
back ribs might just help break the cycle of violence.

Feeding inmates bean burritos might just turn every man's cell into his
own personal gas chamber. But, that aside, Friedrich's arguments were
enough to provoke McVeigh to respond. I cannot sustain a prolonged
intellectual debate on the subject as my time is short, he observed
dryly, before explaining that, as a hunter and libertarian, he asserts his
right to kill for food, but he also believes in the Indian concept of the
circle of life. Respect the life you take to sustain yourself, but come to
terms with your place in the 'food chain', he concluded.

A fiercely unrepentant killer, he has no respect for the life he took, but
he has come to terms with his place in the food chain. And when the
state devours McVeigh next week, a very particular circle of life will be
closed.

I was there six years ago in Oklahoma City -- not for the bomb but, by
sheer coincidence, for the pre-Broadway try-out of a new show, JFK --
The Musical, a bomb of quite a different kind. But that's as good a
reason as any to be there -- after all, the only thing most of us know
about Oklahoma is that it's a musical:

Oooklahoma
Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain ...

The wind was unusually still on the Oklahoma plain that week. No bright
golden haze on the medder, just drizzle on nondescript urban decay. A
couple of days after the bomb, the temperatures started to climb -- up
into the 60s, pushing 70, still no wind -- and downtown, two or three
blocks from the rubble of the Alfred P. Murrah Building, you could smell
the decomposing bodies.

Off to one side were the media bigfoots, sealed off from the community
whose pain they were supposedly feeling by the good folks of National
Rent-A-Fence. The media encampment appeared to have been situated
on an earlier bomb site, though, on closer inspection, this was just one
of several derelict lots in the neighbourhood. There were cheque-cashing
outlets and pawn shops and All-For-A-Dollar stores and a few other hole-
in-the-wall businesses whose fronts were permanently barricaded
behind wire mesh. If the network hotshots were reluctant to venture out
from behind their rented fence, you couldn't really blame them. And
anyway, in those first 72 hours or so, they might as well have been
broadcasting from Planet Zongo.

One thing is certain, said Connie Chung, anchoring CBS News the
day of the blast. This is the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil ever. A
U.S. government source has told CBS News that it has Middle East
terrorism written all over it. According to CNN, three men of Middle
Eastern origin were being pursued. On NBC, terrorism expert Neil
Livingston said all the signs pointed to Islamic fundamentalists.

Over on ABC, Peter Jennings was handing over to his man at the
Pentagon: Sources say the FBI has been watching dozens of
suspicious Islamic groups in cities throughout the American southwest
and several right in Oklahoma City, said correspondent John McWethy.
As a further indication of where the investigation is headed, ABC News
has learned that the FBI has asked the U.S. military to provide up to 10
Arabic speakers to help in the investigation.

On the ground, or at least the portions of it outside the rented fence,
none of this made much sense. For example, Islamic fundamentalists
and men of Middle Eastern appearance aren't necessarily the same
thing. In Oklahoma, most of the Muslims are black and most of the
Arabs are Christian. A lardbutt in a Second Amendment T-shirt I met in
a sports bar told me that, and his sources proved rather better than
those of Mr. McWethy. Lori, our waitress, marvelled at his expertise,
having previously bought into the networks' killer-towelheads-in-the-
heartland routine. I swore if an Islam person come in here, I weren't
gonna serve him, she said.

A few rangy, stump-toothed good ol' boys took the Lori line. But the
shrewder -- or reflexively paranoid -- guys in John Deere caps and one-
ton pick-ups never fell for it. It's nothing to do with Muslims, one fellow
said to me, though, if the Feds can get away with whacking some Arab
for it, they will. April 19th, 1995, he noted, was not just the second
anniversary of Waco but the 220th anniversary of the Battle of Lexington
and

[CTRL] Fwd: The Drug War Intensifies


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The Drug War Intensifies
John Walters: Drug Warrior
by Jeff Elkins

With his proposed appointment of John Walters as head of the White
House Office of National Drug Control Policy, President Bush has sent
a strong signal: Cry Havoc and let slip the Dogs of War!

Waters, a disciple of former Drug Czar and Washington talk show
clown, William Bennett, will be in charge the White House effort
to intensify the Federal anti-drug focus on law enforcement and
interdiction. Translation: more militarized police, more loss of
 personal liberty, an increased military presence in South America
and more prisoners in American Gulags.

Lets examine some quotes from Mr. Walters, taken from a PBS
program,  Think
Tank, hosted by Ben Wattenberg. Quoting Mr. Walters:

I actually think that interdiction is an important part of affecting
consumption, particularly heavy users. If you drive up the price
significantly, they use less, they get sicker less, theyre likely
to go into treatment more, it makes treatment more effective.

Really?

While higher prices might discourage marginal drug users from
indulging, its doubtful that they will have the effect of discouraging an
addict. Any hard core cigarette smoker can testify to this. Higher
prices will have the effect of making the market itself more attractive
to criminals from the top to the bottom of the drug chain. This
of course will result in more children using drugs, not less, more
blood on our streets as criminal gangs battle for turf, and more
military masquerading as peace officers, overseeing (and contributing
to) the mayhem.

We can do something here, and I think the way to think about this in
part on my side is the way we think about countering terrorism

Really?

The measures instituted thus far to counter terrorism,
which is a largely illusory problem domestically, have had a net
effect of drastically reducing our liberties as citizens of a free
republic. They run the gamut: the dehumanizing processes required
to board an airplane; the Know Your Customer laws imposed
on banking; reporting suspicious banking transactions
to the IRS; all of which place the print of the jackboot on our necks.

I find these quotes to be frightening. They dont bode well for our
liberty and they display a shocking ignorance of the Constitution
of the United States. Lets look at some further implications of
active interdiction and an increase in so-called law enforcement.

Interdiction:  Interdiction does not just involve guarding our borders
against incoming foreign drug shipments. Interdiction involves actively
interfering in the internal affairs of other nations as we are seeing
in South America.

War-torn Colombia now has United States military advisors on the
ground playing an active part in both training and participating in actual
combat missions against groups such as the leftist narco-guerillas
of FARC.

Aiding our active military and also providing a cover of deniability
are hired mercenaries from companies such as Vinnell
Corporation of Fairfax, Virginia. Vinnell, by the way, boasts
as stockholders and directors, such luminaries as former Secretary
of State, James Baker and Frank Carlucci, former DDI of the Central
Intelligence Agency.

As we have seen, the warfare is not restricted to Colombia. The recent
tragic murder of an American missionary and her infant child in
Peru illustrate one consequence of what is inevitable: regional
warfare. More American deaths have occurred than manage to slip
through the Media/State news conglomerates. Thousands of locals
have died. Perhaps when the deaths reach Vietnam levels, well hear
more. Perhaps.

Law enforcement:  Increases in domestic anti-drug enforcement efforts
without question mean a further decrease in your personal liberties
as an American citizen. Those liberties are already dangerously
eroded; perhaps beyond the point of repair. Already, we have sustained
losses that would shock a citizen of not even two decades ago.

Per capita, we imprison more of our citizens than any other Western
culture. This has had the very real effect of worsening racial conditions,
as more of those convicted and imprisoned are of minority status:
at this point, middle-class white children rarely serve time for
simple possession, members of the underclass rarely walk free. The
heavy hand of the drug warriors hit them hardest. Additionally,
examine the disparity of sentencing for powder cocaine vs. crack
cocaine. Powder cocaine is a middle-class drug.

The racial disparity is lessening though. As the drug warriors get bolder,
they widen their nets. And no-knock raids are color blind. Quite
literally, you or your children could be next, drug users or not.

The war on drugs is eating us alive. Almost every day you can read
about another dynamic entry or police murder. Will John Walters make
things worse? I think the answer is yes.
May 11, 2001

Jeff Elkins is a freelance consultant and writer living in North Central
Florida.

[CTRL] Fwd: Étienne de la Boétie: A Review


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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/klassen4.html

Étienne de la Boétie:  A Review
by Robert Klassen

While reading Carl Watners fine collection of essays, I
Must Speak Out, I became engrossed in Murray N. Rothbards
1987 article entitled, The Political Thought of Étienne
de la Boétie. I couldnt believe it, so I read it again. Where have I been
sleeping all these years? Why havent I heard of Etienne de la Boetie
before? Just on the off chance that some of you may have missed him
too, Id like to call attention to him again.

La Boetie was born in France in 1530. Copernicus and Martin
Luther were still living at the time and Francois I was King. He
 wrote his little treatise on government sometime in the 1550s. He
died in 1563.

Rothbard was struck by the mans youthful genius and by the
clarity of his thinking. He saw him as a harbinger of libertarian
thinking to come. I fully agree and I recommend reading Rothbards
article. I was also struck by something else and I would like to
put a short quotation in here to illustrate what I mean.

The Politics of Obedience:
The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
by Étienne de la Boétie
It is indeed the nature of the populace, whose density is always
greater in the cities, to be suspicious toward one who has their
welfare at heart, and gullible toward one who fools them. Do not
imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy, nor
any fish sooner fixed on the hook by wormy bait, than are all these
poor fools neatly tricked into servitude by the slightest feather
passed, so to speak, before their mouths. Truly it is a marvelous
thing that they let themselves be caught so quickly at the slightest
tickling of their fancy. Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators,
strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these
were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their
liberty, the instruments of tyranny.


Bread and circuses. Americans would laugh at the idea that
they could be duped into slavery by such trivia. Americans are much
too smart for that. Besides, we have television and movies and stereo
surround-sound, we dont need the Emperor to entertain us. Thats
true, but we do believe we need other things, like courts and cops,
the Pentagon, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and all of the
alphabet-soup agencies, the IRS, CIA, FBI, NSA, BATF, FCC, on and
on.

Americans want the good life and there is no fault in that.
I too want indoor plumbing, central air and heat, a microwave oven,
car, refrigerator, television, computer, privacy, and safe streets
like everybody else. Its the way we live. But is there a price
on the good life that we refuse to see? And is this price our liberty?

La Boetie in the Sixteenth Century pointed out the hidden cost
of political government. As long as we believe that the things we
want come by benevolent kindness from the state, then we quietly
acquiesce to various demands from the state and the price keeps
going up. The state speaks eloquently about tax-cuts and moves us
to cheers, but the taxes keep going up. The state does not speak
about average families who must buy food and medication on credit
because their wages are gone in Social Security and Medicare and
sales taxes and income taxes and fees paid for permission from the
state to eat or drink or drive around. The state does not speak
about the source of the soaring cost of health-care, the result
of bureaucratic micro-mismanagement put in place by the state itself.

La Boetie called us fools. Indeed, we are. We look longingly for
the day we can have our good life and our Social Security check
too without working for it anymore. Free lunch! Bread and circuses
for all!

By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so
successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied
peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before
their eyes, learned subservience as naively, but not so creditably,
as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books.

The problem is, socialism by any name doesnt work for very
long. People loose incentive and begin to look for hand-outs from
their state rather than take care of themselves. La Boetie wrote:
Roman tyrants invented a further refinement. They often provided
the city wards with feasts to cajole the rabble, always more readily
tempted by the pleasure of eating than by anything else. The most
intelligent and understanding amongst them would not have quit his
soup bowl to recover the liberty of the Republic of Plato.

While meditating briefly on the meaning of life this morning,
as I do every morning, I happened to glance down at my reading table
and I saw a photograph of a group of my peers all dressed in the
tee-shirt of a powerful political interest group. The ladies all looked so
lovely in their tightly-permed silver hair and the men
so handsome and proud, though bald, like me. But their mouths were
tightly drawn, not smiling, and

[CTRL] Ocean Cycle Changes U.S. Rainfall

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Sunday May 13 8:22 PM ET Ocean Cycle Changes U.S. Rainfall By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A slow but regular warming and cooling of the North Atlantic Ocean appears to have a strong impact on rainfall in the United States, a discovery that could complicate efforts to measure the effect of global climate change. When this gradual cycle is in its warm phase, as it has been since about 1990, there is less rain than normal in most of the country, scientists report in Tuesday's issue of Geophysical Research Letters. Most global warming forecasts call for increased rain over the United States. As a result, this ocean cycle ``could obfuscate our assessment of global warming response,'' said oceanographer David B. Enfield of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. ``I think this does add a different dimension to what is going on. Most people assume that the warming of the last 25 years has essentially been greenhouse-related, though I don't feel that way myself,'' said John Christy, a climate researcher at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The research shows that much of the warming could be associated with the ocean cycle, he said. Because of the cycle's long time scale, the scientists looked at only two oscillations, a small sample, said Christy, who was not involved in the research. The work of Enfield and his team said Midwest droughts in the 1930s and 1950s can be related to this cycle. During warm cycles, the total Mississippi River flow into the Gulf of Mexico was 10 percent less than during cool phases, Enfield said in an interview. ``In terms of percentage that doesn't seem high, but it does appear to be a significant amount of water.'' On the other hand, the current ocean warming could be good news for Florida, where the Atlantic warm phase usually delivers more moisture. The researchers reported that North Atlantic Ocean temperatures oscillate over a range of about 0.7 degree Fahrenheit during a 65- to 80-year period. That may not sound like a wide range, but when it involves a mass of water the size of an ocean, the amount of energy involved is tremendous. Enfield's team studied the cycle, called the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, using temperature and weather records from 1856 to 1999. They found warm phases in 1860-1880 and 1930-1960 and cool phases in 1905-1925 and 1970-1990. The ocean began warming again in 1990, they report, and ``we may have once again entered a period such as 1930-1960.'' The problem is that at the same time, scientists are concerned about the impacts of global change, in particular the greenhouse warming that many believe is increasing the planet's overall temperature. Because the Atlantic cycle appears to affect not only U.S. rainfall but also water temperature in the North Pacific, it could have worldwide effects, complicating efforts to measure the impact of global warming. For example, many computer models of climate predict that global warming will mean more rain. But the cycle's warm phase results in drought, and it is not known how the two climate patterns will affect one another. If the current cyclical warming reduces the rain that was expected to be increased by global warming, the public may not perceive any real change, Enfield said. But then people would not expect more rain the next time the cycle goes into a cool phase. That could combine with more rain from global warming and ``everybody is caught with their pants down,'' he said. Further complicating the question is the tropical Pacific phenomenon known as El Nino, which also involves the warming and cooling of large masses of ocean water. When the Atlantic cycle is in its warm phase, weather patterns crossing the United States tend to move generally west to east, rather than dipping south in a trough that brings storms to the Midwest, the team found. This differs from the pattern caused by El Nino, which tends to push storms into southern California. Enfield is an oceanographer at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami. Joining him in the research were Alberto M. Mestas-Nunez of the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies at the University of Miami and Paul J. Trimble of the South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach. - On the Net: Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory: FontFamily>Arial

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[CTRL] State Murderess, Joan Claybrook


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Baby Killer
by Jeff Elkins

When you think about United States government minions killing the
children of its citizens, its only natural to think of Janet Reno or Lon
Horiuchi. However, neither is the champion of this State-sponsored
sport. A correspondent of mine recently wrote to remind me of the
current reigning champion: Joan Claybrook, head of the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) during the Jimmy Carter
administration and current president of the left-wing advocacy group
Public Citizen.

The concept of the air bag was  first conceived in the mid-1960s.
Automotive researchers had been on a quest for a device to reduce
cranial and thoracic injuries during high speed auto accidents. Head and
chest trauma are the leading causes of deaths in these crashes and it
was believed that a properly designed air bag could dramatically reduce
these deadly injuries.

Researchers had a primary worry, a flaw of physics that technology
hadnt found a way around. A air bag designed to inflate in one-twenty-
fifth of a second at speeds of 200 mph had the potential to cause the
very damage the scientists were seeking to avoid. Prophetically, early
research indicated the very real possibility of serious, even
fatal injury, particularly to the young or small-framed.

Ignoring this, Claybrook used a bureaucratic sledge hammer to force
airbags through the NHTSA approval process, despite the fact that
engineers at GM, Chrysler and other manufacturers had warned her
repeatedly that their research had showed the devices as currently
configured posed extremely serious health and safety risks.

GM had specifically warned: a small child close to the instrument
panel from which the air cushion is deployed may be severely injured
or even killed. Claybrook treated the automakers warnings
with disdain and ordered air bag implementation anyway.
She then proceeded to go on a public cheerleading mission for these
deadly devices.

Quoting Claybrook: They [air bags] fit all different sizes and types
of people, from little children up tovery large males. Air bags
 work beautifully and they work automatically andthat gives you
more freedom than being forced to wear a seat belt.

Ms. Claybrook has never admitted her complicity in the tragic deaths
of these unfortunate children and seniors . Amazingly enough, as
president of Public Citizen, Claybrook has castigated manufacturers
instead.

Quoting Claybrook: To protect all their passengers  big, small, young
and old  manufacturers must test for the whole family, not just the
large male. Its time testing by all auto companies caught up with
technology and the real world evidence of injury in crashes. We
need a 30 mph test standard because people are more likely to be
killed or seriously injured in higher-speed crashes, and this is
where air bags have saved the most lives.

The hypocrisy truly makes one cringe. Its even worse to know that
there are veritable legions of Claybrooks and their greatest desire is
to worm their way into government positions so they can control
our lives. When unlucky enough to be out of government, they swarm
at various beltway non-profits, serving up statist propaganda under
the guise of public service and advocacy.

Founded by Ralph Nader in 1971, Public Citizen claims to be the
consumers eyes and ears in Washington. They fight for safer drugs
and medical devices, cleaner and safer energy sources, a cleaner
environment, fair trade, and a more open and democratic government.

Its a sham. Public Citizen fights for an all-powerful State and total
control of its citizenry. The last thing this lobby wants is a
more open and democratic government. An open and democratic
government is antithetical to everything that they stand for. In
reality, they desire to be slavemasters. Its a fitting place for
Claybrook and others of her ilk.

A State murderess like Claybrook, wielding a pen, kills with much
greater efficiency than a dozen Lon Horiuchis with sniper rifles.
She will never have to touch a firearm or see the gruesome results
of her handicraft. Nonetheless, her hands drip with the blood of
our children.

That she now leads and speaks from a platform like Public Citizen Inc.
is not surprising. Madame President deserves a new title: Public
Executioner.

May 14, 2001
Jeff Elkins is a freelance consultant and writer living in North Central
Florida.
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[CTRL] Fwd: FEAR: MI: 40 prosecutors reap forfeiture raises


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Crime pays, prosecutors profit from prostitution
Source: Detroit Free Press
 Forty assistant prosecutors in Wayne County, Michigan
are expected to receive a combined $500,000 in raises paid for by
fines on vehicles seized this year, mainly in prostitution stings.
Could there possibly be a financial incentive behind the State's
confiscations? (05/09/01)

http://www.freep.com/news/locway/seize9_20010509.htm


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Re: [CTRL] White House: No-pray zone - Is this USA?

2001-05-17 Thread kl


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On 17 May 2001, at 20:01, YnrChyldzWyld wrote:

 Well then, in the name of tolerance, you surely can't object to the White
 House also allowing on the State Floor:

 - Muslims laying down prayer rugs and praying towards Mecca;

 - Buddhists in orange robes twirling prayer wheels and chanting;

Ok with me

 - followers of Santeria  Voudoun making animal sacrifices and dancing
 until their gods 'mount' them;

Violates animal cruelty laws in just about every state I know of.

 - Satanists making human sacrifices;

Murder is illegal

 - any flavor of pagans wishing to perform their own rites

Who cares?
 If you allow one religious group to pray in the White House, you have to
 allow them all...


Has anyone passed a law preventing them from doing so?

 June


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Re: [CTRL] White House: No-pray zone - Is this USA?

2001-05-18 Thread kl


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On 18 May 2001, at 13:28, YnrChyldzWyld wrote:

 The point the person forwarding the article was making was how 'terrible'
 it was that a group wasn't allowed to publicly practice their Christian
 worship in the White House during a tour; MY point is that if the original
 poster feels Christians should be allowed to publicly display their faith
 within the White House, then ALL religions should be allowed to do so,
 too...

I understood your point and I agree with it.  I would prefer to allow all
religions to display their faith rather than to prevent them from doing so.
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[CTRL] Off With Their Heads

2001-05-18 Thread kl


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Off With Their Heads
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Around the time when Timothy McVeigh was scheduled to be federally
poisoned, the Chinese government scheduled its own death penalty.

It had found a businessman guilty of evading millions in taxes.
Instead of making the businessman a national hero and praising
him for his material contribution to society, as it should have,
the state decided he had to die as an example to others. Let no
man believe that he can disobey the almighty state and get away
with it.

At least the Chinese incident has the advantage of clarity. It
underscores the coercion that is at the heart of all laws passed
by and enforced by the state. And the state is never more anxious
to kill people than when they damage the state directly.

This is why tax evaders are treated roughly and forced to cough
up, whereas its like pulling teeth to get the state to punish those
who steal private property. Similarly, counterfeiters who make bills
that impersonate the states own get the book thrown at them, whereas
counterfeiters of private stock and bond certificates may or may
not.

The US doesnt execute people for failing to pay up (not just yet),
but the US freely jails and bankrupts them. If they refuse to go
to jail, or otherwise insist on amassing personal wealth without
the governments permission, it would eventually have to take extreme
measures.

Beating, hanging, poisoning, bombing: these are methods of every
state everywhere, from the ancient world to the present, and the
state stands ever ready to employ these methods when its own
interests are at stake.

Even more glaring is the contrast between how the state treats
the criminal actions of its own employees as compared with the same
crime committed against the state.

Kidnaping is illegal but the draft is said to be necessary for
national interests. Petty theft is illegal but the government can
take forty percent of our income and call it civilization. To refuse
to serve a customer is considered a violation of civil rights, but
the state can impose trade embargoes against whole countries and
label it proactive foreign policy.

This is precisely why so many found the death penalty for McVeigh
hypocritical at best. You can argue that the rule an eye for an eye
flows from the demands for justice, but what about the millions of
deaths wrought at the hands of the state? Why are they not called
terrorism? Why are the perpetrators not put on trial?

The US routinely bombs Iraq because Iraq has been designated an
enemy of the US. In these bombings, people die, not all of them
soldiers in the line of battle. The same was true during Clintons
war against Serbia. Apartment units, outdoor markets, passenger
trains, churches    these are all considered targets. Innocents die,
but there is no justice or demand for justice.

And then there are the famous cases of Waco and Ruby Ridge, where
innocents who never harmed anyone were targeted and destroyed for
their refusal to bow to the wishes of the state. The US military
is also guilty, just recently, of bringing about civilian deaths in Italy, the
seas of Japan and China, Hawaii, and Peru  where missionaries
sought to witness for Christ.

Where is the accountability? Where is justice? The worst that happens
to the perpetrators is that they are told to retire. Sometimes they
are kicked upstairs. Holding public office is regarded as protection
against the imposition of justice.

This is especially true of the United States government, which
poses as the judge and jury of international war criminals even
as it beats up on foreigners and its own citizens at will, without
regard to the dictates of conscience.

When the same government flies into fits of rage over the activities
of McVeigh, it is impossible not to consider the source. Yes, justice
demands punishment anytime innocents are killed. But why in this
case but not in cases in which the US itself is the perpetrator? Why,
even after all these years, is there no attention to the demands
of justice in the case of Waco? Instead, we get documents like the
Danforth report, exhibit A in why the government cant be trusted
to play the role of both defense and prosecutor.

The politics of the McVeigh bombing are especially poignant. Imagine
if Bush were caught bragging that laffaire Lewinsky was the secret
reason he came to power. It would be considered tacky and nasty
to have considered that angle. But Clinton routinely let people in on the
dirty secret of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City:
Clinton and the government he then headed were the main beneficiaries.
Indeed, Clinton is reported to have credited the bombing with his
reelection in 1996. He exploited the tragedy to the hilt, strongly
hinting that the bombing showed what anti-government ideology (of
talk radio and the Republican Congress) leads to. The media played
along, ringing up every right-of-center organization to ask whether
it condemned the

[CTRL] (Fwd) Op-Ed: Time to Change Strategies

2001-05-18 Thread kl

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The following Op-Ed by Bill Masters, America's first Libertarian
Sheriff, was published in the Mother's day edition of the Denver Post. It
is reprinted by permission.

Bill Masters has served as Sheriff of San Miguel County (Telluride) for 20
years. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Drug War Addiction.
More
essays by Bill Masters may be found at www.libertybill.net.

Time to Change Strategies
By Bill Masters
Special to The Denver Post

Sunday, May 13, 2001 - Roni Bowers and her baby Charity were killed
not by
drug-dealing gangs or criminal thugs, but instead by government agents.
They were collateral damage in the War on Drugs.

In late April, a United States spotter aircraft, flying with a Peruvian air
force officer on board, thought a civilian plane might have been
transporting drugs. However, the only cargo was a human one of Baptist
missionaries and their children, including 7-month-old Charity and her
mother.

After spotting the civilian aircraft, the U.S. jet contacted the
Peruvian air force, which then scrambled fighters to shoot at the
helpless civilians.

A bullet went through Roni and into her baby, killing them both
instantly.

Witnessing this horror were Roni's husband, Jim, and their 6-year-old
son,
Cory, who were passengers on the plane. During the attack, the pilot of
the
civilian plane continued contact with civilian Peruvian air traffic
controllers. According to press reports, he said repeatedly, They are
killing us! They are killing us!

After the plane was strafed, the American pilot working for the Baptist
church was able to crash the burning plane into a river. The injured pilot,
together with Jim and Cory were able to escape the wreckage and float
down
the river grasping dislodged pieces of aircraft. One fighter plane
continued to shoot at them. Reuters reported that the U.S. plane
watched
the incident from about a mile away.

We shouldn't be surprised that this occurred. Mad as hell maybe, but
not surprised. After all, we are in a war, a War on Drugs. And during
times
of war innocent people get in the way.

This tragedy has played itself out scores of times in recent years.
U.S. Marines shot and killed teenage goat herder Esequiel Hernandez
in 1997
near his home in Texas, mistaking him for a drug runner.

Drug agents flew over 62-year-old Donald Scott's ranch and claimed
they saw
marijuana growing on his property. They raided his home, pushed his
wife to
the ground, and shot him to death. No drugs were found.

Police, acting on false information about a $30 drug deal, raided the
home
of 84-year-old, bed-ridden Anna Rae Dixon, and shot her with a 12-
gauge
shotgun, killing her instantly.

In Denver, Ismael Mena was killed in September 1999 after a cop filed a
false search warrant affidavit and the SWAT team raided the wrong
home.
Reportedly the last word from the father of nine was a questioning
Policia? as the dressed-in-black SWAT team stormed into his small
room.

The list goes on and on. It includes children, mothers, fathers,
elderly ladies and teenage goat herders. All collateral damage,
according to common military parlance.

The increasing militarization of the Drug War and our local police
forces is a dangerous trend. Today most of the tactical and firearms
training for peace officers comes straight out of military doctrine. The
tactics taught are not of negotiations or individual bravery but of
concentration of forces and firepower.

In our own state, the legislature has passed laws requiring the
governor as commander in chief to use the soldiers of the Colorado
National Guard for drug interdiction and enforcement.

To that end, the soldiers are providing aviation assets and ground
assistance units trained for the specific mission of cannabis
suppression and eradication. They are available to local law
enforcement in narcotics-centered investigations with surveillance
platforms, thermal imagery and night vision equipment, case support and
intelligence analysis.

The soldiers are also training local officers at the County Sheriffs of
Colorado facility in Douglas County on issues like non-urban tactical
operations and airmobile drug enforcement operations.

It is only a matter of time before our increasingly militarized tactics
will result in more unintended deaths like those in Peru. I

Re: [CTRL] White House: No-pray zone - Is this USA?

2001-05-19 Thread kl


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 But I'm sure that if instead of Christians, the group publicly
 demonstrating its collective faith were Moslems, those who are condemning
 the White House would be roundly APPLAUDING the decision to prevent Moslem
 worship in the White House.


Which members of this group have told you they would applaud
discriminating against Muslims?  Give us the names please.  If you
cannot do so, you are simply making another groundless ass-umption.

--

Best Wishes


Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of
society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't
test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance,
greed and love of power. ~~P.J. O'Rourke

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Re: [CTRL] White House: No-pray zone - Is this USA?

2001-05-19 Thread kl


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On 18 May 2001, at 21:41, William Shannon wrote:


 I agree with June here and wonder if we ought to also allow Buddhists to
 burn incense in the White House or Pentacosts to handle snakes there too?


I think that would be kind of neat.  I like incense.  And what have you
got against snakes?
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Re: [CTRL] Clinton Hit by Egg in Poland

2001-05-19 Thread kl


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I bet you you don't think SouthPark is funny.

On 19 May 2001, at 21:25, YnrChyldzWyld wrote:

 -Caveat Lector-

 On Sat, 19 May 2001, Aleisha Saba wrote:
 The eggs it is said, were at least a year old and Clinton did indeed
 smell of brimstone.
 
 When he left he was carried prostrate with grief from the
 scene.covered with egg and what appeared to be pigeon droppings?
 
 People cheared LONG LIVE THE PIGEONS AND EGGS

 Man, Aleisha...why don't you share those drugs you're taking with the
 rest of us?!

 Heavy psychotropic medication can be the only explanation for what you
 claim to have seen.

 All the news images I saw, showed that the crowd was shocked and some
 frightened by the incident...

 And far from being carried prostrate from the scene in a state of shock,
 they just slipped off his soiled jacket and he went on to shake hands with
 the crowd in shirtsleeves...



 June
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Re: [CTRL] White House: No-pray zone - Is this USA?

2001-05-21 Thread kl


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On 19 May 2001, at 21:07, YnrChyldzWyld wrote:


 Go through the archives...

Your refusal to provide a direct response comes as no surprise.

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Re: [CTRL] Rejected posting to CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM

2001-05-22 Thread kl


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On 20 May 2001, at 0:51, Amelia wrote:

 Just kidding! I am sure it was just a software glitch.  You know the
 one~~it has  a tendency to do this when the post leans too far to the
 right. Other things can activate it also.

The one that really mystifies me is the one that edits out a portion of a
post and sends the rest on to the list!
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Intemperate speech is a distinctive characteristic of man.  Hotheads
blow off and release destructive energy in the process.  They shout and
rave, exaggerating weaknesses, magnifying error, viewing with alarm.  So
it has been from the beginning; and so it will be throughout time.  The
framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do.  They
too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence
of orthodoxy and standardized thought.  They weighed the compulsions
for the restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty.
They chose liberty.~~ Justice William O. Douglas

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[CTRL] Fw: McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill Timebomb

2001-05-23 Thread kl

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-Original Message-
From: Kent Van Cleave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 9:59 PM
To: Hoosier Libertarian
Subject: [Hoosier Libertarian] Fw: McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill
Timebomb

This looks like SERIOUSLY bad legislation, folks!

Kent

-Original Message-
From: L. Neil Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 000 L. Neil Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 4:01 PM
Subject: McCain-Lieberman Gun Show Bill Timebomb

Alan Korwin wrote:

(Please see our NEW ADDRESS at end of report)

GUN-SHOW BILL IS NOT WHAT THEY SAY GUN-SHOW BILL IS NOT
WHAT THEY SAY
GUN-SHOW BILL IS NOT WHAT THEY SAY Re:  S.  890, The McCain-
Lieberman Bill:
Gun Show Loophole Closing and Gun Law Enforcement Act of 2001.

Mass media publicity on the newly proposed gun-show bill is grossly
inaccurate.

The bill has almost nothing to do with what you've probably heard so far.
The so-called gun-show loophole headlines are a minor detail and
basically obscure what the bill really does.

I've just finished studying the eight pages of legalese.
Here is it what it calls for:

1.  Unprecedented federal control over gun shows nationwide -- perfectly
legal gun shows become strictly outlawed without prior federal approval,
licensing and registration of each show; 2.  Centralized federal licensing
and registration of every gun-show promoter in the nation; 3.  Centralized
federal registration of every vendor -- including non-gun vendors -- at any
gun show in the country.  In order for me to sell my BOOKS at a gun
show
I'll have to pre-register and prove who I am, or face arrest; a private
individual looking to sell a single gun would be treated as a vendor under
this law and must be registered even if the gun isn't sold; 4.  Centralized
federal registration of EVERY PERSON who attends a gun show in
America,
whether or not they make purchases of anything at all -- you won't be
allowed in without registering; 5.  Centralized collection of any other
information on gun-show attendees, as determined solely by the
Secretary
of the Treasury; 6.  Imprisonment for attending a gun show and failing to
give up any information required by regulations of the Secretary of the
Treasury; 7.  Imprisonment of any gun-show promoter who fails to
register a
single vendor; 8.  Imprisonment of gun-show promoters who cannot
prove they
notified every person attending a gun show of the new rules, and
obtained
from attendees any information the Secretary of the Treasury mandates
by
regulation; 9.  Centralized collection of any other information the
Secretary of the Treasury decides, by regulation, is necessary on
vendors,
attendees, and the gun show itself; 10.  Submission by gun-show
promoters
of vendor registration logs a) 30 days before any gun show, and b)
additional submission of updated vendor registration logs 72 hours before
any gun show, and c) additional submission of vendor registration logs
within five days of the close of any gun show, under penalty of arrest and
imprisonment for non-compliance; 11.  Identification of vendors only by
use
of federally approved photo ID that may include use of a social security
number, electronically encoded data, or biometric identifiers such as
fingerprint, voice print, retina scan, iris scan, or similar (as defined
under 18 USC 1028(d)(2)); 12.  Creation of a new license (in addition to a
gun-show-promoter license), similar to FFLs, for individuals who want
access to the NICS national background check system for facilitating
gun-show sales for private citizens; 13.  Regulations to be issued by the
Secretary of the Treasury on the procedures, data collections, methods
and
implementation of the entire process to federally control gun shows, in
addition to the requirements made by the proposed statute; such
regulations
will not be known, drafted or even suggested, until after the
McCain-Lieberman law is enacted; 14.  The proposed bill also puts
pressure
on state governments to make at least 95% of their law enforcement
records
for the past 30 years openly available to the federal government; and --
makes unlimited funds available for the states to comply with these
federal
goals; -- requires annual federal review of states' compliance; --
increases penalties (up to ten years imprisonment) for record-keeping
violations; -- grants states permission to make even more restrictive
requirements without being out of compliance with these new federal
laws
(and by implication, puts states that resist these rules in federal
trouble); -- provides hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars for more law
enforcement under numerous programs including project Exile and
others; --
hires 200 more Federal BATF Agents; -- provides $10 million to the
National
Institute for Justice to give out for research on technologies that limit
the use of a gun to the owner; and -- provides for annual reports (in
great detail) by the Attorney General to Congress on whether the Brady
law
is working; 15.

[CTRL] (Fwd) Ashcroft Reverses Reno

2001-05-23 Thread kl

-Caveat Lector-
Well, I've had some reservations about Ashcroft, but if he sticks to his guns (no pun intended) on this, I'll consider that he has redeemed himself.

--- Forwarded message follows ---

Attorney General John Ashcroft says the Justice Department is moving to
reaffirm a long-held opinion that all law-abiding citizens have the
individual right to keep and bear firearms. It is a move that is likely to
enrage liberals who enjoyed eight years of anti-gun support from the
Clinton Administration. In a letter to the National Rifle Association,
Ashcroft says that during his confirmation hearings, he was reminded that
some hold a different view on the right to bear arms -- a view, he says,
that would "read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution." Ashcroft
says he respectfully disagrees with that view, because when he was sworn in
as Attorney General, he took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution.
And Ashcroft says that applies to all parts of the Constitution.

The Washington Times, which has obtained a copy of the letter, says
Ashcroft argues the text and the original intent of the Second Amendment
clearly protects the rights of individuals to keep and bear arms.

Mark Levin, former chief of staff to Attorney General Ed Meese, is praising
the Ashcroft statement. He tells The Times "the right to bear arms is no
less a right than the right to free speech." Levin says the problem with
liberals is that "they wish to pick and choose between individual liberties
and scuttle those with which they disagree."

Anti-Gun Bias
Meanwhile, a leading opinion pollster attributes the media's anti-gun bias
to their lack of real knowledge on the issue. Kellyanne Conway is president
of the Polling Company. She told a seminar on media coverage at the
National Rifle Association Convention, that the bias stems from the fact
that most reporters and anchors do not know much about guns.

Conway said, "The reason the media are so set against gun issues is because
they literally don't know anyone who owns a gun."

Conway told the group that many national correspondents and anchors are out
of touch with ordinary people because they "live in gated communities and
they have all the disposable income and plastic surgeons and diamond
jewelry," thus giving them the freedom to talk about things the rest of
America really does not focus on.

Conway urged NRA members not to believe what the media says about them or
the organization and its activities. She said, "The fact is, the NRA is
increasing membership to 4.3 million members, while at the same time,
there's a collateral drop off in readership of these major national
newspapers, and more importantly, the viewership of these nightly network
news programs."

NRA - Campaign Finance Reform
At the annual Convention held this past week in Kansas City, the NRA
announced it intends to fight the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform
Bill. Executive vice president Wayne LaPierre told an enthusiastic crowd
that the campaign finance bill violates the Constitution and criminalizes
free speech in America.

"As long as there is a National Rifle Association," LaPierre said, "the
First Amendment will stand in defense of the Second, and the Second will
stand in defense of the First."

LaPierre also pledged if the bill passed, the NRA "would drop anchor in
international waters just off the coast and broadcast the truth from its
own television towers."

In a surprise move, Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia, a staunch NRA
supporter, took the podium and announced he accepted the NRA's challenge on
McCain-Feingold. He called the bill "the most serious and double- barreled
challenge to our Bill of Rights that any of us have witnessed in our
lifetime."


--- End of forwarded message ---

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Re: [CTRL] [Spy News] Israeli agents spread more poisoned chocolates (fwd)

2001-05-24 Thread kl


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On 24 May 2001, at 17:45, Yardbird wrote:

 However, the fact that Hebrew markings and other Israeli
 trade-marks were found on the chocolate wrapping leave no doubt as to
 the origin  of the lethal objects.


The author didn't look closely enough.  He missed the microscopic
signature Sharon inscribed carefully on the bottom of each chocolate.
;-]
This propagandist is a rank amateur - he'll never convince anyone with
half a brain that the Israelis are dumb enough to leave incriminating
evidence lying around.

This reminds me of the WWII propaganda that accused German
soldiers of playing catch the babies on the bayonet.

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Re: [CTRL] Fw: Oprah morphs into Rosie

2001-05-24 Thread kl


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[CTRL] (Fwd) Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

2001-05-25 Thread kl


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Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

 Frederick B. Meekins - 05.25.01

Students of political science would be forced to conclude that the field of
international relations is a discipline fraught with bizarre irony and
stunning contradiction. This is no where as evident as it is at the United
Nations.

Both American policymakers and the general public fell victim to this
reality in the controversy surrounding the expulsion of the United
States from various UN panels such as the Commission on Human
Rights and
the International Narcotics Control Board.

One almost doesn't know whether to laugh or cry being that these
decisions are both a blessing in disguise and a cause for concern all at
the same time.

For too long, the United States has drifted along in a state of blissful
denial or outright complacency as to the maniacal hootenanny taking
place
under the auspices of the United Nations.

The United States has been booted off these international bodies largely
because of this nation's refusal to submit fully to the yoke of the
globalist agenda and for mustering some courage with the advent of the
Bush
administration to stand up to this planetary nonsense to a limited
degree.

It has been speculated that the U.S. is being punished for challenging
UN
initiatives regarding issues such as the International Criminal Court, the
effort to abolish landmines, and the Kyoto global warming treaty --- all of
which the United States has rational grounds for opposing.

Yet this dispute between the United States and the United Nations runs
deeper than these significant but peripheral policy disputes. These
disagreements merely scratch the surface of the ideological chasm
festering
between these two geopolitical powerhouses.

Increasingly, freedom lovers everywhere find two opposing
interpretations as to the nature of human rights competing for
prominence in the world at large.

On the one hand can be found the traditional Western view held by the
majority of decent upright Americans adhering to the Judeo-Christian
worldview that fundamental rights and liberties are granted by God to
the individual as an inherent protection against the intrusive
tendencies of governments as well as other individuals.

Those holding an opposing standard contend that rights --- or rather
social privileges --- are granted by government and are subject to
modification, curtailment, or even outright abolition in pursuit of a
regime's particular agenda.

It is this conflict between the differing conceptions of personal
liberty that has gotten the United States kicked off the UN panels where
the statist interpretation of human rights have come to predominate.

A rundown of the Commission's membership will bear this assertion out.
Perusing the Commission's rolls is like taking a tour down Dick Tracy's
Rogue's Gallery on an international level.

The primary power wanting the U.S. off the Commission was none other
than our esteemed strategic partner Red China, a nation renowned for
its
overwhelming devotion to the welfare of the individual. The Communist
government there has slaughtered millions in pursuit of dubious ends as
epitomized by that county's Great Cultural Revolution. Forced abortions
and
religious persecution of believing Christians continues in that nation to
this very day.

Another paragon of inalienable rights guiding the Commission to ever
higher plateaus of individual emancipation is Saudi Arabia. In that
particular land of opportunity, women aren't even allowed to drive cars
and
those who convert from Islam to another faith are rewarded by having
their
heads lopped off.

One will realize just how ludicrous the decision to remove the United
States from the Commission really is once they learn that the seat
belonging to the beacon of hope to the world in this life was given to
Sudan. Thus a nation where children are sold into the bondage of slavery
for simply belonging to the wrong religion has been elevated as a better
example to the world than the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Even the more enlightened and civilized nations on the Human Rights
Commission leave something to be desired in their interpretation of
fundamental rights and liberties.

For example, in Canada one can run afoul of the law for speaking out
against homosexuality and a number of Evangelicals have been subject
to
criminal prosecution there for distributing literature critical of other
religions. Other industrialized democracies on the Human Rights
Commission
such as France, Germany, and even the United Kingdom have laws
unduly
hampering religious and individual expression.

A number of those opposed to the controversial agenda being pursued
by the
United Nations have suggested that now is the perfect time to get out of
this planetary bureaucracy in light of this slap across the face of the
United States since the UN largely pursues an anti-American agenda at
the

[CTRL] D.C. Plans ID Card for Students

2001-08-15 Thread kl


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D.C. Plans ID Card for Students
Aim of DMV Database Is Missing Children
 The ID cards, issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles, could be
used to track everything from children's welfare benefits to attendance at
school functions.
(D.C. Motor Vehicle Administration)
_Special Report_
 Privacy

By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 15, 2001; Page A01
District officials plan to begin taking digital photographs and fingerprints
of schoolchildren this fall as part of a high-tech identification initiative
designed to improve the search for missing children.

Under a plan initiated by the administration of Mayor Anthony A.
Williams (D), the information about the children would be collected at
schools using laptop computers. It would be fed into a centralized
computer system, and the children then would receive ID cards
containing bar codes that can be scanned by authorities, officials said.
Children from 2 to 14 initially would be eligible for the new IDs, and
parents would have to give their approval before their children can
participate. The IDs are to cost $5, although the city may subsidize the
fee for low-income residents. The IDs would need to be renewed every
two years.

Several officials said they hope the program could be expanded to
improve social services by closely tracking youths' involvement in
schools and government benefit programs.

Although local law enforcement agencies and private organizations have
long snapped photos and taken fingerprints for parents to use in the
event of a child's disappearance, the District's initiative is fundamentally
different because the government  is to maintain the information.

We want to take advantage of the latest digital technology to
implement a process that will enable us to protect and assist the
parents and children of the District of Columbia, Sherryl Hobbs
Newman, director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, who is
overseeing the plan, said in an interview. We should use the
technology we're developing to get that information to whomever needs
it.

It is not clear how much of a problem missing children are in the
District. The mayor's office said police list 86 open cases of juveniles
reported missing in the 17 months from January 2000 to the end of May.
Nationally, more than 5,000 children are listed as missing at any one
time, said a spokesman for a group that tracks the issue. Those
numbers include runaways and children taken by estranged parents.
Businesses, governments and military agencies everywhere are linking
computers, digital photographs and biometric identifiers -- such as
fingerprints and facial scans -- to improve security and better
authenticate the identities of individuals. Many law enforcement
agencies use such technology to electronically book prisoners.
But the coupling of technology and biometric information has drawn
intense criticism from privacy advocates. And some activists and
officials expressed concern about the District's plan, saying the
identifying information could be misused by authorities and hacked by
outsiders.

I find it kind of scary, said Mary M. Levy, analyst and counsel for
Parents United for the D.C. Public Schools, an advocacy group. She
said many parentsmight not want police using the data for investigations.
D.C. Council member Kevin P. Chavous (D-Ward 7), chairman of the
council's Education Committee, said he shares Levy's concerns, but he
supports the program. Generally, I think it's a good idea, he said. I
am a little concerned about the Big Brother aspect.

Council member Phil Mendelson (D), who is on the Education
Committee, said he was unaware of the plan but is glad it is voluntary.
He said the government nevertheless must act slowly because of the
privacy issues involved. We need to be very careful about . . . obtaining
such detailed information, he said.

At the request of the mayor, council Chairman Linda W. Cropp (D)
introduced a resolution July 6 that would amend local regulations to
allow for the child ID cards. There was no debate at the time, and no
hearings have been scheduled.

The resolution takes effect 45 working days after its introduction, unless
the council votes against it, officials said.

Newman said she is sensitive to privacy concerns. Although the system
would greatly ease the collection of information about individual children,
she said, it would also be configured to limit how much information
officials could get.

I think people will eventually see the benefits, she said. New things
tend to scare people.

The District's initiative would be the most sophisticated in the nation to
focus primarily on children, according to officials at Polaroid ID
Systems, who have worked with the DMV to create the program.
The only similar program is in West Virginia, which began offering child
IDs two years ago. The District plan differs from it in one key respect:
District DMV officials intend to go into the schools with portable

Re: [CTRL] Godwins law

2001-08-17 Thread kl


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 Godwins lawI think this is something this list could use:
 Godwin's Law prov.
 [Usenet] As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a
 comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one. There is a tradition
 in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever
 mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in
 progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an
 upper bound on thread length in those groups.



Godwin's law must have been formulated by the Nazis on Usenet who
couldn't stand up under public scrutiny.

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down and meet them with baseball bats.
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[CTRL] (Fwd) Little caps for little people, big caps for Corporate Su

2001-08-19 Thread kl


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There are caps on the value of pain, suffering, or your life if you sue your
HMO for breaking your insurance contract.  There are no caps if your HMO
sues you.

There are caps upon welfare for the poor.  There are no caps on welfare for
megacorporations---the 33 billion subsidy recently awared our domestic oil
and coal cartel---and that largesse extends to make megafarms bigger, more
profitable and better able to gobble up their small-farm neighbors.  Thank
you, George.



Aug 18, 2001


WEEKLY FARM: Corporate Farms, State Agencies Among Big Recipients of
Bailout Package
By Philip Brasher
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - When President Bush signed into a law a $5.5 billion farm
bailout package, he said it was for farm families that represent the best
of America. He probably did not have the Montana state government in mind,
but it is one of the biggest recipients of the money.

He probably was not thinking of the University of Illinois, another large
recipient, or of Tyler Farms, an Arkansas-based partnership that controls
40,000 acres, an area nearly as big as the District of Columbia.

Tyler Farms is getting about $1.7 million, more than other single recipient,
according to an analysis by the Environmental Working Group. The
environmental watchdog organization maintains an extensive database of
Agriculture Department records.

Montana's Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, which receives
federal subsidies on state-owned cropland, will get the third largest
amount, $906,965.

Tyler Farms has received nearly $24 million in various farm subsidies over
the past five years, including nearly $5 million in special payments such as
those being made this year to compensate farmers for low crop prices, the
group says.

It's not like a welfare check, said Tyler Farms executive Phillip Ring.
It goes into this big pot of money that determines whether Tyler Farms is
profitable.

The University of Illinois should collect about $126,000 for its farm
interests. Between 1996 and 2000, the university got nearly $1.8 million in
federal farm subsidies.

The supplemental assistance goes to the same farmers who receive fixed
annual payments from the government under a program Congress created in
1996. The supplemental payments are limited to $34,000 per individual
recipient, but that does not apply to institutional landowners and certain
partnerships.

Critics say big farms are hogging too much of federal subsidies, and using
the money to expand their operations to the detriment of neighbors.

One percent of the 1.4 million recipients will get 15 percent of the
payments, or about $52,000 each, according to the Environmental Working
Group analysis. The top 20 percent will get 79 percent of the money.

It's just more of the same, said Kenneth Cook, the group's president. We
should get the money to people who need it.

Bruce Babcock, an Iowa State University economist, says large grain and
cotton farms now rely on government subsidies for their survival. Most
small farmers have off-farm income and they're not as dependent on it. ...
It's the big farmers, crop farmers, that have developed a culture of
dependency.

Defenders of the subsidy system say that restricting payments penalizes
efficient producers and discourages the streamlining and consolidation that
produced operations like Tyler Farms.

We're not the enemy, we're just aggressive farmers, said Leland Olson, who
farms 3,800 acres with his son near Marathon, Iowa. He should get a
supplemental payment of $34,000. He received $475,000 in subsidies from
1996-2000, according to the analysis.

The latest check will put a smile on my face, he said. But he added, We
weren't going to close our door without it.

Arkansas farmer Larry Joe Burns, who together with his wife should qualify
for $68,000, says he has to rent more land each year to cover expenses. He
has expanded at a rate of about 10 percent a year and now farms about 3,000
acres.

You just have fewer and fewer large operators that have to expand because
the margin is so small on each unit, Burns said. You lose good farmers
that want to stay on the land but they can't afford to farm.

Montana's farm subsidies are funneled to the state's schools.

Commodity prices are low. We do welcome those payments to help us help the
schools, said Kevin Chappell, who oversees the state's farm and ranch land.

Farmers will get the checks at a time when the nation's agriculture economy
appears to be on the rebound. The new aid will push net farm income to $50.4
billion, the highest level since 1996 and nearly 10 percent above last year.

Much of the growth is due to strong prices for cattle, hogs and milk, but
prices for major crops such as corn, soybeans and wheat also are edging up.

The aid package includes

[CTRL] (Fwd) LP RELEASE: Federal workers with credit cards

2001-08-21 Thread kl

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Federal workers are in a credit card
spending frenzy (and you're paying)

WASHINGTON, DC -- Bad news for American taxpayers: Thousands of
government employees have been going on credit-card shopping sprees,
buying everything from pornography and vacations to jewelry and pet
supplies -- and sending you the bill.

Who says government workers don't get any credit? said Libertarian
Party National Director Steve Dasbach. Unfortunately, they get plenty
of it -- and they're sending us their credit card bills.

New revelations about the growing abuse of government credit cards
proves there may be nothing more frightening than federal workers with
the power to say, 'Charge it!' 

Last week, the General Accounting Office in Washington, DC acknowledged
there had been a significant breakdown in monitoring the abuse of
credit cards by federal employees.

The problem is especially significant, said the GAO, because federal
employees are carrying more than 3.1 million government-issued charge
cards -- and are using them to spend up to $19 billion a year.

The cards, designed to give federal employees more flexibility when
making official purchases, have been used for a staggering array of
personal expenses, according to the GAO and other government watchdog
groups. Examples include:

* Pornographic materials, purchased over the Internet by credit-card
wielding Education Department employees. The department's chief
inspector, Lorraine Lewis, also admitted that employees had used the
cards to buy personal computers.

* Tickets to a Broadway show by an employee at the Department of
Energy.

* Family vacations, charged by employees of the Corporation for
National and Community Service. One worker racked up $22,442 in bills
for family fun.

* Eyeglasses, jewelry, and pet supplies.

* An astonishing $500,000 in personal expenses by one employee in the
U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles.

And even when the charges are for legitimate government use,
bureaucrats appear to have a growing problem with actually paying their
bills: At the Pentagon alone, 40,000 federal employees have defaulted
on more than $53 million in travel charges.

If those examples aren't shocking enough, the problem may get even
worse in the future: Charges on government credit cards have increased
28% since 1999 -- and are growing every year, according to the GAO.

Even more worrisome: Fifteen federal agencies now have more than one
card per employee, according to the GOA, and security for the cards
seems to be extremely lax. For example:

* Two agencies -- the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the
Securities and Exchange Commission -- each have more than twice as many
credit cards as employees.

* Even former employees at the Internal Revenue Service have access to
credit cards, according to the Treasury Inspector General.

* Army, Navy, and Air Force personnel hold a whopping 1.6 million
credit cards; while the Agriculture Department has 157,752 and the
Transportation Department has 119,465.

Given all these problems, it's past time to take these credit cards out
of the hands of financially out-of-control federal workers, said
Dasbach.

We need to cut up these government credit cards and put an end to
these plastic-fueled shopping sprees by federal spendthrifts -- before
taxpayers wind up in the poorhouse, he said.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) Thousands leaving public school behind

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Published Saturday, August 25, 2001, in the Herald-Leader

Thousands leaving public school behind
By Linda B. Blackford
HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER

Judy Mortkowitz, a longtime public school teacher, didn't plan on home
schooling her children.

She was asked to -- by a Fayette County school official who said her oldest
son, Jody, was having trouble in middle school.

Was it bad grades or fighting? she asked. No. The problem was that her son
asked teachers questions they couldn't answer and made them cry. Would she
consider home schooling him instead?

Mortkowitz would and did.

Jody, 25, went to college and is now a successful freelance author and
artist.

Now, Judy Mortkowitz is home schooling her two younger children and seeing
more and more parents join her ranks, parents who are dissatisfied with
traditional schools and want to strike out on their own.

In the past year alone, the number of home-schooled students in Kentucky has
surged to 12,491, a 21 percent increase from 1999.

``I think more and more people are hearing about it, and home schoolers grow
up and turn out well, winning national academic competitions on a fairly
regular basis,'' said Michael Fogler, a Lexington musician and writer who
has home schooled his 13-year-old son for eight years.

But the home-schooling boom in Kentucky may reignite the debate over whether
home schools need some kind of oversight to make sure home school is about
school and not about dodging truancy charges.

Unlike surrounding states, Kentucky has very lax laws regarding home
schools, requiring little more of parents than registering their children
and opening their paperwork to state officials if needed.

``It's terrible, and it's worse where we come from,'' said state Rep.
Barbara Colter, R-Manchester, who tried to pass home-school legislation in
1998. ``I'm not worried about the good home schools, but we are one of the
only states that allows anybody or anything to educate a child. If the
mother can't read, how can she teach?''

Reasons behind the boom
Parents give a variety of reasons for choosing to teach their kids at home.

``We want our children to explore and grow, we want them to know how to
think and not what to think, and we can do that with home schooling,''
Mortkowitz said.

Fogler wanted a more flexible atmosphere for his son.

``It was sort of to get away from the grading, ranking, tracking and
competing that go on in schools,'' he said. ``I wanted to see how it would
work to let the child point to his interests and follow that a little more.
I think there's a lot of cases of personalities who just don't fit well the
school model, sitting still at a desk.''

Julie Ervin of Paris wanted her four sons to have a more religious education
than they could get in public schools, and Catholic schools were beyond the
family's budget.

The older boys now work from correspondence classes, and Ervin and her
husband monitor their progress year by year to make sure they want to
continue. The boys work for four hours a day, then go to activities like
piano lessons or 4-H meetings.

``We really like what we're seeing with their progress,'' she said.

Untold numbers
The number of home-school students now make up about 2 percent of Kentucky's
school population, but that figure might be even higher. Home-school numbers
are reported by local school districts, which keep records of students who
leave public school to be educated privately or at home. So if a student has
never enrolled in public or private schools, a district won't know the
student exists.

The number of home schools has also jumped around the nation. In 1994, the
federal government estimated the number of students at 345,000; by 1999, it
was 850,000. But the Home School Legal Defense Association in Purcellville,
Va., puts it closer to 1.5 million home-schooled students nationwide.

Louie Hammons, director of pupil personnel for Garrard County, says the
increased interest in home schools means more parents are interested in
doing it the right way. But there are still parents who use home school as
an excuse to dodge truancy charges, and there are people who offer to home
school their children without ever having finished themselves.

``There are good home schools, and there are people who abuse it,'' he said.

In 1998, legislators attempted to pass laws that would require more
oversight of home schools, like testing home-school students annually -- but
they were defeated by the perceived political might of several statewide
Christian and home-schooling groups.

Colter, who battled the home-school groups in 1998, says she's preparing a
new bill for the 2002 session that will try to curb abuses. Her bill

[CTRL] FW: [narconews] NEWS: Colombia in Revolt v. Prohibition - Issue #14 now online

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Subject: [narconews] NEWS: Colombia in Revolt v. Prohibition - Issue #14
now online

August 25, 2001

BREAKING NEWS
Please Distribute Widely

Dear Colleagues,

Due to fast-breaking news events in Colombia, we begin Issue #14 of The
Narco News Bulletin - our "Back-to-School Teach-In For América" - today, a
few days early.

U.S. Ambassador to Colombia Anne Patterson has just issued a public threat
against the following democratic institutions, each of which has opened the
debate on drug legalization this week.

Stories now posted on Narco News:

-- Colombia Congress Debates Legalizing

Senator Vivian Morales says, "Prohibition is the Narco's Greatest Ally"

-- Governors: End Drug Prohibition

Assembly of Colombian Governors Passes Historic Resolution by Consensus of
all 31 of the country's state governors

-- Andean Parliament Calls For Legalization Summit

Legislators from Perú, Ecuador, Venezuela and Bolivia join Colombian Call
for Regional Policy Change -- Legalization goes onto agenda of upcoming
Presidential summit in Caracas

And the U.S. Ambassador's Response?

-- Anne Patterson threatens "Problems" If Solutions Are Found

The United States Press correspondents have missed another Big Story from
Latin America:

Colombia's democratic institutions -- those that "Plan Colombia" purports to
protect -- have turned definitively against U.S. policy this week.

As Colombian journalist-in-exile Alfredo Molano predicted in last month's
Narco News, the U.S.-imposed aerial fumigation campaign in Colombia has now
backfired. The Titanic of U.S.-imposed drug prohibition has now crashed upon
the iceberg of Civil Society. The over-reaction by the U.S. Ambassador
presages more news in the coming days and weeks.

It's Democracy vs. the Drug War in the Andes.

And as inauthentic journalists like Juan Forero of the New York Times parrot
the official party line and withhold the hard news from the American people,
we share with you today eight press reports from throughout the Andes that
reveal that the Championship Bout has begun: Democracy vs. Prohibition.

Thus begins our Fall Offensive for 2001; the Back-to-School Teach-In for
América:

http://www.narconews.com/

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"Teach-Ins for América" to be held in Boston and New York in the coming
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[CTRL] (Fwd) Patent abuse, and appropriation of tradenames


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 There have been frequent attempts in recent years to patent things that
have been around for centuries in other countries---Neem oil and Basmati
rice are two of these attempts---and if no one contests them, the patents
issue as an unjustified restraint on trade.

Texas company's attempt to patent a type of basmati rice became a touchstone
for anti-globalization protest in the 1990's. But the long-simmering issue
was largely settled this week, when the United States granted a narrower
patent to the company, Ricetec of Alvin, Tex. The United States originally
granted the patent in 1997, touching a nerve in India, leading to a
challenge by the Indian government and igniting demonstrations against what
was termed a piracy of emerging nations' indigenous products. After this
week's decision, the Indian government said it saw no reason for further
dispute. The new patent is limited to a few variants of the rice and will
not hamper export of its own basmati product, the government concluded.
Still, scientists in India are complaining about future problems while
evaluating the impact, and opposition politicians are agitating for further
action. The protests in the late 1990's were led by Vandana Shiva, who
called Ricetec's claim to basmati rice absurd. She termed the limited scope
of the final patent largely a success. But, she warned, the battle against
Ricetec is just the beginning of India's battle against bio-piracy and theft
of indigenous plant wealth. For most Indians, the basmati controversy went
beyond the economic impact of one product. Basmati, an aromatic rice used in
virtually every Indian kitchen, is considered a national heritage. The long-
grain rice, whose grains remain petal-soft and separate after cooking, grows
in the Punjab region in the north, and across the border in Pakistan. In
1997, the United States initially granted a broad basmati patent to Ricetec,
which developed several strains of rice marketed under various names as
similar to basmati. Of the 20 claims made by the company, most related to
the rice plant, with others covering the grain and farming methods. The
American decision created an uproar as bitter Indians expressed frustration
that successive governments had let India lose claim to basmati, which had
never been trademarked. India and its rival Pakistan said they would fight
the patent, calling it a threat to the economic survival of thousands of
farmers in the subcontinent. More than 50,000 people demonstrated in front
of the United Sates Embassy against the patent. At the World Trade
Organization conference in Seattle, India protested the agreement on
trade-related intellectual property rights, which had led to a spate of
patents for western companies, including for basmati rice. Another coalition
denounced the basmati rice patent at the Seattle meeting, and called on
W.T.O. members to accept that the rights of farmers and communities precede
intellectual property rights. At the Summit of the Americas in Quebec,
activists protested against the prospect of intellectual property protection
that would work to the advantage of multinationals involved in genetic
engineering of agricultural products - like basmati developed over hundreds
of years - at the expense of small farmers in developing countries. For
years, India largely ignored any claim or legal protection for growers and
marketers of basmati. A bill has been introduced to recognize produce as
belonging to a specific geographical area, but it is still pending before a
panel of the Parliament. Given that basmati is not patented by geographic
location even within India, the country's international patent appeal
appears weak. For over two decades basmati has been used in the United
States to describe long-grain aromatic rice grown domestically. This usage
went unchallenged by India, so much so that the patent claims were under the
plea of long usage provided for in trade-related intellectual property
rights. The premium grain stacked up in American supermarkets under brand
names like Calmati, which comes from California, and Texmati and Kasmati,
which are marketed by Ricetec. Indian basmati exporters dismiss these
varieties as basmati imitations. The distinct aroma and the texture of
basmati comes from the Indian soil irrigated by waters from the Himalayan
rivers, they say. India urged the United States Patent and Trade Office in
April 2000 to re-examine certain Ricetec claims that India felt posed a
threat to Indian basmati exports to the United States. In hundreds of pages
of scientific evidence, India argued that its basmati varieties already had
the characteristics claimed as unique by Ricetec. India protested Ricetec's
claim to the term basmati, and insisted that the appellation should be
reserved for rice grown in a specific region in India. The argument is much
like the one that has been used successfully to limit Champagne to France
and Scotch whiskey

[CTRL] (Fwd) Another timber cartel raid on your property


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This is one of the longest running attacks on the public purse that ever
existed.  Who else could walk up to the Federal Treasury and buy a tree
worth $20,000 for $3.00 and on top of it, require the taxpayer to build the
road to and from the tree.

Private forest land provides about sixty percent of timber products in the
U.S.---and is quite capable of supplying all the demand, but the timber
cartel doesn't want to buy your trees---why should they, if they can get
them almost for free from land which you partly own..

Not only that, they want to avoid competition further--the Bush
administration is sufficiently in their pocket to impose a huge import duty
on the pretense that the U.S. timber cartel is not subsidized and Canadian
timber is.  So a stickbuilt house will now cost up to $4000 more to protect
Weyerhauser, Boise Cascade et. al. from the free trade that this
administration babbles about.

The Bush Administration is now receiving letters on the subject of weakening
the existing regulations, which are already pretty weak.  If you think the
timber cartel should pay market price for their trees, from private woodlot
owners who pay taxes on them, you might send a letter of protest---snail
mail is more weighty than e-mails.  But an e-mail may be helpful---here is
the address for e-mail.

http://ga0.org/campaign/roadless_comments



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[CTRL] (Fwd) FEAR: US: The Roots Of Racial Profiling

2001-08-26 Thread kl

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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1563/a05.html
Newshawk: http://www.cannabisnews.com/
Pubdate: August 2001
Source: Reason Magazine (US)
Copyright: 2001 The Reason Foundation
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Author: Gene Callahan and William Anderson

THE ROOTS OF RACIAL PROFILING

Why Are Police Targeting Minorities For Traffic Stops?

It is early in the morning, and the well-dressed young African-American man
driving his Ford Explorer on I-75 sees the blue lights of the Georgia State
Patrol car behind him.  The officer pulls behind the sport utility vehicle
and the young man's heart begins to sink.

He is on his way to Atlanta for a job interview.

The stop, ostensibly for speeding, should not take long, he reasons, as the
highway patrol officer walks cautiously toward the Explorer.  But instead
of simply asking for a driver's license and writing a speeding ticket, the
trooper calls for backup.  Another trooper soon arrives, his blue lights
flashing as well.

The young man is told to leave his vehicle, as the troopers announce their
intention to search it.  Hey, where did you get the money for something
like this? one trooper asks mockingly while he starts the process of going
through every inch of the Explorer.  Soon, an officer pulls off an inside
door panel.

More dismantling of the vehicle follows.

They say they are looking for drugs, but in the end find nothing.

After ticketing the driver for speeding, the two officers casually drive
off.  Sitting in his now-trashed SUV, the young man weeps in his anger and
humiliation.

Unmotivated searches like this are daily occurrences on our nation's
highways, and blacks and white liberals have been decrying the situation
for several years.

Many conservatives, on the other hand, dismiss such complaints as the
exaggerations of hypersensitive minorities.  Or they say that if traffic
cops do in fact pull over and search the vehicles of African Americans
disproportionately, then such racial profiling is an unfortunate but
necessary component of modern crime fighting.

The incident described above should give pause to those who think that
racial profiling is simply a bogus issue cooked up by black leaders such as
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to use as another publicity tool.  One of us
teaches in an MBA program that enrolls a fairly large number of African
Americans, and the story comes from one of our students.

Indeed, during class discussions, all of the black men and many of the
black women told stories of having their late-model cars pulled over and
searched for drugs.

While incidents of racial profiling are widely deplored today, there is
little said about the actual root cause of the phenomenon.  The standard
explanations for racial profiling focus on institutional racism, but that
idea runs contrary to the sea change in social attitudes that has taken
place over the last four decades.

On the contrary, the practice of racial profiling grows from a trio of very
tangible sources, all attributable to the War on Drugs, that $37 billion
annual effort on the part of local, state, and federal lawmakers and cops
to stop the sale and use of illicit substances.  The sources include the
difficulty in policing victimless crimes in general and the resulting need
for intrusive police techniques; the greater relevancy of this difficulty
given the intensification of the drug war since the 1980s; and the
additional incentive that asset forfeiture laws give police forces to seize
money and property from suspects.  Since the notion of scaling back, let
alone stopping, the drug war is too controversial for most politicians to
handle, it's hardly surprising that its role in racial profiling should go
largely unacknowledged.

The Practice of Racial Profiling

Although there is no single, universally accepted definition of racial
profiling, we're using the term to designate the practice of stopping and
inspecting people who are passing through public places -- such as drivers
on public highways or pedestrians in airports or urban areas -- where the
reason for the stop is a statistical profile of the detainee's race or
ethnicity.

The practice of racial profiling has been a prominent topic for the past
several years.

In his February address to Congress, President George W.  Bush reported
that

[CTRL] FW: Castaway

2001-08-27 Thread kl


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2001-08-27 Thread kl


Dunno what happened to the photo.

This one is well worth opening imho

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[CTRL] (Fwd) LP RELEASE: Sports team names

2001-08-31 Thread kl

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Government should end its jihad
against Indian sports team names

WASHINGTON, DC -- A decision by Maryland's Montgomery County school
board to prohibit the use of sports team names like Indians and
Warriors -- and investigations by the U.S. Justice Department into
whether such names create a racially hostile environment -- is proof
that political correctness has trumped civil liberties, says the
Libertarian Party.

There is no sensitivity exception to the First Amendment, said the
party's national director, Steve Dasbach. The fact that some Native
Americans are offended by some Indian-themed sports team names does not
give the government the right to prohibit such names.

As long as we have a First Amendment in this country, the government
should shut down its Department of Hurt Feelings -- and get off the
warpath on the issue of Indian sports team names.

This week, the Montgomery County school board ordered Poolesville High
School to stop calling its sports teams the Indians. The decision was
made, said school board superintendent Jerry Weast, to support every
child in a way that they feel supported.

But that's only one example of the anti-Indian sports team name
hysteria that's sweeping the country:

* In April, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights called for an end to
Indian-themed sports team names, arguing that they are disrespectful
and offensive to Native Americans.

* In 2000, the U.S. Census Bureau announced that professional athletes
who promote the Census could not be referred to by their Indian-named
teams. For example, an athlete from the Cleveland Indians would be
called a member of Cleveland's professional baseball team.

* In 1999, the Department of Justice launched an investigation of Erwin
High School in Asheville, North Carolina to determine if its sports
teams -- named the Warriors and the Squaws -- created a racially
hostile environment. Had D.O.J. lawyers decided to prosecute, the
school could have lost $8 million in federal funds.

Ironically, the jihad against such names is going on even while many
Native Americans don't mind -- or actually endorse -- such names.

For example, in New York, the Seneca nation tribal council passed a
resolution supporting the Salamanca High School Warriors, while in
Florida, Seminole tribal leaders have endorsed the name Seminoles by
Florida State University.

Given the genuine difference of opinion on this issue, even among
Indian leaders, what should be done?

Here's a suggestion from Dasbach: How about letting schools decide --
without government interference or pressure?

Schools, whether public or private, are capable of making decisions
about what to call their sports teams, based on the wishes of students
and parents, the opinions of fans, the school's history and traditions,
and the viewpoints of ethnic and racial groups, he said. They don't
need government bureaucrats -- or Department of Justice lawyers --
making those decisions based on political correctness.

And for schools that are forced to eliminate Indian names, Dasbach said
he had some thoughts about possible replacement names.

If government bureaucrats want to get into the business of determining
sports team names, let's name the teams after them, he suggested. How
about a team named the Busy-Body Bureaucrats? The Lying Politicians? Or
the Jack-Booted Thugs?

Of course, he would withdraw those suggestions if politicians found
them disrespectful or offensive, said Dasbach.

We do want to support every politician in a way that they feel
supported, he said.

All levity aside, Dasbach acknowledged that since he is not personally
a Native American, he cannot judge whether some Native Americans are
genuinely distressed by some team names.

I don't doubt that some Native Americans feel these team names
belittle their culture and ethnic identity, he said. That is
regretful. It would be nice to live in a world where no individual ever
felt demeaned or slighted. But that's separate from the question of
whether the government should be involved in this debate.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) FEAR: US NH: Feds Using Drug Laws To Seize Southern NH P

2001-08-31 Thread kl

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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01.n1607.a01.html
Newshawk: Sledhead - http://www.maximizingharm.com/
Pubdate: Fri, 31 Aug 2001
Source: Concord Monitor (NH)
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Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/af.htm (Asset Forfeiture)

FEDS USING DRUG LAWS TO SEIZE SOUTHERN N.H.  PROPERTY

CONCORD, N.H.  - A Windham man has become the latest target in a series
of
federal drug forfeiture cases in southern New Hampshire.

Prosecutors this week filed a sealed complaint against Timothy Bishop,
attaching his home and several other properties, vehicles and assets.

No criminal charges have been filed against Bishop.  He has an unlisted
phone number and could not be reached for comment Thursday.

Assistant U.S.  Attorney Jean Weld said she could not comment on the case
but said, all this stuff should be public within a matter of weeks.

Previously, Weld had filed forfeiture claims in U.S.  District Court
against several other Nashua area businessmen.

One complaint alleges the owner of Sharpshooter Billiards, Francis
Calaguiro of Nashua, was involved in cocaine dealing, video gambling and
money laundering through his business.

The complaint also says Rick Stoddard of Nashua was involved in drug
dealing on his own and with Calaguiro.  According to the complaint,
undercover agents bought cocaine from Calaguiro several times.

Prosecutors have filed forfeiture claims against various properties,
including the business, Stoddard's and Calaguiro's homes, and assorted
vehicles and financial assets.  However, Sharpshooter Billiards remains
open for business while the case is pending.

Another forfeiture case was unsealed this month, but the complaint remains
sealed, so no information is available about the government's
allegations.  That case targeted Michael Gingras and Bruce Brouillard of
Nashua; Greg and Rebecca Wheeler of Litchfield, Douglas Cox of Hampton;
and
Samuel Bellavance, address unknown.  Weld declined to comment whether
prosecutors expect to file criminal charges against any of them.

However, she noted prosecutors rarely pursue forfeitures without bringing
criminal charges, though federal law allows them to do so.

Forfeiture, she said, basically allows us to tie the property
up.  Otherwise, there wouldn't be anything left by the time charges were
filed.

Federal law allows the government to seize any property used in drug
dealing, or property or assets bought with drug dealing proceeds.

The government can seize property without criminal charges and needs to
show only by a preponderance of the evidence, a much lower legal standard
of proof than in criminal cases, that the property was involved in drug
dealing.

In Bishop's case, the government has filed claims against his home in
Windham, and what appear to be rental properties in Windham, and Lowell
and
Chelmsford, Mass.

The government also filed claims on various bank and investment accounts,
as well as three cars, one pickup truck and two motorcycles.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) [infowars] 1000 dead in La Paz, Spain of pesticide poiso

2001-09-08 Thread kl

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http://www.getipm.com/articles/spain-organophates.htm is the
source
here
(this news carried by The Guardian, UK, 8-25-01)

Very briefly, then: According to a survey carried out in 2000 by the
scientific body, Institute of Professionals, Managers and
Specialists, 1 in 3 scientists working for government quangos or
newly privatized labs has been asked to adjust conclusions to suit
the sponsor.

La Paz, Spain. Dr. Angel Peralta on 5-12-81 received a telephone
call
from Spain's health ministry ordering him to say nothing about the
epidemic (that killed 1000  seriously wounded 25,000 there) and
certainly nothing about organo-phosphorus poisoning. In 1983
WHO
convened a medical conference in Madrid that formally ratified the
Spanish government position that cooking oil was to blame for the
poisoning. Oil merchants were tried and found guilty of poisoning.
But Muro and his colleagues thru months of independent research
found
the poison source: pesticides on tomatoes from Almeria (a
corporate
agriculture center). In 1985 Muro died of a mysterious illness and
his findings have never yet been accepted by the Spanish
government.
No cooking oil contaminant has yet been found by labs around the
world to be the source of this La Paz poisoning.

In 1989 a similar outbreak probably involving organo-phosphates
occured in the USA, first identified in New Mexico, and affected
1500. L-Tryptophan, an amino acid supplement, was blamed. L-
Tryptophan has never been shown to be responsible and has been
taken
by millions of Americans in the 1980s but is now banned in US and
Europe. Funding was available for scientists who wished to pursue
the
official line, but not for those who held different views. (Much of
the former is direct quoting, somewhat condensed.)

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[CTRL] (Fwd) [SSfS] Totalitarianism for Tots?

2001-07-18 Thread kl


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From:   Cindy Sewell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date sent:  Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:30:08 -0400

Totalitarianism for Tots?
DC to Make School Attendance Mandatory for Three-Year-Olds

The following  Washington Post article on mandatory school attendance
for
three-year-olds foreshadows a dark future for the next generation if we do
not take the time to find our voices and speak up for the natural right of
parents to direct the education of their own children. If we want the
government to raise our children, all we need do is remain silent and ride
the national tide. Georgia is already in the surf having both lowered to
six(Gov. Barnes tried for age five) and raised to 18 the compulsory
attendance age in the first session of Governor Barnes' term, with barely
a
peep from the people. Consider these words of Warren Burger, The
statist
notion that governmental power should supersede parental authority in all
cases because some parents abuse and neglect children is repugnant to
American tradition. May the repugnancy and absurdity of D.C.'s
attempt to
supervise the lives of all three-year-olds spur us to action.

- Cindy Sewell
HEIR Chair 00-01
www.heir.org


 Here's the link to the Washington Post article and excerpts:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16066-2001Jun18.html

D.C. Council member Kevin P. Chavous (D-Ward 7) plans to introduce a
bill today that would lower from 5 to 3 the age at which schooling is
compulsory, part of a push among school and elected officials to
expand early childhood learning.

The bill would require a child to be enrolled in a public, private or
parochial school or in private instruction if the child turned 3 before
Dec. 31 in that academic year. Chavous, chairman of the council's
education
committee, said that home schooling by parents would qualify as private
instruction. But it is unclear in the bill what guidelines stay-at-home
parents would be required to follow and how they would document those
efforts to the school system...

Chavous said his proposal is consistent with national efforts to lengthen
the school day and the academic year and with research demonstrating
the
cognitive benefits of early childhood intervention. It would force the
school system to take charge and responsibility for every 3- and 4-year-
old
in the city to make sure they are prepared for kindergarten, he said...


The information about the article was posted on NHEN(National Home
Education Network) and forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To
research
this issue further try this resource:

Website for the DC city council:
http://www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us/

Need research on why it's important to keep young children out of
government institutions? Try Teacher's College Record, Research and
Common
Sense: Therapies for our Homes and Schools by Raymond Moore,
Volume 84,
Number 2, Winter 1982, ISSN-0161-4681 reprinted  and published by
Columbia
University, NY

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[CTRL] IS SELF-DEFENSE A 'WAR CRIME'?

2001-07-18 Thread kl


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IS SELF-DEFENSE
http://www.etherzone.com/raim072501.shtml

IS SELF-DEFENSE A 'WAR CRIME'?
HOW KLA TERRORISTS ARE TURNED INTO VICTIMS
By: Justin Raimondo

The saga of the Bytyqi brothers, covered in my last column,  is an
object lesson in how the War Party exploits every opportunity, no
matter how dubious, to make propaganda for their cause. It also
epitomizes how the media cooperate,  allowing themselves to be used
as a transmission belt for lies masquerading as news  a working
alliance underscored by a number of new developments in  this
fascinating and fast-developing story.

A FORTUNATE COINCIDENCE
But before we get into that, let's briefly reiterate the background to this
case:  the Bytyqi brothers  Mehmet, Ylli, and Agron   were members
of the Atlantic Brigade, a  band of some 400 Albanian-Americans (and
others) who were recruited from abroad to fight in the Kosovo war on the
side of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). In spite of US laws forbidding
such activities, the Atlantic Brigadeers were allowed to recruit, raise
money,  and even train in the United States, and then travel to the
battlefields of Kosovo, where  they fought at the KLA's side. The three
New York-based brothers, who previously ran a  Long Island pizzeria,
arrived in Kosovo just as the war was beginning to wind down.
(Although at least one, Agron Bytyqi, made  a stopover in Ireland.) They
promptly disappeared without a trace  until police in the former
Yugoslavia disinterred their bodies from a mass grave outside a Serbian
special forces training camp. The bodies were found not only with their
New York drivers  licenses in their pockets, but also with Serbian court
papers indicating that they had  been arrested on June 27 and jailed for
trying to infiltrate the country. Gee, what a  fortunate coincidence!

IN HIGH DUDGEON
Now, incredibly, these KLA soldiers are being  touted as helpless
victims of Milosevic's war crimes. The discovery of these bodies has
the US chief of mission in Yugoslavia, William Montgomery, in high
dudgeon: he told the Washington  Post that the Americans are really
really peeved that the Yugoslavs didn't welcome the Bytyqi terrorist tag-
team into the country with open arms: Believe me, this is going to be a
very important case for us, Montgomery gloated. We  need to get real
information from the Yugoslav authorities. We are going to insist they do
a full investigation.

A VISIT TO MOTHER
Oh, but surely Mr. Montgomery doesn't want a full investigation, since
that would have to mean an investigation of the true nature and
sponsorship of the Atlantic Brigade, and a determined inquiry into just
what the brothers Bytyqi were doing in Yugoslavia, anyway, 17 days
after the Kosovo war officially ended. But he needn't worry: the
mainstream media is not about to ask any uncomfortable questions
about this murky affair. They are quite content to  broadcast the official
story: that the three brothers, instead of being on a mission to penetrate
Yugoslav territory and wreak havoc, had instead gone to visit their long-
lost  mother, and, in the midst of another act of charity  escorting 3
male Gypsies  from their mother's neighborhood to safety in Serbia 
were detained and killed by  those awful Serbian racists.

THOSE WONDERFUL BOYS
This fanciful tale is sprouting all over the newswires, and is the leitmotif
of the major newspaper accounts. The New York Times piece is purest
agitprop, depicting the Bytyqis as noble idealists who gave up a
comfortable life in a beach town in the posh Long Island Hamptons for a
cause greater than  themselves. These were wonderful boys, we are
told, and their father extols their vaunted heroism, saying they gave up
the couch and an easy life to  liberate their people. Their friends are
cited as saying that they were all fearless warriors precisely because
they were Americans and therefore were unused to being bullied  by
those bad old Serbs. Embedded in the midst all these extravagant
panegyrics is a key nugget of information  or disinformation, depending
on your perspective:

INTO THE MURK
They were, the Times informs us, apparently not engaged in combat
when they were captured, witnesses and investigators said.
Witnesses? Who are these witnesses? The Times doesn't  elaborate,
and so we have to turn to the International Herald Tribune's version of
the story, which has a bit more hard information, in addition to the usual
dose of propaganda. We hear of another Bytyqi brother, Fatos, still alive
and in Kosovo, confessing that he initially lied about his brothers' war
activities, but later explained that he had been 'advised' not to discuss
their membership in the Atlantic Brigade. We also have young Fatos
blurting out that, as far as he knew, his brothers were on their way to
meet up with some buddies from the Atlantic Brigade in Pristina: as for
the mission of mercy on behalf of the Gypsies, he could not confirm the
story. At any rate, we know that the last anyone saw of

[CTRL] Drop Your Guns!

2001-07-18 Thread kl


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http://www.lewrockwell.com/elkins/elkins42.html

Drop Your Guns!
by Jeff Elkins

Attorney General John Ashcroft in a speech to FBI employees issued a
call for the bureau to return to its core values. The call to duty beckons
us, Ashcroft told agents. It is a call to values. Without fidelity, without
bravery, without integrity, we cannot succeed.

I wont attempt to deny that Bureau agents have displayed bravery
on occasion, but as an agency, theyve long been short on fidelity
and integrity.

The FBI has been a tawdry organization from the beginning. Prior to
the reign of J. Edgar Hoover, as the Bureau of Investigation, it was a
inept, bungling agency, a retirement home for political hacks and
politicians brothers-in-law. The one saving grace was a Congress
wise enough to disallow them use of firearms.

When Prohibition ushered in a crime wave of gangsterism, kidnappings
and bank robberies, the people called out for peace, and the Bureau
responded. Ashcroft said. He could have just as well said When The
Federal Government ushered in a crime wave of gangsterism

Weve all heard the tales of Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and
Machine Gun Kelly. During the investigation of a bank robbery of that
era, a FBI special agent was killed and an enraged J. Edgar Hoover
pushed a Bureau license to kill through a timid Congress and its been
downhill ever since. Now, I suppose even the Federal Bureau of Overdue
Congressional Library Books carry .40 Glocks and are ready to kill
unruly citizens. Name a single federal agency that does not have an
armed cadre of jackboots.

When totalitarianism abroad threatened the institutions of democracy
at home, the republic called out for security, and the Bureau answered
the call. Ashcroft said. Actually, the FBI used a fear of communism to
expand its police powers. Any student of history knows that we were
indeed infiltrated by Soviet agents, most of them employees of the
federal government. Hoovers FBI of that era did little against the real
threat. However, it significantly reduced liberty for individual  Americans.

When discrimination threatened to turn citizen against citizen and
neighbor against neighbor, the country called out for justice, and the
Bureau helped open the door of opportunity to all Americans equally.
Ashcroft says. And in doing so, the FBI was instrumental in closing
the door of individual state sovereignty. I firmly believe that
the racial barriers of the past were well on the way to falling,
mainly from their own internal flaws, just as the Berlin wall did.
Federal interference has meant a loss of real freedom for us all,
most especially for Black Americans. The FBI did us no favors here.

And when terrorism threatened American citizens living and traveling
abroad  and then reached within our borders  the nation called
out for safety, and the Bureau was there. Ashcroft says. Dubious
safety at the expense of your traditional freedom as an American
citizen. Remember that the next time you travel and some overbearing
little airline commissar demands: Your Papers Please!

At any given time, the FBI is working on approximately 100,000 cases.
Last year the Bureau issued over 19,000 indictments and secured
over 21,000 convictions. Ashcroft says. Just how many of those
19,000 indictments and 21,000 convictions were obtained under
unconstitutional laws and by pit-bull prosecutors seeking a conviction at
any cost?

Ashcroft tells us: In a republic whose law enforcement traditions are
rooted in the states, the cities and the towns, a national crime fighting
organization arose. When it was created in 1908, the FBI counted 34
agents among its ranks. Today, by answering the call to duty, the
Bureau has grown to a total working team of over 28,000
special agents, crime lab technicians, and support personnel.

Again, read between the lines. What J. Edgar Hoover and his spiritual
descendants have brought us is a National Police Force. In effect, a
standing army, the founders greatest fear. Dressed in black ninja outfits
and armed with weapons denied to the ordinary citizen, the FBI has
time and time again been exposed as a corrupt and out of control
collection of fascist jackboots. Ashcrofts empty words wont change
that.

If Ashcroft really wants to restore public trust in the FBI, I can think of
some things that he could do immediately that would be a wonderful
start.

First, fire Lon Horiuchi, while simultaneously stripping him of all
retirement benefits. Concurrently, since the Idaho authorities are too
craven and cowardly to prosecute the murderous villain (despite a green
light to do so by federal courts), bring federal civil rights charges
against him. Follow up with dismissals and charges against Horiuchis
supervisors and then do the same to federal police involved in the
Waco tragedy.

Secondly, a real step for freedom would be for Ashcroft to disarm the
FBI and any other federal police agencies under his command. They
dont need guns.

[CTRL] Fwd) THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS


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OPEN LETTER TO
SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN
THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

By: Sergei Hoff

Senator Feinstein:

My open letter is in response to your indignant comments to
Colin Powell, concerning the United Nations and Mr. Ashcroft's
Second Amendment interpretation. Specifically, the right of
individuals to keep and bear arms.

Why is it, that within the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and
Tenth Amendments of our Bill of Rights, the rights of the
people are correctly interpreted as referring to the rights
of individuals, and yet, only within the Second Amendment, is
the word people, allegedly intended by our Founding Fathers
to denote a collective or state right? If it is your position
that the Second Amendment is addressing only a collective or
state right, then, for the purposes of clarification and
uniformity, we should immediate replace the words people and
persons with the word state, in all aforementioned
Amendments.

Upon performing this minor alteration, we can all feel certain
that our 50 states will be comforted in knowing that they now
have a right to freely express their religion beliefs. And,
perhaps, our state governments can now be secure in the
knowledge that they are free to speak and peaceably assemble.
Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures will certainly
bring a sense of well-being to our states. Each state can
rejoice in the understanding that they cannot be arrested
without a warrant, to be issued only upon probable cause. That
the life, limb and property of each state cannot be placed in
jeopardy twice for the same offense. And, the state shall no
longer be compelled in a criminal case to give evidence against
itself. Each state can now eagerly anticipate the utterance of
a police Miranda warning, prior to its arrest and
prosecution. Frankly, I think that it would be far easier to
abolish the Ninth Amendment altogether, rather than explain
why
we believed it necessary to change its meaning from Reserved
rights to the people to Reserved rights to the state. A few
awakened individuals might feel compelled to question this one.
Lastly, we must now proceed to erode the Tenth Amendment.
The
distortion of this Amendment is also quite simple. Henceforth,
The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved
to the states, respectively, and back to the states again,
where such powers shall remain. Not to worry, Senator
Feinstein, as the Tenth Amendment will become quite confusing
as a result of this proposed change, and most citizens haven't
a clue as to what our Bill of Rights represent, I do not
believe that many challenges will arise to cause you
consternation.

In this light, I should imagine that anyone exhibiting even a
trace of commonsense could not help but see the
preposterousness of such semantic manipulations. But, in
reality, this is precisely what politicians, equal in cunning
to yourself, and disingenuous judiciaries have contrived for
the Second Amendment, our principal defender of the Bill of
Rights.

In a most illustrative example of governmental corruption and
hypocrisy, which, to my knowledge, has never been challenged
in
a court of law, let us now examine the following scenario that
everyone can easily comprehend. If a state or local government
were to violate the civil rights of any individual (clearly
defined and enumerated within the Bill of Rights), the federal
government and courts would immediately admonish that
offending
state or city. Excluding, of course, the civil and unalienable
individual rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment. The
Second Amendment is the only Constitutional protection to be
singled out for, state and local recognition or lack thereof,
state interpretation, and unconstitutional state infringements.
Whereas, the states are seldom permitted to infringe upon the
civil rights contained within the remaining nine Amendments,
they are encouraged by the federal government and courts to
assault the principles of the Second Amendment. These
legislative and judicial abuses are an outrage, yet,

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[CTRL] (Fwd) Secrecy News -- 07/19/01

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Date sent:  Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:28:44 -0400
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SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
July 19, 2001

**  INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT QUESTIONED
**  FBI MANAGEMENT CRITICIZED

INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT QUESTIONED

Is the CIA's refusal to cooperate with Congressional inquiries a threat to
effective oversight of the operations of the Federal Government?

That rather leading question was the topic of an unusual hearing before two
subcommittees of the House Government Reform Committee yesterday.

The hearing was unusual because the established structures of intelligence
oversight are rarely criticized within Congress itself, and Republican
committee chairmen rarely speak of the CIA with anger and indignation.  But
yesterday they did.

The CIA is assaulting Congress's constitutional responsibility to oversee
executive branch activities, said subcommittee chairman Rep. Stephen Horn
(R-Calif.)  The CIA believes it is above that basic principle in our
Constitution.  We do not agree.

Tell me why I shouldn't be outraged, said Rep. Christopher Shays
(R-Conn.), also a subcommittee chair.  When faced with persistent
institutionalized [CIA] resistance to legitimate inquiries, we're compelled
to reassert our authority,

The congressional ire was triggered by the CIA's refusal to participate in
a committee hearing on computer security at the Agency.

Neither I nor any CIA representative will testify, wrote DCI George J.
Tenet bluntly on July 17.  He noted that House Intelligence Committee
chairman Porter Goss urged me not to testify.  See Tenet's letter here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2001/07/tenet.html

This prompted a fascinating discussion at yesterday's hearing of the
respective oversight roles of the House Intelligence Committee and the
House Government Reform Committee;  the adequacy of the House Intelligence
Committee's performance;  the definition of intelligence sources and
methods (which, by House rule, are the exclusive purview of the
Intelligence Committee);  the need to limit oversight of sensitive
intelligence matters;  the role of the General Accounting Office in
intelligence oversight; and other fundamental issues.

The questions were generally better than the answers.  Some of the
testimony concerning national security classification was incorrect or
misleading.  But the official anger at the CIA was palpable, and may yet
have policy consequences for the Agency.

The witness statements from the hearing are posted here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2001_hr/index.html#oversight

It is important to curtail growing GAO initiatives to investigate
intelligence activities, according to a 1994 CIA memorandum on CIA policy
toward the General Accounting Office that was released yesterday.  The
memo, authored by Stanley M. Moskowitz (who went on to fame if not fortune
as CIA station chief in Tel Aviv), is posted here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/gao/ciapolicy.html

CIA computer security policy, which was initial subject of the House
Committee's inquiry, is governed by DCI Directive 6/3, Protecting
Sensitive Compartmented Information Within Information Systems.  That 5
June 1999 Directive was obtained by Secrecy News and is now available here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/DCID_6-3_20Policy.htm

FBI MANAGEMENT CRITICIZED

A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday on Reforming FBI
Management: The Views from Inside and Out became a forum for airing the
usual litany of complaints about the Bureau, and then some.

FBI Deputy Assistant Director Kenneth Senser described several of the
internal security reforms that have been adopted in the wake of the Robert
Hanssen espionage case, including: enhanced computer audit procedures, an
expanded polygraph program, and an enhanced security clearance
reinvestigation program.

Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy noted that the Justice
Department has provided the Committee with an unclassified version of the
long-awaited Bellows review of the Wen Ho Lee espionage
investigation.  But that unclassified document has still not been
scrubbed for privacy and other considerations, and so it is not yet
releasable to the public.  A Justice Department spokesman said today that
preparation of a public version of the report is a top priority.

Prepared statements from yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing are
posted here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2001_hr/index.html#fbi2

Former Energy Department counterintelligence official Notra Trulock
criticized a recent General Accounting Office report on the FBI's handling
of the Wen Ho Lee investigation.

The report contains some factual errors that, if left uncorrected,
perpetuate the web of deceit the FBI has spun to cover up its own

[CTRL] ISN'T THIS HOW IT STARTED IN GERMANY?


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NEW JERSEY'S WAR
ON GUN OWNERS
ISN'T THIS HOW IT STARTED IN GERMANY?
By: Evan F. Nappen, Esq.

Gun owners who suffer under the Florio/Gormley supported Assault
Firearm ban are now being kicked out of their homes and businesses
under the newest Gormley sponsored law. This law is entitled the Drug
Offender Restraining Order Act of 1999, (DOROA) and can be found at
N.J.S. 2C:35-5.7. Aggressive implementation of  this law has now begun.
All a law abiding gun owner needs to do is be charged with possession
of a so-called Assault Firearm and the gun law victim is automatically
kicked out of his/her residence and/or business by way of a restraining
order which lasts for a minimum of 2 years. It does not matter one bit
that drugs were not involved. The municipal court judges have been
instructed to routinely issue these DOROAS.

These restraining orders are issued ex parte (without any input by the
defendant or his attorney).

After the issuance of a DOROA which normally accompanies the
criminal complaint, there is no hearing scheduled on the DOROA. As
passed, the law is void of any due process for the defendant. Just last
week, I had one of these DOROAS come up in Monmouth County. My
client was charged with possession of Assault Firearm's which are not
Assault Firearms (Mini-14 and Ruger 10/22). I immediately went back
to the municipal court judge who issued the DOROA to try to persuade
the judge to vacate the order. There is a section in the law that claims
that the DOROA should not be issued to remove a person from their
residence unless the judge is clearly convinced that there is a need to
bar the defendant in order to protect the public safety. The municipal
court judge informed me that although he issued the DOROA and was
sympathetic to my client's predicament, he no longer retained the
jurisdiction to make any modifications to it. This is in spite of the fact
that he was the court of origin for the DOROA. The judge of the
municipal court claimed that as soon as he signed the DOROA kicking
the defendant out of his home, he no longer retains jurisdiction and that
the Superior Court now has jurisdiction.

Since there is no procedure in the DOROA law for challenging this
restraining order or even affording the victim of the DOROA a hearing,
my client was presented with a situation in which he had no opportunity
to be heard on challenging the restraining order's issuance. I therefore
created and filed emergency papers with the Superior Court to try to get
my client back in his home. Fortunately, the Monmouth County
Superior Court and the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office took the
appropriate action, which was initiated by my creative filings The
Monmouth County Superior Court vacated and dissolved the restraining
order. By the time this had been accomplished, the law-abiding gun
owner had been barred from his home for one week under the threat of
jail.

My client resided with his wife in a home on 20 acres of property. On a
simple charge of possession of a so- called Assault Firearm in
which the defendant holds a valid New Jersey Firearms Identification
Card and poses a threat to no one, my client suffered this injustice
which could have lasted for years. None of these facts were presented
to nor considered by the judge of the municipal court who issued the
initial DOROA.

This is a serious situation for law-abiding New Jersey gun owners. False
charges for possession of an Assault Firearm frequently occur in New
Jersey. I have personally handled many cases falsely charging Assault
Firearm violations.

These cases include the new Marlin Model 60's (which hold less than
15 rounds), Colt Match Target rifles and their clones, SKS's with a fixed
magazines, 1927 Thomp- son/Auto Ordinance .45's, M1 Garand Rifles,
MAK-90's, Marlin Camp Carbine's, Remington 7600's, Russian
Dragunov's, and Springfield M1A's without a bayonet lug, just to name
some of the common false charges made against law-abiding New
Jersey gun owners.

In the name of the war on drugs, be prepared to be kicked out of your
home with no due process thanks to Florio, Gormley, and Whitman .
For more information about New Jersey Gun Law, see Evan F. Nappen
and purchase and read Nappen II: New Jersey Gun, Knife  Weapon
Law. Mr. Evan F. Nappen, Esq., may be contacted at 732-389-

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good guy. A bad guy without a gun can still do a hell of a lot of
damage. A good guy without a gun can't always stop it from happening.
- Arthur C. Clarke  Michael Kube-McDowell in The Trigger, 1999, p. 441
(paperback edition)

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For Immediate Release:  July 19, 2001

Signature Drive Begins for Asset Forfeiture Reform Initiative

Olympia, WA - Supporters of civil asset forfeiture reform Thursday kicked
off the effort to gather signatures for Initiative 256, the Innocent
Property Owners Protection Initiative. We've just completed the printing
of the first batch of petitions and are sending them out to volunteers
around the state, said Erne Lewis, president of Liberty
Initiatives.  Under current law, people have lost homes, cars, boats, cash
and other property without ever being convicted of a crime. That's just
plain wrong.  We're asking Washington's registered voters to help restore
the principle of 'innocent until proven guilty' by signing an I-256
petition. Lewis pointed out that asset forfeiture laws were passed with
the best intentions to fight drug dealers, but cases such as that of Judith
Roderick of Lacey demonstrate the need to make major reforms.

Mrs. Roderick is a grandmother and accountant whose business was shut
down, property seized, and bank accounts impounded because, unknown to her,
one of her clients was a suspected drug dealer, said Lewis. Even though
she was never charged with a crime, her business was devastated, it took
years for her to get her property back and her reputation still suffers.
This can and does happen to ordinary, law-abiding citizens and it must stop.

Lewis said IPOPI is gaining support from organizations and people of all
political and ideological stripes.

Our honorary chairman is former Republican Congressman Jack Metcalf, said
Lewis.  I-256 has also been endorsed by the American Civil Liberties
Union, Citizens for Legislators with Ethics and Accountability Now, the
Council for Legislative Action Washington, and the Libertarian Party of
Washington.

According to Lewis, the measure would place the burden of proof upon the
accusing agency to prove that the owner of the property to be forfeited is
guilty of a crime and that the property was used in the crime or was
obtained through proceeds of the crime.  It also requires that the value of
the property to be forfeited is proportionate to the crime
committed.  Also, under I-256, all money received from the sale of
appropriately forfeited property would go to the state education fund and
drug treatment programs, rather than to the seizing government agency as it
now does.

Supporters have until the end of the year to obtain just under 200,000
valid signatures, but the goal is to get at least 250,000 to compensate for
any duplicate or invalid signatures.  It would then go the state lawmakers
who can either pass I-256 or send it to the voters for consideration in
November 2002.  Lewis said people wanting more information on I-256 can go
to the organization's website at www.libertyinitiatives.org or call
360-866-8784.

For more information, contact Erne Lewis at 360-866-8784
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[CTRL] Author of Bush biography commits suicide

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  Associated Press Texas Wire News

Author of Bush biography commits suicide

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) - The author of a book about George W. Bush
has killed himself, police said.

James Howard Hatfield, 43, wrote Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and
the making of an American President in 1999.

The unauthorized biography accused Bush of covering up a cocaine
arrest. But during interviews about the book, Hatfield lied to reporters
about his own criminal past.

A hotel housekeeper discovered the man's body about noon
Wednesday, Springdale police Detective Al Barrios said Thursday.
Barrios said the man apparently overdosed on two kinds of prescription
drugs.

Police don't suspect foul play.

AP-WS-07-20-01 0709EDT


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appeal to centralized government, to unthinking nationalist fervor,
and to the eternal mission for correcting the world that motivates
leftists. It is the same type of mentality that thinks bombing women
and children in the Balkans is OK because it is done in the name of
theories of 'human rights' and 'democracy'. -Clyde Wilson

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[CTRL] (Fwd) FEAR: CN ON: Ontario Law Would Expand Seizure Of Cars Du

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ONTARIO LAW WOULD EXPAND SEIZURE OF CARS DURING ARRESTS

Proponents Of Ordinance Targeting Customers Of Dealers, Prostitutes Say
Threat Of Losing A Vehicle Could Be A Strong Deterrent.

ONTARIO -- Buy drugs or solicit a prostitute and you could lose your car.

That is the gist of a proposed law to be debated tonight by the City Council.

The proposed ordinance, which would give police the authority to seize cars
during prostitution and drug-related arrests, is intended to provide a
deterrent to the crimes, said Richard Maxwell, chief deputy district
attorney for San Bernardino County.  I certainly think it would help,
Maxwell said.  In California your car is your life.  When a person loses
their car, that is a much more severe penalty than the law provides for it.

Ontario has seized the vehicles of drug dealers in the past under state
forfeiture laws.  The new law would target customers, said Sgt.  John
Evans, who heads the city's community policing program.

Evans said the seizures can affect prostitution as well.

It is a huge expense for them, Evans said.  How do you explain your car
being taken? The effects are pretty drastic.

Those arrested for soliciting prostitutes face a maximum six-month county
jail sentence and a fine if convicted.

The ordinance is modeled after an Oakland law that has withstood a
challenge in the state courts, Ontario Police Sgt.  Steve Duke said.

However, last year Congress passed a measure intended to scale back what
many considered to abuses of the federal forfeiture laws in drug
cases.  Previously, assets could be taken even in cases where no arrests
were made or convictions obtained, and it fell to the owners to prove that
the property had been legally obtained.  The Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
Act of 2000 shifted the burden of proof back to the government to show that
the assets were obtained through drug sales.

The city's ordinance includes safeguards to protect innocent people.

Evans said legal seizures should reduce prostitution and drug sales as they
have in other cities.

People might think prostitution is a victimless crime but it attracts drugs
and other crimes to an area, Evans said.

Mission and Holt boulevards are the corridors where most prostitutes are
solicited because of the motels there, Evans said.  The city conducts two
stings a year and arrests about 25 men during each for soliciting prostitutes.

I think this will really help clean up an area, Evans said.

Tonight's meeting starts at 6:30 at City Hall, 303 East B St.

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for our taxes; we are paying the government for tyrannizing. The
hostages are forced to subsidize their captors. How does a hostage get
his money's worth? ... Do our rulers ever conscientiously ask whether
they already have too much power? Do they ever hesitate to claim more?
Do they ever try to define the proper limits of power in principle? Do
they ever worry that they may be exercising tyranny over us? Are they
at all troubled by the disparity between the limited range of state
power in earlier times and its limitless range today? Do they even
recognize the possibility of an illegitimate state power?
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[CTRL] Summit Protests Rage for Second Day


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Saturday July 21 10:16 PM ET
Summit Protests Rage for Second Day
By LAURA KING, AP Special Correspondent
GENOA, Italy (AP) - Street battles raged for
a second day
Saturday
despite pleas for calm from protest leaders
and global summit leaders
alike, with skirmishes between police and
demonstrators continuing past
midnight. Police made a sweep of a school
that had been used as a
headquarters by demonstrators early Sunday
and protesters retaliated by
attacking a nearby station of the Carabinieri
paramilitary police, Italian
state television reported. It said 40
protesters were injured and 50 were
detained. Protester Michael Siefer, of
Belgium, contacted by telephone by
The Associated Press at the school, said
police burst in and beat
demonstrators. Police spokesman Mario Viola
said the raid was carried out
as a result of the violence over the last two
days. Police seized iron
bars, baseball bats, and bricks that were
being used by protesters, he
said. During the raids, one of protesters
tried knife a policeman, but
officer was wearing a bulletproof vest and
was not injured, said Viola.
Security remained unusually tight around the
summit meeting center well
past midnight and police cars zoomed back and
forth in the security zone
until around 3 a.m. when things seemed to
quiet down. Infuriated by the
shooting of a fellow protester a day earlier,
masked demonstrators ripped
up paving stones to hurl at police on
Saturday, screaming, ``Assassins!
Assassins!'' At least 228 people were hurt,
in addition to the more than
200 injured the day before, and dozens of
protesters were detained, some
facing charges as serious as attempted
murder. The violence Saturday
hopscotched through Genoa's downtown, a
narrow swath of land sandwiched
between mountains and the blue Mediterranean.
Much of Saturday's fighting
took place well away from the city's medieval
center where the leaders
were meeting for the Group of Eight gathering
of industrial powers. Clouds
of tear gas billowed into the air as riot
police fought running battles
with a hard core of militants who broke away
from a peaceful mass march.
The clashes began at a sunny seaside piazza,
where Genoese bathers were
swimming just a few hundred yards away, then
at a downtown intersection
about a mile from the main summit venue, an
ornate 14th- century palace.
The militants smashed windows, torched cars
and set fires, leaving parts
of the city so battered that Italian Premier
Silvio Berlusconi promised
government aid for repairs during a meeting
Saturday with municipal
officials. Caught between the combatants were
thousands of nonviolent
marchers who scrambled up stone stairways and
ducked into alleys to flee
baton-wielding police. Some were not quick
enough to escape a clubbing by
police whose ranks - unlike the day before -
included a large contingent
of plainclothes officers who initially
blended with the crowd, then sprang
into action when the fighting began.
Protesters who hurled paving stones
and firebombs at riot police ``were 500
people in a peaceful march of
thousands,'' said 31-year-old demonstrator
Simona Tatarini, nearly weeping
from frustration and the acrid stench of
wafting tear gas. ``They had
clubs and firebombs - what were we supposed
to do to get them out of the
march?'' Some of those trying to keep the
demonstration peaceful scuffled
with the so-called ``black'' group of violent
protesters, mainly men in
their early 20s, hooded or masked, dressed in
black, carrying iron bars or
wooden clubs and wearing motorcycle helmets
or construction hard hats. Ugo
Nassa, from the Italian city of Bologna, was
punched in the face when he
tried to stop a group of youths from setting
fire to a trash bin. ``These
people are destroying our march,'' he said,
his face swollen from the
blow. Summit leaders renewed their
expressions of sorrow over Friday's
death. ``I'm very concerned about the
violence. It's a tragic loss of
life,'' President Bush said. But he repeated
his contention that ``those
who claim to represent the voices of the poor
aren't doing so. Those
protesters who try to shut down our talks on
trade and aid don't represent
the poor, as far as I'm concerned.'' The
clashes erupted as a peaceful
procession of up to 100,000 people -
 most of whom came to Genoa to express
concern over
social,
economic and environmental fallout from what
they view as too-
rapid
and indiscriminate globalization - moved
along a seaside
boulevard.
The clashes trailed off by nightfall, when at
least 228 people,
including
73 police and several journalists had been
hurt, authorities said. At
least 85 people had been picked up on various
charges over the two days,
and of that group, nearly 70 were booked on a
list of charges including
attempted murder, assault and unauthorized
weapons possessions. Police
said the severity of injuries to police led
authorities to level the
attempted murder charge, which

[CTRL] Army moles hunt Israeli troops linked to terror


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July 22 2001
MIDDLE EAST

Army moles hunt Israeli troops linked to terror
Uzi Mahnaimi,  Tel Aviv

MOLES have been placed within the Israeli defence forces in an attempt
to unearth army officers and soldiers collaborating with Jewish
terrorists.
An extremist anti-Arab movement is suspected of being behind last
week's shooting of three members of a West Bank family, including a
three-month-old girl. In the recriminations that followed, Avraham
Dichter, head of Shin Bet - Israel's equivalent of MI5 - admitted to
Israel's parliament that such extremist cells exist.
Suspicions about the link with the military intensified when a large
quantity of army explosives was discovered in the car of an extremist
settler's wife in Hebron. We suspect that huge quantities of arms were
smuggled by officers sympathetic to the Jewish underground, said a
security source close to the investigation.
Postmortems on the three members of the al-Tmeizi family shot last
week, have shown they were killed with 5.56mm bullets, used by the
Israeli army. Diya al-Tmeizi, the baby killed, was born to her parents
following fertility treatment after 12 years of childlessness. Her mother
was injured.

Diya al-Tmeizi is held by her mother before burial
Photograph: Reinhard Krause
Shin Bet's surveillance of suspected military collaborators is extremely
sensitive, since many recruits have been drawn from within the religious
West Bank settler families. Most are first-rate, obedient and
trustworthy, said the intelligence source. But we know there are some
bad weeds among them.
The group linked with the murders is the shadowy Committee for Road
Safety, a cell connected to the anti-Arab movement, Kach. The
committee was formed 20 years ago by Rabbi Meir Kahane, the guru of
Jewish zealots.
Kahane was killed in America and his son and daughter-in-law were
murdered by Arabs. Police sources believe friends of Kahane's
murdered son may have been the plotters of last week's attack.
The security services' surveillance is also intended to locate
collaborators who provide the Jewish cells with information about the
army's movements.
Israeli intelligence officers fear that collaborator networks could target
politicians, a security priority for Shin Bet since its failure to prevent the
murder of Yitzhak Rabin, the former prime minister, in 1995.
This weekend Israeli security was preparing for a possible Palestinian
retaliation. Jibril Rajoub, the head of security for the Palestinian
Authority, said that he had a full list of Jewish zealots, which he would
submit to the Israeli security services.

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[CTRL] Friendly Fire Likely Cause of Cop's Death


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http://sanantoniolightning.com/lubb1.html


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[CTRL] Police State Prescription


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July
17, 2001
Vol.
4 No. 29
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Happenings
in the small southwest Virginia town of Pulaski should give
pause both to drug warriors
and anyone who thinks that licensing
powerful drugs is a simple thing.

Residents
of Pulaski will have to provide fingerprints at the area's six
pharmacies to get the
painkiller OxyContin. Local police say the drug
is the object of rampant prescription
fraud that fuels a booming black
market.

Anything
that will stop the flow onto the streets we'll be happy with,
said Detective
Marshall Dowdy of the Pulaski police. This is a
seemingly never-ending battle.

Indeed,
it is a battle that has been waged since earliest human history.
Ever since the first
semi-rotten, half-fermented fruit produced the first
alcoholic buzz, man--or at least a
goodly chunk of the population--has
sought out one form of altered consciousness or
another.

So
it is no surprise that OxyContin, which comes in a time-release pill
and is similar to
morphine, has become the source of a relatively
cheap high in rural areas far from urban
drug supplies. Nor is it a
wonder that people with chronic pain seek the drug--it is a
very effective
painkiller. Doctors readily prescribe it precisely because it
isn't
morphine.

But
now OxyContin use is being stymied by fears of its abuse. A
patient may have good reason
to want to avoid giving his or her
fingerprints to the drug store, all but declaring to
the world that they are
a likely drug abuser or con artist.

Perhaps
a solution is not to treat painkillers like controlled substances,
but to treat currently
controlled substances more like standard
painkillers. This would not only ease many of the
troubles of the
standard drug war, but allow sick folks to keep both their medicine
and
their dignity without state interference.

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The truth is, if you are the President's wife and have a drug problem
you get a drug-rehab clinic named after you.  If you are poor, black,
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Re: [CTRL] WP: Minister Recants Story About Condit


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On 22 Jul 2001, at 19:59, RevCOAL wrote:



Anna Marie Smith (if she is to be believed) has stated she
 discovered Levy's hair in Condit's bathroom at the beginning of April...



How could she know who's hair it was?  Even
forensic experts admit hair identification is
not an exact science, and I doubt she viewed it
under a microscope, or had a known sample to compare it
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[CTRL] Smart cameras will spot the guilty before they commit a crime

2001-07-23 Thread kl


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http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,525656,00.html

Smart cameras will spot the guilty before they commit a crime
Nick Paton Walsh
SundayJuly  22, 2001
The Observer
They record our every move from almost every vantage point. But soon
CCTV cameras will have another power: the ability to predict crime on
Britain's streets.

Researchers at Sussex University have discovered how CCTV camera
controllers spot criminals by studying the way they walk.

The team of psychologists studied 10,000 excerpts from CCTV footage
and found a number of 'trigger signals' in criminal behaviour which
showed when offenders were about to commit a  crime.

The footage showed how car thieves tended to walk erratically and look
in directions irrelevant to their path of travel. Before an act of violence
culprits would walk aggressively, their arms static by their sides, taking
long purposeful strides.

Professor Tom Troscianko of the School of Cognitive and Computer
Sciences, who headed the study, said researchers chose a hundred
scenes from CCTV footage filmed around the country. Each scene
lasted 15 seconds and they were based around three scenarios: a fight
outside a public venue, violence against property in the street, and car
theft in an underground car park. Some scenes depicted the moments
prior to a crime while others showed activity that did not result in a
crime.

A hundred people - 50 professional CCTV controllers and 50 civilian
volunteers - were asked to watch the footage and guess which scene
would result in a crime and indicate when during the 15 seconds they
had reached their decision.

'The actual crime was never shown' said Troscianko. 'In each sequence
we recorded the exact movements of the people. We looked at the
moments in each sequence which increased the chance of people
making the right prediction that a crime would happen.'

The types of behaviour were then ranked. 'When these trigger factors
were present, like a type of walk or a type of gaze behaviour, we saw
that people were approximately twice as likely to   predict a crime' said
Troscianko.

Before a violent act like a fight, an assailant walked in a very aggressive
way. 'The stride length and speed of walk would increase, but they
would not run. Their arms did not move much, and tended to stay down
at their sides. They walk in a direct line purposefully.' Similar patterns
were observed before damage was done to property.
Before a car theft a culprit would walk slowly or even remain still while
looking around. 'He will be looking to see if he is being observed.'
The team are now seeking funding to develop software to continue their
work. But campaigners have expressed concern at a new breed of
'intelligent cameras' raising concerns of a Big Brother society.
MP Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesman
said: 'CCTV needs to be used as the exception and not the rule in
public places and only rarely in private places.'
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[CTRL] (Fwd) Eminent domain test

2001-07-24 Thread kl


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July 23, 2001

   Refusing to Let Go, Property Owners Test Eminent
   Domain's Limits

   By LAURA MANSNERUS

NEW LONDON, Conn., July 19  The owners of
the last houses amid the scarred and weedy lots of
Fort Trumbull ask only to stay there while the
   city of New London realizes its dream of office
   buildings, apartment clusters and other upscale
   development rising in their neighborhood.

   But when the seven property owners go to Superior
   Court here Monday, they will challenge a larger practice
   that needy cities everywhere have latched on to: using
   the power of eminent domain, or condemnation, to force
   property owners to turn over their land to private
   developers.

   Such redevelopment projects promise jobs and tax
   revenue in places, like New London, where private
   investors are hard to find. And that reasoning has
   generally satisfied courts that are asked to decide
   whether displacing one private property owner on behalf
   of another would, as the Constitution requires, serve a
   public use.

   But the New London case poses the question of whether
   this principle has any limits. And Matt Dery, whose
   family has owned houses in the old Italian-American
   neighborhood of Fort Trumbull since 1901, thinks it
   does. Mr. Dery acknowledged the sad condition of his
   city, the fourth poorest in Connecticut. But he asked:
   Anybody who can make more money gets the property? I
   don't think that's what the founding fathers had in
   mind.

Full story at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/23/nyregion/23SEIZ.html


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[CTRL] (Fwd) OT - Normal and Man Induced Global Warming of Earth:

2001-07-27 Thread kl

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Source: http://www.mich.com/~donald/future.html
by Donald E Davison, July 27 2001

In order to properly understand the current global warming picture we
need
to first view normal global climate, that is, without the influence of
mankind.  Once we understand what has been happening for billions of
years
and what we can expect of the future under normal conditions, then we
can
add in human induced climate change.

We need to look at a very long climate period, from the start of life on
earth to recent times.  Before life on earth the climate was much warmer
than now.  At this end of that long climate period, in the last million
years, there has been a series of ice ages.  This is proof that the long
term trend has been a cooling down of the planet.  I say this is the result
of the storing of carbon, but even if I am wrong, we should do what we
can
to stop this cooling down of the planet.

As soon as life began, carbon started to be stored, first in the life
itself then in the form of top soil, peat, coal, oil, natural gas, etc. For
billions and billions of years our planet has been storing away more and
more carbon and for billions and billions of years our planet has been
getting cooler and cooler until now it spends most of its time locked into
ice ages lasting about 100,000 years each, divided by much shorter
warm
periods, most only ten thousand years long.

From reports I have read, we are currently 12,000 years into a 30,000
year
warm period.  While three of four warm periods between ice ages are
only
10,000 years long, every fourth warm period lasts 30,000 years.  This,
we
are told, is because every once in awhile our planet goes into a more
circular orbit around the sun.  This causes our planet to receive a bit
more heat, which makes the warm period last longer.  My guess would
be that
the normal peak temperature of this current warm period would be
reached
sometime after the mid-point of our current 30,000 year warm period,
which
would be more than three thousand years from now.

There is enough time and heat in a 30,000 year warm period to melt all
the
sheet ice in the world, including Greenland and Antarctica.  We do not
know
exactly when this will be completed, but it could happen before the
mid-point of our current warm period.  Once the average temperature is
above freezing at a major ice sheet, the ice will break up and slide
quickly into the seas, ten or twenty or a hundred years is quick-time
compared to thirty thousand years.  First Greenland and then Antarctica,
this will cause the seas  to rise sixty to eighty feet.  This rise is going
to happen regardless of anything mankind has done or will do.  We will
not
be able to escape this big disruption, bigger than any mankind has ever
faced.  The rising seas will displace millions of people around the world,
sixty-five million in United States alone.

In the future, under normal conditions, we can expect the next ice age
will
start in about the year 20,000.  During which, sea levels will drop about
200 feet below current levels, but the drop will not be a major disruption
because it will happen slowly over thousands of years.  The ice caps will
be a disruption.
   We can expect the cooling of the planet to continue with future ice
ages
having larger and larger ice caps.
   That is the future climate picture for our planet without the influence
of mankind.

With the added influence of man taking carbon out of storage and
putting it
into the atmosphere, temperatures in this warm period will rise faster and
will reach higher levels than the normal peak.

This current warm period will last longer than the expected normal of
30,000 years, maybe for millions of years if mankind is able to stop and
reverse the long term cooling trend.  This is something that mankind
should
try to do, we should reverse the cooling trend. Yes, man has the power
to
delay the arrival of future ice ages, this will be good for life on this
planet.

Mankind should be able to take this planet back to the climate that
existed
before the ice ages.  There will be no fear that man will go too far back
in climate time.  Man will never be able to find and release all the carbon
that has been stored in the crust of the earth over billions of years.

Human induced global warming will cause the coming rise of sea levels
to
happen sooner than normal.  We should accept `sooner than normal' as
a
trade-off for the value of energy we receive from stored carbon and the
value of stopping and reversing the cooling down of the planet.  The seas
are going to rise anyway, man may as

[CTRL] Who's innocent?


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 Hein-sight
Who's innocent?
July 27, 2001
Paul Hein tells why all victims in war are innocent.


In the outpouring of verbiage attendant to the execution of Timothy
McVeigh, there were numerous references to innocent victims.
Certainly, those whom McVeigh killed were innocent of any evil intention
towards him, or of any past wrongdoing directed at him:  indeed, it is
almost certain that his victims had never heard of him.

They were also innocent in that they had not committed any act calling
for the death penalty.  But McVeigh evidently considered himself a
soldier, acting against an enemy.  In military operations there are
always deaths of innocent civilians.  This concept of innocence is an
interesting one.

Military operations are to be directed toward military targets, sparing the
civilian population.  But, in practice, this is not done.  For one reason or
another, civilians are always targeted.  Without them, for instance, the
soldier would be starving, naked, unarmed, and immobile.  Innocent
civilians provide the soldier with transportation, weapons, food, and
clothing.  (Do governments provide their soldiers with uniforms to make
them conspicuous targets?)

And what of the soldiers themselves?  Most of them were, until a short
time before entering battle, innocent civilians. They were given a choice
by their governments of entering military service, or prison.  Nearly all
chose military service, for to go to prison means giving up your freedom
for a while, wearing a uniform, eating when and what you are offered,
rising and retiring when told to do so, and working at some task which
may not be to your liking, whereas, if you accept military service, you
will eat when and what you are offered, get up and retire when told to do
so, wear a uniform, give up your freedom for a while, and perform tasks
which may not be to your liking.  But prisoners are strongly discouraged
from killing anyone, whereas soldiers are given medals for doing it.
Wanton destruction of property is also encouraged for soldiers, not for
prisoners.

The same is true of the enemy.  His government has also provided him
with what he needs to kill strangers against whom he has no particular
animosity, and threatened him with reprisals if he is disinclined to do
so.  Like the victims of McVeigh, the soldiers killed in battle had done
nothing deserving of the death penalty.  They were just in the wrong
place at the wrong time, like the workers in the ball-bearing factories at
Schweinfurt, or the oil fields at Ploesti.

If there is guilt, as opposed to innocence in warfare, whether
declared or not, it might consist in acquiescing to the demands of those
who have a vested interest in the killing and looting.

Franz Jagerstatter was a farmer in an Austrian town so small it wasn't
on the map.  When Austria was incorporated into the Third Reich, in
1938, the men of Austria were told to report for induction into the
German army.  The alternative was not simply prison, but death.

Jagerstatter, declaring his refusal to serve in an immoral war, reported
as ordered, but declined induction.  He was arrested, and sentenced to
die. Even the night before his death, however, he could have saved his
life by signing a document pledging his fealty to Germany, and
accepting a non-combatant position in the German army.  He refused,
and was executed.  He was truly an innocent civilian!

There are, indeed, innocent victims in war.  They are not simply
civilians, but soldiers as well.  There is, indeed, guilt, as well.  Those
who are guilty do not risk their own lives or fortunes.  Perhaps the
soldiers, if they knew the truth, would point their rifles in a different
direction.  Or, even better, they would not allow themselves to become
soldiers at all.  In war, all who die are innocent victims!

Paul Hein, an ophthalmologist, is author of All Work and No Pay.  His
column, Hein-sight, will run on alternate Fridays in Spintech.

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assume your enemy is *willing to commit suicide* when he attacks.
If you can stop him while saving yourself under those conditions,
then what you have qualifies as a defense.
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[CTRL] Legalization: The drug war's best weapon (Fwd)


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Thursday, July 26, 2001
Legalization: The drug war's best weapon
By GWYNNE DYER
LONDON -- In Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Switzerland it is practically
impossible to get arrested for buying or using soft drugs. In the
Netherlands, users may buy up to five grams of cannabis or hashish for
private use at 1,500 licensed coffee shops, and they are opening two
drive-through outlets in the border town of Venlo to cater to German
purchasers. Even in Canada, Conservative leader and former Prime
Minister Joe Clark is openly calling for the decriminalization of cannabis.

But that is still far short of what Sir David Ramsbotham, the outgoing
chief inspector of prisons, suggested last Sunday in Britain.
The more I look at what's happening, the more I can see the logic of
legalizing drugs, because the misery that is caused by the people who
are making criminal profit is so appalling and the sums are so great that
are being made illegally. I think there is merit in legalizing and
prescribing, so people don't have to go and find an illegal way of doing
it, he said.

You will note that he said drugs, not just cannabis, and that he
talked of legalizing and prescribing, not just decriminalizing. Most
British politicians are afraid to go that far in public yet, but over the past
week two former home secretaries and outgoing British drugs czar
Keith Hellawell have all called for a debate on decriminalizing soft
drugs. And the new home secretary, David Blunkett, has given his
support to a local experiment in the south London district of Brixton,
where police will simply caution people found with cannabis.

Others, like Mo Mowlam, until recently the Cabinet Office minister
responsible for the Labour government's drug policy, and Peter Lilley,
former minister for social security and Conservative deputy leader, are
now going further. It strikes me as totally irrational to decriminalize
cannabis without looking at the sale of it, said Mowlam. It would be an
absurdity to have criminals controlling the market of a substance people
can use legally.

Lilley quoted a study in the respected medical journal The Lancet that
concluded that moderate indulgence in cannabis has little ill effect on
health, and decisions to ban or to legalize cannabis should be based on
other considerations. For Lilley, banning cannabis is indefensible in a
country where more harmful drugs like alcohol and tobacco are legal
and he went the distance in accepting the implications of legalization.
Magistrates should issue licenses to local shops for the sale of limited
amounts of cannabis to people over 18, Lilley said. Like tobacco, it
would be taxed and carry a health warning -- and the tax yield on an
estimated annual British consumption of 1,500 tons of cannabis a year
has been calculated at about $23 billion if the cannabis were produced
and marketed in exactly the same way as tobacco.

That is a pipe dream, of course. Many people would grow their own, and
given the pre-existing black market, too high a rate of taxation on
cannabis would simply push consumers back into the hands of the
private dealers. Most experts think the highest practical rate of taxation
would be around $3-$4 per gram, which would yield a mere $7-8 billion a
year in extra tax revenue. But it would also cut law enforcement costs --
and it would keep cannabis users out of contact with hard drug
dealers.

Opposition to legalizing cannabis has dropped from 66 percent to only
51 percent in the past five years, and the nay-sayers are overwhelmingly
in the older age groups. It is a welcome outbreak of sanity, and even
mere decriminalization in a major English-speaking country would have
a profound effect on the debate in the United States, the heart and soul
of the prohibitionist movement. But legalization of cannabis in Britain is
unlikely because the U.S. government strong-armed all its allies into
signing three international conventions that define cannabis as a
dangerous drug.

To break out of those treaties would involve a larger effort of political will
than any government with many other items on its agenda would be
willing to undertake. So millions of individual Britons may benefit from
the decriminalization of cannabis and an end to harassment, but the
potentially large social and tax benefits of outright legalization are likely
to be lost.

The bigger problem, however, is that most British advocates of
decriminalization or legalization are too ignorant or too timid to extend
the same argument to hard drugs like heroin and cocaine.
Nobody should use heroin, a highly addictive substance, for fun. Nobody
should smoke cigarettes either, since they are even more addictive and
a grave health hazard to boot. But quite apart from the civil rights
considerations, nobody in their right minds would consider making
cigarettes illegal.

The consequences of banning tobacco, in terms of creating a huge
black market, expanding the field of operations of organized crime,
bringing

[CTRL] (Fwd) FEAR: US MN: Hennepin Public Defenders Seek New Standard

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Searches
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Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune (MN)
Copyright: 2001 Star Tribune
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Author: Pam Louwagie

HENNEPIN PUBLIC DEFENDERS SEEK NEW STANDARD FOR SEARCHES

If police don't suspect that a crime is being committed, they shouldn't
even be allowed to ask to search a motorist or a car, public defenders in
Hennepin County are arguing in court papers.

Consent searches too often target minority members whose cars have been
pulled over because of racial profiling, the public defenders
contend.  They're asking a district judge to throw out evidence from such
searches when police haven't been able to articulate suspicions for
requesting them.

If the issue goes to the appellate level, a ruling in their favor would
make Minnesota among the first in the country to set that standard.

As the law stands, police don't need a person's consent to search if
officers have probable cause, or a fair probability, that a crime is
being committed, experts said.  And if officers suspect that a person may
be carrying weapons and putting police in danger, they can conduct a
cursory pat search.  But if they have limited or no evidence of a crime,
they must get a person's consent to search.  People are under no obligation
to agree, but most do, experts say..

Defense attorneys argue that too often police seek consent searches solely
on the basis of a person's skin color.

We see on a regular basis, on routine traffic stops, police will ask
people of color certain questions, like 'Do you have guns?' 'Do you have
drugs?' 'Can I search your car?' said Chief Public Defender Leonardo
Castro, who directed his staff to file the brief.

Police argue that such inquiries, regardless of whom they're directed to,
sometimes lead to arrests, improving public safety.  Limiting their ability
to ask for such searches would go too far, one said.

The consent to search is really where so much is accomplished toward
public safety, said Sgt.  Wally Krueger, vice president of the Police
Officers Federation of Minneapolis.  To have articulable reasons ...  it's
preventing a law enforcement avenue that leads to numerous arrests.  A lot
of times, you may think something's wrong, but you can't yet articulate a
particular crime.

And by linking the issue to racial profiling, the practice of stopping
people based on their race, he added, They're asking you ...  to prove
first that you did not racial profile before you can further a law
enforcement action.

A Case In Point

The public defender's argument, filed in a brief in Hennepin County
District Court, arises from the case of 18-year-old Mustafaa Naji Fort.  He
was a passenger in a car that was pulled over for speeding and a cracked
windshield in March in Minneapolis.  An officer asked for consent to search
Fort, who is black, court papers say.  The officer found lumps of cocaine
in a pocket, and Fort was charged.

Defense attorneys argue that the officer had no good reason to suspect that
Fort was doing anything wrong and shouldn't have even asked for a search.

If no race-neutral reason to suspect wrongdoing exists, then consent
searches should be considered invalid, they contend.

We're not trying to eliminate consent searches, said James Kamin, first
assistant public defender.  We're asking that you need a reason to begin
to go down the consent path.

Some in the legal community say that could mean big changes.

This would change law pretty dramatically in Minnesota, said Scott
Hersey, head of the criminal division of the Dakota County attorney's office.

Though under federal law an officer doesn't need a reasonable suspicion to
ask for a consent search, higher courts in Minnesota, which can rule on the
state's view of that issue, haven't addressed it specifically.  Hennepin
County District Judge Kevin Burke ruled last year that if police have no
articulable reason other than a person's race, consent isn't considered valid.

Hennepin County public defenders say they want to get a favorable ruling
that has more statewide significance.  The issue is now before a district
judge and needs at least an Appeals Court ruling in order to set a precedent.

Some in the legal community say the timing of the brief -- in the midst of
racial profiling discussions -- may give defense attorneys the results
they're seeking.

A New Jersey appeals court has already ruled that police cannot ask for
consent to search without at least an articulable suspicion, according to
the brief.

[CTRL] Fw: Rural Cleansing-Wall Street Journal


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   Our Klamath Basin Water Crisis
   Fighting for Our Right to Irrigate Our Farms and Caretake Our
   Natural
 Resources

 Rural Cleansing

   Wall Street Journal - Rural Cleansing 7/26/01

 Commentary
   Rural Cleansing
   By Kimberley A. Strassel.
 Ms. Strassel is an assistant
 editorial features editor at the Journal.



   Federal authorities were forced to cut off water to 1,500
   farms in
 Oregon's  and California's Klamath Basin in April because of the
 endangered sucker  fish. The environmental groups behind the cutoff
 continue to declare that  they are simply concerned for the welfare of a
 bottom-feeder. But last  month, those environmentalists revealed another
 motive when they submitted a  polished proposal for the government to buy
 out the farmers and move them
 off their land.

 This is what's really happening in Klamath -- call it
 rural
 cleansing -- and  it's repeating itself in environmental battles
 across the country. Indeed,  the goal of many environmental groups --
 from the Sierra Club to the Oregon  Natural Resources Council (ONRC) --
 is no longer to protect nature. It's to  expunge humans from the
 countryside.

 The Greens' Strategy

 The strategy of these environmental groups is nearly
 always the
 same: to sue  or lobby the government into declaring rural areas
 off-limits to people who  live and work there. The tools for doing
 this include the Endangered Species  Act and local preservation laws,
 most of which are so loosely crafted as to  allow a wide leeway in their
 implementation.

 In some cases owners lose their property outright. More
 often,
 the  environmentalists' goal is to have restrictions placed on the
 land that either render it unusable or persuade owners to leave of
 their own accord.

 The Klamath Basin saga began back in 1988, when two
 species of
 suckers from  the area were listed under the Endangered Species Act.
 Things worked  reasonably well for the first few years after the suckers
 were listed. The  Bureau of Reclamation, which controls the area's
 irrigation, took direction  from the Fish and Wildlife Service, and tried
 to balance the needs of both  fish and farmers. This included programs to
 promote water conservation and  tight control over water flows. The
 situation was tense, but workable.

 But in 1991 the Klamath basin suffered a drought, and Fish
 and
 Wildlife  noted that the Bureau of Reclamation might need to do more for
 the fish.  That was the environmentalists' cue. Within two months, the
 ONRC -- the pit  bull of Oregon's environmental groups -- was announcing
 intentions to sue  the Bureau of Reclamation for failure to protect the
 fish.

 The group's lawsuits weren't immediately successful, in
 part
 because Fish  and Wildlife continued to revise its opinions as to what
 the fish needed,  and in part because of the farmers' undeniable water
 rights, established in  1907. But the ONRC kept at it and finally found a
 sympathetic ear. This  spring, a federal judge -- in deciding yet another
 lawsuit brought by the  ONRC, other environmental groups, fishermen and
 Indian tribes -- ordered an  unwilling Interior Department to shut the
 water off. The ONRC had succeeded  in denying farmers the ability to make
 a living.

 Since that decision, the average value of an acre of farm
 property in  Klamath has dropped from $2,500 to about $35. Most owners
 have no other source of income. And so with the region suitably
 desperate, the enviros  dropped their bomb. Last month, they submitted a
 proposal urging the  government to buy the farmers off.

 The council has suggested a price of $4,000 an acre, which
 makes
 it more  likely owners will sell only to the government. While the
 amount is more  than the property's original value, it's nowhere near
 enough to compensate  people for the loss of their livelihoods and their
 children's futures.

 The ONRC has picked its fight specifically with the
 farmers, but
 its actions  will likely mean the death of an entire community. The
 farming industry will lose $250 million this year. But property-tax
 revenues will also decrease  under new property assessments. That will
 strangle road and municipal  projects. Local businesses are dependent on
 the farmers and are now  suffering financially. Should the farm acreage
 be cleared of people entirely, meaning no taxes and no shoppers, the
 community is likely to disappear.

 Nor has the environment won, even at this enormous cost. The

Re: [CTRL] dirlists

2001-07-30 Thread kl


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Be careful!

On 30 Jul 2001, at 8:44, Louis Sproesser wrote:

 Hi! How are you?

 I send you this file in order to have your advice

 See you later. Thanks



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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01.n1378.a01.html
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Pubdate: Sat, 28 Jul 2001
Source: Baltimore Sun (MD)
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Author: Gregory Kane

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WAR ON DRUGS

READ IT and scream.

The story is about a man named Andrew Chambers.  The Los Angeles Times and
St.  Louis Post-Dispatch are among the newspapers that have written about
Chambers, who may become a symbol for everything that is wrong with the
war on drugs.

For 16 years, Chambers was an informant for the Drug Enforcement
Administration.  His snitching led to the arrests of more than 400 suspects
and the seizure of $6 million in assets.  That's the good news.  But the
bad news is very bad.

Chambers lied under oath on 16 different occasions.  He was arrested 13
times on various charges -- including forgery and fraud -- while an
informant.  DEA agents either bailed him out or finagled the justice
system into dropping the charges.  DEA agents also knew of Chambers'
perjury and criminal record and hid it from prosecutors and defense
lawyers.  But they continued shelling out the dough to him.  In 16 years,
Chambers made $1.8 million.

Do the math.  ( Lord knows, Chambers probably couldn't.  He dropped out of
high school ).  That comes to $112,500 annually for each of the 16 years
Chambers was dropping dimes on drug suspects across the country.  Those of
you who work real jobs for 30, 40 or 50 grand a year and who graduated from
high school or college must be wondering where you went wrong, because you
got chumped -- we all got chumped -- by lunkhead government officials
running the war on drugs.

And this is not a partisan issue.  Liberals and conservatives have
supported the war on drugs and its primary strategy: Lock up enough black
inner-city drug dealers or addicts and we'll win the war.  Employ as many
confidential informants as we can, even if, like Chambers, they prove to be
unreliable.  ( Rick Escobar, a lawyer quoted in one news story, said there
are hundreds of informants like Chambers running around.  )

Stop cars on the highways and search them for drugs.  Frisk passengers
returning from flights abroad for drugs.  Kick in doors and terrorize
citizens based on the tips of these informants.  If we find drugs,
fine.  If not, it's no big deal.  We're waging a war here.

Candidates, both Democratic and Republican, campaign on continuing and
winning the war on drugs. But here's what they won't tell you: We're not
winning it, and it probably can't be won.  We've supposedly had shortages
of a number of things over the years.  There was an oil shortage.  Drought
in the West caused a water shortage.  California recently experienced a
power shortage.  There's even been a shortage of the paper that makes up
the newspaper you're now reading.

But you haven't heard of a shortage of heroin or cocaine, have you? In
spite of all the arrests, all the interdiction, all the searches and the
doors kicked in and the trials and the snitching, there's still enough dope
in America for all its drug addicts to get happily high.  We look at that
evidence and then nod sheepishly when politicians tell us we need not a
change, but more of the same.

So who's responsible for characters like Chambers? The DEA? The FBI and
IRS? ( Chambers worked for them, too.  ) No.  We are.  We're the ones who
pony up tax dollars for the drug war.  We're the ones funding this
lunacy.  We're the ones not holding politicians accountable.  When someone
comes along, like former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke, and suggests
decriminalizing drugs and treating addiction like a health crisis, we
haughtily thrust our noses skyward and sniff, We will never do that.  It
will send the wrong message.

Perhaps it's time we consider what message we send by paying an Andrew
Chambers nearly $2 million to lie.  Next to him, the drug addict who
candidly admits, I just want a hit of heroin or crack, seems downright
refreshing.  But we prefer the hypocrisy and perfidy of a Chambers to the
honesty of a drug addict.  Maybe that's because we're all a bit
hypocritical in the messages we send.

Those drinking establishments that sell drinks at reduced prices in certain
time slots and call the event the happy hour promote the

[CTRL] (Fwd) FEAR: US CO: OPED: Privacy Of Banking Records Drug War C

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Pubdate: Tue, 24 Jul 2001
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PRIVACY OF BANKING RECORDS ANOTHER DRUG WAR CASUALTY

Our government hates money.

Now that might sound odd, since Congress is so very good at spending it,
but the truth is, money is considered a drug-war enemy.  The ease with
which money moves without our government being able to track it has led to
an elaborate set of rules designed to prevent narcotics smugglers from
enjoying their illicit profits.  But the consequence of these rules is that
all of us who engage in financial transactions are now targets of
government spying.

Today, every bank customer is a suspect.  If a financial institution has
reason to believe a transaction is out of the ordinary for that person, it
must submit a suspicious activity report to the Treasury Department's
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.  This is done without the customer's
knowledge and it means banks are expected to know their customers'
financial habits and revenue sources.

( For those who have been following these issues, this might sound like the
Know Your Customer regulations that were defeated in 1999 when the
government received over 300,000 negative public comments.  While the
regulations were withdrawn, the suspicious activity report program
continues under the Bank Secrecy Act.  )

Since 1997 the U.S.  Postal Service Office has also been sending
suspicious activity reports to the federal government.  When customers of
money orders and wire transfers seem to have more money than they should or
if they seem to be avoiding the reporting requirements that kick in for
money orders of $3,000 or more, a report must be filed.  In a training
video on how to identify a suspicious transaction, the postal service tells
its employees, It's better to report 10 legal transactions than to let one
illegal transaction get by. The program is called Under the Eagle's Eye.
A name that says it all.

But getting American banks and the postal service to rat out their mostly
innocent customers was the easy part.  It's getting the rest of the world
to join in that's been the challenge.

If you want a reason to join the black-helicopter set, read the reports put
out by the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering, the 29-nation
financial task force that includes the U.S., Germany, Japan and the rest of
the world's richest industrial nations.  The task force has developed a set
of 40 recommendations to combat international money laundering that read
like the postal services' training video.

Under the recommendations, all countries around the world are expected to
force their banks to know their customers and their financial
habits.  Banks are also expected to submit suspicious activity reports on
out-of-the-ordinary and large cash transactions, and keep the monitoring
program secret from their customers.

Sound familiar?

According to Bradley Jansen of the Free Congress Foundation, the group that
has been leading the battle against these incursions, Countries are also
supposed to set up foreign intelligence units that are not under the
control of the government's financial regulators but under law enforcement,
with the aim of setting up a global network of unaccountable financial police.

In June, FATF issued its annual report of blacklisted countries -- those
nations that have made insufficient progress in following FATF's
recommendations.  This year Russia and the Philippines made the list, as
well as 13 other nations.

Those that make the blacklist are subject to full-blown economic sanctions,
something our government is loath to do, or advisories issued to our own
banks to require detailed documentation before doing business there, an
approach that relies on voluntary cooperation to limited effect.

But for the past two Congresses, a bill has been introduced to give the
secretary of the Treasury vast new unilateral powers to add teeth to FATF's
blacklist.  The International Counter-Money Laundering and Anticorruption
Act would give the Treasury secretary the option of barring U.S.  banks
from doing business with nations that refuse to

[CTRL] Fw: CHANDRA'S DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE

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MEDIUM RARE

By Jim Rarey


July 31, 2001




CHANDRA'S DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE


This writer has been challenged by several subscribers to provide more
information on which the scenario was based in the Medium Rare article of
July 26th (Condit's Rock and a Hard Place). In that article it was
postulated that Chandra Levi may have come into possession of information
that made her dangerous to powerful people, not necessarily Gary Condit,
that required her "elimination."

Consequently, please bear with us while we "build the case."

It appears obvious that Chandra is (was) a bright inquisitive girl and
young woman with a penchant for intrigue.

In high school Chandra joined the Explorer Scouts police program where she
sometimes worked undercover to catch retailers selling alcohol to minors.
She was also a writer for the school newspaper.


After her 1995 high school graduation she spent four years at San Francisco
State University majoring in journalism with a minor in criminal justice.
She entered the graduate program at the University of Southern California
(USC) working toward, and earning, a masters degree in public
administration.

The USC program required a number of internships in lieu of a dissertation,
which Chandra fulfilled with a vengeance.

An in depth article by Washington Times writer Frank J. Murray, entitled
"Who is Chandra Levy," outlines an extensive and curious convergence with
the Condit family.

>From August 1998 to August 1999 she was an editorial assistant in the
>sports department of the Modesto Bee newspaper, a part of a newspaper
>chain including the Sacramento Bee which is a left leaning partisan
>supporter of California Democrats.

Overlapping that internship was a stint at the Modesto police department
where she worked as a clerk. Condit's older brother is a Modesto police
officer who was demoted in rank stemming from unauthorized purchases and
disposal of firearms from the police inventory of confiscated weapons.

During the period she was with the police department, Chandra, then 22, had
a year-long affair with another police officer Mark Steele, ten years her
senior. Steele, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, said Chandra
took it hard when he broke off the relationship and continued to pursue
him. Steel is no longer with the department.

For three months in 1999, ending in December, Chandra interned in the
lobbying office of Republican Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan.

>From February to June 2000 she interned on the legal staff of Democrat
>Governor Gray Davis. Two of Gary Condit's offspring were also on Davis'
>staff at that time. Son Chad was the governor's liaison to the Central
>Valley at a starting salary of $95,234 a year. Daughter Cadee made $30,000
>a year as a Davis press aide. It is not known if Chandra knew or even met
>Condit's daughter and son.

In October of 2000 Chandra started her intern job at the Bureau of Prisons
in Washington, D.C. According to Murray's article, "Her job at the Bureau
of Prisons information office required her to do Internet searches and scan
newspapers to prepare daily news summaries, answer telephone calls and
mail, and help with special projects. In one, she coordinated media
attendance at planning sessions for the execution of Oklahoma bomber
Timothy McVeigh." (Emphasis added.)

According to a Washington Post story, Chandra's duties also included
researching Bureau of Prison records.

In an earlier article, this writer had speculated that Chandra, during her
research, may have come across evidence supporting allegations made on the
Internet that Dr. Louis Jolyn (Jolly) West had visited McVeigh in prison a
number of times. One such article asserted the number of visits was
seventeen.

Dr. West (since conveniently deceased) was deeply involved in mind control
experiments with ties to the CIA. At one time West had tried to set up a
department at UCLA, where he was a professor, involving melting of brain
synapses to control the subjects' minds. These rumors had fostered the
belief in some that McVeigh was indeed a "Manchurian Candidate" programmed
for the Oklahoma bombing. McVeigh at one time claimed that a microchip had
been implanted in him while in the service.

It is entirely reasonable to suggest that Chandra may have uncovered such
evidence during her search of bureau records. If she let the wrong person,
including Condit, know she had that evidence, she may have signed her own
death warrant.

In the writer's last article, it was also suggested that the intelligence
community might be trying to divert attention from Condit to relieve
pressure on him from some damaging disclosure he could make.

Supporting that suspicion is one fact of which knowledgable readers will
immediately grasp the significance. The FBI's lead investigator on the Levy
case is one Bradley J. Garrett. According to author and investigative
reporter Todd Fahey, who specializes in intelligence

[CTRL] (Fwd) [PCL] Socialist Fire, Socialist Death

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Socialist Fire; Socialist Death

by Walter Block

[Posted July 30, 2001]

The headline in the newspaper was horrendous: "Wildfire kills 4
firefighters in N. Cascades." Pictured was Pete Soderquist, the fire
management officer in charge on the Cascade Mountains in central Washington
state, who explained that the deaths occurred "when what had been a
five-acre fire exploded into a wall of flame that trapped the crew."

Also featured in photographs were the four firefiighters who perished:
30-year-old Tom Craven, 18-year-old Karen Fitzpatrick, 21-year-old Devin
Weaver, and 19-year-old Jessica Johnson, all who lived in either Ellensburg
or Yakima, Washington.

Any time there is a death of a human being, it is a tragedy (the reaction
of the overpopulationists to the contrary notwithstanding). When death
occurs for any reason other than old age, it is even worse. When death is
not instantaneous and relatively painless, this is worse yet.

When the victims are four people in the prime of their lives, the degree of
catastrophe rises even more, in view of the now never-to-be-realized
potential these four youngsters might have attained had they lived.

So far, these comments are pretty conventional. Very few would demur. But
there are two controversial points to be made about this tragedy, both of
which may teach important lessons.

First, this calamity occurred on public property, not private. The flames
that consumed these four people were in the Okanogan and Wenatchee National
Forests and are believed to have been set near Thirty Mile Campground,
another example of socialized land ownership. Now, I am not saying that
deaths never occur on private property, nor am I maintaining that these
particular occurrences necessarily would have been avoided had these lands
been under private control.

The two are related, however. When a forest fire consumes private timber,
there are individuals who feel it in their bank accounts; this is not the
case with socialized land holdings. This means that profit-making
individuals have greater incentivesby how much is an empirical matterto
take greater precautions regarding their property than their public
counterparts do.

If we have learned anything from the fall of the Soviet economic systemand
this is a highly debatable pointit is that things work better under
private ownership. These four young people will have not died totally in
vain if we use their deaths as a rallying cry for privatization of the
forests. Perhaps if we succeed in this effort, other lives will be saved.

Second, there were two females amongst the death toll in this fire. I see
their smiling faces shining out at me from the newspaper coverage of this
event. Both young ladies were very pretty.

There was a time in our past when no such thing could have occurred: when
firefightingalong with other such dangerous activities as mining,
policing, soldiering, lumberjacking, deep-sea fishing, etc.were the total
province of men. Women and children died in calamities, to be sure, but
only if they were caught up in them as victims. Nowadays, with our modern
dispensations, we place females in the front lines.

This is no less than an abomination. Females are far more precious than
males. It is not for nothing that farmers keep a few bulls and hundreds of
cows. It is due to patriarchy that we owe our very existence as a species.
Imagine if our cavemen ancestors had sent their women out to hunt and face
the lions and tigers when they came a-calling, instead of throwing
themselves at these enemies and sacrificing themselves so that mankind
could persist.

After World War II, the adult male populations of Germany, Russia, and
other countries that suffered the most from the fighting were virtually
wiped out. Yet the next generation, thanks to the relatively few men who
survived, was able to come into being as if those losses had never
occurred. Imagine if this war had been fought primarily by the fairer sex;
there would have been virtually no next generation. It cannot be denied
that, biologically speaking, men are, in effect, expendable drones.

So let us use the unfortunate deaths of these two young girls to resolve to
turn back the clock to an earlier day when women were treated the way they
should be treated. Let us return from "firefighters" to "firemen." Let us
no longer blithely acquiesce in the senseless slaughter of precious
females. Let us, instead, place them back up on that "pedestal" from which
the so-called feminist movement has thrown them.

Now, of course, in a free society,

Re: [CTRL] Couple sues over flaming Pop-Tart


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On 30 Jul 2001, at 7:42, Peat wrote:

 Couple sues over flaming Pop-Tart
 http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/07/28/life.poptart.reut/


 Brenda Hurff of Washington Township put a cherry Pop-Tart in the toaster
 and left the house to drive her children to preschool, the newspaper said.
 When she returned 10 to 20 minutes later, smoke was pouring from the home
 and firefighters were already on the scene.


She must have an IQ 10 points lower than the average garden slug.  Of
course she wants Kellog to payfor her stupidity.

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Re: [CTRL] Privacy Not


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 Perhaps with all the concerns about wiretaps, e-mail snooping and the like,
 this might be a nice place to encourage the use of PGP encryption.  It
 would be kind of like sticking our e-mails in a lockbox that only we can
 open. Only thing is... how do we know an informant is not among us.  I
 dunno... Maybe it's not even worth trying.  It's not like we're conspiring
 to overthrow the government or anything.  We're just discussing things that
 the government would probably prefer that we not even know about.

 Thing is, though, if enough people use PGP, the government would spend so
 much time straining their computers to crack the codes of e-mails that it
 might make e-mail snooping something that's not worth doing anymore.

 Might cause a mess, though... Does the list get a PGP key?  Do we all share
 our keys with each other?  Plus we'd have to type in a passphrase for every
 e-mail.  But is it any more inconvenient than opening an envelope?

 Damaeus


The only way this would work would be for the list to share it's private
key with every member, which would pretty much defeat the purpose of
a private key.  The snoops could get the key by subscribing to the list.


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the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
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