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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AMERICA'S "MILITARIZED" POLICE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GUEST COMMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MEMORIAL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PERSPECTIVE (QUOTES) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUOTATIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TAMPA BAY'S DEADLY POLICE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ECHELON THE NEW WORLD ORDER'S ORWELLIAN GLOBAL SNOOP REVOLUTION! WASHINGTON STATE VOTERS DEMAND A NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH GOVERNMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FLORIDIANS ORGANIZE TO ADOPT OWN VERSION OF WASHINGTON STATE'S REVOLUTIONARY INITIATIVE 695 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JOIN THE REVOLUTION! Click here to be placed on Florida's Taxpayer Empowerment Initiative E-mail list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Internet And The Death Of The News Monopoly By J. Orlin Grabbe "I never went to a journalism school, and it never did me any harm... The only worthwhile yardstick of the collective efforts of the journalists on the newspaper is what the circulation trends are. The population is rising, the number of households is expanding, and sales of newspapers are desperately struggling to stand still." -- Stuart Garner - President, CEO Thomson Newspapers, 11.15.99 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SECULAR HERESY! A BRITISH "BLUE-RIBBON" COMMISSION'S EXHAUSTIVE TWO-YEAR STUDY, CONDUCTED BY POLICE, ACADEMICS AND DRUG EXPERTS, CONCLUDES THAT "TOUGH" DRUG LAWS ONLY "PRODUCE MORE HARM." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VESTED INTEREST "DRUG"HARDLINERS MOBILIZE TO DISCREDIT AND SUPPRESS REPORT'S FINDINGS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- FINDING -- "ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN MARIJUANA..." STORY 3.30.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AMERICA'S DRUG INQUISITION -- A CRUEL AND DIABOLICALLY EFFECTIVE TROJAN HORSE FOREIGN POLICY. "COOPERATIVE" DRUG WAR OPERATIONS EFFECTIVELY STRIP CARIBBEAN NATIONS OF THEIR NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY -- NAIVE ISLAND CITIZENS REMAIN CLUELESS... STORY 3.30.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EDITORS' STUDY FINDS "ELITIST" GAP BETWEEN JOURNALISTS AND THE PUBLIC... STORY 3.29.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KOSOVO ETHNIC ALBANIAN MILITA BREAKS VOW TO DISARM STORY 3.28.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MORE FEDERAL PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT -- GOVERNMENT AGENTS LIED!! EX-CIA AGENT IMPRISONED FOR 18 YEARS, ILLEGALLY CONVICTED BY A CABAL OF FEDERAL PROSECUTORS' AND JURISTS WHO COOPERATED TO SUBMIT PERJURED TESTIMONY. STORY BACKGROUND 3.22.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KOSOVA U.S. LED NATO'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET... AN ANACHRONISTIC POST COLD WAR NATO DESPERATELY NEEDED A JOB AND AN EXCUSE FOR BEING ON ITS 50TH BIRTHDAY-- FROM THE OUTSET, RAMBOUILLET TALKS WERE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FAIL. STORY 3.21.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NELSON MANDELA, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER TO BE IDENTIFIED AS MI6 SPOOK... Sensational new book will charge that as a MI6 agent, Mandela aided British intelligence officers with "operations" against Colonel Gadaffi's Libyan weapo ns programs, supplied his "handlers" with details of arms shipments to Ulster terrorists and allowed UK spying operations to be based in South Africa. Frantic Brit Spooks raid book publisher's office in futile attempt to forestall book release. STORY 3.19.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JURY NULLIFICATION An Idea Whose Time Has Come -- Again. Using the same historic pre-Revolutionary War tactic that American colonists effectively employed to counter unreasonable and draconian British laws, growing numbers of American jurors view jury duty as an opportunity to send a message to the criminal justice system. Jurors voting to release criminal defendants because they believe the law under which defendants are being tried is unjust has become widespread. BACKGROUND 3.19.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AMERICA'S BRUTAL AND MINDLESS INQUISITION... THE U.S. DRUG WAR NOW EMPLOYS SURROGATE COLOMBIAN MILITARY TO WAGE WAR ON COLOMBIAN NATIVES AND BOLSTER A REPRESSIVE COLOMBIAN POLITICAL REGIME. VIETNAM II IS AN IMMEDIATE POSSIBILITY. STORY 3.17.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROPOSED TAMPA BAY DESALINATION PLANT DRAWS OUTPOURING OF PUBLIC PROTEST... SALTWATER DESALINATION -- A CRUEL HOAX AND POTENTIAL TAMPA BAY ECONOMY WRECKER -- FACES RISING TIDE OF OPPOSITION FROM BROAD BASED COALITION OF ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS, CONCERNED CITIZENS, ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS, MARINE BIOLOGISTS AND SPORTSMEN. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "This bay doesn't flush," said Robert Foster, a lawyer who lives on Davis Islands. "Mr. Secretary [DEP Secretary, David Struhs], I want you to think about this." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STORY BACKGROUND 2.29.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FREEDOM IMPERILED! NSA's ECHELON SPY SYSTEM RUNS AMUCK. STUNNING TESTIMONY REVEALS THAT U.S. AND BRITISH OPERATIVES ROUTINELY EAVESDROPPED ON: Diana, Princess of Wales Mark Thatcher (son of Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister) Amnesty International Christian Aid Greenpeace Mother Teresa Pope John ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Anybody who is politically active will eventually end up on NSA's radar screen." (QUOTE: Wayne Madsen, 20 year employee of America's National Security Agency (NSA) and other agencies.) STORY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BACKGROUND 2.27.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AMERICA THE PUNISHING-- WE'RE NUMBER 1! ON FEBRUARY 15, 2000, THE UNITED STATES PRISON POPULATION WILL EXCEED 2,000,000 PEOPLE. * The US has the world's highest incarceration rate, surpassing Russia and China, and the world's largest prison population. * With less than five percent of the world's population, the US now has fully one quarter of the world's prisoners. * There are six times as many Americans behind bars as are imprisoned in the 12 countries making up the entire European Union, even though those countries have 100 million more citizens than the US. * Nearly one in three African American boys born this year will spend some time in prison. STORY 2.12.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COUNT TAXULA (A/K/A DAN KLEMAN) HOPES TO RESURRECT TAMPA'S RAIL VAMPIRES!! STORY 2.9.00 STOP THE TRAIN INFO PAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TAMPA SPRAWLS THE PAIN... NOT A PEEP FROM THE TAMPA TRIBUNE AS RAPE, ROBBERY, BURGLARY AND AUTO THEFT SOAR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA AREA. TAMPA MAYOR GRECO'S ETHNIC CLEANSING [OOPS, "Urban Gentrification"] PURGES MORE THAN 7000 URBAN POOR FAM ILIES FROM YBOR CITY AND DOWNTOWN TAMPA VICINITY "PUBLIC HOUSING" INTO UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA NEIGHBORHOODS. Nearby USF area communities brace for "collateral damage" from declining property values, increased policing costs and soaring taxpayer subsidies for HARTLINE. STORY BACKGROUND1 BACKGROUND2 2.6.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A AUSTRIA BRACES AS IT IS DRAGGED INTO THE CROSS HAIRS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER'S DEMONIZING MEDIA MACHINE. (Can NATO and American cruise missiles be far behind?) Statist Of The New World Order's Clinton Administration And European Union (EU) Launch A Coercive And Unprecedented Intrusion Into Austria's Internal Politics -- NWO Globalists Display Newfound Lethality And Characteristic Disregard For Traditional Norms Of National Sovereignty. STORY 1.2.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FIRE AND ICE! Original Promoters Of Tampa Hockey Arena, Coliseum Holdings, Inc., File Sensational Lawsuit. The Thelen, Reid & Priest Lawfirm, Ex-Lightning Governor David Lefevre And Others Are Named As Defendants... Coliseum Holdings, Inc.,lawsuit brings charges of "violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act ("RICO") and fraud..." and seeks compensation for damages allegedly caused by the "misconduct of Reid & Priest, Lefevre [David] and others..." The Coliseum Holdings Lawsuit affords the public a fascinating glimpse into the convoluted back- stage commercial and political machinations that spawned the taxpayer subsidized and financially troubled Tampa Ice Palace. DOWNLOAD THE LAWSUIT HERE 1.1.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DEAR GOVERNOR BUSH, PLEASE HELP STOP TAMPA GOVERNMENT'S PHILOSOPHICALY PERVERSE OBSESSION WITH CORPORATE WELFARE AND SPORTS SOCIALISM. PLEASE DISBAND THE CORRUPT AND SELF-SERVING TAMPA SPORTS AUTHORITY... TAMPA SPORTS AUTHORITY OFFICIALS SCHEME OPENLY IN A CONTINUING CONSPIRACY TO ALLOW THE PRIVATELY OWNED, TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZED, FABULOUSLY PROFITABLE BUCCANEER SPORTS FRANCHISE TO ESCAPE PAYING SALES TAXES. STORY 1.29.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UK Police Report Concludes: Legalizing Drugs is the Obvious Answer "If there is indeed a war on drugs, it is not being won -- drugs are cheaper and more readily available than ever before.... Attempts to restrict availability of illegal drugs have failed so far everywhere... There is little or no evidence that they (drug laws) can ever work within acceptable means in a democracy.. There is little evidence that conventional conviction and punishment has any effect on offending levels." The Daily Mail is reporting that a report released by the Cleveland (UK) Police, one of Britain's most active police forces, concludes that: * "The War on Drugs is a failure... * A legalized, regulated market is the obvious choice to replace it..." The report was written by the force's former assistant Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom and endorsed by Chief Constable Barry Shaw. It says in part: * "If there is indeed a war on drugs, it is not being won... * Drugs are cheaper and more readily available than ever before.... * Attempts to restrict availability of illegal drugs have failed so far everywhere... * There is little or no evidence that they (drug laws) can ever work within acceptable means in a democracy... * There is little evidence that conventional conviction and punishment has any effect on offending levels." This in advance of an inquiry by a British think-tank, the Police Foundation, that is expected to call for a reassessment of laws against cannabis and ecstasy (MDMA), along with broader drug policy reforms. Finally, the report calls for a Royal Commission to study the issue of drug prohibition, adding its weight to a growing number of individuals and organizations urging the Blair government to take this step. The Blair government, however, has thus far refused to convene such a study. FOOTNOTE: HOTPOLITICS has learned that within the next few days, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency will release its estimate of 1999 Colombian cocaine output. The CIA report will reveal that despite the costly, increasingly violent and Vietnam like involvement of paid U.S. "contract agents" (i.e. mercenaries) and U.S. military advisors in that country,Colombian cocaine production tripled during 1999. 1.28.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CUBA & ELIAN GONZALEZ... WHEN POSTURING SELF SERVING POLITICIANS AND LYNCH MOB POPULISM SUPPLANTS REASON AND THE RULE OF LAW STORY 1.26.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AT ALL LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT AMERICAN PROSECUTORS ROUTINELY LIE TO JURORS AND THE COURTS... IN RECENT COURT FILINGS, U.S. JUSTICE(?) DEPARTMENT ADMITS THAT 17 YEARS AGO A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR KNOWINGLY USED FALSE TESTIMONY TO CONVICT RETIRED CIA AGENT, EDWIN WILSON, OF PLANNING PLASTIC EXPLOSIVES SHIPMENTS TO LIBYA IN VIOLATION OF ARMS EMBARGO. HOUSTON CHRONICLE EDITORAL REVEALS THAT " A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR..." KNOWINGLY SUBMITTED FALSE EVIDENCE TO THE HOUSTON FEDERAL COURT TO CONCEAL THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY'S SEMINAL ROLE IN AN ONGOING OPERATION TO PROVIDE LIBYA WITH CONTRABAND EXPLOSIVES. STORY STORY RELATED1 RELATED2 RELATED3 RELATED4 COMMENTARY 1.22.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GOOD MORNING VIET-NAM II! USING THE BRUTALLY DEPENDABLE AND POLITICALLY EXPEDIENT TROJAN HORSE RUSE OF THE "DRUG WAR," THE U.S. GOVERNMENT GIVES $1.3 BILLIONS TO THE COLOMBIAN MILITARY (AND PARAMILITARIES) TO LAUNCH SURROGA TE WARFARE AGAINST AGGRIEVED COLOMBIAN PEASANTS -- A MOVE CERTAIN TO KILL PEACE TALKS BETWEEN THE MAJOR REVOLUTIONARIES OF THE FARC AND THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT, AND TO SPOOK AND DE-STABILIZE NEIGHBORING SOUTH AMERICAN NATIONS. STORY1 STORY2 1.20.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO DEMONIZE CYBERSPACE... CYBER-COPS, CYBER-TERORISM AND THINGS THAT GO"BUMP" IN THE NIGHT... -- JANET RENO's DARK SIDE -- STORY RELATED STORY1 RELATED STORY2 1.14.99 ANALYSIS "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it ..." General Douglas MacArthur, 1957 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ABM MISSES AGAIN! (BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER...) THE U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT'S SELF-SERVING ANTI- BALLISTIC MISSILE (ABM) PROGRAM HAS ACHIEVED FISCAL SAINTHOOD -- CANONIZED AS AN ARTICLE OF SECULAR POLITICAL FAITH. CYNICAL AND FEAR MONGERING WEAPONS LOBBYIST, A CONFRONTATIONAL AND INTERVENTIONIST FOREIGN POLICY AND TYPICAL GOVERNMENT INCOMPETENCE ARE SET TO SQUANDER 90% OF THE MILITARY'S RESEARCH BUDGET ON A FANCIFUL, MINIMAL VALUE PROJECT THAT ADDRESSES ONLY 10% OF THE MILITARY RISK. STORY 1.20.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COLD WAR II COURTESY OF YOUR PARASITIC AND SELF-SERVING REPRESENTATIVES(?) IN WASHINGTON... The champagne flows freely tonight in Washington as members of the Military/Industrial Complex and America's Security Apparat toast the return of the "good old days" of active global confrontation with the Russian Bear, and the limitlessly expanding cornucopia of fat new secret "Black" budgets it portends. The unprecedented U.S. led NATO assault on Yugoslavia, and the murderous American sponsored attack and decade long Embargo against Iraq, have predictably rekindled the Cold War. America's bellicose and confrontational Foreign Policy has precipitated the political demise of Boris Yeltsin, the specter of imminent "Terrorist" reprisals against the U.S. homeland and prompted the new breed Russian leader -- Vladimir Putin -- to order Russian missiles re-targeted at the United States and NATO. STORY1 STORY2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ YUGOSLAVIA BACKGROUND 1.15.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MORE DRUG WAR ABUSE! (BREAKING STORY) CLINTON'S DRUG CZAR REPORTEDLY PAID U.S. TV NETWORKS $25M OF YOUR MONEY TO CHANGE AND RE-WRITE (CENSOR) SCRIPTS ON POPULAR AMERICAN TV SHOWS -- WITH MORE FUNDS ON THE WAY. SALON.COM EZINE REPORTS THAT THE GOVERNMENT'S DRUG OFFICE RAN A SOPHISTICATED, COVERT PROPAGANDA OPERATION USING THE TV MASS ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA TO MARGINALIZE AND DEMONIZE RECREATIONAL DRUG USERS. STORY 1.14.00 ANALYSIS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OUTRAGEOUS! TAMPA GOVERNMENT'S POLITICAL CLASS COVERTLY LOBBY STATE LEGISLATORS FOR AN EGREGIOUS, SELF-SERVING EARLY RETIREMENT PLAN FOR THEMSELVES. CAN THE ENTIRE COUNTY AND CITY BUREAUCRACY BE FAR BEHIND? MAYOR GRECO AND CITY COUNCIL POLITICOS SEEK TO REDUCE THEIR TIME SERVED TO QUALIFY FOR FULL RETIREMENT BENEFITS BY 20% -- FROM 10 TO 8 YEARS. STORY 1.14.00 CLICK HERE FOR THE TAMPA CITY COUNCIL MEMBER DIRECTORY AND E-MAIL LINK. LET THEM KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THEIR SELF-SERVING RAID ON TAXPAYERS' POCKETBOOKS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NORTH KOREAN PHOTOS TAKEN BY PRIVATE U.S. SPY SATELLITE COMPANY REVEAL STARTLING HIGH LEVEL U.S. GOVERNMENT PLOT TO INTIMIDATE AND MISLEAD THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. PRIVATE SECTOR SPY SATELLITE PHOTOS REVEAL THAT AMERICAN GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS HAVE ROUTINELY AND SYSTEMATICALLY ENGAGED IN FEAR MONGERING AND WILD EXAGGERATION OF NORTH KOREA'S LONG RANGE MISSILE CAPABILITY. A HIGH LEVEL GOVERNMENT DISINFORMATION OPERATION WAS APPARENTLY LAUNCHED TO JUSTIFY AND GAIN THE AMERICAN PUBLIC'S SUPPORT FOR EVENTUALLY EXPENDING HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO DEVELOP A CONTROVERSIAL ANTI-MISSILE SYSTEM; IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF EXISTING STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION AGREEMENTS WITH RUSSIA. MILITARY ANALYSTS AT THE UK'S JANE'S INFORMATION GROUP, A PRESTIGIOUS MILITARY THINK TANK, SPECULATE THAT "...ALL THE HYPE BY WASHINGTON ABOUT THE MISSILE THREAT POSED BY THE NORTH KOREANS MIGHT BE A WAY OF PERSUADING JAPAN TO HELP TO FUND THE PROPOSED DEFENCE SYSTEM." "Scare the hell out of the American people." Senator Arthur Vandenburg... Telling then President Harry Truman what he needed to do in order to tax the American people to pay for the weapons and covert activities of the US National Security State that was being planned, to destroy the Russian Communist State. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it ..." General Douglas MacArthur, 1957 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger." Nazi leader, Hermann Goering At the Nuremberg Trials before he was sentenced to death STORY1 STORY2 1.12.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WELCOME TO Y2K... STUNG BY THE OBVIOUS AND ACCELERATING IRRELEVANCE OF GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNANCE THAT THE INTERNET PORTENDS, FEDERAL AGENTS OF THE AMERIKAN STATE, "THE LAND OF THE FREE(?)" MOVE TO INSTALL MASSIVE FEDERAL/STATE POLICE APPARAT TO CRACKDOWN ON NETIZENS.. AGAIN, THE CYNICAL, SELF-SERVING AND EVER DEPENDABLE TROJAN HORSE RUSES ARE "CRIME" AND "TERRORISM..." STORY RELATED STORY 1.11.00 "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." - Ayn Rand - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MORE PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT? CHARGES OF FEDERAL PROSECUTOR'S MISCONDUCT SURFACE IN MURDER CASE... STORY BACKGROUND 1.11.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COUNTY MAYOR? THE ANACHRONISTIC GOOD OLD BOYS AND POLITICAL INSIDERS OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA ARE ATTEMPTING A POLITICAL COUP IN A DESPERATE BID TO INSTALL A PUPPET COUNTY CZAR. "To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of dictatorship." -- Ludwig von Mises -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BE EXTREMELY SKEPTICAL OF THE MOTIVES OF LOCAL, SELF-SERVING POLITICAL HUCKSTERS AND CON MEN WHO WOULD SEEK TO CENTRALIZE AND EXPAND LOCAL GOVERNMENT POWER AND AUTHORITY. LOBBYING FOR A NEW COUNTY MEGA-BUREAUCRAT RECENTLY SURFACED -- FLOATED FROM THE MIASMIC BOGS OF LOCAL POLITICAL BACK ROOMS, AND PARROTED BY THE PRO TAX, PRO GLAZER STADIUM, PRO CONVENTION CENTER, PRO SOCIALIST SUITES CONVENTION HOTEL, PRO AQUARIUM, PRO LEGENDS FIELD, PRO ICE PALACE, PRO LIGHT RAIL, PRO DESALINATION, PRO HARTLINE, ANTI LAP DANCING TAMPA TRIBUNE. CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT FROM TRIBUNE CHEER LEADING FOR THE COUNTY CZARSHIP IS ANY MEANINGFUL ATTEMPT AT "COST/BENEFIT" ANALYSES. INDEED, THE NEW COUNTY MAYOR PROPOSAL APPARENTLY DOESN'T CONTEMPLATE SHRINKING THE OBSCENE, $2,200,000,000 ($2.2 Billions) ANNUAL HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY BUDGET, OR REDUCE THE BLOATED PARASITIC HORDES OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS -- NOW NUMBERING MORE THAN 8000. A COUNTY MAYOR WOULD, HOWEVER, ENTHRONE AN APPROPRIATELY BEHOLDEN AND THOROUGHLY COMPROMISED $200,000+ PER YEAR POLITICAL PAWN EAGER, NO DOUBT, TO RETURN THE FAVOR TO THOSE WHOSE PECULIAR POLITICAL PATHOLOGIES AND OBSESSIONS INITIALLY CREATED THE COUNTY CZARSHIP. CONSIDER -- THE INEXORABLE AND IRRESISTIBLE TREND TOWARDS DECENTRALIZATION AND THE GROWING IRRELEVANCE OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENTS AND GOVERNANCE. QUITE NATURALLY, THOSE TRADITIONAL ENEMIES OF FREEDOM, THE ENTRENCHED GOVERNMENT APPARAT AND BUREAUCRACIES -- LOCAL, STATE, NATIONAL AND GLOBAL -- ARE UNITED IN VIOLENT OPPOSITION. GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNANCE HAVE NEVER BEEN ABOUT FREEDOM; THEY ARE ABOUT RAW BRUTE FORCE, POLITICAL POWER AND CONTROL. GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNANCE ARE REMNANTS, ANACHRONISMS; EVOLVED RELICS OF SERFDOM, TYRANNY AND DESPOTISM FORCED TO MORE BENIGN STRUCTURES AND POLICIES ONLY BY THE PROTRACTED AND BLOODY OPPOSITION OF THE INDIVIDUAL. IT IS THE INSTINCTIVE NATURE OF GOVERNMENT TO INCREASE ITS POWER AT THE EXPENSE OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM. WE MUST NEVER FORGET THAT AT THE BOTTOM OF EACH NEW PILE OF GOVERNMENT LAWS AND REGULATIONS IS A GUN -- A GOVERNMENT GUN. "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master." - George Washington - "Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance." - Woodrow Wilson - "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." - Ayn Rand - "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all." - Thomas Jefferson - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "For in a Republic, who is "the country?" Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant - merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them." - Mark Twain - TRIBUNE PSYCHOBABBLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WE FONDLY REMEMBER... JAMES W. (JIM) WALTER SR. September 18, 1922 -- January 6, 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Favourite Walter Aphorisms and Quotes THE DEAL "I know the game's crooked, but it's the only game in town." "Always leave some money on the table for the other guy." IF THE DEAL GOES BAD "Don't give me any cheese, just let me out of this trap...!" LIFE "The only difference between Men and Boys is the price of their toys." "Remember the Golden Rule: he who has the gold, makes the rule." "I've seen this movie and everyone gets killed at the end!" OBITUARY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW U.S. LED NATO'S UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK ON YUGOSLAVIA KILLED BORIS YELTSIN -- AMERICA'S LAST POLITICAL FRIEND IN RUSSIA STORY1 STORY2 1.6.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE FLORIDA HIGHWAY PATROL, A FLAWED AND DANGEROUS PROFESSIONAL CULTURE GONE ROGUE... A NEW REVELATION OF A STATE TROOPER FALSIFYING CRUCIAL INFORMATION A Florida Highway Patrol Officer Was Ordered By Superiors To Lie In An Attempted Fatal Traffic Crash Coverup Involving A FBI Agent. STORY 1.6.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHY MUST AMERICAN TAXPAYERS BRIBE PERPETUALLY WARRING MIDEAST COMBATANTS FOR PEACE? AMERICAN GOVERNMENT'S POLITICAL MASTERS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER ARE SET TO SADDLE U.S. TAXPAYERS WITH A $30 BILLION DOLLAR BRIBE TO ISRAEL, SYRIA ETAL TO STOP THEIR FIGHTING? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Consider for a moment what $30 billion dollars would do for America's aging infrastructure? Our sick and truly needy? Our environment and our children? Doesn't charity begin at home? Why should hard working Americans taxpayers sacrifice for perpetually warring Mideasterners? STORY 1.2.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FOLLOWING HOT ON THE HEELS OF TAMPA'S HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL POLITICALLY MOTIVATED ASSAULT ON LAP DANCING, AN ANTI ALCOHOL CRUSADER SEEKS TO FORCE TAMPA MAYOR DICK GRECO INTO A MAJOR CONFRONTATION WITH LIQUOR INTERESTS, CIVIL REALITY AND PERSONAL FREEDOM. "The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic." -- H.L. Mencken -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES ARTICLE LINKED BELOW DETAILS HOW A FORMER MADD EXEC, EX-TAXI DRIVER AND PAID ACTIVIST FOR THE WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION USED ALCOHOL HYSTERIA, PERSONAL CONTACTS AND THE EMOTION CHARGED POLITICAL CAMOUFLAGE OF UNDERAGE DRINKING TO GAIN $17,000 IN TAMPA TAXPAYERS' MONEY TO PROMOTE A PERSONAL, INTEMPERATE CRUSADE AGAINST THE LIQUOR INDUSTRY AND ADULT DRINKERS. BELOW ARE A FEW ITEMS REPORTEDLY ON ACTIVIST GOLDEN'S DRACONIAN ANTI-ALCOHOL WISH LIST.. * Colleges should tighten policies[?] to curb binge drinking, and * Police should arrest teens caught with alcohol instead of just taking away their drinks. The Golden report also recommends that Mayor Greco ask the City Council to pass an ordinance that would: * Make it illegal for "intoxicated"[?] people to be in bars and restaurants licensed to sell alcohol. * Outlaw free drink promotions. * Require that people who serve or sell alcohol obtain a license after passing a criminal background check and receiving server training. * Offer cash rewards[BOUNTY] for people who turn in drunken drivers, * Report youth drinking parties and bars and stores that sell alcohol to patrons younger than 21. To fund his War on drinkers and drinking, Golden would: * Place an additional tax on "beer cans," * Increase tax on alcohol, * Seek taxpayer subsidized "government grants," * Seek "awards" from private sources. STORY 1.2.00 CLICK HERE TO TELL MAYOR GRECO YOUR FEELINGS CONCERNING "CRIMINALIZING" SOCIAL DRINKING AND EXPANDING THE FAILED TACTICS OF THE DISASTROUS WAR ON DRUGS (Tell him that HOTPOLITICS sent you) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GOOD-BYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE TO THE BLOODY 20TH CENTURY! Despite miraculous advances in the sciences, the unprecedented rise of Statism and the State has produced the bloodiest century in the last 1000 years. Militarized governments seeking Utopian solutions for mankind's problems spawned eighty million dead soldiers and murdered 100 million of their own citizens in the name of social justice, nationalism or ideology. STORY 1.1.00 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TAMPA'S OWN MAXIMUS DICKUS... OR, THE REALPOLITIK OF LAP DANCING AND POLITICAL HYPOCRISY MOST FOUL. By: John F. Sugg -- Editor of the Weekly Planet -- STORY1 AFTERMATH 12.30.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WELCOME TO THE NEW MILLENNIUM! MORE GOVERNMENT EXCESS: FEDERAL HARD-LINERS ATTACK THE INTERNET! FBI AGENTS HARASS AND INTIMIDATE SMALL INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER. STORY COMMENTARY 12.30.99 CLICK HERE TO VIEW REALVIDEO TAPE THAT ANNOYED THE FEDS PATIENCE, IT TAKES A MOMENT TO DOWNLOAD... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT PRICE? THE ORWELLIAN FIGHT AGAINST CHIMERICAL TERRORISTS. "Scare the hell out of the American people." Quote by: Senator Arthur Vandenburg... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Telling President Truman what he needed to do in order to tax the American people to pay for the weapons and covert activities of the US National Security State that was being planned, to destroy the Russian Communist State. STORY 12.28.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ f BORING EXHIBITS, HIGH PRICES, LOW ATTENDANCE AND ENDLESS MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR TAXPAYER $UBSIDIE$ -- TAMPA'S OVER-HYPED FLORIDA AQUARIUM CONTINUES DESPERATE SEARCH FOR MAGIC FORMULA TO SLAKE ITS MASSIVE, CONTINUING, FISCAL HEMORRHAGE. STORY 12.28.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CITY OF LONDON UNDER SIEGE?! THE BLOODY LEGACY OF EMPIRE... Tony Blair's Leftist New World Order Government Prepare For Millenium Battle With Own Citizens And Aggrieved, Unwilling Subjects Of Britian's Brutal, Predatory History Of Global Imperialism. STORY 12.27.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "THEIR TERRORISM AND OURS" A provocative and timely essay by Gonzo Journalist, Justin Raimondo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The terrorization of American life will continue and even accelerate as we ring in the new millennium for one very good reason: it benefits the centralizers, the interventionists, the war propagandists, and the global crusaders in government and the media. A constant state of crisis means that we must trust our rulers, whose ostensible job is to protect us from foreign invaders: in this context, we place our lives literally in their hands." STORY 12.22.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BE AFRAID CITIZENS, BE VERY AFRAID! WHEN LAW ENFORCEMENT GOES ROGUE... PROSECUTORIAL EXCESS AND A DUPLICITOUS POLICE CULTURE ARE CLEAR AND PRESENT THREATS TO LIBERTY AND FREEDOM. The Ends Justify The Means ONLY In Totalitarian Regimes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A FLORIDA STATE PATROLMAN TESTIFIES IN TAMPA, FLORIDA THAT LAWMEN ROUTINELY LIE TO STATE JUDGES TO SECURE CONVICTIONS AND "PROTECT" FEDERAL AGENTS. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS BRAZENLY REPLY THAT PERJURY BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IS NOT SUFFICIENTLY OUTRAGEOUS TO JUSTIFY DISMISSING CHARGES. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FREEDOM AND LIBERTY ARE CASUALTIES NATIONALLY AND IN TAMPA BAY AS AMERICA'S MISGUIDED WAR AGAINST ITSELF -- THE DRUG WAR -- RUNS AMUCK. PERJURED TESTIMONY AND "RUSE ARRESTS" ARE SAID TO BE ROUTINE AND EPIDEMIC AMONG FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND PROSECUTORS. STORY1 STORY2 STORY3 12.21.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BARONESS THATCHER PROMOTES GLOBAL U.S./BRITISH MILITARY HEGEMONY. THATCHER ATTACKS CURRENT BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S SUPPORT FOR AN INDEPENDENT EURO-MILITARY FORCE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thatcher's thesis, if brought to reality, seeks to maintain and increase the current global military power imbalance and thus raises the likelihood of inadvertent conflict. Thatcher would also ensure that an unopposed and increasingly aggressive U.S. GLOBO-COP military will eventually incite retaliatory action against the U.S. homeland from increasing numbers of aggrieved victims of unrestrained U.S. global militarism. STORY1 COMMENTARY (PRE YUGOSLAVIA) 12.8.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BAD KARMA! THE WORLD COURT IS SEEKING AUTHORITY TO SEIZE AND PROSECUTE INDIVIDUAL U.S. CITIZENS FOR WAR CRIMES. ORIGINALLY, IRAQ, LIBYA, ISRAEL, RUSSIA, CHINA AND INDIA JOINED THE UNITED STATES IN OPPOSING THE FORMATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL. STORY 11.6.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A PORTENT OF THINGS TO COME? GOVERNMENT ACTION BANNING GAS MASKS IN SEATTLE, WASHINGTON DURING RECENT PROTESTS AGAINST THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION (WTO) , SOUGHT TO DENY CITIZENS THE ABILITY TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AGAINST POLICE GAS ATTACKS. THE WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF GAS MASKS BRINGS CONSTITUTIONAL ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST WASHINGTON STATE. STORY 11.6.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GRANDSTANDING POLITICAL EXTREMISTS CENSOR TAMPA'S ADULT DANCE INDUSTRY. MAYOR DICK GRECO AND CYNICAL, SELF-SERVING CITY COUNCIL LEFTISTS EXPLOIT FEAR AND MEAN-SPIRITED RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE TO PROMOTE PERSONAL BIG GOVERNMENT AGENDA. THE ST. PETERSBURG TIMES TERMS THIS EGREGIOUS DISPLAY OF SELF-SERVING POLITICAL THEATRICS A PROCESS THAT WILL BACKFIRE ON BUCKHORN, DICK GRECO AND THEIR TAMPA CITY COUNCIL COLLEAGUES. HERE IS THE TIMES COMMENTARY. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TAMPA'S PANDERING AND SELF-SERVING " CLOSET LEFTISTS" ABANDONED THEIR CONSTITU TIONAL DUTY TO MAINTAIN FREEDOM IN FAVOUR OF BOBBY "THE STALKER" BUCKHORN'S LEFTIST AGENDA FOR MORE HEAVY-HANDED BIG GOVERNMENT. THE SHAM CITY COUNCIL VOTE HAS MOMENTARILY TRAMPLED CONSENTING ADULTS' SEXUAL FREEDOM AND DECIMATED TAMPA'S WORLD FAMOUS LAP DANCING INDUSTRY. THE CONSTITUTIONALLY FLAWED ANTI LAP DANCING ORDINANCE WILL INEVITABLY COST HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY TAXPAYERS MILLIONS IN LEGAL DAMAGES, PUBLIC ASSISTANCE PAYMENTS AND ENFORCEMENT CHARGES. THE STORY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TAMPA CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "SPRAWLING" THE PAIN NATO CALLED IT "ETHNIC CLEANSING..." TAMPA CALLS IT "GENTRIFICATION." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tampa's low income and largely ethnic, urban poor are being aggressively forced from downtown streets and City (i.e. taxpayer) subsidized indigent housing and "relocated" into the county and surrounding communities. Arcane, highly suspect and perhaps illegal "arrangements" between Tampa city government agencies and so-called "church" and "not-for-profit" organizations , constitute a cynical, relentless, government sponsored central planning conspiracy to use taxpayers' money (federal and local) to push the City's "undesirable" urban poor to the city's periphery and ultimately out into the county and suburbs. STORY1 STORY2 STORY3 (UPDATE 11.27.99) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BULLET TRAIN LITE? Take This Vampire, Kill It, Drive A Stake Through Its Heart And Make Certain That It Will Never Again Rise To Victimize Taxpayers. Political commentary by: Owen Whitman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ O In the face of a scathing GAO feasibility report, and after spending a mind numbing $13.5 millions of Florida taxpayers' hard earned money on rail promotional web sites, public hearings and rail ridership and feasibility studies, the so-called "FOX" bullet train that would have connected Tampa, Orlando and Miami was quietly (and rightly) disconnected by Governor Jeb Bush . Indeed, except to the Tampa Tribune's editorial fringe, sundry nostalgia mavens and fevered rail cultists, Tampa's own Union Station and bankrupt AMTRAK connector are stark and irrefutable evidence of rail transit's inability to serve the transportation needs of contemporary Americans. In an increasingly mobile, complex and suburban America, rail is a relic; an anachronism that simply cannot match the comfort, flexibility and convenience of the private automobile. Now, a small and unlikely Florida alliance of politically influential, self-serving commercial and political interests, utility monopolists, zany Olympics cheerleaders and quasi governmental entities are demanding $900,000 from Florida taxpayers to study the feasibility of yet another bizarre rail scheme. This one would connect Pinellas county, Tampa, Orlando and.... are you ready for this(?) Cape Canaveral?! One can only suppose that it must be something in the water? If the original FOX rail proposal was flawed and economically infeasible, it is safe to assume that virtually all of the original criticisms and failings of the FOX bullet train concept, exhaustively detailed by author Wendell Cox in the prestigious James Madison Institute critique below, apply doubly, and then some, to this fanciful, newly resurrected "Bullet Train Lite." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STORY 11.20.99 JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE'S FOX RAIL STUDY GAO REPORTS TO CONGRESS ON AMTRAK 7/99 UNION STATION TAMPA'S MONEY PIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THOSE ARROGANT AND INTOLERANT AMERICANS... EUROPEANS AND THE SWISS ARE INCENSED OVER THE BIZARRE CASE OF COLORADO STATE AUTHORITIES ARREST AND 6 WEEK INCARCERATION OF A THEN 10 YEAR OLD SWISS/AMERICAN CHILD. STORY STORY2 11.12.99 NOTE: A HOTPOLITICS reader was sufficiently moved to telephone from Europe this morning at 4:45 AM asking HP to publicize this egregious dis play of heavy-handed government intolerance. HP are happy to oblige. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Production Power Vs. Government Force In Defense of Bill Gates... STORY 11.11.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONGRATULATIONS COMMISSIONER FRANK! TOO BAD, TAMPA TRIBUNE: NO TRAIN, NO COUNTY COMMISSION CHAIRMAN AND NO CREDIBILITY... (How's Your Circulation, Trib?) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TAMPA TRIBUNE 0 COMMUNITY 3 (FREE!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ County commissioner Pat Frank-D, a seasoned, elected political veteran who Tampa City councilwoman Linda Saul-Sena and the Tampa Tribune have openly disparaged for her highly principled stand against a nationally failed county light rail transportation paradigm, and ex-commissioner Ed Turanchik's Tampa Bay Water Desalination scam, was today elected Hillsborough County Commission Chairman. This in spite of the Tribune's unprecedented last minute attempt to editorially "anoint" their own "stealth," political marionette appointee, Ed Turanchik replacement, Ben (never heard of the guy) Wacksman. Ouch, Tribune, I bet that hurt? STORY 11.10.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BYE-BYE Choo-choooo... A RESOUNDING WIN FOR THE PRIVATE AUTO AND PERSONAL TRANSPORTATION CHOICE! This Past Week, Hillsborough County's Hand-Picked COMMITTEE OF 99 Dealt Government Central Planners, Political Opportunists And The Rail Obsessed Tampa Tribune Editorial Staff A Decisive And Much Deserved Defeat. While The Tribune Postured And Blustered Editorially In A Sophomoric Attempt To Manipulate And Diminish The Breaking Story Of Local Rail's Demise, The Transportation Committee's Vote Soundly Rebuffed Ex-County Commissioner Eddie (Choo-choooo) Turanchik And The Tribune Editorial Staff's Curious And Persistent Cheerleading For A Fanciful, Nationally Failed Scheme For Rail Mass Transit. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Now The Bad News. Despite The Fact That City & County Governments Are Awash In Windfall Tax Collection "Overruns" From The Rancorous And Divisive CIT, a/k/a Malcolm Glazer Stadium Tax, And Unconscionabe Increases In City/County Governance Costs, now running nearly $3,000,000,000 per year, The COMMITTEE OF 99 Recommends... More Taxes?! * Nearly doubling residential impact fees, * An increased half-cent sales tax, * Increasing the county gas tax 5 Cents Per Gallon (from current 11 cents to 16 cents) and * Increasing funding for government's monopolistic, irrelevant, dysfunctional, uneconomic and massively taxpayer subsidized HARTLINE Bus System. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ QUESTION: Isn't it time to rethink government's so-called "mass transit" obsession? Why should private automobile owners, homeowners and taxpayers be pillaged by ever increasing taxation and fees to subsidize HARTLINE, yet another of government's bureaucratic, "pet" social welfare programs that 98% of the public neither need nor desire to ever use? Why not get government entirely out of its monopoly, subsidized, transportation business and let Free Markets and the Private Sector determine if there really is a market for "urban mass transit?" CONSIDER FOR A MOMENT: The 1999 - 2000 total Hartline Budget is $51,367,782.00. At the same time, projected revenue from passenger fees is only $6,212,000.00. Consequently, during the 1999-2000 operating period, taxpayers (primarily private auto and Hillsborough county property owners) will subsidize the difference between HARTLINE'S Budget and Passenger Fee receipts by the amount of $45,155,782.00. In other words, for each $1 paid by a HARTLINE "passenger," taxpayers pay an additional $7.30. Stated another way, HARTLINE only recovers about 12% of its annual budget from passenger fees at the fare box; the remaining balance is paid 100% by taxpayers, 98% of whom don't (and won't ever) use government mass transit! This dear friends is clearly absurd -- enough is enough. STORY 11.6.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Deadly, Brutal Reality Of State Power... As Starkly Demonstrated By Florida's Uncivilized And Increasingly Embattled Death Penalty. STORY 11.4.99 "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." -- George Orwell -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Attention: Tampa Tribune Staff... THE MEDIA AND THE INSIDIOUS, CORRUPTING INFLUENCE OF SPORTS SOCIALISM Los Angeles Times "Profit Sharing" Deal With Taxpayer Subsidized Staples Sports CenterSparks "Revolt" By LA Times Newsroom Staffers. STORY 11.5.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hillsborough County Commissioners (Minus Commissioner Storms) Vote To Support Anachronistic, Discriminatory Affirmative Action -- A Cruel And Unjust Government Artifice That Rewards The Happenstance Of Gender And Race Over Merit And Ability. STORY 11.4.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ALAS, ECHELON... THE BBC EXPOSES AN UNPRECEDENTED, SYSTEMATIC WORLDWIDE INVASION OF PRIVACY BY LAWLESS U.S./BRIT ELECTRONIC SPY NETWORK STORY 11.2.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A CLOCKWORK ORANGE LIVES! Using The Reliable Trojan Horse Expedient Of Kiddy Safety, And The Politically Potent Memory Of Columbine, BATF, Those Kind(?) And Gentle(?) Gove rnment Thugs Who Brought Us 80 Men, Women And Children Dead At WACO, Are Now Shilling For Mosaic 2000, A Computerized Program That Ostensibly Identifies America's Potential Alexes. Initially Targeted At School Kids (Who Apparently No Longer Have Civil Rights In America), M2K Could Spawn A Massive Civil Liberties Nightmare When Government And Industry Control Freaks Embrace It. 10.24.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SHERIFF'S SPECIAL "SELECTIVE ENFORCEMENT SQUAD" PURS UE, SHOOT AND KILL WRONG MAN... Tampa And Hillsborough County's Civilian "Body Count" Climbs As Traditional American Values Of "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" Succumb To A Lethal, Summary "Street Justice" Administered By An Increasingly Confrontational And Militarized Police. STORY 10.21.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SHOOTER'S TROUBLING BIO 11.8.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DESPITE MAJOR STORY DISCREPANCIES SHOOTER EXONERATED 12.10.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tampa's Florida Aquarium And Cognitive Disconnect ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ATTENDANCE (PRE-OPENING PROJECTED VS. ACTUAL) 1995 (1st year) PROJECTED 1.85 - 2 Millions 1995 ACTUAL 850 Thousand 1999 PROJECTED 1.6 - 1.8 Millions 1999 ACTUAL 592 Thousand Tampa taxpayers now pay 100% of the burdensome and disastrously oversold Florida Aquarium's $6.7-million annual mortgage debt payment. Tampa taxpayers also paid an additional $1-million to subsidize the aquarium's 1999 operating budget and "keep the doors open." Indications are that taxpayers wil l be called upon to provide yet another $800 thousand "operating subsidy" in year 2000. Aquarium admission revenues in 1999 were sacrificed (i.e. reduced) to produce a "cosmetic" increase in attendance figures. Consequently, 1999 admission revenues fell $400 thousand below budget, while attendance was said to be around 13 thousand over the vastly downsized '99 "projections" -- from 1.6 - 1.8 millions originally projected to the new 579-thousand, 1999 "attendance lite" projections. The PR trick here, of course, is for Aquarium officials to distract the public and media from the Aquarium's continuing abysmmal performance by intentionally issuing low attendance projections and subsequently "beating" them. This creates a false impression that an attendance renaissance is underway -- it isn't. In 1999, Tampa taxpayers actually paid direct cash operating subsidies, over and above total Aquarium revenues, of at least $13.00* for each and every one of the Florida Aquarium's 592-thousand visitors. (*$7.7M '99 subsidy divided by 592 thousand visitors = $13.00) Now, a clearly PR'd , fevered and understandably anonymous St. Petersburg Times "Staff" writer implies that Tampa's "Charlie The Tuna" of taxpayer fina nced aquariums is somehow successful; that it miraculously produced an "operating profit" of $10,000 after receiving an additional 1999 operating subsidy of $1,000,000 cash? I wonder where the Times "Staff" writer learned his/her math? STORY 10.15.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Egregious Prosecutorial Excess! Government Prosecutors Seek To Pit Husband Against Wife In Tactic Common To Old Soviet KGB. STORY 10.15.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DUELING CHECKBOOK$ TAMPA & HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY GOVERNMENT$' $KYROCKETING BUDGET$! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Mayor Dick Greco's Tampa City budget has exploded 48%in only 5 years... * Tampa's staggering $585,000,000 Year 2000 budget represents a 14% increase over an already inflated 1999 city budget... * Tampa city bureaucrats' internal political $lush fund now exceeds one-quarter billion dollars. * The combined '99-'2000 Hillsborough county ($2,200,000,000+[$2.2 billions]) and Tampa city ($585,000,000[$585 millions]) budgets equal an incomprehensible local governance cost approaching $3,000,000,000 ($3 billions) per yearin a county with a combined, total population of fewer than 1 million people. STORY 10.9.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GOODBYE BURBS? HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY's MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR CENTRAL PLANNING BUREAUCRACY PAYS $290,000+ TO CONTROVERSIAL OUTSIDER AND SOCIAL TINKER, ATTORNEY ROBERT FREILICH, TO PROVIDE "POLITICAL COVER" AND DEFLECT LOCAL CRITICISM FROM THEIR SCHEME TO IMPOSE DRACONIAN REGULATION AND RESTRICTIONS ON NON-URBAN [i.e. SUBURBAN] RESIDENTIAL CHOICE. STORY 10.7.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ OFFICIALS ABANDON RULE OF LAW AS LYNCH MOB MENTALITY INFECTS COUNTY GOVERNMENT. HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY'S ILLEGAL AND IMMORAL "BULLY JUSTICE" ENCOURAGES TYRANNY AND THREATENS FREEDOM! County Politicos, The School Board, The Tampa Tribune And State Officials Contrive To Abridge The Constitutional Rights Of Legitimate Adult Book And Movie Store Owners. STORY 9.30.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A TAMPA BAY OLYMPICS SCANDAL ALREADY? Have Public Funds Been Improperly Diverted To Support The Speculative And Highly Controversial Florida 2012 Olympics? Hillsborough County Commissioner Chris Hart Demands Some Answers. STORY 9.29.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transfer interrupted! LOR="#FFFF00" > BILL POE WAS RIGHT! GLAZER LAWSUIT AGAINST OWN BUCS FANS DEMONSTRATES THE FOLLY OF TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZED PROFESSIONAL SPORTS AND THE MYTH OF A "COMMUNITY STADIUM." STORY 9.29.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MORE URBAN SPRAWL PSYCHO-BABBLE! (GOVERNMENT'S PHONY DEMON DU JOUR) RESIDENTS CONTINUE TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN FLIGHT FROM TAMPA'S ANACHRONISTIC, OUTMODED, CENTRAL DOWNTOWN AS SOCIAL TINKERS AND NOSTALGIA MAVENS IN HILLSBOR OUGH COUNTY'S ELITIST CENTRAL PLANNING BUREAUCRACY CONSPIRE AGAINST RESIDENTIAL CHOICE AND ASPIRING SUBURBANITES. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In a truly Orwellian quote more appropriate to the Unabomber Manifesto, and one that perfectly exposes the coercive nature and reality-disconnect of government central planners in general, senior planning manager Lorraine Duffy of The Hillsborough county planning bureaucracy proudly proclaims: "The Future Is The Past." STORY 9.24.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello Taaammpa! Local Political Class Welcomes New Mega-Bureaucrat To The Public "Trough." Recently Fired 15 Year Tallahassee Environment Bureaucrat Lands Cushy New Job And Raise ($94,500 Salary) In Cash Flush ($2.2 Billion Dollar Budget) Hillsbo rough County Government. STORY 9.17.99 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transfer interrupted! AME="hit"> Newly Unsealed 511 Page Report Terms Vince Foster's"Suicide" A "Professional Hit." STORY 9.15.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WACO INVESTIGATORS... Federal BATF Agents Fabricated "Bogus Drug Charges" Against Branch Davidians To Gain Illegal Training, Support and Materiel From Elite Military Units For Deadly Raid Against U.S. Civilians. STO> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transfer interrupted! > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE "TALLAHASSEE" DISEASE -- POLITICAL ARROGANCE AND A LUST FOR POWER . THROW THESE RASCALS OUT! Jim Hargrett W.D. Childers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ State senators Jim Hargrett (D-Tampa) and W.D. Childers (R- Pensacola) seek to slither through loopholes to avoid overwhelming 77% Term Limits mandate by Florida voters. Shame on you, senators! STORY 9.14.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tampa's Forrestal "Cheerleaders" Break Word On Carrier Project... St. Petersburg Times Gets It Right: A Taxpayer Funded Forrestal Won't Float. STORY 9.13.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ U.S. House Votes To End Draft Registration... America's Military "Morph" Into Virtual "Mercenary" Units. STORY1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STORY2 9.10.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Orlando Says "No" To Light Rail! Tampa Tribune silent as Orange county, Florida commissioners vote down financing light rail. First Miami and now Orange county -- guess who's next? STORY 9.8.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tampa's Lavish Taxpayer Funded Stadium Subsidies Plus Tax-Free Ride Make Malcolm Glazer's Buccaneers 3rd Most Valuable Football Team In The NFL... Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy; how about you? STORY 9.8.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SMILE FLORIDA DRIVERS! THE U.S. SECRET SERVICE HAS YOUR PHOTO! Despite Florida's specific Constitutional "Right To Privacy Amendment," newly released documents directly link U.S. Secret Service to purchase of Florida drivers license photos and "other driver data for use in a prototype National Surveillance and "Tax Collection Enhancement" database. STORY 9.8.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Waco And The FBI Guest Comment By: James W. Walter Jr. COMMENT 9.5.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tampa's Elitist Pro Stadium, Pro Aquarium, Pro Convention Center, Pro Cruise Terminal Tax And Spend Tribune Editorial Staff Display Logic-Disconnect In Mean Spirited Cunningly Crafted Editorial Attack On Owners Of Traditional "Yard Roaming"Cats. STORY 8.27.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tampa Tribune Pushes A Tax Free Ride For Its Sports Mogul Business Associates A Biased And Clearly Frustrated Editorial Staff At The Tampa Tribune Lashes Out At Virtually Everyone In An Irresponsible And Self-Serving Editorial Display Of The Strong Resentment And Controversy That Continues To Surround Tampa's Taxpayer Subsidized Professional Sports Franchises. 8.24.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POLITICALS "FRET" AND SPINMEISTERS "SPIN" AS VISITORS CONTINUE TO GIVE TAMPA' S FLORIDA AQUARIUM THE COLD SHOULDER... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "UNDERWATER" FROM DAY-ONE AND VASTLY OVERSOLD TO TAXPAYERS BY ITS ORIGINAL SPONSORS AND LOCAL MEDIA, AQUARIUM ATTENDANCE HAS ONCE AGAIN FALLEN BELOW PROJECTIONS DURING THE CRITICAL SUMMER HOLIDAY SEASON -- JULY AND AUGUST. OFFICIALS CONCEDE PRIVATELY THAT THE MASSIVELY TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZED FACILITY WILL RECEIVE FEWER VISITORS THIS YEAR THAN LAST AND INCREASED TAXPAYERS SUBSIDIES WILL BE REQUIRED TO KEEP THE AQUARIUM AFLOAT. STORY 8.21.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Another Politically Motivated "Stealth" Project? Citizens Never Voted For It! Taxpayers Finance A Whopping 96% Of Construction Costs For A Lavish $6MM "Community Center" In Tampa's Suitcase City -- Project To Be Subsidized By County Taxpayers For The Next 20 Years! STORY 8.1.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NO CONFIDENCE! MIAMI VOTERS CRUSH CENTRAL PLANNERS' COSTLY OBSESSION WITH FAILED LIGHT RAIL... DISGUSTED MIAMI TAXPAYERS KILL LIGHT RAIL EXPANSION TAX IN MASSIVE NO CONFIDENCE VOTE... (67.5% TO 32.5%) "It hasn't worked, everyone must pay but no one wants to ride..." STORY 7.30.99 The "Bottomless Pit" Of Taxpayer $ubsidized $ports! Tampa's Sports Moguls Seek To Avoid Tax Bills... Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Lightning will fight paying local property taxes. STORY 7.28.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sports Mania & Corporate Welfare In Tampa -- Feeding From The Public Trough; The Party Never Ends! Taxpayers Pay The Bill For $teinbrenner's Legends Field Cleanup. STORY 7.28.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EXPOSED!YET ANOTHER SORDID FEEDING FRENZY AT THE TAMPA PORT AUTHORITY'$ LAVISH "CORPORATE WELFARE" TROUGH! JUDGE ORDERS HALT TO $2,500,000.00 IN ANNUAL TAXPAYER FINANCED PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR THE TAMPA PORT AUTHORITY'$ PRIVILEGED, TAXPAYER SUBSIDIZED CO MMERCIAL TENANT$. TAMPA PORTACRAT$ VOW TO FIGHT JUDGE'S RULING WITH TAXPAYERS' MONEY! STORY 7.20.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Tampa Tribune Plumbs New Depths Of Editorial Sophistry And Arrogance... Another Boring And Predictably Vacuous Light-Rail "Advertorial"From The Tribune's Editorial Wonks... Glib Trib's Orwellian Apologia For Light Rail: "A new report by the Free Congress Foundation correctly notes that evaluating transit [rail] by counting trips it can never compete for is as misleading as ``measuring how much orange juice you can get from a bushel of mixed fruit, only a portion of which is oranges. The fraction will always be small, but the problem is the question, not the answer.'' Once again, the Tribune Editorial Board has demonstrated its preference for rhetoric and rail advocacy over fair and objective analysis -- the same disturbing tendancy it has previously demonstrated in its strident and unwavering cheerleading for an unbroken string of Taxpayer financed disasters: The Tampa Convention Center, Florida Aquarium, Olympics, The Joe Chillura/ Raymond James Stadium, Ice Palace, Legends Field, Desalination, The "Socialist Suites" Downtown Convention Center Hotel, Union Station renovation, the Tampa Port Authority etc. Here is new and important light rail information that the Tribune purposefully ignored. After studying 12 of the Nation's existing light rail systems and their own local experience, an Orange County California Grand Jury this past May (1999) made these highly critical light-rail "Findings" and "Recommendations."(CLICK HERE) For "Whom" is the Tribune shilling and "Why?" 7.16.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY LEGAL SYSTEM INDULGES COPS UNSEEMLY LUST FOR VENGEANCE Tampa Cops And Prosecutors Bully And Destroy A Weak And Powerless Bernice Bowen -- But What About The Simple Notion Of Justice? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STORY 7.9.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA GRAND JURY FINDS THAT LIGHT RAIL MASS TRANSIT IS A NATIONALLY FAILED AND CONSISTENTLY OVERSOLD TRANSPORTATION DISASTER! Grand Jury Instructs Public Officials And Regional Central Planners To Stop "Cheerleading" And Provide The Public With Accurate And Objective Information Concerning Light Rail's Failed History. STORY 6.22.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BRAVO COMMISSIONERS!! Tampa's Anachronistic, Self-Serving Media And Political Sycophants Fume As Commissioners Hold Firm ( Sort Of ) For Voter Referendum On 1-Cent "Pothole" Gas Tax... STORY 5.20.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Asset Forfeiture Spawning A Predatory Inquisition Mentality... STORY & PETITION 5.15.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Corporate Welfare And Sports Mania Continue To Suck(er) Tampa Bay Taxpayers Into Financial "Black Holes..." A Massive 34% Plunge In Devil Ray's Attendance Sends Owner Vince Naimoli Scurrying To Government And "Community Leaders" For A$$i$tance. STORY 5.14.99 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RAIL DE-RAILED BY COMMISSIONERS! Thank You Commissioners Hart, Frank, Storms & Norman! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Personal Choice In Private Transportation Proponents Win Critical Skirmish With Hillsborough County Florida's Rail Obsessed Mass Transit Central Planning Bureaucrats... Ex-County Commissioner Eddie "Choo-choo" Turanchik And The Stadium-Pandering, Self-Serving Editorial Wonks At The Tampa Tribune "bluster"As Commissioner Chris Hart Leads County Commission In Principled 4-3 Vote Against Further Squandering Of Taxpayer's Money For More Useless, Discredited Rail Studies. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The complete Tampa Bay "light-rail" story is available here at TAB, Hillsborough County's official web site supporting individual freedom and personal choice in transportation. 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