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>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-eGroups-Return: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: >From: novi dyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >X-Yahoo-Profile: novi_dyen >Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:56:57 +0000 (GMT) >Subject: [globenet] Blossoming Technologies of Political Control (Earth Island Journal, v.16, n.4) >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >The Globalization of Repression: A Special Report to >the European Parliament >Censored Stories: 'The Technologies of Political >Control' > > > > >The following is an edited version of a 112-page >"Special Report to the European Parliament" prepared >by the Omega Foundation for the European Parliament's >department of Scientific and Technological Options >Assessment (STOA). While this report and its >subsequent updates are widely known throughout Europe, >it has never appeared in the US media. The full report >is available from STOA, Luxembourg, +352-4300-22511, >fax: -22418, >www.europarl.eu.int/stoa/publi/166499/execsum_en.htm. > >Luxembourg (January 6, 1998) - Nearly 30 years ago, >the British Society for Social Responsibility in >Science (BSSRS) warned that a new technology of >repression was being spawned in an effort to contain >civil unrest. In 1977, BSSRS published The Technology >of Political Control which analyzed the function of >these new technologies. Largely created as a result of >research and development undertaken as part of >Britain's colonial wars, work on this technology was >further enhanced by technical developments achieved by >the US' military-industrial complex. > >The BSSRS was the first report to identify a whole >class of technology whose principal function was to >achieve social and political control. "This new >weaponry ranges from means of monitoring internal >dissent to devices for controlling demonstrations; >from new techniques of interrogation to methods of >prisoner control," BSSRS reported. > >The Technology of Political Control predicted that, >with the deployment of these technologies, governments >would no longer reach for the machine gun when >threatened at home. They would have plastic bullets >that kill only occasionally, interrogation that >tortures without leaving physical scars, electronics >for telephone taping and night surveillance, and >computers to build files on dissidents. > >A massive Police Industrial Complex has been spawned >to serve the needs of police, paramilitary and >security forces. An overall trend is towards the >globalization of these technologies. > >Many major arms companies have established >paramilitary/internal security operations and >diversification into these markets is increasing. >Weapons specifically designed to quell dissent are >incredibly cheap compared to major warfare >counterparts like ships, aircraft and tanks. The move >into a post-Cold War world has been accompanied by a >change in the nature of warfare. > >The militarization of the police often begins via >"special weapons and tactics squads," such as the >Grenz Schutz Gruppe in Germany, the Gendarmerie >Nationale in France, the Carabinieri in Italy, the >Special Patrol Group in the UK or the federal police >paramilitary SWAT teams in the US (FBI, DEA and Bureau >of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms). Security companies >now produce weapons and communications systems for >both the military and the police. > >The Evolution of Repression >The 1972 US National Science Foundation's Report on >Non-lethal Weapons listed 34 different weapons >including: chemical and kinetic weapons; electrified >water jets; combined stroboscopic light and pulsed >sound weapons; infrasound weapons; guns that fire >drug-filled, flight-stabilized syringes; stench darts >that give off an obnoxious odor; the Taser, which >shoots 50,000 volts into the target; and "instant >banana peel," which makes roads slippery and >impassable. > >Many of these weapons have since achieved operational >status. They include: electronic riot shields and >electro-shock batons; bulk chemical irritant >distributor systems (delivered by British water cannon >or Israeli backpack sprayers); plastic bullet guns; >hydraulically fired, slingshot rubber-bullet machines; >and biomedical weapons, such as the >compressed-air-fired drug syringe now commercially >available both in the US and China. > >Some 856 companies across 47 countries have been or >are currently active in the manufacture and supply of >such weapons. This global proliferation has been >fueled by private companies wishing to tap lucrative >security markets. > >Portable electrified riot shields (manufactured since >the mid-1980s) comprise a transparent polycarbonate >plate through which metal strips are interlaced. A >button-activated induction coil in the handle sends >40,000 to 100,000 volts arcing across the metal >strips, accompanied by intermittent indigo flashing >sparks and an intimidating crackle as the air between >the electrodes is ionized. Deaths have been reported >from both Tasers and from shock shields. > >A wire barrier system dispersed by the Volcano Mine >System shoots out a thin wire with something like fish >hooks along it in enough mass to cover a soccer-field >sized area. "It's intended to snag. It's not going to >kill you," said Volcano marketing manager Tom Bierman. > >Human guards are being replaced with sophisticated >punishment mechanisms that vary from electroshock to >kill-fences and fragmentation mines. Neural networks >with semi-intelligence will play an increasing role in >sentinel duties as robot technology improves. Already >prototypes known as "insectoids" are being evolved to >cheaply replace personnel on routine guard duties. >They can be programmed to track a fence and carry >either lethal or sub-lethal weapons. > >"Proactive Policing" >The fastest-growing trend in surveillance technology >is towards tracking certain social classes and races >living in red-lined areas before any crime is >committed. Such "proactive policing" is based on >military models of gathering huge amounts of low-grade >intelligence. With systems such as Memex, it is >possible to quickly build up a comprehensive picture >of virtually anyone by gaining electronic access to >all their records, cash transactions, cars held, etc. > >Any unique attribute of anatomy can be used to create >a human identity recognition system. Cellmark >Diagnostics (UK) can recognize genes; Mastiff Security >Systems (UK) can recognize odor; Hagen Cy-Com (UK) and >Eyedentify Inc. (USA) can recognize the pattern of >capillaries at the back of the retina; while AFA >Technology (UK) is capable of signature verification. > >DNA fingerprinting is now a reality. Britain has set >up its first DNA databank and has carried out mass >dawn raids of targeted suspects. Plans are being drawn >up by at least one political party to DNA-profile >[British citizens] from birth. Face recognition >systems are seen as being able to revolutionize crime, >customs and intruder detection. > >Night-vision technology developed as a result of the >Vietnam war has now been adapted for police usage. >Heli-tele surveillance [from helicopters] allows >cameras to track human heat signatures in total >darkness. Lorraine Electronics' Direct Intelligent >Access Listening (DIAL) allows an operator to monitor >several rooms from anywhere in the world. > >Neural network bugs go one step further. Built like a >small cockroach, they can crawl to the best location >for surveillance. Japanese researchers have managed to >control real cockroaches by implanting microprocessors >and electrodes in their bodies. The insects can be >fitted with micro cameras and sensors to reach places >other "bugs" can't. > >'Less-lethal' Weapons >The essential role of new crowd-control weapons and >tactics is to amplify the level of aggression that can >be unleashed by an individual officer. Much of a >weapon's effect lies in creating a sense of >uncertainty. Even the insectoid appearance of riot >squad members is part of the threat impact. Thus the >rationale behind the new US side-handle batons, riot >shield charges, riot wedges, "snatch squads" and the >martial arts-style arrest techniques. > >The biggest growth area however, has been in what used >to be called "non-lethal weapons." The fact that some >of these weapons kill, blind, scalp and permanently >maim led the authorities and manufacturers to come up >with a new name - "less-lethal weapons" - i.e. they >only sometimes kill. > >Police forces have acquired many of the weapons >normally associated with the military. Many shotguns >specially adapted for police use (e.g., by Ithaca, >Mossberg, Remington, Sage International and Wilson >Arms) are literally sawn-off shotguns whose wider >spread increases the number of likely targets. > >Specialist shotgun ammunition enables some of these >weapons to smash the cylinder block off a car or >literally cut a human in half. An advertisement for >the shotgun "bolo round," claims "It slices - it >dices." Shotgun ammunition leaves no evidence of what >weapon was used to fire it because they do not leave a >"spent cartridge signature." > >In urban settings, a high-velocity round could easily >pass through an intended target and continue >penetrating walls and go on to kill innocents beyond >the observed fire zone. To obviate this problem, >manufacturers are increasingly producing hollow point, >expanding, or "dum-dum" ammunition for police use. > >Whereas ordinary ammunition can sail through the body >leaving a relatively clean hole, soft-nosed ammunition >"mushrooms" in the body, causing far more serious >damage. Dum-dums can take an arm or a leg off. Some >these weapons, like Winchester's Black Talon or the >high-explosive filled, Frag 12 cause horrific >injuries. > >Paradoxically, the Hague Declaration of 1989, which >prohibited the use of hollow point ammunition in war, >does not apply to the policing of civil conflicts. > >Surveillance Technologies >Until the 1960s, most surveillance was low-tech and >expensive since it involved following suspects around >from place to place. Even electronic surveillance was >highly labor intensive. The East German police, for >example, employed 500,000 secret informers, 10,000 of >which were needed just to listen and transcribe >citizens' phone calls. > >At the end of the Cold War, defense and intelligence >agencies refocused missions to justify their budgets, >transferring their technologies to certain law >enforcement applications such as anti-drug and >anti-terror operations. In 1993, the US Department of >Defense and the Justice Department signed a memoranda >of understanding for "Operations Other Than War" to >facilitate joint development and sharing of >technology. > >"Fingerprints, ID cards, data-matching and other >privacy-invasive schemes were originally tried on >populations with little political power, such as >welfare recipients, immigrants, criminals and members >of the military, and then applied up the socioeconomic >ladder," says David Banisar of Privacy International. >"Once in place, the policies are difficult to remove." >Ultimately, he notes, "They facilitate mass and >routine surveillance of large segments of the >population without the need for warrants and formal >investigations. What the East German secret police >could only dream of is rapidly becoming a reality in >the 'Free World.'" > >Much of this technology is used to track the >activities of dissidents, human rights activists, >journalists, student leaders, minorities, trade union >leaders and political opponents. > >A huge range of surveillance technologies has evolved, >including night-vision goggles; parabolic microphones >to detect conversations over a kilometer away; laser >microphones that can pick up any conversation from a >closed window in line of sight; stroboscopic cameras >that can take hundreds of pictures in a matter of >seconds and individually photograph all the >participants in a demonstration or march. > >The Scoot surveillance system - with US-made Pelco >cameras - was sold to China as an advanced traffic >control system by Siemens Plessey. The system was used >to faithfully record the protests that lead to the >1989 massacre in Tienanmen Square. These images were >repeatedly broadcast over Chinese television, with the >result that nearly all the transgressors were >identified. > >Passive Millimeter Wave Imaging developed by the US >Millitech Corp. can scan people from up to 12 feet >away and see through clothing to detect concealed >weapons, packages and other contraband. Variations of >this through-clothing screening under development by >Raytheon Co., include systems that illuminate an >individual with a low-intensity electromagnetic pulse. >The Tadiran computer supplied to Guate-mala and >installed in the national palace contained "an archive >and a computer file on journalists, students, leaders, >people on the left, politicians" that was used to >select assassination victims. Europe's Harlequin >system allows the automatic production of maps of who >phoned whom to show "friendship networks." > >The independent Commission for the Control of Security >Interceptions, said that 100,000 telephone lines are >illegally tapped each year in France and that state >agencies may be behind much of the eavesdropping. >However, planting illegal bugs is yesterday's >technology. Modern snoopers can buy specially adapted >laptop computers and simply tune in to all the mobile >phones active in the area by cursoring down to their >number. > >The UK-based research publication Statewatch reported >that the EU had secretly agreed to set up an >international telephone tapping network via a secret >network established under the "third pillar" of the >Maastricht Treaty. Official reports say that the EU >governments agreed to cooperate closely with the FBI >in Washington. Earlier minutes of these meetings >suggest that the original initiative came from >Washington. > >According to Statewatch, network and service providers >in the EU will be obliged to install "tapable" systems >and to place under surveillance any person or group >when served with an interception order. These plans >have never been referred to any European government >for scrutiny, despite the clear civil liberties issues >raised by such a system. > >The revolution in urban surveillance will reach the >next generation of control once reliable face >recognition comes in. It will initially be introduced >at stationary locations, like turnstiles, customs >points, security gateways, etc., to enable a standard >full-face recognition. > >It is important to set clear guidelines and codes of >practice for such innovations. > >'Harmless' Weapons? >Plastic and rubber bullets were products of British >colonial experience in Hong Kong where the flying >wooden teak baton round became the template for future >kinetic weapons. However, the concept of a flying >truncheon was regarded as too dangerous for use on >white people, so in 1969, British researchers came up >with a "safer" version for use in Northern Ireland. > >Plastic bullets were considered too dangerous for use >in mainland Britain (until 1985 when they proliferated >throughout the UK's police forces). Now plastic >bullets have been deployed from the US to Argentina, >from South Africa to Israel and China. > >Statements made by military scientists and police >chiefs about "non-lethal" weapons and "minimum force," >have led the public to believe that crowd-control >weapons were designed for humanitarian reasons. Such >sentiments have been echoed by the governments, >laboratories and manufacturers creating these >technologies of political control. > >A 1972 report by Belfast surgeons makes for stark >reading. It informs us that of 90 patients who sought >hospital treatment after being hit by rubber bullets, >41 needed hospitalization. Their injuries included >three fractured skulls, 32 fractures of the nose, jaw, >cheek, etc., eight ruptured eye globes (all resulting >in blindness), three cases of severe brain damage, >seven cases of lung injury and one case of damage to >liver, spleen and intestine. > >The overall role call: one death, two people blinded >in both eyes, five with severe loss of vision in one >eye and four with severe disfigurement of the face. > >In the 1970s, military researchers in the US concluded >that rubber bullets had an extremely high probability >of undesirable effects. Plastic bullets totally >replaced rubber bullets in Northern Ireland by 1975. > >But according to a 1983 report in the Lancet, plastic >bullets are even more deadly than the rubber bullets >they replaced. They cause more severe injuries to the >skull and brain and therefore more deaths. > >The indiscriminate deployment of plastic bullets >removes people's rights of assembly and may remove >their rights to freedom of movement and, in some >situations, their right to life. We recommend that the >European Parliament reaffirm their call for a total >ban on this weapon. > >More than 300 companies are currently manufacturing >and marketing chemical incapacitants to military, >security, prison and police forces around the world. >In high doses they can kill. Even in lower doses, >there is a range of unpleasant side effects including >bronchitis, asthma, lung and eye damage, contact >dermatitis and prolonged diarrhea. > >Less-lethal weapons are presented as more acceptable >alternatives to guns. But these weapons augment rather >than replace the more lethal weapons. Euphemistic >labels are used to create the impression that these >weapons represent soft and gentle forms of control. CS >is never referred to by the authorities as vomit gas, >in spite of its capacity to cause violent retching. > >There is evidence that CS can cause permanent lung >damage at comparatively low doses, as well as >second-degree burns with blistering. In situations >where high exposure to CS has occurred, heart failure, >hepatocellular damage and death have been reported. > >Oleoresin Capsicum (OC or "pepper gas") is a new >irritant based on extracts from chili pepper. It is >banned for use in war by the 1972 Biological Weapons >convention. But it was not banned for internal >security use. It was US companies that transformed >this irritant into a commercial product that is now >widely used by police, corrections departments and >private citizens. > >The effects of pepper gas include blindness that lasts >from 15-30 minutes, a burning sensation of the skin >that lasts from 45 to 60 minutes, upper body spasms >that force a person to bend forward and uncontrollable >coughing, making it difficult to breathe or speak for >between 3 to 15 minutes. > >The US Army concluded in a 1993 Aberdeen Proving >Ground study that pepper spray could cause "mutagenic >effects, carcinogenic effects, sensitization, >cardiovascular and pulmonary toxicity, neurotoxicity, >as well as possible human fatalities." Pepper spray >got the go-ahead despite these reservations after the >FBI gave its approval. It was subsequently revealed >that the head of the FBI's Less-Than-Lethal Weapons >Program, Special Agent Thomas W. Ward, took a $57,000 >bribe from a pepper gas manufacturer to give its >product (Capstun) the all-clear. > >Weapons of the Near-Future >In the 1990s, the revolution in so-called "non-lethal >weapons" was given fresh impetus. The new policy was >avidly pushed in the US by the likes of Col. John >Alexander, who made his name as part of the Operation >Phoenix assassination program during the Vietnam war. > >This second generation of kinetic, chemical, >optico-acoustic, microwave, disabling and paralyzing >technologies is on the horizon. > >Much of the initial new work has been undertaken in US >nuclear laboratories such as Oak Ridge, Lawrence >Livermore and Los Alamos. The Pandora's box of new >technologies includes: > >Ultra-sound generators that disturb the inner ear >system that controls balance, inducing nausea, >disorientation, vomiting and involuntary defecation. >The system, which uses two speakers, can target >individuals in a crowd. > >High-intensity strobes that pulse in the critical >epileptic fit-inducing frequency. > >Illusion techniques that use holograms to project >"active camouflage." > >Disabling, sleep-inducing agents mixed with DMSO [a >skin-penetrating chemical that quickly delivers drugs >into the bloodstream]. > >Pain-causing, paralyzing and foul-smelling area-denial >chemicals, some of which are chemically engineered >variants of the heroin molecule. They work extremely >rapidly: one touch and disablement follows. > >Microwave and acoustic disabling systems. > >Human capture nets that can be laced with chemical >irritant or electrified to pack a disabling punch. > >Guns that shoot a sticky foam that expands to between >35-50 times its original volume, gluing a target's >feet and hands to the pavement. > >Blinding laser weapons. > >Isotrophic radiator shells that use superheated >gaseous plasma to produce a dazzling burst of >laser-like light. > >Thermal guns that incapacitate through a wall by >raising body temperature to 107 degrees. > >Magnetosphere guns that deliver what feels like a blow >to the head. >According to the New Scientist, the American >Technology Corp. of Poway, California has used >"acoustical heterodyning technology" to target >individuals in a crowd with infra-sound. This >technology makes it possible to conjure audio messages >out of thin air and to pinpoint them so that just one >person hears them. > >The US National Institute of Justice is actively >soliciting ideas for such weapons from corporate >bodies. While there are practical problems regarding >whether it is preferable to leave an enemy or a >citizen dead rather than permanently maimed (and >whether hallucinogenic and psychotropic agents fall >foul of the Chemical Weapons Convention), the spending >call was for $15 million annually over the next three >years. > >The work done so far has led to dubious weapons based >on dubious research, strongly influenced by commercial >rather than humanitarian considerations. There is a >pressing need for a wide-ranging debate of the >humanitarian and civil liberties implications of >allowing these weapons. > >An arsenal of new weapons and technologies of >political control has already been developed or lies >waiting on the horizon for a suitable opportunity to >find useful work. > >As the globalization of political control technologies >increases, Members of the European Parliament have a >responsibility to challenge the costs, as well as the >alleged benefits, of so-called "advances" in law >enforcement. > > >Set Weapon to 'Stun' >HSV Technologies Inc. is working to perfect a "stun >gun" that uses a beam of UV radiation to "freeze" >human targets at a distance of 330 feet (100 meters). >The UV beam provides a wireless path capable of >sending a 100-Hertz electric charge through the air >toward a target. The 25 milliamp charge is sufficient >to "tetanize" the target - causing the body's control >muscles to contract, paralyzing the individual. >Although portrayed as a "non-lethal" technology, such >a weapon would be able to kill at a distance, simply >by increasing the current above 250 milliamps. > >US and UK war planners are pursuing this technology, >arguing that it would provide a new weapon for the >military operations. But as Nick Lewer of the Peace >Studies Department of Bradford University told the The >Sunday Times of London, the device would "not be >practicable in combat" and is more likely to be used >"by the military police where restraint is the aim." > > >Genoacide >The repression of anti-globalization protests reached >new heights in Genoa, Italy, with one anarchist youth >shot in the head and crushed under the wheels of an >armored police vehicle. In an unprovoked pre-dawn >raid, police brutally clubbed scores of activists >sleeping in the offices of the Genoa Social Forum. >More than 70 people were injured in an assault that >left floors covered with blood and broken teeth. > >In preparation for the meeting of the G-8 economic >superpowers, the Italian government mobilized 20,000 >troops, 15 helicopters, four planes and seven naval >boats. It stockpiled tear gas, water cannons, rubber >bullets and 200 "body bags." Throughout the event, >protesters were monitored by rooftop squads, hidden >cameras and even satellite surveillance. > >In a Covert Action cover story (April-June 2001), >Episcopal Priest Frank Morales identifies what >happened in Genoa as part of a "new phase in the >global class war" that is directed against "those >civilian sectors of the world in opposition to the >global corporate agenda." The response is >characterized by "an increasingly militarized and >coordinated global police apparatus [that] is moving >to extend its sway." > >From Seattle to Philadelphia, from DC to Prague, from >Davos and Gottenberg to Genoa, the forces of >globalization have responded to growing civilian >protests with an escalating array of "non-lethal" >crowd-control technologies. The roots of this military >response to public protest lies in the Pentagon's >Civil Disturbance Plan 55-2 - a previously secret >military plan code-named "Operation Garden Plot." As >Morales notes, this covert plan to contain domestic >"civil disturbance" now is being "tailored to fit the >military and political requirements of American >corporate global domination and social control, at >home and abroad." > >The report Technologies of Political Control only >hints at the what the future holds. The >face-identification systems cited in the report are >now being installed in the US, UK and Israel. >Visionics Corp. Face-It surveillance spy cameras have >been mounted in Tampa, Florida and other US cities. >Banks will soon be using Face-It technology, retinal >eye-scans and other "biometric" data to identify >customers who use ATM machines. > >"Americans now face a choice about how far we want to >go down the road to being a surveillance society," >says George Washington University Law Professor >Jeffrey Rosen. Even GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey >(R-TX) is worried. "We are taking a step in the wrong >direction if we allow this powerful technology to be >turned against citizens who have done no wrong," Armey >has warned. > >Resources: Waging War on Dissent, a 24-page report by >the Seattle National Lawyers' Guild [PO Box 95242, >Seattle, WA 98145, (206) 405-4651]. Genoa Social >Forum, via San Luca 15/9 - 16124 Genova, Italy. >Eyewitness reports from Genoa: www.indymedia.org . > > >Torture 'Liveware' >The creation of a bureaucracy practicing systematic >human rights violation will often include specialists >referred to as "liveware" - paramilitary, intelligence >and internal security police, foreign technical >advisers, counter-insurgency and low intensity >conflict strategists, and other "white collar >mercenaries" schooled in the ideological attitudes >necessary to keep such systems in operation. > >In some cases this schooling takes place at the >infamous School of the Americas based at Fort Benning >in Georgia - otherwise known at the "School of the >Assassins." The school has been accused of training >death squads in Guatemala and Honduras. > >For the last decade, the export of "security" training >has become a highly profitable commercial proposition. >Such technologies are now entering Europe from the US. > >Sadly, it no longer comes as a surprise to discover >that Western liberal democracies have been colluding >with the torture trade. During the 1980s, US companies >such as Technipol were advertising thumbcuffs, leg >irons and shackles. The Danish Medical Group of >Amnesty International found that electronic prods >manufactured by the US Shok-Baton Co. had been used in >the violation of human rights. A repentant Uruguayan >torturer confessed that he had used US-made >electroshock batons. > >Back in 1984, it emerged that US export regulations >had special customs codes for "specially designed >instruments of torture." Category codes in the export >administration regulations had been extended to >include: saps, thumbcuffs, thumbscrews, leg irons, >shackles, handcuffs, stun guns, shock batons, electric >cattle prods, straightjackets and specially designed >implements of torture. > >On November 13, 1995, the US Secretary of Commerce >informed the speaker of the House that it had added a >new section to the Export Administration Regulations - >Section 776.19, "Implements of Torture." After this >review took place, it was disclosed that the US >government had approved the sale of thumbcuffs to >Russia; blackjacks, stun guns and shock batons to >Lithuania, Moldova, Panama and Tanzania; and >electronic riot shields and batons to Mexico. > > >Execution Technologies >Us companies such as Leutcher Associates, Inc. of >Massachusetts supply and service gas chambers and >design, supply and install electric chairs and >gallows. > >The $30,000 Leutcher lethal injection system is the >cheapest system the company sells. While their >electrocution systems cost $50,000 and a gallows would >cost approximately $85,000, more and more states are >opting for Leutcher's $100,000 "execution trailer," >which comes complete with a lethal injection machine, >a steel holding cell for an inmate and separate areas >for witnesses, a chaplain, prison workers and medical >personnel. > >European designers, meanwhile, are tendering for >Middle Eastern prison building work with all the >attendant requirements to cater to Islamic shari'a >laws and requisite punishments and amputations. > > >EU to Spy on Anti-Globalists >Belgium - European police and intelligence officials >have been ordered to "identify and track... >anti-capitalist demonstrators" according to The >Independent (London). German Interior Minister Otto >Schily has called for a Europe-wide force "modeled on >the FBI." > >"Central to the new push," The Independent reports, >"is the secret Article 36 committee... and the >Schengen Information System, both of which allow for >extensive contact and data-sharing between police >forces." > >Tony Bunyan, editor of Statewatch magazine, warned: >"This will give the green light to Special Branch and >M15 [British Intelligence] to put under surveillance >people whose activities are entirely democratic." > > > >===== >All that was required of (the proles) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary for them to work longer hours or accept shorter rations. And even when they became discontented . . , their discontent led nowhere, because, being led without general ideas, they could only focus it on specific petty grievances. 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