-Caveat Lector- RadTimes # 134 January, 2001 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUOTE: "With what delight must every well informed friend of mankind look forward, to the auspicious period, the dissolution of political government, of that brute engine, which has been the only perennial cause of the vices of mankind and which... has mischiefs of various sorts incorporated with its substance, and no otherwise removable than by its utter annihilation." --William Godwin, 'An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to assist RadTimes--> (See ** at end.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: --------------- --D.C. Police Prepare for Protests at Inauguration --Thousands Will Protest at Bush's Inauguration in D.C. --Voter March --Civil rights leader calls for protest --Liberal, Socialist Protestors to Target Bush Inauguration --Alexander Cockburn's 12/14 column Linked stories: *Cybercrime pact steps on privacy, groups say *Terrorism concerns may unleash CIA *Carnivore praised, criticized in 'independent review' *Resistance Grows to Holiday Buying Blitz *Now what? *Supreme Court to democracy: Drop dead *Planned Community Aimed at Gun Enthusiasts *Corporate Democracy; Civic Disrespect *Florida Dispatch: 36 Days in the Life of a Recount Observer *Public Support Grows for Drug Decriminalization *Internet threatened by regulation ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Begin stories: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D.C. Police Prepare for Protests at Inauguration by John Drake Published on Wednesday, December 13, 2000 in the Washington Times Anti-establishment activists and liberals are planning to flood the District with massive protests on Inauguration Day, prompting city police to brace for the deluge with an unprecedented level of security. Many of the groups that demonstrated against the World Bank here in April intend to return to the District with their puppets and mantras, regardless of who takes the presidential oath of office on Jan. 20. And supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore, led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, are planning a "civil rights explosion" if Republican George W. Bush is officially named the winner. "We're not planning civil disobedience, but we are planning to fill the streets of Washington with thousands of people," said Brian Becker, co- director of the New York-based International Action Center, which is coordinating the protests. Meanwhile, law enforcement officials said they are preparing on an even greater scale than they did in April for the anti-World Bank/ International Monetary Fund protests. "What we would hope is that any demonstrations that are planned are peaceful," said Metropolitan Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey. "We'll be as gentle or as forceful as we need to be, and play the situation out based on what they do." "We have to be prepared for anything that may occur. It will not be [the police department] that creates the problem, but we will resolve it," he added. Chief Ramsey will mobilize the entire Metropolitan Police Department for the event, and he has invoked "mutual aid" agreements with police in surrounding counties to increase staffing. As many as 950 officers from Fairfax, Montgomery, Arlington and Prince George's counties and Alexandria will be federally deputized so they can enforce D.C. laws, officials said. Federal police agencies will be out in force, and other agencies - such as the FBI, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - will be on standby for major incidents. Publicly, law enforcement officials said they do not anticipate anything out of the ordinary, even if anti-establishment protesters stage large demonstrations. But the closest presidential race in history has produced unusually intense partisan tensions, and the new anti-establishment movement could attract many more demonstrators. For those reasons, police forces are "anticipating problems" among anti-establishment protesters and partisans disappointed at their candidate's loss, several officials told The Washington Times. "The uncertainty of the election process, regardless of who wins, makes us think they will use the inauguration to show their displeasure one way or the other," a law enforcement official told The Times. Gore supporters have hinted they will demonstrate if the U.S. Supreme Court, which is considering the propriety of ballot recounts in Florida, rules in favor of Mr. Bush, essentially ensuring his victory. "There will be nonviolent, disciplined protests if the scheme to disenfranchise voters is successful," Mr. Jackson told The Times yesterday. "We can afford to lose an election in democracy, but you cannot afford to lose your franchise," he said. "And Americans will not take well, and should not take well, to be disenfranchised because of these very sinister schemes in Florida." Asked if he would encourage sit-ins, Mr. Jackson said, "No, we're not there yet." The assortment of groups working under the International Action Center are bipartisan protesters - they will demonstrate if Mr. Bush or Mr. Gore wins, Mr. Becker said. "It will be a loud protest, we think, and very visible," he said. However, "if [Mr.] Bush wins, there will be thousands, perhaps more, of people from unions and civil rights organizations who will want to join us," he added. Mr. Becker stressed that his organization and groups working with it do not plan to shut down the inauguration. But they will not abide by what activists derisively call "protest pits," fenced-in areas usually far from the official public event. "We're not going to go for that," Mr. Becker said. "It would be very much in the interests of police to do the right thing, and that is to allow us to stage a spirited but legal and orderly protest close to the inaugural route, even if it's an 'inconvenience,' rather than trying to marginalize us or shut us down." Local and federal law enforcement agencies have been meeting for months about security and shared intelligence on groups that could disrupt the inauguration, officials said. "The law enforcement partnership is aware and cognizant of events, being fully briefed and will be that much more aware of their duty," a federal official said. D.C. police had intelligence as far back as two or three months ago that anti-establishment activists were planning Inauguration Day protests, Chief Ramsey said. Despite the promises by protesters not to break the law or commit violence, Chief Ramsey has not forgotten how events played out in April, when city police arrested hundreds of activists blocking streets. "My experience with these folks is that they tend not to do what they say," he said ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thousands Will Protest at Bush's Inauguration in D.C. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACT: Larry Holmes, Brian Becker DECEMBER 13, 2000 (212) 633-6646 - New York Thousands Will Protest at Bush's Inauguration in D.C. on January 20th Parallel Action in San Francisco at 12 noon at the Civic Center Plaza Bush's Election is a result of the Lynching of the Black Vote in Florida "Governor Death" does not have a mandate to push his pro-rich, anti-poor, racist policies On Saturday January 20th, tens of thousands of people including many living in Washington, D.C. along with many from all around the country will be protesting the inauguration of George W. Bush. The protest will address what amounts to the racist conspiracy on the part of the rightwing U.S. Supreme Court, the Bush Dynasty and the Florida legislature to steal the election by suppressing mainly the African American vote in Florida. Al Gore didn't do a thing to right the wrong done to Florida's Black voters. The counter-inaugural demonstration was initiated prior to! the outcome of the election was known. Both Bush and Gore support the death penalty, agreed on the anti-poor destruction of welfare. They supported NAFTA, upheld the genocidal sanctions on Iraq, the U.S. Navy bombing of Vieques, the growing Pentagon intervention in Colombia and Israeli repression of Palestinians. Now that Bush will be President and assumes office on the basis of a racist conspiracy to disenfranchise thousands of African-American voters in Florida, the January 20th demonstration will focus its demands on the planned Bush presidency. Currently, organizers are planning to bring busloads of demonstrators from over 30 states, including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware , Maryland, Vermont, Maine Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Ohio, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Arkansas, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, ! Georgia, Florida, and Texas. Bush, the politicians in Washington D.C., and all the corporate interests that run the government behind the scenes, must know that the people view this new presidency as illegitimate and as a result, the people are mad as hell. This is especially true for the anti-globalization movement, student groups, labor unions, civil rights and community activists, women's organizations, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups. A major goal of the January 20th protest is to let Bush know from the beginning that he does not have a mandate to continue his pro-rich, anti-poor policies on a national level. Around the world, Bush is known as "Governor Death" because more people have been executed in Texas under his watch than in the other 49 states combined. The January protest will demand an end to the death penalty. The protest will also be calling for a new trial for world-renowned political activist and writer Mumia Abu-Jamal, currently on death row in Pennsylvania. The protest will demand that government polices that have resulted in alarming numbers of African Americans and Latinos being incarcerated be reversed. Other issues that protesters will be raising at the inauguration include demands to stop U.S. support for the repression of the Palestinian people; an end to "Plan Columbia"; the U.S. navy get out of Vieques; the diversion of money from the Pentagon to invest in social needs especially healthcare, drug rehabilitation and housing; jobs and schools, not prisons; and an end to globalization because it is concentrating more wealth and power into fewer hands while spreading misery, insecurity, poverty and powerlessness across the planet. The International Action Center, along with more than 300 other organizations, is doing grassroots organizing that will ! make the January 20th protest huge and effective. Legal staff for the January 20th protest is in negotiations with the various police agencies in Washington D.C. to secure permits for the protest where necessary. Protest organizers are also insisting that they will uphold their first amendment right to protest. They are part of a class action lawsuit stemming from Washington DC protests last April that charges the Washington, D.C. police with violating the 1st and 4th amendment rights of protesters during anti-IMF demonstrations. Amongst the illegal measures that the Washington, D.C. police are engaged in, and are currently being sued in civil court over, are pre-demonstration raids on the offices of organizers, preventive arrests of hundreds of protesters for the sole purpose of interfering with their right to demonstrate and arbitrarily using tear gas and brutality against peaceful demonstrators. Protesters will be gathering at 14th Street NW & Pennsylvania Avenue at 10am. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Voter March <http://www.votermarch.org/> "Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the law." John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Dissent Opinion on Florida Vote Recount. "The court, along partisan and ideological lines, voted to run out the clock on the election," said a senior adviser who pointed out that the court had about two weeks to give the Florida Supreme Court guidance on the matter and never did. "It's very clear a partisan five-vote majority constructed a way to hand the election to George Bush." "The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage..." Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 21, Paragraph 3, adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948. WHY THE MILLION VOTER MARCH ? The events in this Presidential Election and particularly in Florida are an expose of the inadequacies of our election process. Our nation is a republic and the model of democracy in the free world. The linchpin of a democracy is the process by which we select our leaders. The right to vote is one of our foremost constitutionally guaranteed rights as citizens of this nation. It is now more clear than ever that election reform is needed. Irrespective of the outcome of this election debacle, we urge all of you to join the MILLION VOTER MARCH for voter rights and election reform. WHAT IS THE PLATFORM OF THE MILLION VOTER MARCHES? The MILLION VOTER MARCHES are for voter rights and election reform. THE platform is for the enactment of extensive and unprecedented election and ballot reform. Foremost on the list will be the abolition or substantial revision of the archaic electoral college. Other important issues are ensuring that ballots are user friendly, ensuring that every vote is counted fairly and accurately, eliminating the voter apathy that results in half of the eligible voters not voting, providing more opportunities for third parties, eliminating the disenfranchisement of individuals and campaign finance reform. DECEMBER 15, 2000, THE UNITED NATIONS VOTER MARCH: The first of our National Marches, will be held on Friday, December 15, 2000, Bill of Rights Day and Human Rights Week, @ 3 pm to 5 pm, in New York City, at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Park, at 47th Street and First Avenue, across from the United Nations, where the General Assembly is meeting that day. White House Proclamation on Human Rights Day, Bill of Rights Day and Human Rights Week. Speakers will include U.S. Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and U.S. Congressman Gerald Nadler. Saturday, January 20, 2001, THE INAUGURAL VOTER MARCH: On the date of the Presidential Inauguration, we will hold the Inaugural Voter March in Washington, DC. We will join the Inauguration Parade as voters in groups of less than 20 with our protest banners and express our displeasure. Chartered buses will be bringing voters from various locations throughout the United States to Washington, DC. You will be able to purchase your confirmed round trip tickets over the internet. SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2001, THE MILLION VOTER MARCH: The Million Voter March will be held on Sunday, May 6, 2001, in Washington, DC. The Million Voter March is expected to be the most massive demonstration in Washington, DC in the history of our nation. While the primary focus of the march is to let the people be heard, the march will also include prominent speakers and leading entertainment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Civil rights leader calls for protest THURSDAY DECEMBER 14 2000 BY DAMIAN WHITWORTH JESSE JACKSON, the civil rights leader, called for massive non-violent demonstrations yesterday against the US Supreme Court ruling that handed George W. Bush the presidency. The black leader, who spoke to Al Gore daily during the battle over Florida, had said that if the court ruled against the Vice-President it would "create a civil rights explosion". "People will not surrender to this tyranny. We will fight back," he said. Often the loudest and most incendiary voice in the dispute, Mr Jackson provided the most vivid evidence yesterday of polarisation in the country. "In Third World countries when democratically cast votes are not counted or the person who most likely lost wins in a highly questionable manner, we usually refer to that as a coup d'etat," he said. "I see this decision as a potential threat to our democracy and potentially destabilising to our democratic institutions. I see it as undermining the legitimacy of a President Bush." Mr Jackson, who had led calls for an investigation into allegations that thousands of blacks were impeded from voting Democrat in Florida, had argued that Mr Gore should not concede until the last legal option was exhausted. He accused Mr Bush of stealing the election and cautioned that he would mobilise protests against him. "We will take to the streets, we will delegitimise Bush, discredit him, do whatever it takes, but never accept him," he said, adding that the holiday in honour of Martin Luther King, five days before the inauguration on January 20, should be marked by street demonstrations. "We will not surrender our franchise," he said. Mr Jackson has also pledged that his Rainbow/Push coalition would challenge the election by obtaining the disputed ballots through Florida's open records law and count the votes themselves. "We will know before January 20 that Gore got most of the votes," he said. Resentment looked certain to linger longest in Florida, where many will remain convinced that Mr Gore was deprived of a rightful victory. "I saw hundreds of votes not counted from Miami-Dade," Ion Sancho, a Leon County election supervisor in charge of recounting ballots from Leon and Miami-Dade counties before the count was suspended on Saturday, said. "We examined 4,000 of those undervotes and I'm convinced we had a massive failure in the punch-card ballot system. I believe we have not had an accurate count of the vote in the state of Florida." Democrat leaders refused to condemn Mr Jackson's words directly, angering Republicans. "Anyone in a position of leadership in this country would have to repudiate remarks like that," a spokeswoman for Dick Armey, the House majority leader, said. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberal, Socialist Protestors to Target Bush Inauguration <http://www.townhall.com/news/politics/200012/POL20001213o.shtml> (CNSNews.com) - More than 250 activist organizations have endorsed a movement to protest the presidential inauguration Jan. 20, according to documents posted on the International Action Center's Internet site. Police in Washington, D.C. are prepared for the event, promising to deputize nearly 1,000 officers from surrounding counties so that extra law personnel might be on hand to quash any violent eruptions. Metropolitan Police Chief Charles Ramsey did not return a telephone call to comment on the specifics of the planned operation, but a department spokesperson indicated that federal agencies such as the FBI would be on alert as the demonstrations unfold. "The recent election highlighted that racist disenfranchisement of voters is a routine factor in U.S. politics. We will protest against all manifestations of racism, racial profiling, and disenfranchisement," said a statement from the International Action Center, a New York-based activist organization whose members have spent the past days soliciting the aid of interest groups for the planned inaugural protest. Groups that have endorsed the event include numerous socialist organizations, like the Workers World Party, whose members work to "defend Socialist Cuba," the Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America, the Socialist Party of Greater Philadelphia, and the Metro D.C. Committee of Correspondence, which claims it fights "for Democracy and Socialism." Others sanctioning the International Activist Center demonstration include several organizations opposed to the death penalty, in favor of homosexual rights, and in support of black civil liberties. "We want our just inheritance," claimed one group involved in planning the protest, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. "[We want] the trillions of dollars due us for the labor of our ancestors who worked for hundreds of years without pay. Reparations are needed to repair the wrongs, injury, and damage done to us by the U.S. federal and state governments." Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson has also indicated he and his followers will protest the election outcome during the Martin Luther King holiday, which coincides with inaugural night events. Never before in history, said Wendy Wright, director of communications for Concerned Women for America, have inaugural demonstrations included such divisive protests that are aimed more at "tainting the next four years of the presidency" than conveying a peaceful message. "The purpose of this protest is not to get a message across, but rather to de-legitimize the president," Wright said. "Sometimes people can overplay their hand. The country ... just wants to go forward. So a message like this, that's hate-filled ... will turn most Americans away." Wright also wondered how U.S. Park Police will react to the protestors. During Bill Clinton's presidential inauguration, according to Wright, pro-lifers were almost prevented from rallying near the parade route even though they had obtained a permit to gather. The U.S. Supreme Court intervened at the request of the anti-abortion demonstrators, Wright said, allowing the rally to be held and ruling that the Park Police had acted illegally by rescinding the permit. "Will they have the same roadblocks? It will be curious to see if [Park Police] will handle the liberal organizations the same way they handled the conservative organizations," she said. John Samples, director of the Center for Representative Government at the Cato Institute said Vice President Al Gore could stop the divisive protests, but wondered whether Gore's frustration out of losing by such a narrow margin will allow him to intervene. "We'll know a lot [Wednesday night] by the tone of his speech and what the general outlook is. He basically has to go on the air and read his obituary. I honestly don't know ... if he can get over his general disappointment about this" and adopt a conciliatory tone that serves to unite the country. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Cockburn's 12/14 column <http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=10367> 12.14.00 - On the one hand, the calls for "closure," "finality" and national unity. On the other, Justice John Paul Stevens' bitter summation: "in the interests of finality, however, the majority (of the U.S. Supreme Court) effectively orders the disenfranchisement of an unknown number of voters whose ballots reveal their intent, and are therefore legal votes under (Florida) state law, but were for some reason rejected by the ballot-counting machines ... Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the law." Back in the 1980s, we radicals used to write about "demonstration elections," conducted in Central American countries such as El Salvador at the instigation of the U.S. government and micromanaged by the CIA. After the money was appropriately spread around, the opposition's more tenacious and principled leaders were either butchered by death squads or driven underground, and the unruly poor thoroughly intimidated, the election ritual would take place amid complacent orations about the democratic way from North American commentators. We've just had a peaceful and non-lethal version of these "demonstration elections" in the state of Florida, and no calls for closure will erase that national disgrace, least of all in the minds of those who were denied their democratic rights. Don't forget, beyond those who made it to the polls in Florida, there were those denied even the dubious benefits of that access. Beyond the obsession about defiant punch card machines, obstacle course ballots, and pregnant or hanging chads, there are more serious issues that, in the miles of print written about the election in Florida, have received barely a mention: the systematic intimidation of poor people, blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and the disabled. Try this story detailed by Ron Davis of Miami-Dade County. "Our family always votes together. This year, it was my turn to drive. After work, my wife Lisa and I borrowed a van from a friend and picked up my brother, my parents and my uncle and aunt. About a block away from the polling place, we were pulled over by a county sheriff. He looked in the van and asked me if I had a chauffeur's license. I said, this is my family, and we're going to vote. He said, 'You can't take all those people to the polling place without a license. Go home, and I won't write you a ticket.' I was tired of arguing. We went home, and all tried to vote later. But it was too late." Or how about this, from Dave Crawford of Broward County: "I showed up at the polling place with my 5-year-old daughter. I was stopped at the door by an election official. He asked me my name. I told him. He said, 'Son, we've got a problem. You're not allowed to vote.' I asked him what the hell he was talking about. He said, 'Son, says here you're a convict. Convicts can't vote.' He had this list in his hand. And I told him that I'd never even been arrested in my life. I handed him my voter ID card. He just shook his head, smiled and pointed at a list. He never showed me my name. My daughter began to cry, and I left in disgust." On Nov. 7, across Florida, blacks and Hispanics turned out to vote in record numbers. But tens of thousands of black voters were turned away from the polls by hostile election workers who demanded voter ID cards, even though those weren't required from white voters. Police set up roadblocks in black precincts around Tallahassee. Polls in black precincts closed early, often with dozens of voters waiting in line. Other polls were moved from their original locations without notice. Dozen of black college students who had registered this summer weren't permitted to vote. In Duval County, a Republican stronghold, about 25,000 votes were tossed out by the canvassing board. More than 17,000 of those came from black precincts. To top it off, according to numerous accounts, election workers regularly demeaned as being "dumb and retarded" those voters who asked for help. Throughout Florida, more than 187,000 votes were dismissed, more than half of them from black precincts. There should be no closure on these outrages, even though it is hard to imagine George W. Bush's Justice Department exerting itself in this regard. Nor should there be closure on what Justice Stevens stigmatized as the refusal, endorsed by the 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court majority, to recognize the clear voting intentions of those who did managed to gain access to Florida's dubious voting machines. The saga of shenanigans in Florida has been a bracing civic education, not least because we have learned to appreciate yet again that judges' politics weigh far more strongly upon their opinion-forming faculties than a thousand precedents in American constitutional law. A strict constructionist on states' rights like Justice Scalia can become a federalist overnight, when the chips are down. It is true that little in the way of substantive issues separated Bush from Gore. That is surely why the Florida imbroglio has been so mostly untroubling. Never has there been greater fuss over smaller stakes until we come to Justice Stevens' bottom line. If this has been a constitutional crisis, the fates gave us the right time to have one. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linked stories: ******************** Cybercrime pact steps on privacy, groups say <http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/12/14/cybercrime.reut/index.html> The Global Internet Liberty Campaign, a coalition of 30 civil-liberties groups, blasted a proposed computer-crime treaty, saying it favors law enforcement at the expense of individual privacy. (12/15/00) ******************** Terrorism concerns may unleash CIA <http://www.washingtonpost.com:80/wp-dyn/articles/A7529-2000Dec14.html> Concerns over terrorism are leading to calls for questionable new tactics, including restrictions that prevent the CIA from recruiting informants who have committed such abuses as torture. ******************** Carnivore praised, criticized in 'independent review' <http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001214/tc/carnivore_dc_2.html> A controversial group of government-approved researchers from the Illinois Institute of Technology concluded their report on the FBI's Carnivore e-mail snooping system with praise for the intrusive technology. Under fire from critics, they added recommendations for safeguards. (12/15/00) ******************** Resistance Grows to Holiday Buying Blitz <http://www.eugeneweekly.com/coverstory.html> What the Grinch found out the hard way, people around the country and especially in Eugene are realizing in growing numbers. Shop 'til you drop isn't good for yourself, society or the planet. (12-14-00) ******************** Now what? <http://bf.salon.com/XBRT0726BF963B0BF268> Bianca Jagger, Todd Gitlin, David Horowitz, Andrew Sullivan and other Salon panelists respond to the speeches by Vice President Al Gore and President-elect George W. Bush. ******************** Supreme Court to democracy: Drop dead <http://bf.salon.com/XBRT0726BF903B0BF268> With a single rash, partisan act, the high court has tainted the Bush presidency, besmirched its own reputation and soiled our nation's proudest legacy. ******************** Planned Community Aimed at Gun Enthusiasts <http://www.jointogether.org/jtodirect.jtml?U=83952&O=265395> A new development of one-acre home sites in Pahrump, Nev. is being designed especially for gun enthusiasts, featuring 12 shooting ranges, a town armory and a training course. ******************** Corporate Democracy; Civic Disrespect <http://www.epn.org/whatsnew/full_cite/718.html> by James K. Galbraith With the events of late in the year 2000, the United States left behind constitutional republicanism, and turned to a different form of government. It is not, however, a new form. It is rather, a transplant, highly familiar from a different arena of advanced capitalism. ******************** Florida Dispatch: 36 Days in the Life of a Recount Observer <http://www.prospect.org/webarchives/00-12/meyer-s1214.html> The ecstasy and agony of life as a legal strategist during the battle over Florida. ******************** Public Support Grows for Drug Decriminalization <http://www.jointogether.org/jtodirect.jtml?U=83952&O=265476> Public support for the U.S. anti-drug campaign is waning, as more people put their support behind decriminalization. ******************** Internet threatened by regulation <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60350-2000Dec28.html> The once-free online world, which operated under government radar, is threatened by a host of legislation on privacy, taxation and copyright. (12/29/00) ******************** ====================================================== "Anarchy doesn't mean out of control. 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