[CTRL] ARMIES OF REPRESSION
-Caveat Lector- http://www.connix.com/~harry/90s-fbi.htm ARMIES OF REPRESSION The FBI, COINTELPRO and Far-Right Vigilante Networks By Tom Burghardt, BACORR-North --- Over the years, our approach to investigative problems in the intelligence field has given rise to a number of new programs, some of which have been most revolutionary, and it can be assumed that with a continued aggressive approach to these problems, new and productive ideas will be forthcoming. These ideas will not be increased in number or improved upon from the standpoint of accomplishments merely through the institution of a program such as COINTELPRO which is given another name, and which in fact, only encompasses everything that has been done or will be done in the future. J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director, Memorandum, July 15, 1964 [1] --- 1. COINTELPRO AND THE FAR-RIGHT: THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF ANTI-CHOICE VIOLENCE Now that the Christian Right's anti-abortion, national cultural and holy war2 has evolved into a campaign of arson, murder and terror, mainstream feminist groups tied to the capitalist Democratic Party -- NOW, NARRAL, and The Feminist Majority Foundation -- are demanding that the FBI investigate anti-choice violence. In the wake of Rev. Paul Hill's assassination of Dr. John Bayard Britton; clinic escort, James Barrett; and the wounding of clinic escort, June Barrett, July 29 in Pensacola, FL, the drumbeat for federal intervention has reached deafening proportions. Armed U.S. Marshals, FBI agents using special investigative techniques, and police SWAT teams, however, will neither defend women seeking reproductive health care nor abortion providers; rather, such intervention will transform women's clinics into armed camps. The net result of such a massive show of firepower by the State will not guarantee women's safety at clinics. Neither will such intervention increase women's access to reproductive health care. Rather, police intervention on such a grand scale, plays into the hands of anti-choice terrorists. They believe that such displays of State power only assist their own propaganda efforts and tend to buttress their assertion that abortion is murder, and that women who control their bodies are doing something wrong. Despite U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno's statement that clinic violence, is a problem throughout the nation and that it is appropriate to address an issue of deep concern,3 two more women's clinics have been fire-bombed since Rev. Paul Hill's murderous rampage. A clinic in Falls Church, VA sustained more than $10,000 in damage, July 30, while a Planned Parenthood facility in Brainerd, Minnesota, was burned to the ground on August 10; the Minnesota facility did not perform abortions. During the same period these two clinics were attacked, a right-wing vigilante was arrested in Philadelphia outside a women's clinic; six molotov cocktails were seized from the trunk of his car. Reports of death threats against patients, doctors and health care workers since the Pensacola murders have skyrocketed. While the State is poised through the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (the FACE law), to legitimize anti-abortion thugs who sidewalk counsel and engage in other forms of harassment against women, gangsters such as convicted clinic bomber, Rev. Michael Bray, an endorser of Hill's Defensive Action Declaration insist: Anyone who truly believes that the slaughter of innocent children is what we have with abortion could go out and shoot an abortionist.4 Similarly, other supporters of the justifiable homicide position, go further. According to the Rev. David Trosch, even pharmacists might eventually become targets. I would see no problem with shooting a pharmacist, who provided a morning after pill to women who seek to terminate their pregnancies.5 Trosch, in a July 16 letter that predicted the massive killing of abortionists and their staffs, pointedly warned that clinic defenders and reproductive rights activists will be sought out and terminated as vermin are terminated.6 Rev. Trosch and C. Roy McMillan, Executive Director of the Christian Action Group in Jackson, Mississippi, believe that clinic escorts and clinic defenders act as accomplices, and therefore, are fair game for right-wing, anti-abortion vigilantes. McMillan, a weapons specialist who served two tours of duty in Vietnam, believes that, Twenty five years later I have not changed my opinion as to the justification of the U.S. intervention in Vietnam...I assume the enemy I killed were not Christian like me.7 Today, McMillan believes that the killing of unarmed escort, James Barrett, was no more than so-called collateral damage.8 Apparently, McMillan's ideological fervor will come in handy as he, and other zealots wage cultural civil war on the home front. Recent protests in Jackson/Gulfport, Mississippi targeted Black physician,
[CTRL] WHITE HOUSE INSTALLS ANTI-QUESTION SHIELD
-Caveat Lector- WHITE HOUSE INSTALLS ANTI-QUESTION SHIELD AROUND ARI FLEISCHER Fearing a barrage of press corps questions that the White House does not want to answer, the Bush Administration has installed a high-tech anti-question shield to protect Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, sources confirmed today. The multi-billion dollar shield is designed to shoot down questions that could address what the White House feels is classified or sensitive information. The first test of the new shield was successfully employed today during a press briefing, intercepting and destroying a question related to what constituted classified or sensitive information. "This is a huge step forward in the White House communications defense system," said an administration source who explained that the system automatically responds to questions that attempt to penetrate the shield by launching a series of pat, repetitive and purposefully vague responses. The defense shield can respond immediately to any question fired off by reporters by launching standard, defensive non-answers, such as "I believe the president has made himself clear on that issue," "You'd have to talk to the DOD (Department of Defense)," or "I'm not going to talk about operational matters." Critics maintain that the shield may not be foolproof and that some tough questions could get through. Asked whether President Bush had concerns that a serious question could penetrate the shield, Fleischer said, "I believe the president has made himself clear on that issue." _ http://www.bobsfridge.com/ A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html"Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/"ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Taliban Flee Kunduz by the Hundreds
-Caveat Lector- http://news.excite.com/news/ap/international/attacks-afghanistan WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Taliban Flee Kunduz by the Hundreds Updated: Sat, Nov 24 8:27 PM EST By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press Writer BANGI, Afghanistan (AP) - A trickle of surrendering Taliban became a flood Saturday, and those laying down arms were greeted like brothers by northern alliance fighters besieging Kunduz. It was unclear whether a hard core of foreigners loyal to Osama bin Laden would opt to fight to the finish. By nightfall Saturday, alliance officials said more than 1,100 Taliban and foreign fighters - mostly Arabs, Chechens and Pakistanis - had surrendered under a deal negotiated with the Islamic militia's senior commanders. Some Taliban fighters crossed the front and promptly joined the alliance. However, thousands of other fighters were believed still in the city, including members of bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network. When the siege began Nov. 12, alliance commanders estimated about 10,000 Taliban and 3,000 foreigners were defending the city - the last Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan. The surrenders did not always go smoothly. In the alliance-held northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif, a prisoner awaiting a search detonated a hand grenade, killing himself and two other Taliban soldiers and seriously injuring an alliance officer, according to Britain's ITN News and CNN. ITN reporter Andrea Catherwood, who was hit in the knee with shrapnel, said the attacker was among some 500 foreign fighters, mostly from Pakistan, who had driven overnight from Kunduz across the desert and were met by a key northern alliance commander, Rashid Dostum. They were disarmed, or so we thought. A lot of heavy arms were taken away in a truck, she said. A former Taliban deputy interior minister who defected - the most senior Taliban defector thus far - on Saturday held a news conference to say he blamed bin Laden and his foreign fighters as well as hard-line Taliban for bringing on the U.S-led war. I have being saying for a long time that the foreigners have to leave our country, that they have plans of their own and are destroying our country, Mullah Mohammed Khaqzar said in Kabul. Khaqzar said he warned Taliban supreme leader Mohammed Omar that he should tell the terrorists to leave or they would destroy our country. But Omar fell under the influence of bin Laden, he said. Under the surrender agreement near Kunduz, Afghan Taliban fighters are guaranteed safe passage out of the city but the foreigners will be arrested pending investigation into possible ties to bin Laden. The United States had strongly opposed any agreement that would allow the foreign fighters to go free. President Bush launched airstrikes against Afghanistan on Oct. 7 after the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden for his alleged role in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. On Saturday, U.S. jets bombed an area near the eastern city of Jalalabad, where bin Laden maintained camps. Anti-Taliban officials in the area said bin Laden was near Jalalabad when the bombing campaign began and may be hiding near his Tora Bora camp in the mountains. Alliance commanders had expected the surrender of Kunduz to take place this weekend - and as the day passed, more and more Taliban fighters appeared along front line positions to give themselves up. Along the eastern front, alliance soldiers shouted welcome and embraced and kissed Taliban fighters after they rolled across the Bangi bridge in a convoy of tanks, armored personnel carriers and even taxis - smeared with mud and dust to camouflage them against prowling U.S. jets. We gave up to the northern alliance, said a smiling Taliban fighter, Shah Mahmoud. They are our brothers, and this is our country. The foreigners will never surrender, I think. Mahmoud, his Taliban-issued Kalashnikov still slung over his shoulder, remained at the front to join the fight against the hard core Taliban and al-Qaida holdouts. On Friday, Dostum said he expected Kunduz to surrender by the end of the weekend. In preparation, alliance troops moved Saturday within 1.5 miles of the city limits, spokesman Ashraf Nadeem said by satellite telephone. It has almost collapsed, Nadeem said of Kunduz. In other developments Saturday: - At least eight U.S. bombs exploded on Pakistani territory during a raid on Taliban positions along the mountainous frontier with Afghanistan, witnesses and local officials said. There were no deaths or injuries on the Pakistan side but at least 13 Afghans were killed and two others injured on their side of the border, a local resident said. The reports could not be independently confirmed and the Pentagon had no immediate comment. - Afghan factions meeting in Germany on Tuesday will try to set up a 15-member council as the basis for a new interim government, German special envoy Hans-Joachim Daerr said. The meeting is considered the
Re: [CTRL] Sharon to ask for warning re Iraq
-Caveat Lector- http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=98308contrassID=2; subContrassID=1sbSubContrassID=0listSrc=Y PM to ask for U.S. warning in case of action against Iraq By Aluf Benn, Nathan Guttman and Daniel Sobelman excerpts In his upcoming meeting with U.S. President George Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will discuss the next phase of America's war against terror, in particular the possibility of action against Iraq. .. The prime minister will request stronger diplomatic and strategic coordination with Washington in the event of U.S.-led action against Iraq. -- (please visit site for full article) Samantha A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] China closes 17,000 Internet cafes
-Caveat Lector- http://dfn.org/focus/china/internetcafes-closed.htm China closes 17,000 Internet cafes by Bobson Wong, Digital Freedom Network (November 21, 2001) Chinese officials have reportedly closed more than 17,000 Internet cafes and ordered thousands more to install Internet surveillance software as part of a major offensive against unsupervised use of the Internet. Shanghai's Wen Hui newspaper said today that Chinese police and commercial officials have examined over 94,000 Internet cafes in the last seven months. Last April, the government announced it was imposing a three-month ban on the opening of new cybercafes. All registered Internet cafes were required to renew their licenses, and those operating illegally would be shut down. Only about half the country's Internet cafes have installed the required filtering software, according to Wen Hui. About 28,000 cafes have been ordered to install it. In February, the Ministry of Public Security announced that it released Internet filtering software called Internet Police 110 that allegedly can also monitor Web traffic and delete or block messages from sources deemed offensive. Only half of China's Internet cafes have had their licenses renewed. About 15 percent, or four million, of the country's Internet population rely on cafes as their main source of access, according to the China Internet Network Information Center. Most of these users are in the country's smaller cities. While China has always tried to discourage pro-democracy or dissident material from being circulated on the Internet â at least 19 individuals in China are currently being detained for using the Net for religious or political purposes (see the complete list at http://dfn.org/focus/china/netattack.htm) â it is far more concerned about the impact that an unregulated Internet will have on the nation's young people. China's Internet population is much younger than the rest of the population. Over half of the country's Internet users are under age 25. Many parents have complained that their children were becoming addicted to pornographic Web sites or computer games. Growing loss of online privacy The intense focus on cybercafes will be a big loss for Chinese users who want to maintain their privacy online. Before the government's April announcement, Internet cafes were not closely regulated. For example, many cafes did not log who was using their computers. And in an unrelated move, the U.S.-based company SafeWeb quietly closed its free Web proxy service last week. A SafeWeb spokesperson said that the service, in which users could go to SafeWeb's site and surf the Web anonymously, was shut down because it cost too much to maintain. According to the company, many of the proxy service's users were based in China. There is some hope for SafeWeb users, though. The company recently signed a contract with the International Broadcasting Bureau, parent agency of the Voice of America (VOA), for a pilot program in which the bureau would provide money for new computers to run SafeWeb software specifically tailored for people in China. Courtesy Digital Freedom Network (http://dfn.org). Material may be reproduced or redistributed for online not-for-profit use without prior written consent as long as the Digital Freedom Network is credited. dfn.org A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Patriotism slows inquiries into intelligence failures
-Caveat Lector- http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1124-03.htm Patriotism slows inquiries into intelligence failures War on Terrorism: Investigation By David Usborne in New York 24 November 2001 The political inquests into the failures of US intelligence agencies before the 11 September attacks, which are certain to embarrass Republicans and Democrats alike, are to go ahead. But do not tune in for a while yet. (Please see site for full story) --- Samantha A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] Death Tourism - Euthanasia Holidays
-Caveat Lector- http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/11/20/21386.html 11:23 2001-11-20 DEATH TOURISM â EUTHANASIA HOLIDAYS An Italian firm transports the terminally ill to the Netherlands, where they undergo euthanasia. The firm, called EXIT, based in Turin, takes groups of terminally ill Italians to the Netherlands, where they check into a hospital. After a complete medical check, which must obey certain parameters, they can be declared fit to be placed on the list for a voluntarily assisted death â euthanasia. Timofei BYELO PRAVDA.Ru A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ A HREF=http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] CYBERPUNKTUATIONS
-Caveat Lector- Current events are making many of the insights and attitudes of the Cyberpunk movement of the early 90s seem as prophetic now as they seemed then. Here is an article I published (more an editing job than anything, really, excising such phrases as Prigoninic cathexis) in 1990. Wade through the pretentious language and perhaps you'll see what I mean... Chris *** CYBERPUNKTUATIONS The following is composed of extracts from an article by MARK DOWNHAM on Cyberpunk which appeared in London's VAGUE magazine . A disorganized mixture of clear apercus and tortuous prolixity, it lends itself to rearrangement and bowdlerisation. Here are a few of his more interesting statements. Chris OF CYBERPUNK FICTION Cyberpunk began as a loose generational nexus of writers swapping letters, manuscripts, ideas. Cyberpunk crunches together neuro- and physical chemistry, genetic biology, structural linguistics, cybernetics, bio-technology and cyborg engineering into a fantastic series of fictions. There is no typical cyberpunk, although the general project does have central themes, tenets, and topics. I'd say it is an eighties milieu - nineties, post-2001 would equally do - it is a product of the interzone between hard technologies/sciences and nihilo-romanticist surrealism. Its precursors are Michael Moorcock, Langdon Jones, Harlan Ellison, Samuel Delaney, Norman Spinrad, Brian Aldiss, John Varley, Philip. K. Dick, Alfred Bester, the strange pulsing entropies of Thomas Pynchon, the panic-theory of Baudrillard, the Situationist International, Larry Niven, Roger Zelaney, H.G. Wells, the programming phenomena control-data buzz of Guy Debord, and the seminal genius of J.G. Ballard. Cyberpunk was essentially initiated by J.G.Ballard in The Atrocity Exhibition. Ballard details the collapse of a landscape through which lines of deterritorialisation have proceeded to absolute tolerances, fractal zones in which sheer contiguity replaces syntax... Ballard's work is an attempt to grasp the contradiction of representational analysis of the future directly. These inundated near-futures transform our own present into the recognisably determinate past of something yet to come. Cyberpunk, as Philip K. Dick's novels and the films of David Cronenberg, deals with a near-future world congested with the coming technologies of everyday life and pushes the thresholds to the point where the psychoses rip through and the Metrophage gets ugly... Thomas Pynchon in Gravity's Rainbow explores the obliteration of outdated territories, languages, affiliations, of any boundaries or forms that have impeded the installation of cybernetics--the theory of messages and their control is here intermeshed with the hegemony of what Pynchon calls the mega-cartel, the zaibatsu, the multinationals. Cyberpunk is the literary incarnation of this colliding of fictional worlds, between the high-octane five star fantasies of the multi-nationals and the junk-cult feral scams of the street guerillas living off their products, but fantastically mutating them. Certain central themes spring up repeatedly in Cyberpunk. Firstly, the theme of body invasion, the target vehicle: prosthetic limbs, implanted circuitry, cosmetic surgery, cyberspace, DNA, genetic alteration. Secondly, the real hard edge of mind invasion: brain-computer interfaces, artificial intelligences, neuro-chemistry--all the techniques radically redefining the nature of humanity, the nature of the self. Cyberpunk is gorged with detail-it uses carefully constructed intricacy and readily extrapolates into daily life. It goes for crammed or condensed prose: rapid, dizzying, skidding bursts of novel information, sensory overload, a special brilliant feeling that makes you crisp at the edges--submerging the reader in the equivalent of a titanic blast of information, great gulfs of linguistic intensity as the vasopressin hits. Cyberpunk has a strong garage-band aesthetic. It grapples with the raw core of the near future--its myths, its ideas, its coming practices. It is a pop culture which is theorizing itself into a more cohesive and self-determined existence. Of BLADE RUNNER Blade Runner is really about Roy Batty/Rutger Hauer/method actors in general. The Cyberpunk must allow him/herself to be swept into the multiple currents that cross the city and beckon at random, to clear a path through a deliberately confused atmosphere of this fictive metropolis and distinguish the real from the irreal even in the most indiscernible cases. Roy's murder of Tyrell is the most meaningful statement in the whole of Cyberpunk : It is a fearful thing to meet your maker. Of the Media-Induced Experience: THE SPECTACLE: For Baudrillard, television--chief purveyor of the Spectacle--is a paradigm of failed escape combinations, of implosive effects, of remembered codes that make you
