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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[CTRL] Fwd: The Drug War Intensifies


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

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

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

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

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

Really?

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

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

Really?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

Étienne de la Boétie:  A Review
by Robert Klassen

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[CTRL] Ocean Cycle Changes U.S. Rainfall

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

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[CTRL] State Murderess, Joan Claybrook


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Baby Killer
by Jeff Elkins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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


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

2001-05-17 Thread kl

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

> Well then, in the name of tolerance, you surely can't object to the White
> House also allowing on the State Floor:
>
> - Muslims laying down prayer rugs and praying towards Mecca;
>
> - Buddhists in orange robes twirling prayer wheels and chanting;

Ok with me
>
> - followers of Santeria & Voudoun making animal sacrifices and dancing
> until their gods 'mount' them;

Violates animal cruelty laws in just about every state I know of.
>
> - Satanists making human sacrifices;

Murder is illegal
>
> - any flavor of pagans wishing to perform their own rites

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

Has anyone passed a law preventing them from doing so?
>
> June

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spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive
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Re: [CTRL] White House: No-pray zone - Is this USA?

2001-05-18 Thread kl

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

> The point the person forwarding the article was making was how 'terrible'
> it was that a group wasn't allowed to publicly practice their Christian
> worship in the White House during a tour; MY point is that if the original
> poster feels Christians should be allowed to publicly display their faith
> within the White House, then ALL religions should be allowed to do so,
> too...
>
I understood your point and I agree with it.  I would prefer to allow all
religions to display their faith rather than to prevent them from doing so.
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[CTRL] Off With Their Heads

2001-05-18 Thread kl


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2001-05-18 Thread kl

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2001-05-19 Thread kl


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

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

--

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society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't
test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance,
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Re: [CTRL] White House: No-pray zone - Is this USA?

2001-05-19 Thread kl

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

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

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

2001-05-19 Thread kl

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

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

> -Caveat Lector-
>
> On Sat, 19 May 2001, Aleisha Saba wrote:
> >The eggs it is said, were at least a year old and Clinton did indeed
> >smell of brimstone.
> >
> >When he left he was carried prostrate with grief from the
> >scene.covered with egg and what appeared to be pigeon droppings?
> >
> >People cheared LONG LIVE THE PIGEONS AND EGGS>
>
> Man, Aleisha...why don't you share those drugs you're taking with the
> rest of us?!
>
> Heavy psychotropic medication can be the only explanation for what you
> claim to have seen.
>
> All the news images I saw, showed that the crowd was shocked and some
> frightened by the incident...
>
> And far from being carried prostrate from the scene in a state of shock,
> they just slipped off his soiled jacket and he went on to shake hands with
> the crowd in shirtsleeves...
>
>
>
> June
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Re: [CTRL] White House: No-pray zone - Is this USA?

2001-05-21 Thread kl

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

>
> Go through the archives...

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

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

2001-05-22 Thread kl

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

> Just kidding! I am sure it was just a software glitch.  You know the
> one~~it has  a tendency to do this when the post leans too far to the
> right. Other things can activate it also.
>
The one that really mystifies me is the one that edits out a portion of a
post and sends the rest on to the list!
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rave, exaggerating weaknesses, magnifying error, viewing with alarm.  So
it has been from the beginning; and so it will be throughout time.  The
framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do.  They
too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence
of orthodoxy and standardized thought.  They weighed the compulsions
for the restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty.
They chose liberty.~~ Justice William O. Douglas

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

2001-05-23 Thread kl

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

This looks like SERIOUSLY bad legislation, folks!

Kent

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

Alan Korwin wrote:

(Please see our NEW ADDRESS at end of report)

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

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

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

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

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

[CTRL] (Fwd) Ashcroft Reverses Reno

2001-05-23 Thread kl

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

--- Forwarded message follows ---

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


--- End of forwarded message ---

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law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their
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Re: [CTRL] [Spy News] Israeli agents spread more poisoned chocolates (fwd)

2001-05-24 Thread kl

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

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

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

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

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Re: [CTRL] Fw: Oprah morphs into Rosie

2001-05-24 Thread kl


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Someone's computer has a virus.  Someone needs to fix it.  Don't open
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[CTRL] (Fwd) Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

2001-05-25 Thread kl


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--- Forwarded message follows ---

Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy

 Frederick B. Meekins - 05.25.01

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Check YOUR Computer For Virus - Urgent

2001-05-27 Thread kl

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On 27 May 2001, at 20:53, Bill Richer wrote:

> Dear friends:
>  I checked and had this virus!  Please check your computer!
>
> God Bless
>
> Bill
>

It's a hoax.

Symantec AntiVirus Research Center (SARC)
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter
SULFNBK.EXE Warning
Reported on: April 17, 2001
Last Updated on: May 15, 2001 at 05:28:25 PM PDT
The following hoax email has been reported in Brazil. The original email
is in Portuguese; it is followed by an English translation.
CAUTION: This particular email message is a hoax. The file that is
mentioned in the hoax, however, Sulfnbk.exe, is a Microsoft Windows
utility that is used to restore long file names, and like any .exe file, it
can be infected by a virus that targets .exe files.
Original Portuguese version:
Vocês  acreditam que uma amiga da lista enviou um alerta e os
procedimentos que  deveriam ser tomados para a possível detecção do
maledeto SULFNBK.EXE. e eu fui conferir só por desencargo de
consciência. Pois  é...O bichinho tava lá, escondidinho até da McAfee e
do Norton, talvez esperando  algum gatilho prá começar a trabalhar, né?
Aí vão, moçada, as orientações que  eu segui à risca e que me levaram
ao tal coisinha ruím:
1 -  Iniciar/Localizar Pastas. Digite o nome do "mardito": SULFNBK.EXE
2 - Se for  encontrado, abra o Windows Explorer, vá até a pasta onde
ele se encontra alojado  e delete-o de lá ou do próprio ambiente do
Localizar; - Não click com o botão esquerdo sobre  ele e não abra o
arquivo nem em caso de incêndio, ok?
3 - Apenas  delete o bichinho.
4 - O meu  estava em Windows/Command.
5 - O vírus  da pessoa que passou o aviso estava em Windows/Config.
Sim, o Norton  e nem o McAfee não detectou.
Não sabemos  se ele faz algum estrago na máquina, mas acho que
ninguém aqui vai querer testar  para saber, né?
Gente, sem brincadeiras, já tirei o meu  daqui
E nem  imaginava que tivesse hóspedes no PC.
Minha vacina  está super-atualizada!!!
Façam o  mesmo, ok?
Translated English version:
Do you believe that a friend of mine sent me an alert and the procedure
that we have to follow for the possible infection of SULFNBK.EXE. And I
had checked, just to make sure. An then... the file was there, hidden
even of McAfee and Norton, maybe waiting something to start work.
Well, see bellow the procedure that I followed step by step, and I found
the file:
1. Start/Find Folders. Type the file name: SULFNBK.EXE
2. If it find, open Windows Explorer, browse into the folder where the file
is and delete it. Do not click with left button on the file and do not open
it.
3. Just delete it
4. Mine was on Windows/Command
5. The virus from the person who gave the alert was on Windows/Config
Yes, Norton and McAfee do not detect it.
We do not know if it makes some damage on the machine, but I think
that anybody will not want to test it to know, will it?
Folks, this is not a fun, I delete it from my computer.
And my definitions are updated.
Do it the same, ok?
Category: Hoax
Please ignore any messages regarding this hoax and do not pass on
messages. Passing on messages about the hoax only serves to further
propagate it.

Write-up by: Patrick Martin
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the people's encrypted conversations.  An unjust government, one that
is working for itself, not the people, fears any speech it cannot
control. - Unknown

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[CTRL] (Fwd) Open Letter To John Ashcroft

2001-05-28 Thread kl

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--- Forwarded message follows ---
To: "HannityandColmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From:   "Jill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date sent:  Mon, 28 May 2001 06:22:06 -0400

Open letter to John Ashcroft
By Joseph Farah
Monday, May 28, 2001

Dear Mr. Attorney General:
I knew you would disappoint me when I agreed to support your
nomination as
attorney general. Politicians always disappoint me. But I had no idea it
would be so soon.

Your press conference last Thursday was an abomination.

You insist on executing Timothy McVeigh, come hell or high water,
June 11 
as if there is some magic in that date. You say we have to do that
because
all the evidence has now been turned over to his defense team. You say
there is nothing in the new evidence that could possibly have affected the
outcome of the trial.

You suggest we can just trust you on all that.

Well, pardon me, Mr. Attorney General, but many of us in America don't
trust politicians to do the right thing  especially when the agencies over
which they preside have been obstructing justice and obfuscating the
truth
for years.

I strongly suggest you not become a party to that process  lest you
wind
up with as much respect as your predecessor.

Let's suppose the convicted Oklahoma City bomber's defense team
doesn't see
it the same way you do. Are they just out of luck and out of time? If I
was
part of that defense team, I would be moving for a mistrial. In fact, I can
see no other way to serve justice in this case but through a retrial with
all the facts on the table.

You are not the judge, jury and executioner in this case. You are merely
the attorney general. You are exceeding your authority in this case.

You claim the documents previously withheld from the McVeigh defense
and
the American people represent "less than 1 percent" of the hundreds of
thousands of pages of evidence in the case. Big deal. Cases are not
won or
lost on the basis of the physical weight of the evidence. They are won
and
lost on the evidence itself.

Have you had time to personally review the 3,000 pages of new evidence
in
this case? If so, I would seriously question how you are performing your
other duties. If not, you have assigned these duties to underlings 
underlings who, I suggest, may well have been involved in the way this
case
was mishandled from the beginning.

"No documents created any doubt about his guilt, let alone established
his
innocence," you said.

Oh, gee, well, golly. Those are nice words. But, let's face it: You don't
know squat about this case. You haven't examined the facts. You don't
know
about the mountains of evidence your own FBI has refused to examine 
or
examined and failed to act upon.

Don't make the mistake of trusting those who erred in the past to come
clean now.

Maybe you think you are just doing the right thing "politically" by getting
rid of McVeigh. Maybe you think it will be the popular thing to do. Well,
sir, it may be. But try doing the courageous thing. Try doing the right
thing. Try to find all the culprits in the Oklahoma City bombing case.

Some of them are getting away with murder.

You say you've got the word of FBI Director Louis Freeh that the agency
"has completed its search and produced every relevant document in its
possession." I'm sure Freeh is saying that. I'm sure Freeh is eager to
see
McVeigh take the rap for this most heinous crime. I'm sure Freeh wants
to
put all this behind him. But Freeh has bungled this case. Freeh should
not
be allowed to come within a country mile of the review process.

Freeh should be under investigation for his negligence.

Did you ask anyone at the FBI why they turned away people like reporter
Jayna Davis who tried to provide evidence in the case? She was told
they
couldn't accept it because it would have to be disclosed to the defense.
It
sure sounds like the FBI made up its mind about McVeigh's guilt  and
McVeigh's guilt alone  before they ever got started investigating. In
other words, it sounds like the Justice Department found the patsy it
was
looking for and never searched for the accomplices.

I'm going to conclude by asking you a few questions I have been
chanting
like a mantra of late. I hope you can answer them. If you can't, you ought
to do everything in your power to facilitate a mistrial and retrial of
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols.

  a.. What was the role of Andy Strassmeir in the bombing? Strassmeir
was
  closely associated with McVeigh in the underworld of neo-Nazi activity
  and terrorist plans, according to witnesses, including a government
  informant. Why was he never questioned in the case while some
20,000
  other people were? Strassmeir's father is Gunther Strassmeir, Helmut
  Kohl's secretary of state, a man known as the "architect of German
  reunification." The younger Strassmeir received military intelligence
  training at Bundeswehr Academy in Hanover. He's now back in
Germany,
  reportedly living wit

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

2001-08-15 Thread kl


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [CTRL] Godwins law

2001-08-17 Thread kl


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


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

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I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go
down and meet them with baseball bats.
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[CTRL] (Fwd) Little caps for little people, big caps for Corporate Su

2001-08-19 Thread kl


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--- Forwarded message follows ---
Subject:Little caps for little people, big caps for Corporate 
Supercitizens
Date sent:  Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:21:33 -0700

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

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



Aug 18, 2001


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2001-08-21 Thread kl

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--- Forwarded message follows ---
Date sent:  Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:43:44 -0400 (EDT)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Federal workers are in a credit card
spending frenzy (and you're paying)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Eyeglasses, jewelry, and pet supplies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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[CTRL] (Fwd) Thousands leaving public school behind

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The problem was that her son asked teachers questions they couldn't answer and made them cry.

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

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

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

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

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

Mortkowitz would and did.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fogler wanted a more flexible atmosphere for his son.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

August 25, 2001

BREAKING NEWS
Please Distribute Widely

Dear Colleagues,

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

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

Stories now posted on Narco News:

-- Colombia Congress Debates Legalizing

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

-- Governors: End Drug Prohibition

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

-- Andean Parliament Calls For Legalization Summit

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

And the U.S. Ambassador's Response?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://www.narconews.com/

Stay tuned for announcements of dates and locations of the first Narco News
"Teach-Ins for América" to be held in Boston and New York in the coming
month.

To organize a teach-in in your town, city or campus, contact us by email at
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It's time!

from somewhere in a country called América,

Al Giordano
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[CTRL] (Fwd) Patent abuse, and appropriation of tradenames


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

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

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


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

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

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

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

http://ga0.org/campaign/roadless_comments



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

2001-08-26 Thread kl

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Pubdate: August 2001
Source: Reason Magazine (US)
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Author: Gene Callahan and William Anderson

THE ROOTS OF RACIAL PROFILING

Why Are Police Targeting Minorities For Traffic Stops?

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

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

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

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

More dismantling of the vehicle follows.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Practice of Racial Profiling

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

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

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

[CTRL] FW: Castaway

2001-08-27 Thread kl


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Dunno what happened to the photo.

This one is well worth opening imho

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

2001-08-31 Thread kl

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Government should end its jihad
against Indian sports team names

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2001-08-31 Thread kl

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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[CTRL] (Fwd) NM: Tom Daschle's Deadly Skeleton Close

2001-05-30 Thread kl


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[if Daschle had been a Republican, 60 Minutes and the New York
Times
would have buried him long, long ago]


Tuesday, May 29, 2001 1:34 p.m. EDT

Tom Daschle's Deadly Skeleton Closet

With the Democrats' nasty habit of accusing Republicans of poisoning
children and killing old people, it's a wonder no one in the media, let
alone the GOP, has mentioned a rather disturbing and deadly chapter
from
South Dakota Democrat Tom Daschle's recent past, now that he's
taking over
as Senate Majority Leader.

It was quite a scandal back in 1994, when reports began appearing in
the
New York Times and elsewhere suggesting Daschle had improperly
intervened
with the Federal Aviation Administration on behalf of a friend whose
charter airline company had killed three government doctors in a crash.

The doctors' widows appeared on "60 Minutes," wondering aloud if the
investigation into their husbands' deaths wasn't being pursued because
of
Daschle's influence.

Making matters worse, the Senator's wife, Linda, was second in
command at
the FAA at a time when an agency office manager said she had
destroyed
documents relevant to the fatal crash on orders from superiors.

Three government physicians were killed when a plane operated by B &
L
Aviation crashed in Minot, N.D., on Feb. 24, 1994. B & L was owned by
longtime Daschle crony Murl Bellew, who, before the crash, had asked
his
senator friend to help when the Forest Service found numerous safety
violations with his aircraft.

According to the New York Times, the Senator then began "a two-year
effort
to strip the U.S. Forest Service of authority to inspect air charter
companies." What's more, it appears Daschle tried to cover up his
attempt
to undermine the Forest Service.

In a Feb. 5, 1995, report, the Times revealed:

"[Daschle] initially said that he never pressed the Forest Service to get
its inspectors to relax their inspections on B & L. But in November, a
senior Daschle aide said that he had, with the Senator's knowledge,
intervened directly with the Forest Service inspectors who had warned
that
B & L was unsafe."

More evidence that the senator's denial was untrue emerged when
documents
turned up showing that Daschle had personally leaned on the
Washington
supervisors of the inspectors who had given his friend a bad rating.

The Times added:

"Two FAA inspectors who spoke on condition of anonymity said in
recent
interviews that the Senator helped Mr. Bellew when he flunked a safety
check in 1987."

After Daschle intervened, one agency official was "called on the carpet to
explain what happened," the FAA source said.

Then there's the account of Cathy Jones, an FAA office manager in
Rapid
City, S.D.

Jones told investigators that she was ordered to destroy documents
relevant
to the case because they "contained information with the possible
appearance of improper intervention by Senator Daschle on behalf of the
FAA."

The documents in question, Jones said, "would make the FAA look bad"
because of Mrs. Daschle's top job with the agency.

Not surprisingly, the Clinton-Reno Justice Department never expressed
much
of an interest in Daschle's case, despite the fatalities involved and
grieving relatives irate over unanswered questions.

The only investigations ever undertaken were done by the Clinton
Transportation Department and the Senate Ethics Committee, both of
which
determined that the South Dakota Democrat had done nothing wrong.

Maybe that's why the media has decided to file this tidbit from Daschle's
resume down its memory hole.

But we suspect that if a Republican had suddenly taken the reins of
senatorial power on a quirk and declared most of the president's agenda
dead, somehow this information would have found its way into
mainstream
news reports.



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On 31 May 2001, at 9:38, YnrChyldzWyld wrote:

>
> Something tells me that there's more to this story than what's being
> reported...
>
>
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>
> I suspect someone wants the land on which this family is living...
>
>
>
You might be on to something there.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) LP RELEASE: Millions harassed at seat-belt roadblocks

2001-05-31 Thread kl


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===
NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY
2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100
Washington DC 20037
World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org
===
For release: May 30, 2001
===
For additional information:
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Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222
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Criminal outrage: Millions harassed at
seatbelt roadblocks over holiday weekend

[May 30] WASHINGTON, DC -- If you were stopped at a roadblock or
ticketed for not wearing a seatbelt this past Memorial Day weekend, you
weren't alone: Millions of Americans were inconvenienced by what the
Libertarian Party says was the "largest highway harassment campaign"
in
U.S. history.

"It is an outrage that 10,446 law enforcement agencies wasted their
time and energy to browbeat motorists for not wearing a seatbelt -- in a
nation where 90,000 women are raped annually; 15,000 people are
murdered;
400,000 people are robbed; and 900,000 people are assaulted," said
Steve
Dasbach, the party's national director.

"That's not public safety -- it's public harassment. It's a criminal
misuse of law enforcement resources, and Americans should be
outraged by
it."

This past weekend, 10,446 law enforcement agencies in all 50 states
participated in what was called Operation ABC Mobilization: America
Buckles Up Children.

According to the National Safety Council (NSC) -- which coordinated the
effort with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration -- it was
the "largest-ever crackdown on drivers who fail to buckle up themselves."

The NSC bragged that police in all 50 states "are blanketing roadways
with
checkpoints and safety patrols."

Although comprehensive figures are not available, at least 15,000
"checkpoints and saturation patrols" were operating over the Memorial
Day
weekend in the southeast USA; more than 300 people were ticketed in
Pennsylvania for not wearing seatbelts; and 1,500 checkpoints were
operating in Kentucky during the seven days surrounding Memorial Day.

Extrapolate those numbers to all 50 states, said Dasbach, and millions
of
people were probably inconvenienced, frightened, ticketed, or arrested
because politicians decided that Americans are not smart enough to
decide
for themselves whether to wear a seatbelt.

"Seatbelt laws are not a victimless crime," he said. "The real
victims of these kinds of nuisance laws are the millions of people who
wasted time this Memorial Day weekend in roadblock-caused traffic
jams; the
hundreds of thousands of families who were inconvenienced or frightened
because they were pulled over by police; and the tens of thousands of
minority drivers who saw this as another example of police harassment."

Even worse, said Dasbach, is the tragic waste of police resources.

"Think of the time and money that went into this campaign: 10,446 law
enforcement agencies, hundreds of thousands of individual police
officers,
and millions of dollars from police budgets, all to give tickets to that
most fearsome of outlaws -- the adult who doesn't wear a seatbelt," he
said.

"Now consider that according to FBI figures, there are 1.4 million
violent crimes committed in America (murder, rape, robbery, and
aggravated assault) every year, along with 10.2 million property
crimes. Imagine how many of those crimes could have been solved or
prevented if the police focused on protecting Americans against real
criminals -- instead of targeting innocent people whose only crime is not
wearing a seatbelt."

This vast outpouring of police activity also conceals an important
fact, said Dasbach: Most Americans already wear seatbelts.

"According to the most recent studies from the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, 71% of Americans do wear seatbelts, and
97%
of parents buckle up their children. So 10,446 law enforcement agencies
are
harassing 100% of Americans to catch the 29% who don't buckle up --
and the
3% who don't buckle up their children.

"Again, you have to wonder: Who's committing the real crime? A foolish
driver who puts his own safety at risk by not buckling up? Or the
politicians and police who harass millions of Americans over a victimless
crime -- while murderers and rapists are left free to victimize innocent
people?"

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Re: [CTRL] Bush daughter allegedly tried to buy alcohol

2001-05-31 Thread kl

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On 31 May 2001, at 11:46, Steve Wingate wrote:

> -Caveat Lector-
>
> On 31 May 01, at 9:20, Dale Stonehouse wrote:
>
> > Jenna's personal life is as irrelevant as Bill Clinton's.
>
> It is not irrelevant if she commits a crime, which she apparently has on
> more than one occasion.
>
> Steve
>

I won't surprise me a bit to find out *she* was the one who raped Juanita
Broaderick.  Poor Bill was just a patsy.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) LP RELEASE: Jenna Bush's problem is not the boozing; it'

2001-06-01 Thread kl


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Jenna Bush's problem is not the boozing;
It's drunk-with-power federal mandates

WASHINGTON, DC -- Jenna Bush's problem is not with underaged
drinking laws
-- it's with federal mandates. And Ronald Reagan.

If the federal government had not forced states to raise the legal
drinking age to 21, the First Daughter might be in trouble with her
parents but not with the law, the Libertarian Party pointed out today.

"Federal mandates have turned Uncle Sam into a shaved-head, 300-
pound,
tattooed bouncer, checking the ID of college students," said George
Getz,
the party's press secretary. "And federal mandates have turned what
should
be an embarrassing family matter -- a college-age daughter with a
fondness
for margaritas -- into a legal matter."

Jenna (along with twin sister Barbara) is under investigation for
allegedly using false identification to try to purchase alcohol in a
restaurant in Austin, Texas. Jenna, 19, is a student at the University of
Texas.

It's not her first booze-soaked brush with the law: Two weeks ago,
Jenna was sentenced to alcohol-awareness class by a judge for
underage
drinking.

But Jenna is not in trouble because the state of Texas thinks that 19-
year-old adults should not drink. Or even because her parents frown on
their daughter guzzling Hurricanes, Mudslides, or Absolut Disasters
(although they most certainly do).

She is in trouble because in 1984, the federal government (under
"small-government conservative" President Ronald Reagan) passed the
Uniform Drinking Age Act. The bill used federal highway money to bribe
states into raising the drinking age from 18 to 21. By 1988, every state
had complied.

It's that bill that turned what would have been a perfectly legal
activity by a 19-year-old adult into a crime...and landed Jenna on the
front page of newspapers across the USA as the poster child of College
Girls Gone Wild.

Now, said Getz, the Libertarian Party has some advice for President
Bush:

"Have a talk with your daughter. Explain to her the potential dangers of
drinking too many margaritas. Explain that she must accept the
consequences
for her actions. If you love your daughter, that's your job as a parent.

"Then, work to repeal the kind of federal mandate that turned your
daughter into a criminal. Allow parents -- or state and local
governments -- to decide when someone is old enough to drink. If you
love the Constitution, that's your job as the president."

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[CTRL] (Fwd) APFN Alert - Standoff in Idaho

2001-06-01 Thread kl


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APFN Release:
(Idaho Standoff)
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=2117

 Subject: Trouble in Paradise
 Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 20:16:09 -0700
 From: "Edgar J. Steele" -  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

My name is Edgar J. Steele. I am an attorney with an office in Sandpoint
Idaho. I have been asked by JoAn McGuckin to provide representation
to her
where her court-appointed attorney's representation ends, as well as for
her six children, now the subject of the highly publicized "standoff" in
Sagle, Idaho, which is the rural township where I maintain my personal
residence. Here is the statement I released to the press this afternoon:

Edgar J. Steele = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
102 South Fourth Avenue, Suite C
Sandpoint, Idaho 83864

Admitted in Idaho, Oregon, Washington & California

Facsimile: (208) 265-5329

Telephone:(208) 265-4153

PRESS RELEASE - IMMEDIATE May 31, 2001, 4:00 p.m., Sagle, Idaho

Contact: Edgar J. Steele, attorney for JoAnn McGuckin and her children

Sandpoint, Idaho. A modern American tragedy in the making. Thatâs
what
the Sagle, Idaho, McGuckin family âstandoffâ represents.

The McGuckin family home and the 40 acres upon which it stands were
recently sold for a pittance by the county government for past-due
taxes.It
brought only $50,000, while the property is in prime territory, with fully
half of Beaver Lake on its eastern edge.

Dad died recently, after a long and valiant struggle with multiple
sclerosis, not of âmalnutrition and dehydration,â which has widely
and
falsely been reported as the cause of death. Just a couple days after this
tight-knit family buried Dad, county government lured her out with a
promise of money and free groceries, then arrested her, leaving them
only
to have to deal with the kids. That was a mistake, of course, but not their
first.

Rather than allow this tightly-knit family a decent period to grieve the
loss of their beloved husband and father, the county government instead
is
doing its best to make the familyâs worst nightmare come true.

For years, Mrs. McGuckin has been fearful of the government taking her
property and her kids. Today, that fear is realized, with the issuance of
an order through Child Protection Services, making the six children its
wards. Of course, the Sheriff canât get near the house to make good
on
that order.

She has been jailed on a charge of felony child endangerment, allegedly
for
not providing a proper home for the children, including food, hygiene and
education.

Well, admittedly the running water is off temporarily, because the well
pump broke and, what with Dadâs severe condition as his days drew
to a
close, they just didnât have the time or the money to deal with it
properly. So, they drew water from the crystal-clear lake on their
property
for washing and to flush their toilets with.And, yes, the laundry did pile
up, but what family doesnât have a few domestic backlogs when it
loses
its patriarch?

And the children are home schooled, fact which makes them politically
incorrect, even by North Idaho standards.

But, they do have food, contrary to reports, and the power was hooked
up
and paid for when Mrs. McGuckin was arrested.

Are they armed?Who knows?Nobody has seen any weapons and no
gunshots have
been fired. Sheriff Jarvis has shown great prudence in executing the
orders
he is lawfully obligated to follow.He did not cut off any essential
services, as has been reported.He has vowed to keep his men well
away from
the house and allow us time to effect a peaceful resolution to this crisis.

That resolution must begin with the release from custody of JoAnn
McGuckin
and the rescission of the order giving custody of her children over to the
government.Friends and family stand ready to accept responsibility for
the
children while Mrs. McGuckin puts her life in order and proves the
outrageous charges against herself to be false. However, the demand by
the
county Prosecuting Attorney that the bail, initially set for $10,000, be
elevated to $100,000, effectively guarantees that Mrs. McGuckin will not
be
given that opportunity.

We are now asking the court for a reduction in the bond requirement and
will then seek a modification to the CPS order, whereby the children are
given over, as a single unit, to the custody of a trusted family
friend.Then, we will take on these outlandish charges and give them the
ignominious end that they deserve. We are also investigating this
highly-questionable attempted seizure of the McGuckin family home.

Donations to the family can be made to:

McGuckin Family Trust,
PO Box 1255,
Sagle, ID 83860.



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RE: IDAHO CHILDREN

SEEMS TO ME THAT THE COMMUNITY WOULD HAVE HELPED
THIS WOMAN A LONG TIME
AGO.  SEEING THAT HER HUSBAND DIED AND SHE HAD ALL
THOSE CHILDREN TO CARE
FOR, WHERE IS

[CTRL] (Fwd) LP RELEASE: Florida Vote Inquiry

2001-06-06 Thread kl


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===
NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY
2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100
Washington DC 20037
World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org
===
For release: June 6, 2001
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For additional information:
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Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222
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Think Florida's black voters got it bad?
Third-party voters face worse injustice

WASHINGTON, DC -- A new report says many African-American
voters in Florida were unfairly prevented from voting in last year's
presidential election. But that's nothing compared to the massive,
ongoing discrimination against third-party voters all across the USA, the
Libertarian Party said today.

"When it comes to civil rights, what was done to African-American
voters in Florida may be an outrage," said the party's national
director, Steve Dasbach. "But what is done to third party voters -- in
election after election, in too many states -- is a civil wrong.

"With all the outrage about what happened in Florida, we have to ask:
Why
is it wrong to discriminate against voters because of their color, but
acceptable to discriminate against voters because of their political
party?"

This Friday, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights will release the
results of its investigation into voting irregularities in the hotly
contested 2000 presidential race in Florida.

After that election, numerous black voters complained they had been
improperly purged from the voter rolls, harassed while trying to vote,
forced to use unreliable voting machines, or confused by the state's
"butterfly" ballot.

The report, which has already been leaked to the media, says the
state's voting system was marred by "injustice, inefficiency, or
ineptitude," causing black voters to be 10 times as likely as whites
to have their ballots rejected.

But those charges -- as troubling as they are -- are mild compared to the
voting injustice faced by third-party candidates, said Dasbach: Laws that
prevent them from ever getting on the ballot.

"Third-party supporters face the ultimate discrimination, since their
candidates are blocked by law from getting on the ballot in many
states,"
he said. "There is no greater civil rights violation than being prohibited
by law from voting for the candidate of your choice." Some examples:

* In Georgia, no third-party candidate has been able to qualify to run for
the U.S. House in 37 years.

* In Arkansas, no third party has been able to qualify candidates to
run for state house or state senate since 1970.

* In Florida, no third-party or independent candidate has been able to
qualify to run for governor since 1920.

And if you start a new political party and want to run a full slate of
candidates for federal and state offices in all 50 states, you need over
3.5 million signatures to get on the ballot. By contrast, a new party in
South Africa needs only 10,000.

If Americans learn anything from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights'
report, said Dasbach, it's that voting discrimination is a real problem
that must be solved.

"Voting and running for office are fundamental rights, and the
government should treat every American equally, regardless of race,
creed, sex -- or political party," he said.

"Yes, it's an outrage that African-American voters may have been
prevented from having their votes counted in this one state, in this
one election. But it's a greater outrage that millions of third-party
voters have had their voices silenced, in many states, in election after
election."

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[CTRL] (Fwd) If All Drugs Were Legal (Gasp!) . . .

2001-06-07 Thread kl

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If All Drugs Were Legal (Gasp!) . . .
by Harry Browne

The Drug Warriors' biggest argument against
medical marijuana is that it's only the opening
wedge in a movement toward total legalization of
drugs. So, supposedly, we have to "nip it in the
bud" -- in the words of Deputy Barney Fife, the
nation's first Drug Czar.

What if the Drug Warriors are right?

What if legalizing medical marijuana turned out to
be the first step on a journey that ended in the
outright repeal of every drug law? What would
America be like?

Understandably, many Americans fear that with no
drug laws, we would have hundreds of thousands of
addicts, crack babies, children trying drugs, and
other evils. _But that's what we have now_.

Let's Assume the Worst . . .

If all drugs were legal, addicts would no longer
pay black-market prices to criminals for drugs of
questionable and dangerous origin. They would get
drugs produced by legitimate pharmaceutical
companies and pay market prices. They would no
longer die from buying toxic drugs, and they would
no longer have to mug innocent people to support
their habits.

If all drugs were legal, addicts could seek help
by going to doctors -- no longer afraid of being
prosecuted for their medical problems.

If all drugs were legal, criminal drug dealers
would no longer be on our streets. They couldn't
compete with the low, free-market prices for drugs
sold at pharmacies.

If all drugs were legal, criminal drug dealers
would no longer prey upon our children -- any more
than distilleries and breweries try to infiltrate
schools to hook kids on alcohol. When I grew up in
Los Angeles in the 1940s, the worst schools were
safer than L.A.'s best schools are today.

If all drugs were legal, our government would no
longer be dispensing propaganda that makes
children want to try the forbidden fruit.

Reducing Street Violence

If all drugs were legal, our prisons would be
emptied of hundreds of thousands of non-violent
people who have never done harm to anyone else. No
longer would over-crowded prisons cause truly
violent criminals to be free on early release and
plea bargains to terrorize the rest of us.

If all drugs were legal, law-enforcement resources
would be available to fight violent crime, instead
of being used to chase people who may harm
themselves but are no threat to us.

If all drugs were legal, much of the street
violence would end -- as it did when Alcohol
Prohibition ended -- because gangs of thugs would
no longer be fighting over drug territories.

If all drugs were legal, police corruption would
diminish, because criminals could no longer use
black-market drug money to gain immunity by
subverting weak policemen.

If all drugs were legal, the government could no
longer use the Drug War as an excuse to tear up
the Bill of Rights and pry into your bank account,
strip-search you at an airport, tear your car
apart, monitor your email, or seize your property
without even charging you with a crime.

Why Do We Know This?

Why do I think America would be like this if all
drugs were legal?

Because that's the way it was before the drug laws
were passed. Yes, there were people whose lives
were destroyed by drugs then -- just as some
people today destroy their lives with drugs,
alcohol, financial mistakes, or various character
weaknesses -- but far fewer people lost their
lives to drugs when they were legal.

And America's streets were peaceful.

Has America changed since then? Of course it has.
But cause-and-effect relationships don't change.
Force still begets force. Government programs
still lead to unintended and destructive
consequences.

Relegalizing drugs would put a stop to those
destructive consequences -- end the criminal black
market, end the violence, end the incentive to
hook children, and end the production of toxic
drugs that kill people.

We have to quit being afraid of the unknown, and
instead recognize what we do know -- that the Drug
War is doing enormous harm to society.

If we care about our children, if we care about
our cities, if we care about our country, we have
to end the insane War on Drugs.
--- End of forwarded message ---

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law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their
tyranny.   -James Fenimore Cooper, _The American Democrat_ (1838)

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[CTRL] More FBI Misdeed Allegations

2001-06-07 Thread kl


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More FBI Misdeed Allegations
Newly Revealed Documents Prove Woman Innocent of Cyanide Killings,
PI Says
By Dean Schabner

June 6  Stella Nickell has never stopped denying she killed her
husband Bruce with cyanide in 1986. But now her defense team says
they can prove her innocence.
Nickell, 57, is serving two 90-year prison terms after being found guilty
of putting cyanide in a pain-reliever capsule taken by her husband and
trying to hide the crime by tampering with other bottles of the over-the-
counter drug, which resulted in a second death.
Her case came at a time when the country was reeling from a series of
drug-tampering incidents.
Now, two private investigators who have been digging into the Seattle
case for 14 months say they can prove her innocence with documents
the FBI never turned over to the defense at the time of the trial.
If the claim sounds strangely familiar, think again, says Al Farr, one of
the two sleuths who have been working on the case.
"I know when news first got out there that we were doing this, some
people assumed we were just floating on Tim McVeigh's coattails," Farr
said. "That couldn't be further from the truth."
The FBI has admitted it failed to turn over more than 4,000 documents
in the case of McVeigh, who faces the death penalty for the deadly
Oklahoma City bombing.
Farr, Paul Ciolino and attorney Carl Colbert have filed a motion with the
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, seeking permission to reopen
Nickell's case. The court has 30 days to respond, and can ask for
further information, ask the U.S. attorney's office for a response or
decline the request.

A Question of Innocence
The FBI in Seattle has referred all questions about the case to the U.S.
attorney's office. A spokesman there said Nickell had received a fair trial.
To Farr and Ciolino, though, the evidence is overwhelming.
"We did not come into this case because we thought there were some
nice legal technicalities involved that would perhaps swing her out the
jail door," Ciolino said.
"Her legal technicality days are over with. They're done. The only thing
walking her out of that jail cell in California is a question of innocence."
The only doubt remaining, according to the investigators, is the extent of
the guilt of the FBI and drug companies in sending Nickell to jail for two
90-year prison terms.
"Stella Nickell is a victim," Ciolino said. "She is not a murderer. She did
not tamper with products. She did not conspire to defraud any insurance
company. She didn't do anything but be a wife and a mother and a
grandmother. And for her trouble the FBI targeted her and eventually
convicted her of horrendous crimes, basically taking her life away from
her." Nickell's 1988 trial was short, just 2 ½ weeks.

A Slam Dunk or Bunk?
Farr said he was approached in the fall of 1999 by a colleague who
persuaded him to look into Nickell's case. He was skeptical, still
carrying the memory of her quick conviction.
"I remembered thinking at the time, 'They must have her cold to slam
dunk it like that,'" he said.
As he started to investigate, though, his doubts gradually built, and he
eventually called in Ciolino "to make sure I wasn't barking up the wrong
tree."
Then, in October, he was contacted by former FBI lab worker Frederic
Whitehurst, who told him he had 1,000 pages of FBI documents related
to the case that were never seen during the trial.
According to Farr, those documents indicate the FBI focused on Nickell
as the key suspect early on, and not only concealed evidence that may
have helped her, but also allegedly tampered with two witnesses.
Documents he received from Whitehurst back up a claim by Nickell's
daughter, Cynthia Hamilton, that the FBI filed the papers needed to get
her a $250,000 reward from the Nonprescription Drug Manufacturers
Association given to people who helped resolve drug- tampering cases.
At the 1988 trial, Hamilton testified that her mother often talked about
wanting to get rid of her husband because she was bored with him.

Missing Witness
The FBI also convinced a family friend, Anna Jo Rider, that Nikell had
hired a hit man to kill her, and persuaded her to go into hiding so that
the defense would not be able to find her to testify, Farr said. Even when
Nickell's lawyers did find her, Rider was so convinced that her friend
wanted her dead that she was too afraid to testify.
Farr said Rider would have refuted two aspects of the prosecution's
case   that Nickell often talked about wanting her husband dead, and
that she bought two bottles of Extra-Strength Excedrin that contained
capsules contaminated with cyanide at different times.
Rider lived with the Nickells in the months before Bruce Nickell died and
rode to and from work with Stella Nickell and her daughter every day.
Farr said Rider told him she had never heard Nickell speak badly of her
husband. This would directly contradict Hamilton, who said at the time
that her mother talked incessantly during those rides to work a

[CTRL] (Fwd) Danforth's Supreme Gambit

2001-06-08 Thread kl

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--- Forwarded message follows ---
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Subject:Danforth's Supreme Gambit
To: undisclosed-recipients:;

*

Waco Tragedy News

*
(6/8/01)

Danforth's Supreme Gambit
by James Bovard
(6/7/01)

Last week marked the official launch of former Sen. John Danforth's
campaign to snare a nomination to the Supreme Court. Danforth got a
big
splash in the Washington Post on Friday, in which he declared that the
FBI
sought to stonewall his Special Counsel investigation of Waco. Danforth
stated his belief that the FBI may not have turned over all the evidence to
his investigators. But he reassured the Post and the Establishment that,
regardless of whatever evidence the FBI withheld, "there is no chance
that
it would have any effect on our findings."

It is unusual for a prosecutor to absolve his target after publicly
admitting that he failed to fulfill his duty to gather all the necessary
information to make an informed judgment. But Danforth went much
further.

Earlier this year, Danforth sent a personal note to Janet Reno: "I've heard
you talk about the decision you made in Waco. I have had the chance
as your
special counsel to review that decision. I did not pass judgment on it in
my report but I want you to know that I think you did exactly the right
thing."

Perhaps Danforth gives Reno credit for the fact that, despite the final
assault Reno authorized on April 19, 1993, most children in Texas didn't
die that day. Danforth apparently considers it no blemish that Reno
initially justified the final assault because of ongoing child abuse --
yet, after this charge collapsed, Reno shrugged off her error: "I now
understand that nobody in the [FBI] told me that it was ongoing. We
were
briefed, and I misunderstood." It was a harmless error, except for the
kids
who were gassed or burned to death after Reno misunderstood. Danforth
presumably approves of Reno's statement in congressional testimony
when she
compared the 54-ton tanks used in the final assault to a "good rent-a-
car."
Reno clearly knew what she was doing when she personally chose
Danforth to
investigate her, the Justice Department, and the FBI.

Danforth's recent comments highlight how he continues to view Waco
primarily as an opportunity to offer personal absolution to the federal
government and high-ranking government officials. As for his critics,
Danforth has a term for them. As the Post put it, Danforth complains
"that
'conspiracy theorists' will always find fault with his investigation."

Danforth rushed to issue his Waco report days before George W. Bush
announced his vice-presidential choice. Now, with the Supreme Court
session
ending later this month and rumors of pending retirements, Danforth is
racing to get his name in the news again.

Unfortunately for Danforth, his credibility continues to deteriorate week
by week. A key part of Danforth's investigation into Waco was the
re-enactment of the FBI's final assault. However, filmmaker Mike
McNulty
charged in a http://www.flirproject.com/";>new
documentary
(www.flirproject.com) that Danforth's team tested the wrong weapons and
ammo in the re-enactment -- producing results not worth a plug nickel.
(See
Bovard, http://www.spectator.org/campaign/bovard/bovard.htm";>The
Latest Waco Fireball).

On June 1, an Associated Press article quoted Robert Stewart, one of
Danforth's chief investigators, conceding that the re-enactment failed to
use the same type of assault rifle the FBI used on the final day at Waco.
Since Danforth's report focused heavily on muzzle flash evidence to
prove
that no federal agents fired at Davidians before and after their home burst
into flames, use of the wrong weapon makes a mockery of Danforth's
analysis.

Filmmaker McNulty says regarding the use of the wrong weapon for the
re-enactment: "The question is what did Danforth know and when did he
know
it?" McNulty suggests that if Danforth knowingly misrepresented the
accuracy of the re-enactment, he may face problems regarding 18 U.S.
Code
Section 1001 -- making false statements to a federal officer -- for his
comments to Federal Judge Walter Smith and U.S. attorneys, as well
as his
testimony to the U.S. Senate. (Given the way this law is administered,
however, only private citizens normally face legal peril.)

In any event, Congress shouldn't wait for a Danforth nomination to the
Supreme Court to question him about his $12 million investigation of
Waco
and why he turned it into a self-promotion gambit for himself.

James Bovard is the author of "Feeling Your Pain": The Explosion &
Abuse of
Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years (St. Martin's Press).

--- End of forwarded message ---
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[CTRL] Idaho standoff: ex lawyer as Nazi ties

2001-06-08 Thread kl


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>Typo. I meant "has Nazi ties

Isn't that sort of like saying Johnny Cochran has criminal ties because
he once defended O. J. Simpson?
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[CTRL] Pharmacy contaminates shots with meningitis causing bacteria

2001-06-08 Thread kl


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http://www.sacbee.com/news/calreport/calrep_story.cgi?story
=N2001-06-07-1915-0.html

One dead, at least three others are infected with
meningitis
WALNUT CREEK (AP) -- At least one man is dead and three
others infected with meningitis after a Contra Costa
County pharmacy apparently contaminated cortisone shots
with the bacteria, health investigators said Thursday.
A 47-year-old Concord man recently died from the disease
after receiving an injection at John Muir Medical Center.
Thee others have been hospitalized with the non-contagious
disease.
An elderly man who received similar injections also died
of meningitis, though it is not clear if that death was
related to the contaminated batch of shots.
About 20 patients received the injections into their
spines, Contra Costa County investigators said. They said
workers at Doc's Pharmacy & Home Health Care Center in
Walnut Creek somehow infected the shots before sending
them out for use by health workers.


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the drug war, you're fully as contemptible as any pusher, smuggler, or
cocaine baron -- more so, because, unlike them, you profit directly by
destroying what was once the greatest freedom ever known to humankind.
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Re: [CTRL] 'I Want Bush Girls to Get Into Big Trouble'

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On 9 Jun 2001, at 1:51, Steve Wingate wrote:

> And I just bought some high efficiency fluorescent replacements for my
> incandescents with a government rebate (evil communist socialism in your
> opinion, no doubt).

Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back.  I replaced all my
incandescents with fluorescent bulbs a good 10 years ago, and I've paid
for all of them without any help from the government.
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[CTRL] Jenna, you could have a drink in a free country


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http://www.nypress.com/14/23/news&columns/beans.cfm

Hill of Beans
Christopher Caldwell
Pour, Little Rich Girl

There are only two things Ive ever told foreigners about the United States
that they simply refused to believe. The first is that partial-birth abortion is
legal in this country. A few years ago, during a public debate on abortion that
was then roiling all of Ireland, a Dublin taxi driver told me he didnt understand
what all the fuss was over. I told him that the recent debate in the United
States had been focused not so much on abortion in general as on certain late-
term procedures.

When I explained what partial-birth abortion was, the cabbie flat-out told
me I was full of it. The more I tried to convince him that the procedure was
actually legaland, whats more, actually performedthe more he thought
I was one of those anti-American ideologues who dont realize what a good
thing theyve got, and who invent propaganda to make their country sound
like some kind of fascist slaughterhouse. In short, he thought I was lying.

The second instance in which American customs have put me in the position
of Ripleys Believe It or Not concerns our drinking laws. Last Bastille Day, I
visited friends in a small town in Normandy. After the fireworks, the entire
extended family wandered over to a cafe patio and we all ordered drinks. My
friend Guillaume ordered a panaché for his 11-year-old son. I asked him what a
panaché was, and that launched us on a 10-minute excursion into utter mutual
incomprehension.

"Its half beer, half lemonade," he explained. "You must have something like
it in the United States."
"No, we prefer to drink just beer."
"I mean for kids."
"Well, kids cant drink in the United States."
"But, say, when they go out to a bar and their father orders a"
"Kids dont go into bars."
"Of course not, but if a boys with his father and"
"It doesnt matter," I said. "Its against the law for a father
to order a beer for his kid."

This is where understanding broke down totally. "No, you see, the child
doesnt order the beer," Guillaume went on, his patience rapidly eroding. "The
father"
"It doesnt matter," I repeated.

Guillaume called over his older brother Maurice, who had a reputation as the
town savant, and explained what wed been talking about. Maurice did an
extraordinary thing: he told me that what I was saying could not possibly be
true, and if I actually went back and checked the relevant U.S. laws, Id find

In other words, he went all colonial on me. He treated me as if I were some
savage who misunderstood the hard facts of his own country. It was as if I
were a tribesman from Mbonkoland telling a couple of tourists that his
countrys leading industry is tin mining, which confuses the tourists, who
know the country mines nickel, not tin. The confusion would get resolved
when some "old Mbonkoland hand" explained that, in the Mbonkolese
languages, "tin" is the word used for any metal. But there was no old
American hand around, and no possibility of mutual understanding.

As the meaning of Barbara and Jenna Bushs alcohol troubles gets masticated
in the press, the key point to bear in mind is the one that most easily gets lost.
Its that there are no customs on Earth more bizarre than Americas
alcohol laws. When you think of them, think of suttee, foot-binding, and ritual
scarification.

The 19-year-old Bush twins were arrested at an Austin saloon last week for
underage drinking. Naturally, theres no evidence that either of them has an
unnatural relationship with alcoholso the state of Texas has taken it upon
itself to provide them with one. Owing partly to a jurisdictional
accidentBarbara Bush attends Yale in semi-civilized Connecticut and Jenna
attends UT in enforcement-mad TexasBarbara will probably get off with
community service, but Jenna could be in a world of pain. You see, Jenna has
a prior conviction for underage drinking. She was sentenced just three weeks
ago to community service and alcohol education lessons. And it emerged at
the end of last week that Jenna may actually have two prior convictions. There
is a 1997 incident on police databases. Because Jenna
was a juvenile at the time it has not been revealed whether that incident was
an arrest or merely a warning. If Jenna does in fact have a third underage
drinking offense on her record, then under Texas ridiculous "three strikes"
law, she could face a jail term of up to six months. The horrid irony here is
that Jennas own father not only signed that law but actually agitated for
it.

Almost anyone who thinks for a second about Jennas predicament will find
himself pulled in opposite directions. The dual sympathies that result resemble
those of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. At least they resemble mine. On the
one hand, there was simply no way that the American people should have had
their constitutional right to choose their president nullified because moralists
objected to that presidents havi

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Anarchy and Community
by P. Andrew Sandlin

Stephen W. Carsons cogent essay on Lew Rockwell.com (Biblical
Anarchism) defined anarchy as absence of rulers.  He shows
that the Biblical notion of civil law virtually excludes what we
today know as the state. In the Bible, most civil disputes are settled
privately, with local judges and an appellate system, and a system
of restitution for aggrieved parties. Carson is entirely correct
to note that there is simply no room for the state in such an arrangement.
The law itself becomes the political ruler, and there is no need
for politicians.

I wish here simply to supplement Carsons excellent thesis.
Absence of state coercion is not equivalent to political liberty.
Political liberty is possible only when there is a series of independent
social institutions that check each others authority.  These institutions
are communities.  Man cannot live without community (Genesis
2:18).  Aside from the Bible itself, perhaps no work has made
that point more effectively than Robert Nisbets The
Quest for Community. Nisbet, a communitarian-libertarian,
argues that man is a communitarian being.  He is made to live, laugh,
work, play, love, suffer, cry, and die in a community.  And he
will always find communities in which to live.  Communitarianism
is an inescapable concept.

Now  in the Bible and the Christian faith, that community is manifested
primarily in the family and church, and secondarily in vocation
(business) and other private spheres. These are the multiple
communities in which men live their lives.  Men find their liberty
in participation in various communities, each of which stands as
a sentinel over its own prerogatives and provides a haven for individuals
treated unjustly by other communities. If a husband is dictatorial,
the wife can appeal to the church.  If the church is abusive, the
family can appeal to a higher church court or another church body.
If a business is unjust, the individual or family can appeal to
a private court system. In the case of injustice, a Biblically ordered
society almost always offers recourse to another community.

The problem with the modern state is that it professes to be a community.
For this reason, as Nisbet shrewdly notes, the state is not opposed
to individual freedom. Individual freedom, far from being the
effect of emancipation from state power, is, in fact, the precondition
of that power. Tyrannical states do not war against the individual;
they war against those non-coercive, intermediate institutions which
claim the individuals allegiance: the family, the church, the school,
business, and so on. In fact, as Nisbet observes, the only freedom tyrannical
societies permit is individual freedom. They desire an individual wedded
exclusively to the state as an exclusive community, and offer him a certain
limited sphere of freedom.

It is not individual freedom that these tyrannies oppose, but competitors
to their authority that they find unacceptable.  They do not mind
individual freedom; they only mind competitors to the allegiance
they require of men. They are willing to give men a long leash,
as long as they alone are grasping the other end.

The modern state is never at war with the individual.  The state needs
the individual (and it wants only the individual) for its
sordid, tyrannical purposes.  The state is at war with other communities
that vie for mans allegiance  the family, church, business, and
so on. The state wants to wipe out all communitarian competition
so that it can remake man into a pliant agent for state purposes.
Men are material to the modern state, particularly the secular
humanist state.  They exist, in Mikhail Hellers language, to be
cogs in the wheel of a massive, utopian state enterprise.

In other words, the state wants a monopoly on community.  Libertarians
err if they suppose that the center of the statist program is economic
monopoly   exclusive ownership and distribution of goods and services.
Statist economic monopoly is easy once it is has seized a communitarian
monopoly. When mens lives, hopes and aspirations are severed from
family, church, and vocation, they are an easy prey for the state.
The state will permit great latitude to these individuals, just
as long as they do not create, or divert their allegiance to, other
communities.

The Bible supports anarchy (as Carson defines it) in the political sphere,
but not in true communities: families, churches, vocations, and so on.
There, men willingly exercise and live under authority.
As rulers, they act as humble servants to (not dictators over) those
for whom they are responsible (Mark 10:42-45).  As subjects,
they honor and obey those in authority (Hebrews 13:17).

The Bible weds anarchy in the political sphere to community in the social
sphere.

June 8, 2001


http://www.lewrockwell.com/sandlin/sandlin13.html


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