-Caveat Lector- http://www.konformist.com/1998/revolution.htm Revolutionr Part 5 [RU Sirius] Do I Dare To Eat Impeach? Or How Mr. Clinton Got Caught in his own Police State Speak your mind in the It's a case of the chickens coming home to roost. Propaganda Malcolm X, on the assassination of JFK Forum TURN ON TO SEX IN THE WHITE HOUSE TUNE IN TO THE PORN-BASED COUP D'ETAT DROP OUT ON STARR VS. CLINTON Most of my friends and compatriots seem to feel that Starr is instituting a right wing coup d'etat against a popular president, so it's time to put aside any disagreements we may have with Bubba, and oppose the impeachment proceedings. A few others whisper in my ear that we're all equal under the law, and this President, who has been no friend of justice, should pay for perjury and witness tampering with his Presidency. They are all correct. Must one always take sides in every schoolyard brawl? In this instance, can't we just sit on the sidelines and hoot our derision? I will neither advocate nor oppose the impeachment of President Groovy. But today, my derision will be aimed specifically at him. After all, I ain't running for Special Prosecutor. But hear this campaign promise: If elected, I will do everything within my power to see that these two assholes get adjoining cells. VIOLATED VIOLATOR: MR. BILL AND HIS RIGHT TO PRIVACY Laughing along with Bill Maher on Politically Incorrect, you get the comfortable sense that-hey, we knew Bill Clinton was kind of a libertine guy, an easy-going, hip liberal sort of fellow. And now this paragon of personal liberty is being attacked by a right wing inquisitor. The reality is that Mr. Clinton has been our "right wing" inquisitor (right wing here meaning authoritarian), the man who has--according to the ACLU--"crippled... the Bill of Rights." Watching Mr. Bill whine on national TV about his right to privacy and justice was a moment of high irony for those few of us who have been reading the fine print. Tell it to a few million medical marijuana users, Bill. And don't forget to use encryption! Let's have a look at the record, shall we? While Bill was enjoying phone sex with Monica, he could have been vulnerable to victimization by his own attempts to radically expand the FBI's wiretapping authority in several bills. In collaboration with the FBI, El Presidente pushed for a plan that requires the phone companies to reformat their new digital technology to allow government agents to wiretap with great ease. The ACLU said the plan was "similar to requiring homes and offices to have microphones built into the walls which the government can turn on. The FBI would require that companies enable government agents to eavesdrop on at least 1 in every 100 lines in use in major U.S. cities and other targeted areas - a capacity believed greater than the KGB ever commanded in Soviet Russia." Clinton also asked Congress to pass legislation that would give the Federal Bureau of Investigation the power to use "roving wiretaps" without a court Order -- in other words making warrantless wiretaps the rule rather than the exception. The legislation was appended to an intelligence authorization bill and passed during the week of October 5, 1998. Even without this legislation, federal agents have set themselves a proud record for the most wiretaps ever placed in one year for "intelligence" purposes without establishing probable cause of crime. I don't suppose Bill had encrypted cybersex with Monica, but that's not because of the success of any of the silly schemes against the encryption of online communications unsuccessfully attempted by his administration. After failing to impose the "Clipper chip," which would have required any encryption device to have a backdoor giving government agents convenient unannounced access for eavesdropping, they tried "Clipper II." In this scheme, anyone using encryption would have to give the government the key so that they could read your mail without you noticing. While both these schemes failed to gain political traction, and encryption policy has improved somewhat under the watch of Clinton's new Internet advisor, Ira Magaziner (the man who made a hash of universal health care), the administration still wants easy government access to your email. Of course, when you can't pass legislation, you can always due maximum damage via executive order. As you may recall, the American Revolution was fought largely over warrantless searches by British enforcers. In the name of national security, Clinton's Executive Order 12949 authorized physical "foreign intelligence" searches of homes and other places without a court order and without probable cause. In essence, there now needs be no evidence of criminal wrongdoing for law enforcement organizations to ransack your home. And since everybody's talking about Watergate, it's worth noting that under Executive Order 12949, Tricky Dicky's minions might have gotten away with searching McGovern headquarters. They certainly would have been able to excuse their third-rate burglaries against that threat to national security, Daniel Ellsberg. Of course, the mainstream American press would probably be too chickenshit now to publish The Pentagon Papers anyway, since they were illegally obtained (see Chiquita Banana). The secret police are out there. It's known that several warrantless searches have already occurred under Janet Reno's watch, although the numbers and specifics are clandestine, known only to certain White House and Justice Department officials. The Clinton Administration has also instituted a plan in which public housing tenants have to sign leases that allow government agents to randomly search their homes. The Clinton Administration has defended warrantless "suspicionless" drug testing in the public schools and endorsed the idea that welfare recipients should be subject to random warrantless, suspicionless drug tests. The Clinton administration has, of course, continued funding and support for the War On Some Drugs, violating not only the privacy of people's bedrooms but their brains. The rights violations that have resulted from the drug war are so vast, and its impact so devastating, that I don't have the space or time to begin to do them justice here. MARTIAL LAW: THE ANTI-TERRORISM BILL They got the wrong guy? Been unjustly imprisoned? Clinton wants to keep you in jail anyway! Remember freedom of association, even with people other than Monica Lewinsky? Forget it! Martial Law was declared, quietly, on April 24, 1996 when our horny president signed the Anti-Terrorism Bill. In the straight-forward and heartbreaking words of the ACLU, " With the stroke of a pen, President Clinton today crippled the century-old authority of the federal courts to enforce the Bill of Rights." Please let that sink in. The Secretary of State can now label any foreign-based organization he or she pleases as "terrorist." There is no legal recourse for removing the assignation. Banks are authorized to freeze assets of American citizens and organizations suspected of being agents of one of these declared terrorist groups. Again, there is no legal recourse to challenge such an act. Law enforcement can also now easily investigate individuals suspected of terrorism based on activities protected by the First Amendment. The bill also guts prisoners' right to habeas corpus. Prisoners can no longer challenge the constitutionality of state court convictions, since this law requires federal courts to defer to state court interpretations of constitutional issues, even when the state is wrong. The bill also prevents consideration of innocence unless they are "backed by clear and convincing evidence," something nearly unattainable by current legal standards. In other words, let's show how tough on crime we are by keeping innocent people in jail too! The bill also denies undocumented aliens, including those seeking political asylum, the right to challenge deportation. If the government declares that an alien is suspected of association with "terrorist groups," then they can use secret evidence that need not be disclosed to the suspect. In other words, the government need not even prove that the person is, in fact, in any way associated with a "terrorist" organization. After all, how would you know whether they've proved it or not. If that isn't enough, there's also been: * Several cases of the Clinton Administration intervening in the judicial process against the constitutional rights of the accused. * Limits placed on anti-abortion protesters that would have had us screaming *fascist pig* had they been tried against the anti-war and civil rights movements * "Overenthusiastic" gun law enforcement. However you feel about the second amendment's protection of citizens' rights to unlicensed access to the varieties of modern armaments, the Clinton Administration's anti-gun zeal has unleashed the fury of the BATF, most memorably in the slaughter in Waco Texas. * Dress codes that would have made Chairman Mao smile. I doubt if Clinton, in his youth, would have sat still for mandatory school uniforms, but we understand that new uniforms will come pre-cum-stained to symbolize Mr. Clinton's commitment to youthful abstinence. AMERICA IS A POLICE STATE Now it can now be told. As most non-white people in America know, and many of the rest of us suspected, in the wake of the war on crime and drugs America has become a police state. In the politicians' and citizens' zeal to end crime, they have unleashed a new criminal element. This element has murdered, tortured, and abused thousands, if not millions, of American citizens - many of them innocent. And they've gotten away with it. These police officers, prison guards, immigration officials, DEA agents, and other enforcement agents have more-or-less had carte blanche to do what they will. Recourse to sadism is not surprising when you give some human beings that much power over others, particularly the type of human being who is attracted to the power of being an "enforcer." THE AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN THE USA: GREATEST HITS A few weeks ago (October, 1998), Amnesty International released a devastating report on Human Rights violations in a persistent and widespread pattern of human rights violations in the USA. As a nation state worthy of being singled out by Amnesty for such a report, America joins such vacation dreamlands as Haiti and Guatemala. Here are a few items from the report: * (There is) persistent and widespread violation of the rights to freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment... and the right to freedom from arbitrary detention * Across the USA, people have been beaten, kicked, punched, choked, and shot by police officers, even when they pose no threat. * In prisons, women and men are subjected to sexual, as well as physical abuse... isolating prisoners for long periods... using chemical and electro-shock methods of restraint that are cruel, degrading, and sometimes life-threatening. Victims include pregnant women, the mentally ill and even children. * As if they were criminals, many asylum-seekers are placed behind bars when they arrive in the country. Some are held in shackles. They are detained indefinitely in conditions that are sometimes inhuman and degrading. * Police officers have beaten and shot unresisting suspects; they have misused batons, chemical sprays and electro-shock weapons; they have injured or killed people by placing them in dangerous restraint holds. * Most law enforcement agencies maintain that abuses, when they occur, are isolated incidents. However, in the past eight years independent inquiries have uncovered systematic abuses in some of the country's largest city police departments, revealing a serious nationwide problem. * In prison, guards are subjecting their victims to beatings and sexual abuse. The victims of abuse include pregnant women and the mentally ill. * The Justice Department and others have documented appalling conditions in dozens of jails: overflowing toilets and pipes; toxic and unsanitary environments; prisoners forced to sleep on filthy floors without mattresses; cells infested with vermin and lacking ventilation * While successive US governments have used international human rights standards as a yardstick by which to judge other countries, they have not consistently applied those same standards at home. In some areas international standards offer greater human rights protection than US domestic law, but the US authorities have refused to recognize the primacy of international law. The USA has been slow to agree to be bound by important international and regional human rights treaties: it is one of only two countries which have failed to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. (The other is Somalia.) The report goes on to delineate specific as well as general systemic abuses by police, prison guards, and immigration officials, American hypocrisy on human rights issues, and the creation in the United States of weapons of torture and death that are used internationally by other abusive regimes, as well as by our own. This devastating report, which flies in the face of America's official rhetoric and self-image, should have knocked George Clinton vs. Ringo Starr off of the front pages. But widespread torture, false imprisonment, racist cops running on a rampage, are apparently of little import to the mainstream media. I've yet to see a columnist even deal with it. The rape and torture of prisoners in America is the source of much late night humor. On The Daily Show (which I generally like) on Comedy Central, a clip of a large imprisoned black man jerking around and spasming around on a prison floor while guards tested an electronic shock device ran without comment to great guffaws from the audience. Prisoners... criminals... are dehumanized, providing a convenient outlet for all of the aggression and sadism current in America. The media-- newspapers and particularly TV shows--contribute to this dehumanization by featuring the most depraved crimes and criminals, both in non-fiction and in fiction. In keeping Americans focused on the likes of Richard Allen Davis and Charles Ng, a mentality is created that justifies all these abuses. However, if most Americans were to review the situation case by case, they would probably feel that many if not most of these people don't belong in prison at all. About half of them are in for drug related offenses. Some are in because of drug crimes committed by distant family members!!! But you don't even have to have a naughty family member to fall victim to the police state. Consider this: as reported by Robert Anton Wilson in Everything Is Under Control: "In January 1989, the Minneapolis police smashed down the floor of the home of an elderly black couple, using "flash bang" grenades, which accidentally set the house on fire and killed both old people. The cops were looking for drugs, but never found any. The chief of police justified the murders of two innocent citizens by saying, "This is war." TRUE JUSTICE: A MODEST PROPOSAL America is a police state. Most Americans like it that way, so long as they--or somebody close to them--don't fall victim to its caprice. People fear crime and politicians have fed that fear unto frenzy, until the point where freedom is naught but a rhetorical device. The Revolutionr would like to suggest that we get tough on crime. First of all, we would get tough by punishing only crimes for which there are victims. That will give us lots of focused toughness. We would punish crimes of violence with greater severity than crimes of property. We would punish crimes of the privileged -- the dumping of toxins that leave entire communities to cope with cancer and other illnesses, Savings and Loans scams, and insurance and bank policies that clearly constitute usury -- more severely than the crimes of the destitute. And we would punish the crimes of the institutionally powerful more severely than those of the powerless. To that end, we would have the Justice Department put several billion dollars towards making an example of 10,000 power abusers, putting them into a prison system far kinder (and less crowded) then the one they have presided over. 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