[CTRL] (Fwd) [infowars] 1000 dead in La Paz, Spain of pesticide poiso

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http://www.getipm.com/articles/spain-organophates.htm is the
source
here
(this news carried by The Guardian, UK, 8-25-01)

Very briefly, then: "According to a survey carried out in 2000 by the
scientific body, Institute of Professionals, Managers and
Specialists, 1 in 3 scientists working for government quangos or
newly privatized labs has been asked to adjust conclusions to suit
the sponsor."

La Paz, Spain. Dr. Angel Peralta on 5-12-81 received a telephone
call
from Spain's health ministry ordering him to say nothing about the
epidemic (that killed 1000 & seriously wounded 25,000 there) and
certainly nothing about organo-phosphorus poisoning. In 1983
WHO
convened a medical conference in Madrid that formally ratified the
Spanish government position that cooking oil was to blame for the
poisoning. Oil merchants were tried and found guilty of poisoning.
But Muro and his colleagues thru months of independent research
found
the poison source: pesticides on tomatoes from Almeria (a
corporate
agriculture center). In 1985 Muro died of a mysterious illness and
his findings have never yet been accepted by the Spanish
government.
No cooking oil contaminant has yet been found by labs around the
world to be the source of this La Paz poisoning.

In 1989 a similar outbreak probably involving organo-phosphates
occured in the USA, first identified in New Mexico, and affected
1500. L-Tryptophan, an amino acid supplement, was blamed. L-
Tryptophan has never been shown to be responsible and has been
taken
by millions of Americans in the 1980s but is now banned in US and
Europe. Funding was available for scientists who wished to pursue
the
official line, but not for those who held different views. (Much of
the former is direct quoting, somewhat condensed.)

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

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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01.n1607.a01.html
Newshawk: Sledhead - http://www.maximizingharm.com/
Pubdate: Fri, 31 Aug 2001
Source: Concord Monitor (NH)
Copyright: 2001 Monitor Publishing Company
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Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/af.htm (Asset Forfeiture)

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) LP RELEASE: Sports team names

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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] Corrected FW: Castaway

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Dunno what happened to the photo.

This one is well worth opening imho

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

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URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1563/a05.html
Newshawk: http://www.cannabisnews.com/
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] (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.

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

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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
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[CTRL] (Fwd) Thousands leaving public school behind

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

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Subject:LP RELEASE: Federal workers with credit cards
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2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100
Washington DC 20037
World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org
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For release: August 20, 2001
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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) Little caps for little people, big caps for Corporate Su

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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.

Re: [CTRL] Godwins law

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

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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

[CTRL] (Fwd) LP RELEASE: Jackson's threat to boycott Toyota

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Why Jesse Jackson's Toyota boycott
is better than any government remedy

WASHINGTON, DC -- If you want to help achieve racial equality in
America, then joining Jesse Jackson's threatened boycott of Toyota is a
better way to accomplish that goal than by supporting government
affirmative action, the Libertarian Party said today.

"Want to force Toyota to reconsider its racial policies? Then a boycott is
the way to do it," said Steve Dasbach, the party's national director.
"Who needs affirmative action, government quotas, and politicians when
you've got the economic power of millions of Americans on your side?

"Not only that, it's refreshing to see Jesse Jackson, who usually
relies on the coercive power of government, to try a voluntary method of
solving a problem, such as a consumer boycott. That's why we applaud
Jackson for asking ordinary Americans -- rather than politicians -- to help
resolve this issue."

The longtime civil rights leader is expected to officially announce the
Toyota boycott at a meeting of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, which
begins Wednesday in Chicago.

Jackson has accused the Japanese automaker of discrimination
because only 55 of its 1,400 American dealerships are minority-owned.
Jackson said he was also angered by a recent Toyota advertisement
showing a close-up of a black person's smile that featured a gold RAV4 -
- a small sports utility vehicle -- embossed on a front tooth.

For Americans who share Jackson's concerns about Toyota, a
consumer-driven boycott is a far better way to achieve racial justice than
a government-mandated affirmative action program, said Dasbach.
Here's why:

* Boycotts let ordinary people have a "vote" in the process.

"If Jesse Jackson can persuade you that Toyota is awarding dealerships
in a racially biased manner, you can 'vote' for racial justice by refusing to
buy a Corolla, a Camry, or an RAV4," said Dasbach. "You can also try
to convince your friends and family to join the boycott.

"But if you disagree with the boycott -- and worry that Jackson is a
publicity-seeking race baiter who's targeting Toyota because it refused to
award lucrative dealerships to his friends -- then you can 'vote' for
Toyota by purchasing one of its vehicles. Either way, you as a
consumer get to decide who is right."

* Boycotts have an immediate effect.

"If millions of consumers decide not to purchase a product, it can have
an instantaneous and devastating impact on a company," said
Dasbach. "If a boycott against Toyota is launched on Wednesday, the
company could be feeling the impact by Thursday."

"Now compare that to the sluggish political process: First, you have to
mobilize enough support to convince a Congressman to introduce a bill;
then hire lobbyists to battle competing special interest groups,
lobbyists, and bureaucrats; and then try to get it approved by the
House, Senate, and president. After all that time, the problem you
originally wanted to solve may no longer even exist."

* Boycotts empower people, not politicians.

"With a boycott, you can decide whether to participate, based on your
values and your concept of racial justice," said Dasbach. "But with a
government program, politicians get to decide, based on what will garner
them more campaign contributions, more votes, and more power.
Whom do you trust more: Youself, or a politician?"

* Boycotts are temporary -- unlike government programs.

"A successful boycott serves its purpose, then goes away," said
Dasbach. "But every federal program spawns more government
bureaucrats whose jobs depend on finding an endless stream of real or
imaginary villains and victims. The result is that your business could be
the next target -- whether or not you've done anything wrong."

So, is Toyota really acting in a discriminatory fashion, and running
racially insensitive ads? The Libertarian Party doesn't know, admitted
Dasbach.

"But we don't have to know," he said. "The great thing about a boycott,
like the one proposed by Jesse Jackson, is that you get to decide. If you
want to change the way Toyota does business, you have one of the
most powerful weapons in the world at your disposal: The power of your
wallet or pocketbook. It's up to you to decide how to use it."

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[CTRL] (Fwd) CONDIT'S "PANICKED PAY PHONE CALL" FROM LURAY, VIR

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CRIMINAL FOCUS: HARD SPOTLIGHT ON CONDIT'S "PANICKED PAY PHONE CALL" FROM LURAY, VIRGINIA
By: Todd  Brendan Fahey
Just how long a healthy woman needs to go missing, before the investigation is declared officially as being one of a criminal nature, is probably a question the Levy family and most of America would like answered.
But as the FBI and D.C. police proceed at what appears to be a slothful pace on this...(we can't even say "case," yet, so what do we call it?)...mystery, and as the missing persons investigation got off to such a shabby start, with the D.C. police not making entry into the vanished Chandra Levy's apartment until May 11 (she vanished on May 1), it is, again, up to the paraprofessional researcher for to do some digging.
Stewardess Anne Marie Smith, in an August 2nd appearance on CNN's Larry King Live and elsewhere, clarifies earlier confusion, when she states that a review of her records shows that the phone call wherein Condit stated that he "might be in some trouble" and "might have to disappear for awhile" came on May 10 or 11. The specific nature of that trouble seems not to concern the Establishment media or law enforcement investigators.
Significantly, on May 17, Ms. Smith having just completed a domestic flight, touching down in Washington D.C. on the afternoon of May 17, attempted to call Congressman Condit "on his girly line." Mr. Condit did not return her message until midnight, May 17, from--as has been verified by Ms. Smith's caller ID, through phone records leaked by one in the Washington D.C. police department, and as reported by Fox News' Rita Cosby--a McDonald's fast-food restaurant, 709 E Main St., Luray, VA 22835; and that when he did, stated that, "I have some business to take care of," but, concerning her relationship, soothed her and assured her that everything was alright between them. (*** See below for the CNN Larry King Live transcript of this interview.)
If paid investigators, servants of We The People and whose salaries are paid for by us, want to find Chandra Levy, I offer the following lead:
Gary Condit, despite a meticulous voting record (insofar as being present and casting House floor votes), missed his first-ever year 2001 vote, three of them, on May 17. A survey of House roll call votes and of the Congressional Record show that he was present for a procedural vote at 10:26am. He then missed three straight votes, at 11:26am, 12:32pm and 2:09pm. He then surfaces at midnight, for the midnight pay phone call to Ms. Smith from the Luray, Virginia McDonald's.
The Levys had come to Washington D.C. on May 15th. That same day, he was interviewed for the first time by D.C. police. The next day, the police and the Levy parents issue a joint press conference, which sparked widespread television and Internet exposure of Chandra Levy's photograph.
What was Condit doing in Luray, Virginia, 80 miles away from his Adams-Morgan (Georgetown) area apartment and D.C. offices? Federal investigators must answer this question, should they wish to have any credibility with the American people.
It is known that the Modesto, California Democrat rarely, if ever, drives a car, preferring to be chauffered by his staff or to hop on his Harley-Davidson; it should, therefore, at least be mentioned that there is an airport in Luray, Virginia   just a few miles from the McDonald's in question.
Were I an FBI investigator, I would summon records of every flight entering the Luray, Virginia airport on May 17, checking passenger manifests, details of cargo loads, and interviewing every pilot as to the nature of his/her touchdown at that tiny airport on that day. (Media and investigators should contact: Luray Caverns Airport; Mark Johnson Jr. Chairman, Luray Caverns Airport Commission; 319 North Court Street Luray, Virginia 22835. Telephone: 540- 743-5684)
If Condit did not travel to Luray by light plane, then I, as an FBI investigator, would want a complete timeline (and one corroborated meticulously) of the whereabouts of his Washington D.C. chief of staff Mike Dayton on May 17. Mr. Dayton is long known to be a driver for Condit in the D.C. area, and was named last week as the Congressman's driver, when Condit sought to ditch a watch case in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 11, just hours before the FBI were to do a search of his boss's apartment. (The watch itself, a gift from yet another girlfriend and one-time Condit staffer, Joleen Argentini McKay, has not been accounted for by Condit or investigators, prompting some to believe that it might have been lost by Condit in a struggle with Chandra Levy.)
The significance of the phone call, from Condit to Ms. Smith, is central to any concerted effort to find Chandra Levy. We can only hope that FBI investigators are reviewing the complete log of all phone calls made from that McDonald's pay phone on or about May 17 and cross-checking it in-toto against any other Washington D

[CTRL] (Fwd) [infowars] Hemp Aid, Roach Roast, Rainbow Farm & High Ti

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I found this today on the High Times web site under the "Activist
Calendar" section and I would like to remind everyone that Tom Crosslin
(owner of Rainbow Farms Campground Inc.) ripped me off for a FULL seven
months of labor putting the first Hemp Aid together in 1997, thousands of
dollars (I didn't get a dime from the gate above my expenses), attempted to
steal my hemp activist connections, threatened me with violence (i.e.;
"breaking both my legs if I told anyone" - Up yours Tom), and didn't pay
for the security services provided by the Southern Michigan Militia for
Hemp Aid in 1997, and there have been various reports of him not paying
others who worked for him since as well.
Tom has to be worth way over a million dollars by now but look at the
ticket price and realize the funds raised do not go toward legalization
just in his pocket. I am appalled at High Times support of this tyrant,
rich, rip off, S.O.B. considering they know I hold the registered Service
Mark for Hemp Aid. Steve Hager actually got mad at me when I made him aware
of this. Oh, and they want full ticket price if you bring your dog, what a
rip off.

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[CTRL] Hobgoblins! Save Us!

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Hobgoblins! Save Us!
by James Waddell

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep
the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be
led to safety, by menacing it with an endless
series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
~ H.L. Mencken, 1923

In J.R.R Tolkien's novel The Hobbit, the wizard Gandalf warns
Bilbo that the Grey Mountains are "simply stiff with goblins,
hobgoblins, and orcs of the worst description".

In Mencken's time, hobgoblins also ran wild. But they were
of a different sort. The demon Alcohol had people clamoring
for Prohibition, enough that a Constitutional amendment was
actually passed to ban it. The horrible fiends Capitalism
and Business scared people enough that they embraced The
New Deal, a government intrusion into the economy which would
have been unimaginable a few decades earlier.

Mencken would have no trouble recognizing today's hobgoblins.
Global warming. Pesticides. Industrial chemicals.
Biotechnology (for that matter, just about anything that
makes our lives easier, or our food cheaper and more abundant).
Cell-phones (remember they were supposed to cause brain cancer?
And now they are the only cause of auto accidents that anyone
seems concerned about. Verizon must have fallen behind in their
campaign contributions). Second-hand smoke. Suburban sprawl.
HMOs. Guns. Drugs. Income inequality (yes, a shameless,
self-promoting link to one of my earlier articles). Microsoft.
Saddam Hussien. China. Trade Deficits. Even bad airline service
(remember the "Airline Passenger's Bill of Rights"?)!

They come in all shapes and sizes, but they all have something
in common. They are used by politicians (and their allies in
the media) to frighten people into thinking that something
must be done (by the government, of course). The result is
that politicians solidify and expand their power, and we lose
our liberties. And, almost without exception, the government's
action makes the problem worse, and thus enables them to call
for further action. And so we have gun-control laws that make
our streets less safe, chemical bans that make us less healthy,
and a foreign policy that endangers, rather than protects,
our citizens.

Global warming is one scare whose persistence has mystified
me. The basic claim of the global warmers is so easy to debunk,
that I can't understand why I still have to hear about it. By
now, global warming should have gone the way of its cousin,
global cooling (which was all the rage 25 years ago, as
scientists told us we were headed into another ice age).

Here are the basics on global warming. The Earth has warmed
over the last century, but most of that warming occurred
before 1940, when many fewer cars roamed the earth. From
1940 to 1975, a cooling period took place. Since then, the
temperature has been relatively stable. So, the impact of
human activity on the earth's temperature would seem minimal.
Yes, ground-based measurements do show warming in recent
decades, but these measurements suffer from what is known
as the urban heat island effect. In simple terms, this means
that most temperatures are measured in urban areas, often at
airports. As urban areas have grown, more acreage has been
paved over. Anyone who has ever walked across a parking lot
in July in bare feet knows what happens to asphalt in the
sun. It gets real hot. So, the fact that urban, ground-based
temperature measurements show warming is really rather
uninteresting.

Satellite measurements, which are not affected by asphalt,
are more interesting. They actually show a (small) cooling
over the past 20 years. There you have it. Theory debunked.
All of this information has been available for at least
three or four years now (look it up yourself), yet we still
have to listen to European politicians whining about George
Bush's rather tepid opposition to Kyoto. His concerns about
how much the Kyoto treaty will cost are valid, but they miss
the real target. Global warming is a hobgoblin, and a rather
easy one to slay at that.

I don't have a magic solution on how stop the hobgoblins. Nor
do I think one exists. As long as men seek power, they will
use fear as a means to obtain that power. So, new hobgoblins
will appear all the time, and many old ones will get
resurrected. But when they do, give my approach a try. As
soon as I hear about a new scare, I immediately assume that
it's phony. The scarier it sounds, the more I am sure that
there is absolutely nothing to it. I then read about it as
the weeks pass by, and see if any real facts appear that
might change my mind. It almost never happens. Hobgoblins,
after all, are just imaginary.


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[CTRL] Reporter's jailing by feds draws criticism

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07/29/2001 - Updated 11:15 PM ET
Reporter's jailing by feds draws criticism
By Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAY


By Joe Jaszewski, AP/Houston Chronicle
Vanessa Leggett's case raises concerns that John Ashcroft may take
protections away from journalists.

The jailing of a Texas reporter who refused to give her research to U.S.
prosecutors has raised concerns that Attorney General John
  Ashcroft is reversing a policy that gives journalists wide latitude in
protecting
  confidential sources and unpublished information.
At the Justice Department's request, a federal judge jailed freelance
writer Vanessa Leggett on July 20 on contempt of court charges after
  she refused to turn over notes, tape recordings and other material she
collected
  while researching a book on the slaying of Doris Angleton in 1997.
Angleton
  was the wife of Robert Angleton, a millionaire ex-bookie who was
acquitted in
  1998 of hiring his brother to commit the murder.
The decision to jail Leggett, done at prosecutors' behest by an
unidentified judge in a closed court hearing in Houston, has drawn
criticism
  from press freedom groups and has become the latest curious twist in
the U.S.
  government's pursuit of the Angleton case. The focus of the federal
investigation
  is unclear.
The Justice Department last had a reporter jailed in 1991,
  when four South Carolina journalists were locked up for eight hours
when they refused to testify at the corruption trial of a state senator.
Since 1973, the U.S. attorney general has been required to approve
every federal subpoena issued
  to a reporter as well as every request by federal prosecutors to arrest a
reporter.
Justice Department spokesman Chris Watney declined to discuss
Leggett's case or whether Ashcroft was involved. Watney said that
under federal
  policy, Ashcroft's approval would not be needed in such a case if
prosecutors
  did not consider the person withholding material to be a journalist.
"This is a darn significant case," said Lucy Dalglish,
  executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the
Press. "It's
  either an important shift in policy or (prosecutors are) ignorant of a
Justice Department policy in effect since the Nixon administration."
Leggett, 33, a writing teacher at the University of Houston,
  does not have a contract for her book and has not published any
articles related
  to it. She has talked with several magazines about publishing a story
on the murder case, however.
Leggett has spent several years researching the slaying
  in April 1997 of Doris Angleton, whose husband, Robert, was acquitted
in a state
  court in August 1998.
Robert Angleton's brother, Roger Angleton, committed suicide
  in jail in February 1998, leaving a confession that said he had acted
alone.
  Leggett interviewed Roger Angleton before his suicide.
The U.S. government began investigating Robert Angleton
  after his acquittal.
Media attorneys say that if U.S. officials pushed to jail
  Leggett with the idea that federal protections for journalists did not
apply
  to her, the officials were in error.
"She stands in the same shoes as any television or newspaper
  reporter," says Robert Lystad, an attorney for the Society of
Professional Journalists who is not involved in Leggett's case. "She's
exactly the type of reporter or
  book author who shouldn't be harassed into turning over her notes."
Leggett's jailing also has been criticized because it was
  done secretly. The hearing was closed to the public at the
government's request.
  The transcript is sealed, and the judge's name was not released.
"It's one thing to incarcerate a member of the press for
  not doing what the government wants. But to do it in secret and
threaten to
  jail (her) lawyer for talking about the details is outrageous," said Mike
DeGuerin, Leggett's attorney.
The Angleton murder case has attracted considerable attention
  in Houston. The CBS show 48 Hours is preparing a report on it.
Ken Paulson, executive director of the First Amendment
  Center, said Leggett will have difficulty winning her appeal. Texas does
not
  have a "shield law" that lets reporters protect confidential sources and
research material.
Leggett can be held for up to 18 months on the contempt
  charges.



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Re: [CTRL] Privacy Not

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>
> Perhaps with all the concerns about wiretaps, e-mail snooping and the like,
> this might be a nice place to encourage the use of PGP encryption.  It
> would be kind of like sticking our e-mails in a lockbox that only we can
> open. Only thing is... how do we know an "informant" is not among us.  I
> dunno... Maybe it's not even worth trying.  It's not like we're conspiring
> to overthrow the government or anything.  We're just discussing things that
> the government would probably prefer that we not even know about.
>
> Thing is, though, if enough people use PGP, the government would spend so
> much time straining their computers to crack the codes of e-mails that it
> might make e-mail snooping something that's not worth doing anymore.
>
> Might cause a mess, though... Does the list get a PGP key?  Do we all share
> our keys with each other?  Plus we'd have to type in a passphrase for every
> e-mail.  But is it any more inconvenient than opening an envelope?
>
> Damaeus
>

The only way this would work would be for the list to share it's private
key with every member, which would pretty much defeat the purpose of
a private key.  The snoops could get the key by subscribing to the list.


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the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
-Article 29, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Adopted and
proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December
1948.

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Re: [CTRL] Couple sues over flaming Pop-Tart

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On 30 Jul 2001, at 7:42, Peat wrote:

> Couple sues over flaming Pop-Tart
> http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/07/28/life.poptart.reut/
>

> Brenda Hurff of Washington Township put a cherry Pop-Tart in the toaster
> and left the house to drive her children to preschool, the newspaper said.
> When she returned 10 to 20 minutes later, smoke was pouring from the home
> and firefighters were already on the scene.
>

She must have an IQ 10 points lower than the average garden slug.  Of
course she wants Kellog to payfor her stupidity.

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[CTRL] (Fwd) [PCL] Socialist Fire, Socialist Death

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Socialist Fire; Socialist Death

by Walter Block

[Posted July 30, 2001]

The headline in the newspaper was horrendous: "Wildfire kills 4
firefighters in N. Cascades." Pictured was Pete Soderquist, the fire
management officer in charge on the Cascade Mountains in central Washington
state, who explained that the deaths occurred "when what had been a
five-acre fire exploded into a wall of flame that trapped the crew."

Also featured in photographs were the four firefiighters who perished:
30-year-old Tom Craven, 18-year-old Karen Fitzpatrick, 21-year-old Devin
Weaver, and 19-year-old Jessica Johnson, all who lived in either Ellensburg
or Yakima, Washington.

Any time there is a death of a human being, it is a tragedy (the reaction
of the overpopulationists to the contrary notwithstanding). When death
occurs for any reason other than old age, it is even worse. When death is
not instantaneous and relatively painless, this is worse yet.

When the victims are four people in the prime of their lives, the degree of
catastrophe rises even more, in view of the now never-to-be-realized
potential these four youngsters might have attained had they lived.

So far, these comments are pretty conventional. Very few would demur. But
there are two controversial points to be made about this tragedy, both of
which may teach important lessons.

First, this calamity occurred on public property, not private. The flames
that consumed these four people were in the Okanogan and Wenatchee National
Forests and are believed to have been set near Thirty Mile Campground,
another example of socialized land ownership. Now, I am not saying that
deaths never occur on private property, nor am I maintaining that these
particular occurrences necessarily would have been avoided had these lands
been under private control.

The two are related, however. When a forest fire consumes private timber,
there are individuals who feel it in their bank accounts; this is not the
case with socialized land holdings. This means that profit-making
individuals have greater incentives—by how much is an empirical matter—to
take greater precautions regarding their property than their public
counterparts do.

If we have learned anything from the fall of the Soviet economic system—and
this is a highly debatable point—it is that things work better under
private ownership. These four young people will have not died totally in
vain if we use their deaths as a rallying cry for privatization of the
forests. Perhaps if we succeed in this effort, other lives will be saved.

Second, there were two females amongst the death toll in this fire. I see
their smiling faces shining out at me from the newspaper coverage of this
event. Both young ladies were very pretty.

There was a time in our past when no such thing could have occurred: when
firefighting—along with other such dangerous activities as mining,
policing, soldiering, lumberjacking, deep-sea fishing, etc.—were the total
province of men. Women and children died in calamities, to be sure, but
only if they were caught up in them as victims. Nowadays, with our modern
dispensations, we place females in the front lines.

This is no less than an abomination. Females are far more precious than
males. It is not for nothing that farmers keep a few bulls and hundreds of
cows. It is due to patriarchy that we owe our very existence as a species.
Imagine if our cavemen ancestors had sent their women out to hunt and face
the lions and tigers when they came a-calling, instead of throwing
themselves at these enemies and sacrificing themselves so that mankind
could persist.

After World War II, the adult male populations of Germany, Russia, and
other countries that suffered the most from the fighting were virtually
wiped out. Yet the next generation, thanks to the relatively few men who
survived, was able to come into being as if those losses had never
occurred. Imagine if this war had been fought primarily by the fairer sex;
there would have been virtually no next generation. It cannot be denied
that, biologically speaking, men are, in effect, expendable drones.

So let us use the unfortunate deaths of these two young girls to resolve to
turn back the clock to an earlier day when women were treated the way they
should be treated. Let us return from "firefighters" to "firemen." Let us
no longer blithely acquiesce in the senseless slaughter of precious
females. Let us, instead, place them back up on that "pedestal" from which
the so-called feminist movement has thrown them.

Now, of course, in a free society, peo

[CTRL] Fw: CHANDRA'S DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE

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MEDIUM RARE

By Jim Rarey


July 31, 2001




CHANDRA'S DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE


This writer has been challenged by several subscribers to provide more
information on which the scenario was based in the Medium Rare article of
July 26th (Condit's Rock and a Hard Place). In that article it was
postulated that Chandra Levi may have come into possession of information
that made her dangerous to powerful people, not necessarily Gary Condit,
that required her "elimination."

Consequently, please bear with us while we "build the case."

It appears obvious that Chandra is (was) a bright inquisitive girl and
young woman with a penchant for intrigue.

In high school Chandra joined the Explorer Scouts police program where she
sometimes worked undercover to catch retailers selling alcohol to minors.
She was also a writer for the school newspaper.


After her 1995 high school graduation she spent four years at San Francisco
State University majoring in journalism with a minor in criminal justice.
She entered the graduate program at the University of Southern California
(USC) working toward, and earning, a masters degree in public
administration.

The USC program required a number of internships in lieu of a dissertation,
which Chandra fulfilled with a vengeance.

An in depth article by Washington Times writer Frank J. Murray, entitled
"Who is Chandra Levy," outlines an extensive and curious convergence with
the Condit family.

>From August 1998 to August 1999 she was an editorial assistant in the
>sports department of the Modesto Bee newspaper, a part of a newspaper
>chain including the Sacramento Bee which is a left leaning partisan
>supporter of California Democrats.

Overlapping that internship was a stint at the Modesto police department
where she worked as a clerk. Condit's older brother is a Modesto police
officer who was demoted in rank stemming from unauthorized purchases and
disposal of firearms from the police inventory of confiscated weapons.

During the period she was with the police department, Chandra, then 22, had
a year-long affair with another police officer Mark Steele, ten years her
senior. Steele, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, said Chandra
took it hard when he broke off the relationship and continued to pursue
him. Steel is no longer with the department.

For three months in 1999, ending in December, Chandra interned in the
lobbying office of Republican Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan.

>From February to June 2000 she interned on the legal staff of Democrat
>Governor Gray Davis. Two of Gary Condit's offspring were also on Davis'
>staff at that time. Son Chad was the governor's liaison to the Central
>Valley at a starting salary of $95,234 a year. Daughter Cadee made $30,000
>a year as a Davis press aide. It is not known if Chandra knew or even met
>Condit's daughter and son.

In October of 2000 Chandra started her intern job at the Bureau of Prisons
in Washington, D.C. According to Murray's article, "Her job at the Bureau
of Prisons information office required her to do Internet searches and scan
newspapers to prepare daily news summaries, answer telephone calls and
mail, and help with special projects. In one, she coordinated media
attendance at planning sessions for the execution of Oklahoma bomber
Timothy McVeigh." (Emphasis added.)

According to a Washington Post story, Chandra's duties also included
researching Bureau of Prison records.

In an earlier article, this writer had speculated that Chandra, during her
research, may have come across evidence supporting allegations made on the
Internet that Dr. Louis Jolyn (Jolly) West had visited McVeigh in prison a
number of times. One such article asserted the number of visits was
seventeen.

Dr. West (since conveniently deceased) was deeply involved in mind control
experiments with ties to the CIA. At one time West had tried to set up a
department at UCLA, where he was a professor, involving melting of brain
synapses to control the subjects' minds. These rumors had fostered the
belief in some that McVeigh was indeed a "Manchurian Candidate" programmed
for the Oklahoma bombing. McVeigh at one time claimed that a microchip had
been implanted in him while in the service.

It is entirely reasonable to suggest that Chandra may have uncovered such
evidence during her search of bureau records. If she let the wrong person,
including Condit, know she had that evidence, she may have signed her own
death warrant.

In the writer's last article, it was also suggested that the intelligence
community might be trying to divert attention from Condit to relieve
pressure on him from some damaging disclosure he could make.

Supporting that suspicion is one fact of which knowledgable readers will
immediately grasp the significance. The FBI's lead investigator on the Levy
case is one Bradley J. Garrett. According to author and investigative
reporter Todd Fahey, who specializes in intelligence affairs

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Pubdate: Tue, 24 Jul 2001
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PRIVACY OF BANKING RECORDS ANOTHER DRUG WAR CASUALTY

Our government hates money.

Now that might sound odd, since Congress is so very good at spending it,
but the truth is, money is considered a drug-war enemy.  The ease with
which money moves without our government being able to track it has led to
an elaborate set of rules designed to prevent narcotics smugglers from
enjoying their illicit profits.  But the consequence of these rules is that
all of us who engage in financial transactions are now targets of
government spying.

Today, every bank customer is a suspect.  If a financial institution has
reason to believe a transaction is out of the ordinary for that person, it
must submit a "suspicious activity report" to the Treasury Department's
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.  This is done without the customer's
knowledge and it means banks are expected to know their customers'
financial habits and revenue sources.

( For those who have been following these issues, this might sound like the
"Know Your Customer" regulations that were defeated in 1999 when the
government received over 300,000 negative public comments.  While the
regulations were withdrawn, the suspicious activity report program
continues under the Bank Secrecy Act.  )

Since 1997 the U.S.  Postal Service Office has also been sending
"suspicious activity reports" to the federal government.  When customers of
money orders and wire transfers seem to have more money than they should or
if they seem to be avoiding the reporting requirements that kick in for
money orders of $3,000 or more, a report must be filed.  In a training
video on how to identify a suspicious transaction, the postal service tells
its employees, "It's better to report 10 legal transactions than to let one
illegal transaction get by." The program is called "Under the Eagle's Eye."
A name that says it all.

But getting American banks and the postal service to rat out their mostly
innocent customers was the easy part.  It's getting the rest of the world
to join in that's been the challenge.

If you want a reason to join the black-helicopter set, read the reports put
out by the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering, the 29-nation
financial task force that includes the U.S., Germany, Japan and the rest of
the world's richest industrial nations.  The task force has developed a set
of 40 "recommendations" to combat international money laundering that read
like the postal services' training video.

Under the recommendations, all countries around the world are expected to
force their banks to know their customers and their financial
habits.  Banks are also expected to submit "suspicious activity reports" on
out-of-the-ordinary and large cash transactions, and keep the monitoring
program secret from their customers.

Sound familiar?

According to Bradley Jansen of the Free Congress Foundation, the group that
has been leading the battle against these incursions, "Countries are also
supposed to set up foreign intelligence units that are not under the
control of the government's financial regulators but under law enforcement,
with the aim of setting up a global network of unaccountable financial police."

In June, FATF issued its annual report of "blacklisted" countries -- those
nations that have made insufficient progress in following FATF's
recommendations.  This year Russia and the Philippines made the list, as
well as 13 other nations.

Those that make the blacklist are subject to full-blown economic sanctions,
something our government is loath to do, or advisories issued to our own
banks to require detailed documentation before doing business there, an
approach that relies on voluntary cooperation to limited effect.

But for the past two Congresses, a bill has been introduced to give the
secretary of the Treasury vast new unilateral powers to add teeth to FATF's
blacklist.  The International Counter-Money Laundering and Anticorruption
Act would give the Treasury secretary the option of barring U.S.  banks
from doing business with n

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Pubdate: Sat, 28 Jul 2001
Source: Baltimore Sun (MD)
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Author: Gregory Kane

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WAR ON DRUGS

READ IT and scream.

The story is about a man named Andrew Chambers.  The Los Angeles Times and
St.  Louis Post-Dispatch are among the newspapers that have written about
Chambers, who may become a symbol for everything that is wrong with the
"war on drugs."

For 16 years, Chambers was an informant for the Drug Enforcement
Administration.  His snitching led to the arrests of more than 400 suspects
and the seizure of $6 million in assets.  That's the good news.  But the
bad news is very bad.

Chambers lied under oath on 16 different occasions.  He was arrested 13
times on various charges -- including forgery and fraud -- while an
informant.  DEA agents either bailed him out or finagled the "justice"
system into dropping the charges.  DEA agents also knew of Chambers'
perjury and criminal record and hid it from prosecutors and defense
lawyers.  But they continued shelling out the dough to him.  In 16 years,
Chambers made $1.8 million.

Do the math.  ( Lord knows, Chambers probably couldn't.  He dropped out of
high school ).  That comes to $112,500 annually for each of the 16 years
Chambers was dropping dimes on drug suspects across the country.  Those of
you who work real jobs for 30, 40 or 50 grand a year and who graduated from
high school or college must be wondering where you went wrong, because you
got chumped -- we all got chumped -- by lunkhead government officials
running the "war on drugs."

And this is not a partisan issue.  Liberals and conservatives have
supported the "war on drugs" and its primary strategy: Lock up enough black
inner-city drug dealers or addicts and we'll win the war.  Employ as many
confidential informants as we can, even if, like Chambers, they prove to be
unreliable.  ( Rick Escobar, a lawyer quoted in one news story, said there
are hundreds of informants like Chambers running around.  )

Stop cars on the highways and search them for drugs.  Frisk passengers
returning from flights abroad for drugs.  Kick in doors and terrorize
citizens based on the tips of these informants.  If we find drugs,
fine.  If not, it's no big deal.  We're waging a war here.

Candidates, both Democratic and Republican, campaign on continuing and
winning the "war on drugs." But here's what they won't tell you: We're not
winning it, and it probably can't be won.  We've supposedly had shortages
of a number of things over the years.  There was an oil shortage.  Drought
in the West caused a water shortage.  California recently experienced a
power shortage.  There's even been a shortage of the paper that makes up
the newspaper you're now reading.

But you haven't heard of a shortage of heroin or cocaine, have you? In
spite of all the arrests, all the interdiction, all the searches and the
doors kicked in and the trials and the snitching, there's still enough dope
in America for all its drug addicts to get happily high.  We look at that
evidence and then nod sheepishly when politicians tell us we need not a
change, but more of the same.

So who's responsible for characters like Chambers? The DEA? The FBI and
IRS? ( Chambers worked for them, too.  ) No.  We are.  We're the ones who
pony up tax dollars for the drug war.  We're the ones funding this
lunacy.  We're the ones not holding politicians accountable.  When someone
comes along, like former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke, and suggests
decriminalizing drugs and treating addiction like a health crisis, we
haughtily thrust our noses skyward and sniff, "We will never do that.  It
will send the wrong message."

Perhaps it's time we consider what message we send by paying an Andrew
Chambers nearly $2 million to lie.  Next to him, the drug addict who
candidly admits, "I just want a hit of heroin or crack," seems downright
refreshing.  But we prefer the hypocrisy and perfidy of a Chambers to the
honesty of a drug addict.  Maybe that's because we're all a bit
hypocritical in the messages we send.

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[CTRL] Fw: Rural Cleansing-Wall Street Journal

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> --
> -- 
>   Our Klamath Basin Water Crisis
>   Fighting for Our Right to Irrigate Our Farms and Caretake Our
>   Natural
> Resources
>
> Rural Cleansing
>
>   Wall Street Journal - Rural Cleansing 7/26/01
>
> Commentary
>   Rural Cleansing
>   By Kimberley A. Strassel.
> Ms. Strassel is an assistant
> editorial features editor at the Journal.
>
>
>
>   Federal authorities were forced to cut off water to 1,500
>   farms in
> Oregon's  and California's Klamath Basin in April because of the
> "endangered" sucker  fish. The environmental groups behind the cutoff
> continue to declare that  they are simply concerned for the welfare of a
> bottom-feeder. But last  month, those environmentalists revealed another
> motive when they submitted a  polished proposal for the government to buy
> out the farmers and move them
> off their land.
>
> This is what's really happening in Klamath -- call it
> rural
> cleansing -- and  it's repeating itself in environmental battles
> across the country. Indeed,  the goal of many environmental groups --
> from the Sierra Club to the Oregon  Natural Resources Council (ONRC) --
> is no longer to protect nature. It's to  expunge humans from the
> countryside.
>
> The Greens' Strategy
>
> The strategy of these environmental groups is nearly
> always the
> same: to sue  or lobby the government into declaring rural areas
> off-limits to people who  live and work there. The tools for doing
> this include the Endangered Species  Act and local preservation laws,
> most of which are so loosely crafted as to  allow a wide leeway in their
> implementation.
>
> In some cases owners lose their property outright. More
> often,
> the  environmentalists' goal is to have restrictions placed on the
> land that either render it unusable or persuade owners to leave of
> their own accord.
>
> The Klamath Basin saga began back in 1988, when two
> species of
> suckers from  the area were listed under the Endangered Species Act.
> Things worked  reasonably well for the first few years after the suckers
> were listed. The  Bureau of Reclamation, which controls the area's
> irrigation, took direction  from the Fish and Wildlife Service, and tried
> to balance the needs of both  fish and farmers. This included programs to
> promote water conservation and  tight control over water flows. The
> situation was tense, but workable.
>
> But in 1991 the Klamath basin suffered a drought, and Fish
> and
> Wildlife  noted that the Bureau of Reclamation might need to do more for
> the fish.  That was the environmentalists' cue. Within two months, the
> ONRC -- the pit  bull of Oregon's environmental groups -- was announcing
> intentions to sue  the Bureau of Reclamation for failure to protect the
> fish.
>
> The group's lawsuits weren't immediately successful, in
> part
> because Fish  and Wildlife continued to revise its opinions as to what
> the fish needed,  and in part because of the farmers' undeniable water
> rights, established in  1907. But the ONRC kept at it and finally found a
> sympathetic ear. This  spring, a federal judge -- in deciding yet another
> lawsuit brought by the  ONRC, other environmental groups, fishermen and
> Indian tribes -- ordered an  unwilling Interior Department to shut the
> water off. The ONRC had succeeded  in denying farmers the ability to make
> a living.
>
> Since that decision, the average value of an acre of farm
> property in  Klamath has dropped from $2,500 to about $35. Most owners
> have no other source of income. And so with the region suitably
> desperate, the enviros  dropped their bomb. Last month, they submitted a
> proposal urging the  government to buy the farmers off.
>
> The council has suggested a price of $4,000 an acre, which
> makes
> it more  likely owners will sell only to the government. While the
> amount is more  than the property's original value, it's nowhere near
> enough to compensate  people for the loss of their livelihoods and their
> children's futures.
>
> The ONRC has picked its fight specifically with the
> farmers, but
> its actions  will likely mean the death of an entire community. The
> farming industry will lose $250 million this year. But property-tax
> revenues will also decrease  under new property assessments. That will
> strangle road and municipal  projects. Local businesses are dependent on
> the farmers and are now  suffering financially. Should the farm acreage
> be cleared of people entirely, meaning no taxes and no shoppers, the
> commun

[CTRL] (Fwd) FEAR: US MN: Hennepin Public Defenders Seek New Standard

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HENNEPIN PUBLIC DEFENDERS SEEK NEW STANDARD FOR SEARCHES

If police don't suspect that a crime is being committed, they shouldn't
even be allowed to ask to search a motorist or a car, public defenders in
Hennepin County are arguing in court papers.

Consent searches too often target minority members whose cars have been
pulled over because of racial profiling, the public defenders
contend.  They're asking a district judge to throw out evidence from such
searches when police haven't been able to articulate suspicions for
requesting them.

If the issue goes to the appellate level, a ruling in their favor would
make Minnesota among the first in the country to set that standard.

As the law stands, police don't need a person's consent to search if
officers have "probable cause," or a fair probability, that a crime is
being committed, experts said.  And if officers suspect that a person may
be carrying weapons and putting police in danger, they can conduct a
cursory pat search.  But if they have limited or no evidence of a crime,
they must get a person's consent to search.  People are under no obligation
to agree, but most do, experts say..

Defense attorneys argue that too often police seek consent searches solely
on the basis of a person's skin color.

"We see on a regular basis, on routine traffic stops, police will ask
people of color certain questions, like 'Do you have guns?' 'Do you have
drugs?' 'Can I search your car?'" said Chief Public Defender Leonardo
Castro, who directed his staff to file the brief.

Police argue that such inquiries, regardless of whom they're directed to,
sometimes lead to arrests, improving public safety.  Limiting their ability
to ask for such searches would go too far, one said.

"The consent to search is really where so much is accomplished toward
public safety," said Sgt.  Wally Krueger, vice president of the Police
Officers Federation of Minneapolis.  "To have articulable reasons ...  it's
preventing a law enforcement avenue that leads to numerous arrests.  A lot
of times, you may think something's wrong, but you can't yet articulate a
particular crime."

And by linking the issue to racial profiling, the practice of stopping
people based on their race, he added, "They're asking you ...  to prove
first that you did not racial profile before you can further a law
enforcement action."

A Case In Point

The public defender's argument, filed in a brief in Hennepin County
District Court, arises from the case of 18-year-old Mustafaa Naji Fort.  He
was a passenger in a car that was pulled over for speeding and a cracked
windshield in March in Minneapolis.  An officer asked for consent to search
Fort, who is black, court papers say.  The officer found lumps of cocaine
in a pocket, and Fort was charged.

Defense attorneys argue that the officer had no good reason to suspect that
Fort was doing anything wrong and shouldn't have even asked for a search.

If no "race-neutral reason to suspect wrongdoing" exists, then consent
searches should be considered invalid, they contend.

"We're not trying to eliminate consent searches," said James Kamin, first
assistant public defender.  "We're asking that you need a reason to begin
to go down the consent path."

Some in the legal community say that could mean big changes.

"This would change law pretty dramatically in Minnesota," said Scott
Hersey, head of the criminal division of the Dakota County attorney's office.

Though under federal law an officer doesn't need a reasonable suspicion to
ask for a consent search, higher courts in Minnesota, which can rule on the
state's view of that issue, haven't addressed it specifically.  Hennepin
County District Judge Kevin Burke ruled last year that if police have no
articulable reason other than a person's race, consent isn't considered valid.

Hennepin County public defenders say they want to get a favorable ruling
that has more statewide significance.  The issue is now before a district
judge and needs at least an Appeals Court ruling in order to set a precedent.

Some in the legal community say the timing of the brief -- in the midst of
racial profiling discussions -- may give defense attorneys the results
they're seeking.

A New Jersey appeals court has already ruled that police cannot ask for
consent to search without at least "an articulable suspicion," a

[CTRL] Legalization: The drug war's best weapon (Fwd)

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Legalization: The drug war's best weapon
By GWYNNE DYER
LONDON -- In Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Switzerland it is practically
impossible to get arrested for buying or using "soft drugs." In the
Netherlands, users may buy up to five grams of cannabis or hashish for
private use at 1,500 licensed "coffee shops," and they are opening two
drive-through outlets in the border town of Venlo to cater to German
purchasers. Even in Canada, Conservative leader and former Prime
Minister Joe Clark is openly calling for the decriminalization of cannabis.

But that is still far short of what Sir David Ramsbotham, the outgoing
chief inspector of prisons, suggested last Sunday in Britain.
"The more I look at what's happening, the more I can see the logic of
legalizing drugs, because the misery that is caused by the people who
are making criminal profit is so appalling and the sums are so great that
are being made illegally. I think there is merit in legalizing and
prescribing, so people don't have to go and find an illegal way of doing
it," he said.

You will note that he said "drugs," not just "cannabis," and that he
talked of "legalizing and prescribing," not just "decriminalizing." Most
British politicians are afraid to go that far in public yet, but over the past
week two former home secretaries and outgoing British "drugs czar"
Keith Hellawell have all called for a debate on decriminalizing "soft
drugs." And the new home secretary, David Blunkett, has given his
support to a local experiment in the south London district of Brixton,
where police will simply caution people found with cannabis.

Others, like Mo Mowlam, until recently the Cabinet Office minister
responsible for the Labour government's drug policy, and Peter Lilley,
former minister for social security and Conservative deputy leader, are
now going further. "It strikes me as totally irrational to decriminalize
cannabis without looking at the sale of it," said Mowlam. "It would be an
absurdity to have criminals controlling the market of a substance people
can use legally."

Lilley quoted a study in the respected medical journal "The Lancet" that
concluded that "moderate indulgence in cannabis has little ill effect on
health, and decisions to ban or to legalize cannabis should be based on
other considerations." For Lilley, banning cannabis is indefensible in a
country where more harmful drugs like alcohol and tobacco are legal
and he went the distance in accepting the implications of legalization.
Magistrates should issue licenses to local shops for the sale of limited
amounts of cannabis to people over 18, Lilley said. Like tobacco, it
would be taxed and carry a health warning -- and the tax yield on an
estimated annual British consumption of 1,500 tons of cannabis a year
has been calculated at about $23 billion if the cannabis were produced
and marketed in exactly the same way as tobacco.

That is a pipe dream, of course. Many people would grow their own, and
given the pre-existing black market, too high a rate of taxation on
cannabis would simply push consumers back into the hands of the
private dealers. Most experts think the highest practical rate of taxation
would be around $3-$4 per gram, which would yield a mere $7-8 billion a
year in extra tax revenue. But it would also cut law enforcement costs --
and it would keep cannabis users out of contact with "hard drug"
dealers.

Opposition to legalizing cannabis has dropped from 66 percent to only
51 percent in the past five years, and the nay-sayers are overwhelmingly
in the older age groups. It is a welcome outbreak of sanity, and even
mere decriminalization in a major English-speaking country would have
a profound effect on the debate in the United States, the heart and soul
of the prohibitionist movement. But legalization of cannabis in Britain is
unlikely because the U.S. government strong-armed all its allies into
signing three international conventions that define cannabis as a
dangerous drug.

To break out of those treaties would involve a larger effort of political will
than any government with many other items on its agenda would be
willing to undertake. So millions of individual Britons may benefit from
the decriminalization of cannabis and an end to harassment, but the
potentially large social and tax benefits of outright legalization are likely
to be lost.

The bigger problem, however, is that most British advocates of
decriminalization or legalization are too ignorant or too timid to extend
the same argument to "hard drugs" like heroin and cocaine.
Nobody should use heroin, a highly addictive substance, for fun. Nobody
should smoke cigarettes either, since they are even more addictive and
a grave health hazard to boot. But quite apart from the civil rights
considerations, nobody in their right minds would consider making
cigarettes illegal.

The consequences of banning tobacco, in terms of creating a huge
black market, expanding the field of operations o

[CTRL] Who's innocent?

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Who's innocent?
July 27, 2001
Paul Hein tells why all victims in war are innocent.


In the outpouring of verbiage attendant to the execution of Timothy
McVeigh, there were numerous references to "innocent" victims.
Certainly, those whom McVeigh killed were innocent of any evil intention
towards him, or of any past wrongdoing directed at him:  indeed, it is
almost certain that his victims had never heard of him.

They were also innocent in that they had not committed any act calling
for the death penalty.  But McVeigh evidently considered himself a
soldier, acting against an enemy.  In military operations there are
always deaths of "innocent" civilians.  This concept of innocence is an
interesting one.

Military operations are to be directed toward military targets, sparing the
civilian population.  But, in practice, this is not done.  For one reason or
another, civilians are always targeted.  Without them, for instance, the
soldier would be starving, naked, unarmed, and immobile.  Innocent
civilians provide the soldier with transportation, weapons, food, and
clothing.  (Do governments provide their soldiers with uniforms to make
them conspicuous targets?)

And what of the soldiers themselves?  Most of them were, until a short
time before entering battle, innocent civilians. They were given a choice
by their governments of entering military service, or prison.  Nearly all
chose military service, for to go to prison means giving up your freedom
for a while, wearing a uniform, eating when and what you are offered,
rising and retiring when told to do so, and working at some task which
may not be to your liking, whereas, if you accept military service, you
will eat when and what you are offered, get up and retire when told to do
so, wear a uniform, give up your freedom for a while, and perform tasks
which may not be to your liking.  But prisoners are strongly discouraged
from killing anyone, whereas soldiers are given medals for doing it.
Wanton destruction of property is also encouraged for soldiers, not for
prisoners.

The same is true of the "enemy."  His government has also provided him
with what he needs to kill strangers against whom he has no particular
animosity, and threatened him with reprisals if he is disinclined to do
so.  Like the victims of McVeigh, the soldiers killed in battle had done
nothing deserving of the death penalty.  They were just in the wrong
place at the wrong time, like the workers in the ball-bearing factories at
Schweinfurt, or the oil fields at Ploesti.

If there is "guilt," as opposed to "innocence" in warfare, whether
declared or not, it might consist in acquiescing to the demands of those
who have a vested interest in the killing and looting.

Franz Jagerstatter was a farmer in an Austrian town so small it wasn't
on the map.  When Austria was incorporated into the Third Reich, in
1938, the men of Austria were told to report for induction into the
German army.  The alternative was not simply prison, but death.

Jagerstatter, declaring his refusal to serve in an immoral war, reported
as ordered, but declined induction.  He was arrested, and sentenced to
die. Even the night before his death, however, he could have saved his
life by signing a document pledging his fealty to Germany, and
accepting a non-combatant position in the German army.  He refused,
and was executed.  He was truly an innocent civilian!

There are, indeed, innocent victims in war.  They are not simply
civilians, but soldiers as well.  There is, indeed, guilt, as well.  Those
who are guilty do not risk their own lives or fortunes.  Perhaps the
soldiers, if they knew the truth, would point their rifles in a different
direction.  Or, even better, they would not allow themselves to become
soldiers at all.  In war, all who die are innocent victims!

Paul Hein, an ophthalmologist, is author of All Work and No Pay.  His
column, "Hein-sight," will run on alternate Fridays in Spintech.

http://www.spintechmag.com/2001/ph072701.htm8:41:05 AM 7/29/2001

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assume your enemy is *willing to commit suicide* when he attacks.
If you can stop him while saving yourself under those conditions,
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[CTRL] (Fwd) OT - Normal and Man Induced Global Warming of Earth:

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Source: http://www.mich.com/~donald/future.html
by Donald E Davison, July 27 2001

In order to properly understand the current global warming picture we
need
to first view normal global climate, that is, without the influence of
mankind.  Once we understand what has been happening for billions of
years
and what we can expect of the future under normal conditions, then we
can
add in human induced climate change.

We need to look at a very long climate period, from the start of life on
earth to recent times.  Before life on earth the climate was much warmer
than now.  At this end of that long climate period, in the last million
years, there has been a series of ice ages.  This is proof that the long
term trend has been a cooling down of the planet.  I say this is the result
of the storing of carbon, but even if I am wrong, we should do what we
can
to stop this cooling down of the planet.

As soon as life began, carbon started to be stored, first in the life
itself then in the form of top soil, peat, coal, oil, natural gas, etc. For
billions and billions of years our planet has been storing away more and
more carbon and for billions and billions of years our planet has been
getting cooler and cooler until now it spends most of its time locked into
ice ages lasting about 100,000 years each, divided by much shorter
warm
periods, most only ten thousand years long.

>From reports I have read, we are currently 12,000 years into a 30,000
year
warm period.  While three of four warm periods between ice ages are
only
10,000 years long, every fourth warm period lasts 30,000 years.  This,
we
are told, is because every once in awhile our planet goes into a more
circular orbit around the sun.  This causes our planet to receive a bit
more heat, which makes the warm period last longer.  My guess would
be that
the normal peak temperature of this current warm period would be
reached
sometime after the mid-point of our current 30,000 year warm period,
which
would be more than three thousand years from now.

There is enough time and heat in a 30,000 year warm period to melt all
the
sheet ice in the world, including Greenland and Antarctica.  We do not
know
exactly when this will be completed, but it could happen before the
mid-point of our current warm period.  Once the average temperature is
above freezing at a major ice sheet, the ice will break up and slide
quickly into the seas, ten or twenty or a hundred years is quick-time
compared to thirty thousand years.  First Greenland and then Antarctica,
this will cause the seas  to rise sixty to eighty feet.  This rise is going
to happen regardless of anything mankind has done or will do.  We will
not
be able to escape this big disruption, bigger than any mankind has ever
faced.  The rising seas will displace millions of people around the world,
sixty-five million in United States alone.

In the future, under normal conditions, we can expect the next ice age
will
start in about the year 20,000.  During which, sea levels will drop about
200 feet below current levels, but the drop will not be a major disruption
because it will happen slowly over thousands of years.  The ice caps will
be a disruption.
   We can expect the cooling of the planet to continue with future ice
ages
having larger and larger ice caps.
   That is the future climate picture for our planet without the influence
of mankind.

With the added influence of man taking carbon out of storage and
putting it
into the atmosphere, temperatures in this warm period will rise faster and
will reach higher levels than the normal peak.

This current warm period will last longer than the expected normal of
30,000 years, maybe for millions of years if mankind is able to stop and
reverse the long term cooling trend.  This is something that mankind
should
try to do, we should reverse the cooling trend. Yes, man has the power
to
delay the arrival of future ice ages, this will be good for life on this
planet.

Mankind should be able to take this planet back to the climate that
existed
before the ice ages.  There will be no fear that man will go too far back
in climate time.  Man will never be able to find and release all the carbon
that has been stored in the crust of the earth over billions of years.

Human induced global warming will cause the coming rise of sea levels
to
happen sooner than normal.  We should accept `sooner than normal' as
a
trade-off for the value of energy we receive from stored carbon and the
value of stopping and reversing the cooling down of the planet.  The seas
are going to rise anyway, man may as w

[CTRL] (Fwd) Eminent domain test

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July 23, 2001

   Refusing to Let Go, Property Owners Test Eminent
   Domain's Limits

   By LAURA MANSNERUS

NEW LONDON, Conn., July 19 ‹ The owners of
the last houses amid the scarred and weedy lots of
Fort Trumbull ask only to stay there while the
   city of New London realizes its dream of office
   buildings, apartment clusters and other upscale
   development rising in their neighborhood.

   But when the seven property owners go to Superior
   Court here Monday, they will challenge a larger practice
   that needy cities everywhere have latched on to: using
   the power of eminent domain, or condemnation, to force
   property owners to turn over their land to private
   developers.

   Such redevelopment projects promise jobs and tax
   revenue in places, like New London, where private
   investors are hard to find. And that reasoning has
   generally satisfied courts that are asked to decide
   whether displacing one private property owner on behalf
   of another would, as the Constitution requires, serve a
   "public use."

   But the New London case poses the question of whether
   this principle has any limits. And Matt Dery, whose
   family has owned houses in the old Italian-American
   neighborhood of Fort Trumbull since 1901, thinks it
   does. Mr. Dery acknowledged the sad condition of his
   city, the fourth poorest in Connecticut. But he asked:
   "Anybody who can make more money gets the property? I
   don't think that's what the founding fathers had in
   mind."

Full story at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/23/nyregion/23SEIZ.html


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are limited rights.  They are limited not only by the constitutional
guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees.
That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to
impair them.  No man may invoke a right in order to destroy
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[CTRL] Smart cameras will spot the guilty before they commit a crime

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http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,525656,00.html

Smart cameras will spot the guilty before they commit a crime
Nick Paton Walsh
SundayJuly  22, 2001
The Observer
They record our every move from almost every vantage point. But soon
CCTV cameras will have another power: the ability to predict crime on
Britain's streets.

Researchers at Sussex University have discovered how CCTV camera
controllers spot criminals by studying the way they walk.

The team of psychologists studied 10,000 excerpts from CCTV footage
and found a number of 'trigger signals' in criminal behaviour which
showed when offenders were about to commit a  crime.

The footage showed how car thieves tended to walk erratically and look
in directions irrelevant to their path of travel. Before an act of violence
culprits would walk aggressively, their arms static by their sides, taking
long purposeful strides.

Professor Tom Troscianko of the School of Cognitive and Computer
Sciences, who headed the study, said researchers chose a hundred
scenes from CCTV footage filmed around the country. Each scene
lasted 15 seconds and they were based around three scenarios: a fight
outside a public venue, violence against property in the street, and car
theft in an underground car park. Some scenes depicted the moments
prior to a crime while others showed activity that did not result in a
crime.

A hundred people - 50 professional CCTV controllers and 50 civilian
volunteers - were asked to watch the footage and guess which scene
would result in a crime and indicate when during the 15 seconds they
had reached their decision.

'The actual crime was never shown' said Troscianko. 'In each sequence
we recorded the exact movements of the people. We looked at the
moments in each sequence which increased the chance of people
making the right prediction that a crime would happen.'

The types of behaviour were then ranked. 'When these trigger factors
were present, like a type of walk or a type of "gaze behaviour", we saw
that people were approximately twice as likely to   predict a crime' said
Troscianko.

Before a violent act like a fight, an assailant walked in a very aggressive
way. 'The stride length and speed of walk would increase, but they
would not run. Their arms did not move much, and tended to stay down
at their sides. They walk in a direct line purposefully.' Similar patterns
were observed before damage was done to property.
Before a car theft a culprit would walk slowly or even remain still while
looking around. 'He will be looking to see if he is being observed.'
The team are now seeking funding to develop software to continue their
work. But campaigners have expressed concern at a new breed of
'intelligent cameras' raising concerns of a Big Brother society.
MP Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesman
said: 'CCTV needs to be used as the exception and not the rule in
public places and only rarely in private places.'
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not delegated by the Constitution, but, on the contrary, expressly
and positively forbidden by one of the amendments thereto, --a power
which, more than any other, ought to produce a universal alarm,
because it is leveled against the right of freely examining public
characters and measures, and of free communication along the people
thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual gardian
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Re: [CTRL] WP: Minister Recants Story About Condit

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On 22 Jul 2001, at 19:59, RevCOAL wrote:


>
>Anna Marie Smith (if she is to be believed) has stated she
> discovered Levy's hair in Condit's bathroom at the beginning of April...
>
>

How could she know who's hair it was?  Even
forensic experts admit hair identification is
not an exact science, and I doubt she viewed it
under a microscope, or had a known sample to compare it
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[CTRL] Police State Prescription

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July
17, 2001
Vol.
4 No. 29
-
- Police State Prescription - -

Happenings
in the small southwest Virginia town of Pulaski should give
pause both to drug warriors
and anyone who thinks that licensing
powerful drugs is a simple thing.

Residents
of Pulaski will have to provide fingerprints at the area's six
pharmacies to get the
painkiller OxyContin. Local police say the drug
is the object of rampant prescription
fraud that fuels a booming black
market.

"Anything
that will stop the flow onto the streets we'll be happy with,"
said Detective
Marshall Dowdy of the Pulaski police. "This is a
seemingly never-ending battle."

Indeed,
it is a battle that has been waged since earliest human history.
Ever since the first
semi-rotten, half-fermented fruit produced the first
alcoholic buzz, man--or at least a
goodly chunk of the population--has
sought out one form of altered consciousness or
another.

So
it is no surprise that OxyContin, which comes in a time-release pill
and is similar to
morphine, has become the source of a relatively
cheap high in rural areas far from urban
drug supplies. Nor is it a
wonder that people with chronic pain seek the drug--it is a
very effective
painkiller. Doctors readily prescribe it precisely because it
isn't
morphine.

But
now OxyContin use is being stymied by fears of its abuse. A
patient may have good reason
to want to avoid giving his or her
fingerprints to the drug store, all but declaring to
the world that they are
a likely drug abuser or con artist.

Perhaps
a solution is not to treat painkillers like controlled substances,
but to treat currently
controlled substances more like standard
painkillers. This would not only ease many of the
troubles of the
standard drug war, but allow sick folks to keep both their medicine
and
their dignity without state interference.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44111-2001Jul10.html

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[CTRL] Friendly Fire Likely Cause of Cop's Death

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[CTRL] Army moles hunt Israeli troops linked to terror

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July 22 2001
MIDDLE EAST

Army moles hunt Israeli troops linked to terror
Uzi Mahnaimi,  Tel Aviv

MOLES have been placed within the Israeli defence forces in an attempt
to unearth army officers and soldiers collaborating with Jewish
terrorists.
An extremist anti-Arab movement is suspected of being behind last
week's shooting of three members of a West Bank family, including a
three-month-old girl. In the recriminations that followed, Avraham
Dichter, head of Shin Bet - Israel's equivalent of MI5 - admitted to
Israel's parliament that such extremist cells exist.
Suspicions about the link with the military intensified when a large
quantity of army explosives was discovered in the car of an extremist
settler's wife in Hebron. "We suspect that huge quantities of arms were
smuggled by officers sympathetic to the Jewish underground," said a
security source close to the investigation.
Postmortems on the three members of the al-Tmeizi family shot last
week, have shown they were killed with 5.56mm bullets, used by the
Israeli army. Diya al-Tmeizi, the baby killed, was born to her parents
following fertility treatment after 12 years of childlessness. Her mother
was injured.

Diya al-Tmeizi is held by her mother before burial
Photograph: Reinhard Krause
Shin Bet's surveillance of suspected military collaborators is extremely
sensitive, since many recruits have been drawn from within the religious
West Bank settler families. "Most are first-rate, obedient and
trustworthy," said the intelligence source. "But we know there are some
bad weeds among them."
The group linked with the murders is the shadowy Committee for Road
Safety, a cell connected to the anti-Arab movement, Kach. The
committee was formed 20 years ago by Rabbi Meir Kahane, the guru of
Jewish zealots.
Kahane was killed in America and his son and daughter-in-law were
murdered by Arabs. Police sources believe friends of Kahane's
murdered son may have been the plotters of last week's attack.
The security services' surveillance is also intended to locate
collaborators who provide the Jewish cells with information about the
army's movements.
Israeli intelligence officers fear that collaborator networks could target
politicians, a security priority for Shin Bet since its failure to prevent the
murder of Yitzhak Rabin, the former prime minister, in 1995.
This weekend Israeli security was preparing for a possible Palestinian
retaliation. Jibril Rajoub, the head of security for the Palestinian
Authority, said that he had a full list of Jewish zealots, which he would
submit to the Israeli security services.

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[CTRL] Summit Protests Rage for Second Day

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Saturday July 21 10:16 PM ET
Summit Protests Rage for Second Day
By LAURA KING, AP Special Correspondent
GENOA, Italy (AP) - Street battles raged for
a second day
Saturday
despite pleas for calm from protest leaders
and global summit leaders
alike, with skirmishes between police and
demonstrators continuing past
midnight. Police made a sweep of a school
that had been used as a
headquarters by demonstrators early Sunday
and protesters retaliated by
attacking a nearby station of the Carabinieri
paramilitary police, Italian
state television reported. It said 40
protesters were injured and 50 were
detained. Protester Michael Siefer, of
Belgium, contacted by telephone by
The Associated Press at the school, said
police burst in and beat
demonstrators. Police spokesman Mario Viola
said the raid was carried out
as a result of the violence over the last two
days. Police seized iron
bars, baseball bats, and bricks that were
being used by protesters, he
said. During the raids, one of protesters
tried knife a policeman, but
officer was wearing a bulletproof vest and
was not injured, said Viola.
Security remained unusually tight around the
summit meeting center well
past midnight and police cars zoomed back and
forth in the security zone
until around 3 a.m. when things seemed to
quiet down. Infuriated by the
shooting of a fellow protester a day earlier,
masked demonstrators ripped
up paving stones to hurl at police on
Saturday, screaming, ``Assassins!
Assassins!'' At least 228 people were hurt,
in addition to the more than
200 injured the day before, and dozens of
protesters were detained, some
facing charges as serious as attempted
murder. The violence Saturday
hopscotched through Genoa's downtown, a
narrow swath of land sandwiched
between mountains and the blue Mediterranean.
Much of Saturday's fighting
took place well away from the city's medieval
center where the leaders
were meeting for the Group of Eight gathering
of industrial powers. Clouds
of tear gas billowed into the air as riot
police fought running battles
with a hard core of militants who broke away
from a peaceful mass march.
The clashes began at a sunny seaside piazza,
where Genoese bathers were
swimming just a few hundred yards away, then
at a downtown intersection
about a mile from the main summit venue, an
ornate 14th- century palace.
The militants smashed windows, torched cars
and set fires, leaving parts
of the city so battered that Italian Premier
Silvio Berlusconi promised
government aid for repairs during a meeting
Saturday with municipal
officials. Caught between the combatants were
thousands of nonviolent
marchers who scrambled up stone stairways and
ducked into alleys to flee
baton-wielding police. Some were not quick
enough to escape a clubbing by
police whose ranks - unlike the day before -
included a large contingent
of plainclothes officers who initially
blended with the crowd, then sprang
into action when the fighting began.
Protesters who hurled paving stones
and firebombs at riot police ``were 500
people in a peaceful march of
thousands,'' said 31-year-old demonstrator
Simona Tatarini, nearly weeping
from frustration and the acrid stench of
wafting tear gas. ``They had
clubs and firebombs - what were we supposed
to do to get them out of the
march?'' Some of those trying to keep the
demonstration peaceful scuffled
with the so-called ``black'' group of violent
protesters, mainly men in
their early 20s, hooded or masked, dressed in
black, carrying iron bars or
wooden clubs and wearing motorcycle helmets
or construction hard hats. Ugo
Nassa, from the Italian city of Bologna, was
punched in the face when he
tried to stop a group of youths from setting
fire to a trash bin. ``These
people are destroying our march,'' he said,
his face swollen from the
blow. Summit leaders renewed their
expressions of sorrow over Friday's
death. ``I'm very concerned about the
violence. It's a tragic loss of
life,'' President Bush said. But he repeated
his contention that ``those
who claim to represent the voices of the poor
aren't doing so. Those
protesters who try to shut down our talks on
trade and aid don't represent
the poor, as far as I'm concerned.'' The
clashes erupted as a peaceful
procession of up to 100,000 people -
 most of whom came to Genoa to express
concern over
social,
economic and environmental fallout from what
they view as too-
rapid
and indiscriminate globalization - moved
along a seaside
boulevard.
The clashes trailed off by nightfall, when at
least 228 people,
including
73 police and several journalists had been
hurt, authorities said. At
least 85 people had been picked up on various
charges over the two days,
and of that group, nearly 70 were booked on a
list of charges including
attempted murder, assault and unauthorized
weapons possessions. Police
said the severity of injuries to police led
authorities to level the
attempted murder charge, which c

[CTRL] (Fwd) FEAR: CN ON: Ontario Law Would Expand Seizure Of Cars Du

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ONTARIO LAW WOULD EXPAND SEIZURE OF CARS DURING ARRESTS

Proponents Of Ordinance Targeting Customers Of Dealers, Prostitutes Say
Threat Of Losing A Vehicle Could Be A Strong Deterrent.

ONTARIO -- Buy drugs or solicit a prostitute and you could lose your car.

That is the gist of a proposed law to be debated tonight by the City Council.

The proposed ordinance, which would give police the authority to seize cars
during prostitution and drug-related arrests, is intended to provide a
deterrent to the crimes, said Richard Maxwell, chief deputy district
attorney for San Bernardino County.  "I certainly think it would help,"
Maxwell said.  "In California your car is your life.  When a person loses
their car, that is a much more severe penalty than the law provides for it."

Ontario has seized the vehicles of drug dealers in the past under state
forfeiture laws.  The new law would target customers, said Sgt.  John
Evans, who heads the city's community policing program.

Evans said the seizures can affect prostitution as well.

"It is a huge expense for them," Evans said.  "How do you explain your car
being taken? The effects are pretty drastic."

Those arrested for soliciting prostitutes face a maximum six-month county
jail sentence and a fine if convicted.

The ordinance is modeled after an Oakland law that has withstood a
challenge in the state courts, Ontario Police Sgt.  Steve Duke said.

However, last year Congress passed a measure intended to scale back what
many considered to abuses of the federal forfeiture laws in drug
cases.  Previously, assets could be taken even in cases where no arrests
were made or convictions obtained, and it fell to the owners to prove that
the property had been legally obtained.  The Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform
Act of 2000 shifted the burden of proof back to the government to show that
the assets were obtained through drug sales.

The city's ordinance includes safeguards to protect innocent people.

Evans said legal seizures should reduce prostitution and drug sales as they
have in other cities.

People might think prostitution is a victimless crime but it attracts drugs
and other crimes to an area, Evans said.

Mission and Holt boulevards are the corridors where most prostitutes are
solicited because of the motels there, Evans said.  The city conducts two
stings a year and arrests about 25 men during each for soliciting prostitutes.

"I think this will really help clean up an area," Evans said.

Tonight's meeting starts at 6:30 at City Hall, 303 East B St.

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hostages are forced to subsidize their captors. How does a hostage get
his money's worth? ... Do our rulers ever conscientiously ask whether
they already have too much power? Do they ever hesitate to claim more?
Do they ever try to define the proper limits of power in principle? Do
they ever worry that they may be exercising tyranny over us? Are they
at all troubled by the disparity between the limited range of state
power in earlier times and its limitless range today? Do they even
recognize the possibility of an illegitimate state power?
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http://www.express-news.net/auth/ennews/ap/texas/d0637.html

  Associated Press Texas Wire News

Author of Bush biography commits suicide

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) - The author of a book about George W. Bush
has killed himself, police said.

James Howard Hatfield, 43, wrote Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and
the making of an American President in 1999.

The unauthorized biography accused Bush of covering up a cocaine
arrest. But during interviews about the book, Hatfield lied to reporters
about his own criminal past.

A hotel housekeeper discovered the man's body about noon
Wednesday, Springdale police Detective Al Barrios said Thursday.
Barrios said the man apparently overdosed on two kinds of prescription
drugs.

Police don't suspect foul play.

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appeal to centralized government, to unthinking nationalist fervor,
and to the eternal mission for correcting the world that motivates
leftists. It is the same type of mentality that thinks bombing women
and children in the Balkans is OK because it is done in the name of
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For Immediate Release:  July 19, 2001

Signature Drive Begins for Asset Forfeiture Reform Initiative

Olympia, WA - Supporters of civil asset forfeiture reform Thursday kicked
off the effort to gather signatures for Initiative 256, the Innocent
Property Owners Protection Initiative. "We've just completed the printing
of the first batch of petitions and are sending them out to volunteers
around the state," said Erne Lewis, president of Liberty
Initiatives.  "Under current law, people have lost homes, cars, boats, cash
and other property without ever being convicted of a crime. That's just
plain wrong.  We're asking Washington's registered voters to help restore
the principle of 'innocent until proven guilty' by signing an I-256
petition." Lewis pointed out that asset forfeiture laws were passed with
the best intentions to fight drug dealers, but cases such as that of Judith
Roderick of Lacey demonstrate the need to make major reforms.

"Mrs. Roderick is a grandmother and accountant whose business was shut
down, property seized, and bank accounts impounded because, unknown to her,
one of her clients was a suspected drug dealer," said Lewis. "Even though
she was never charged with a crime, her business was devastated, it took
years for her to get her property back and her reputation still suffers.
This can and does happen to ordinary, law-abiding citizens and it must stop."

Lewis said IPOPI is gaining support from organizations and people of all
political and ideological stripes.

"Our honorary chairman is former Republican Congressman Jack Metcalf," said
Lewis.  "I-256 has also been endorsed by the American Civil Liberties
Union, Citizens for Legislators with Ethics and Accountability Now, the
Council for Legislative Action Washington, and the Libertarian Party of
Washington."

According to Lewis, the measure would place the burden of proof upon the
accusing agency to prove that the owner of the property to be forfeited is
guilty of a crime and that the property was used in the crime or was
obtained through proceeds of the crime.  It also requires that the value of
the property to be forfeited is proportionate to the crime
committed.  Also, under I-256, all money received from the sale of
appropriately forfeited property would go to the state education fund and
drug treatment programs, rather than to the seizing government agency as it
now does.

Supporters have until the end of the year to obtain just under 200,000
valid signatures, but the goal is to get at least 250,000 to compensate for
any duplicate or invalid signatures.  It would then go the state lawmakers
who can either pass I-256 or send it to the voters for consideration in
November 2002.  Lewis said people wanting more information on I-256 can go
to the organization's website at www.libertyinitiatives.org or call
360-866-8784.

For more information, contact Erne Lewis at 360-866-8784
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[CTRL] ISN'T THIS HOW IT STARTED IN GERMANY?

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NEW JERSEY'S WAR
ON GUN OWNERS
ISN'T THIS HOW IT STARTED IN GERMANY?
By: Evan F. Nappen, Esq.

Gun owners who suffer under the Florio/Gormley supported "Assault
Firearm" ban are now being kicked out of their homes and businesses
under the newest Gormley sponsored law. This law is entitled the "Drug
Offender Restraining Order Act of 1999," (DOROA) and can be found at
N.J.S. 2C:35-5.7. Aggressive implementation of  this law has now begun.
All a law abiding gun owner needs to do is be charged with possession
of a so-called "Assault Firearm" and the gun law victim is automatically
kicked out of his/her residence and/or business by way of a restraining
order which lasts for a minimum of 2 years. It does not matter one bit
that drugs were not involved. The municipal court judges have been
instructed to routinely issue these DOROAS.

These restraining orders are issued ex parte (without any input by the
defendant or his attorney).

After the issuance of a DOROA which normally accompanies the
criminal complaint, there is no hearing scheduled on the DOROA. As
passed, the law is void of any due process for the defendant. Just last
week, I had one of these DOROAS come up in Monmouth County. My
client was charged with possession of "Assault Firearm's" which are not
"Assault Firearms" (Mini-14 and Ruger 10/22). I immediately went back
to the municipal court judge who issued the DOROA to try to persuade
the judge to vacate the order. There is a section in the law that claims
that the DOROA should not be issued to remove a person from their
residence unless the judge is clearly convinced that there is a need to
bar the defendant in order to protect the public safety. The municipal
court judge informed me that although he issued the DOROA and was
sympathetic to my client's predicament, he no longer retained the
jurisdiction to make any modifications to it. This is in spite of the fact
that he was the court of origin for the DOROA. The judge of the
municipal court claimed that as soon as he signed the DOROA kicking
the defendant out of his home, he no longer retains jurisdiction and that
the Superior Court now has jurisdiction.

Since there is no procedure in the DOROA law for challenging this
restraining order or even affording the victim of the DOROA a hearing,
my client was presented with a situation in which he had no opportunity
to be heard on challenging the restraining order's issuance. I therefore
created and filed emergency papers with the Superior Court to try to get
my client back in his home. Fortunately, the Monmouth County
Superior Court and the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office took the
appropriate action, which was initiated by my creative filings The
Monmouth County Superior Court vacated and dissolved the restraining
order. By the time this had been accomplished, the law-abiding gun
owner had been barred from his home for one week under the threat of
jail.

My client resided with his wife in a home on 20 acres of property. On a
simple charge of possession of a so- called ""Assault Firearm"" in
which the defendant holds a valid New Jersey Firearms Identification
Card and poses a threat to no one, my client suffered this injustice
which could have lasted for years. None of these facts were presented
to nor considered by the judge of the municipal court who issued the
initial DOROA.

This is a serious situation for law-abiding New Jersey gun owners. False
charges for possession of an "Assault Firearm" frequently occur in New
Jersey. I have personally handled many cases falsely charging "Assault
Firearm" violations.

These cases include the new Marlin Model 60's (which hold less than
15 rounds), Colt Match Target rifles and their clones, SKS's with a fixed
magazines, 1927 Thomp- son/Auto Ordinance .45's, M1 Garand Rifles,
MAK-90's, Marlin Camp Carbine's, Remington 7600's, Russian
Dragunov's, and Springfield M1A's without a bayonet lug, just to name
some of the common false charges made against law-abiding New
Jersey gun owners.

In the name of "the war on drugs," be prepared to be kicked out of your
home with no due process thanks to Florio, Gormley, and Whitman .
For more information about New Jersey Gun Law, see Evan F. Nappen
and purchase and read Nappen II: New Jersey Gun, Knife & Weapon
Law. Mr. Evan F. Nappen, Esq., may be contacted at 732-389-

Evan F. Nappen  writes for Pipe Bomb News, a weekly journal of
political news and commentary.
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damage. A good guy without a gun can't always stop it from happening.
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[CTRL] (Fwd) Secrecy News -- 07/19/01

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SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
July 19, 2001

**  INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT QUESTIONED
**  FBI MANAGEMENT CRITICIZED


INTELLIGENCE OVERSIGHT QUESTIONED

"Is the CIA's refusal to cooperate with Congressional inquiries a threat to
effective oversight of the operations of the Federal Government?"

That rather leading question was the topic of an unusual hearing before two
subcommittees of the House Government Reform Committee yesterday.

The hearing was unusual because the established structures of intelligence
oversight are rarely criticized within Congress itself, and Republican
committee chairmen rarely speak of the CIA with anger and indignation.  But
yesterday they did.

"The CIA is assaulting Congress's constitutional responsibility to oversee
executive branch activities," said subcommittee chairman Rep. Stephen Horn
(R-Calif.)  "The CIA believes it is above that basic principle in our
Constitution.  We do not agree."

"Tell me why I shouldn't be outraged," said Rep. Christopher Shays
(R-Conn.), also a subcommittee chair.  "When faced with persistent
institutionalized [CIA] resistance to legitimate inquiries, we're compelled
to reassert our authority,"

The congressional ire was triggered by the CIA's refusal to participate in
a committee hearing on computer security at the Agency.

"Neither I nor any CIA representative will testify," wrote DCI George J.
Tenet bluntly on July 17.  He noted that House Intelligence Committee
chairman Porter Goss "urged me not to testify."  See Tenet's letter here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2001/07/tenet.html

This prompted a fascinating discussion at yesterday's hearing of the
respective oversight roles of the House Intelligence Committee and the
House Government Reform Committee;  the adequacy of the House Intelligence
Committee's performance;  the definition of intelligence "sources and
methods" (which, by House rule, are the exclusive purview of the
Intelligence Committee);  the need to limit oversight of sensitive
intelligence matters;  the role of the General Accounting Office in
intelligence oversight; and other fundamental issues.

The questions were generally better than the answers.  Some of the
testimony concerning national security classification was incorrect or
misleading.  But the official anger at the CIA was palpable, and may yet
have policy consequences for the Agency.

The witness statements from the hearing are posted here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2001_hr/index.html#oversight

"It is important to curtail growing GAO initiatives to investigate
intelligence activities," according to a 1994 CIA memorandum on CIA policy
toward the General Accounting Office that was released yesterday.  The
memo, authored by Stanley M. Moskowitz (who went on to fame if not fortune
as CIA station chief in Tel Aviv), is posted here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/gao/ciapolicy.html

CIA computer security policy, which was initial subject of the House
Committee's inquiry, is governed by DCI Directive 6/3, "Protecting
Sensitive Compartmented Information Within Information Systems."  That 5
June 1999 Directive was obtained by Secrecy News and is now available here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/DCID_6-3_20Policy.htm


FBI MANAGEMENT CRITICIZED

A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday on "Reforming FBI
Management: The Views from Inside and Out" became a forum for airing the
usual litany of complaints about the Bureau, and then some.

FBI Deputy Assistant Director Kenneth Senser described several of the
internal security reforms that have been adopted in the wake of the Robert
Hanssen espionage case, including: enhanced computer audit procedures, an
expanded polygraph program, and an enhanced security clearance
reinvestigation program.

Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy noted that the Justice
Department has provided the Committee with an unclassified version of the
long-awaited "Bellows" review of the Wen Ho Lee espionage
investigation.  But that unclassified document has still not been
"scrubbed" for privacy and other considerations, and so it is not yet
releasable to the public.  A Justice Department spokesman said today that
preparation of a public version of the report is a "top priority."

Prepared statements from yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing are
posted here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2001_hr/index.html#fbi2

Former Energy Department counterintelligence official Notra Trulock
criticized a recent General Accounting Office report on the FBI's handling
of the Wen Ho Lee investigation.

"The report contains some factual errors that, if left uncorrected,
perpetuate the web of deceit the FBI has s

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[CTRL] Fwd) THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

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OPEN LETTER TO
SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN
THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

By: Sergei Hoff

Senator Feinstein:

My open letter is in response to your indignant comments to
Colin Powell, concerning the United Nations and Mr. Ashcroft's
Second Amendment interpretation. Specifically, the right of
individuals to keep and bear arms.

Why is it, that within the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and
Tenth Amendments of our Bill of Rights, the rights of the
"people" are correctly interpreted as referring to the rights
of "individuals", and yet, only within the Second Amendment, is
the word "people", allegedly intended by our Founding Fathers
to denote a collective or state right? If it is your position
that the Second Amendment is addressing only a collective or
state right, then, for the purposes of clarification and
uniformity, we should immediate replace the words "people" and
"persons" with the word "state", in all aforementioned
Amendments.

Upon performing this minor alteration, we can all feel certain
that our 50 states will be comforted in knowing that they now
have a right to freely express their religion beliefs. And,
perhaps, our state governments can now be secure in the
knowledge that they are free to speak and peaceably assemble.
Freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures will certainly
bring a sense of well-being to our states. Each state can
rejoice in the understanding that they cannot be arrested
without a warrant, to be issued only upon probable cause. That
the life, limb and property of each state cannot be placed in
jeopardy twice for the same offense. And, the state shall no
longer be compelled in a criminal case to give evidence against
itself. Each state can now eagerly anticipate the utterance of
a police "Miranda" warning, prior to its arrest and
prosecution. Frankly, I think that it would be far easier to
abolish the Ninth Amendment altogether, rather than explain
why
we believed it necessary to change its meaning from "Reserved
rights to the people" to "Reserved rights to the state". A few
awakened individuals might feel compelled to question this one.
Lastly, we must now proceed to erode the Tenth Amendment.
The
distortion of this Amendment is also quite simple. Henceforth,
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved
to the states, respectively, and back to the states again,
where such powers shall remain". Not to worry, Senator
Feinstein, as the Tenth Amendment will become quite confusing
as a result of this proposed change, and most citizens haven't
a clue as to what our Bill of Rights represent, I do not
believe that many challenges will arise to cause you
consternation.

In this light, I should imagine that anyone exhibiting even a
trace of commonsense could not help but see the
preposterousness of such semantic manipulations. But, in
reality, this is precisely what politicians, equal in cunning
to yourself, and disingenuous judiciaries have contrived for
the Second Amendment, our principal defender of the Bill of
Rights.

In a most illustrative example of governmental corruption and
hypocrisy, which, to my knowledge, has never been challenged
in
a court of law, let us now examine the following scenario that
everyone can easily comprehend. If a state or local government
were to violate the civil rights of any individual (clearly
defined and enumerated within the Bill of Rights), the federal
government and courts would immediately admonish that
offending
state or city. Excluding, of course, the civil and unalienable
individual rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment. The
Second Amendment is the only Constitutional protection to be
singled out for, state and local recognition or lack thereof,
state interpretation, and unconstitutional state infringements.
Whereas, the states are seldom permitted to infringe upon the
civil rights contained within the remaining nine Amendments,
they are encouraged by the federal government and courts to
assault the principles of the Second Amendment. These
legislative and judicial abuses are an ou

[CTRL] Drop Your Guns!

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/elkins/elkins42.html

Drop Your Guns!
by Jeff Elkins

Attorney General John Ashcroft in a speech to FBI employees issued a
call for the bureau to return to its core values. "The call to duty beckons
us," Ashcroft told agents. "It is a call to values. Without fidelity, without
bravery, without integrity, we cannot succeed."

I won’t attempt to deny that Bureau agents have displayed bravery
on occasion, but as an agency, they’ve long been short on fidelity
and integrity.

The FBI has been a tawdry organization from the beginning. Prior to
the reign of J. Edgar Hoover, as the Bureau of Investigation, it was a
inept, bungling agency, a retirement home for political hacks and
politician’s brothers-in-law. The one saving grace was a Congress
wise enough to disallow them use of firearms.

"When Prohibition ushered in a crime wave of gangsterism, kidnappings
and bank robberies, the people called out for peace, and the Bureau
responded." Ashcroft said. He could have just as well said "When The
Federal Government ushered in a crime wave of gangsterism…"

We’ve all heard the tales of Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and
Machine Gun Kelly. During the investigation of a bank robbery of that
era, a FBI special agent was killed and an enraged J. Edgar Hoover
pushed a Bureau license to kill through a timid Congress and its been
downhill ever since. Now, I suppose even the Federal Bureau of Overdue
Congressional Library Books carry .40 Glocks and are ready to kill
unruly citizens. Name a single federal agency that does not have an
armed cadre of jackboots.

"When totalitarianism abroad threatened the institutions of democracy
at home, the republic called out for security, and the Bureau answered
the call." Ashcroft said. Actually, the FBI used a fear of communism to
expand its police powers. Any student of history knows that we were
indeed infiltrated by Soviet agents, most of them employees of the
federal government. Hoover’s FBI of that era did little against the real
threat. However, it significantly reduced liberty for individual  Americans.

"When discrimination threatened to turn citizen against citizen and
neighbor against neighbor, the country called out for justice, and the
Bureau helped open the door of opportunity to all Americans equally."
Ashcroft says. And in doing so, the FBI was instrumental in closing
the door of individual state sovereignty. I firmly believe that
the racial barriers of the past were well on the way to falling,
mainly from their own internal flaws, just as the Berlin wall did.
Federal interference has meant a loss of real freedom for us all,
most especially for Black Americans. The FBI did us no favors here.

"And when terrorism threatened American citizens living and traveling
abroad – and then reached within our borders – the nation called
out for safety, and the Bureau was there." Ashcroft says. Dubious
safety at the expense of your traditional freedom as an American
citizen. Remember that the next time you travel and some overbearing
little airline commissar demands: "Your Papers Please!"

"At any given time, the FBI is working on approximately 100,000 cases.
Last year the Bureau issued over 19,000 indictments and secured
over 21,000 convictions." Ashcroft says. Just how many of those
19,000 indictments and 21,000 convictions were obtained under
unconstitutional laws and by pit-bull prosecutors seeking a conviction at
any cost?

Ashcroft tells us: "In a republic whose law enforcement traditions are
rooted in the states, the cities and the towns, a national crime fighting
organization arose. When it was created in 1908, the FBI counted 34
agents among its ranks. Today, by answering the call to duty, the
Bureau has grown to a total working team of over 28,000
special agents, crime lab technicians, and support personnel."

Again, read between the lines. What J. Edgar Hoover and his spiritual
descendants have brought us is a National Police Force. In effect, a
standing army, the founders greatest fear. Dressed in black ninja outfits
and armed with weapons denied to the ordinary citizen, the FBI has
time and time again been exposed as a corrupt and out of control
collection of fascist jackboots. Ashcroft’s empty words won’t change
that.

If Ashcroft really wants to restore public trust in the FBI, I can think of
some things that he could do immediately that would be a wonderful
start.

First, fire Lon Horiuchi, while simultaneously stripping him of all
retirement benefits. Concurrently, since the Idaho authorities are too
craven and cowardly to prosecute the murderous villain (despite a green
light to do so by federal courts), bring federal civil rights charges
against him. Follow up with dismissals and charges against Horiuchi’s
supervisors and then do the same to federal police involved in the
Waco tragedy.

Secondly, a real step for freedom would be for Ashcroft to disarm the
FBI and any other federal police agencies under his command. They

[CTRL] IS SELF-DEFENSE A 'WAR CRIME'?

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http://www.etherzone.com/raim072501.shtml

IS SELF-DEFENSE A 'WAR CRIME'?
HOW KLA TERRORISTS ARE TURNED INTO VICTIMS
By: Justin Raimondo

The saga of the Bytyqi brothers, covered in my last column,  is an
object lesson in how the War Party exploits every opportunity, no
matter how dubious, to make propaganda for their cause. It also
epitomizes how the media cooperate,  allowing themselves to be used
as a transmission belt for lies masquerading as "news" – a working
alliance underscored by a number of new developments in  this
fascinating and fast-developing story.

A FORTUNATE COINCIDENCE
But before we get into that, let's briefly reiterate the background to this
case:  the Bytyqi brothers – Mehmet, Ylli, and Agron  – were members
of the "Atlantic Brigade," a  band of some 400 Albanian-Americans (and
others) who were recruited from abroad to fight in the Kosovo war on the
side of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). In spite of US laws forbidding
such activities, the Atlantic Brigadeers were allowed to recruit, raise
money,  and even train in the United States, and then travel to the
battlefields of Kosovo, where  they fought at the KLA's side. The three
New York-based brothers, who previously ran a  Long Island pizzeria,
arrived in Kosovo just as the war was beginning to wind down.
(Although at least one, Agron Bytyqi, made  a stopover in Ireland.) They
promptly disappeared without a trace – until police in the former
Yugoslavia disinterred their bodies from a mass grave outside a Serbian
special forces training camp. The bodies were found not only with their
New York drivers  licenses in their pockets, but also with Serbian court
papers indicating that they had  been arrested on June 27 and jailed for
trying to infiltrate the country. Gee, what a  fortunate coincidence!

IN HIGH DUDGEON
Now, incredibly, these KLA soldiers are being  touted as helpless
victims of Milosevic's "war crimes." The discovery of these bodies has
the US chief of mission in Yugoslavia, William Montgomery, in high
dudgeon: he told the Washington  Post that the Americans are really
really peeved that the Yugoslavs didn't welcome the Bytyqi terrorist tag-
team into the country with open arms: "Believe me, this is going to be a
very important case for us," Montgomery gloated. "We  need to get real
information from the Yugoslav authorities. We are going to insist they do
a full investigation."

A VISIT TO MOTHER
Oh, but surely Mr. Montgomery doesn't want a full investigation, since
that would have to mean an investigation of the true nature and
sponsorship of the "Atlantic Brigade," and a determined inquiry into just
what the brothers Bytyqi were doing in Yugoslavia, anyway, 17 days
after the Kosovo war officially ended. But he needn't worry: the
"mainstream" media is not about to ask any uncomfortable questions
about this murky affair. They are quite content to  broadcast the official
story: that the three brothers, instead of being on a mission to penetrate
Yugoslav territory and wreak havoc, had instead gone to visit their long-
lost  mother, and, in the midst of another act of charity – escorting 3
male Gypsies  from their mother's neighborhood to safety in Serbia –
were detained and killed by  those awful Serbian racists.

THOSE WONDERFUL BOYS
This fanciful tale is sprouting all over the newswires, and is the leitmotif
of the major newspaper accounts. The New York Times piece is purest
agitprop, depicting the Bytyqis as noble idealists who gave up a
comfortable life in a beach town in the posh Long Island Hamptons for a
cause greater than  themselves. These were "wonderful" boys, we are
told, and their father extols their vaunted heroism, saying "they gave up
the couch" and an easy life to  liberate their people. Their friends are
cited as saying that they were all fearless warriors precisely because
they were Americans and therefore were unused to being bullied  by
those bad old Serbs. Embedded in the midst all these extravagant
panegyrics is a key nugget of information – or disinformation, depending
on your perspective:

INTO THE MURK
"They were," the Times informs us, "apparently not engaged in combat
when they were captured, witnesses and investigators said."
Witnesses? Who are these witnesses? The Times doesn't  elaborate,
and so we have to turn to the International Herald Tribune's version of
the story, which has a bit more hard information, in addition to the usual
dose of propaganda. We hear of another Bytyqi brother, Fatos, still alive
and in Kosovo, confessing that "he initially lied about his brothers' war
activities, but later explained that he had been 'advised' not to discuss
their membership in the Atlantic Brigade." We also have young Fatos
blurting out that, as far as he knew, his brothers were on their way to
meet up with some buddies from the Atlantic Brigade in Pristina: as for
the mission of mercy on behalf of the Gypsies, he could not confirm the
story. At any rate, we know that

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From:   "Cindy Sewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date sent:  Tue, 17 Jul 2001 22:30:08 -0400

Totalitarianism for Tots?
DC to Make School Attendance Mandatory for Three-Year-Olds

The following  Washington Post article on mandatory school attendance
for
three-year-olds foreshadows a dark future for the next generation if we do
not take the time to find our voices and speak up for the natural right of
parents to direct the education of their own children. If we want the
government to raise our children, all we need do is remain silent and ride
the national tide. Georgia is already in the surf having both lowered to
six(Gov. Barnes tried for age five) and raised to 18 the compulsory
attendance age in the first session of Governor Barnes' term, with barely
a
peep from the people. Consider these words of Warren Burger, "The
statist
notion that governmental power should supersede parental authority in all
cases because some parents abuse and neglect children is repugnant to
American tradition." May the repugnancy and absurdity of D.C.'s
attempt to
supervise the lives of all three-year-olds spur us to action.

- Cindy Sewell
HEIR Chair 00-01
www.heir.org


 Here's the link to the Washington Post article and excerpts:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16066-2001Jun18.html

"D.C. Council member Kevin P. Chavous (D-Ward 7) plans to introduce a
bill today that would lower from 5 to 3 the age at which schooling is
compulsory, part of a push among school and elected officials to
expand early childhood learning.

The bill would require a child to be enrolled in a public, private or
parochial school or in "private instruction" if the child turned 3 before
Dec. 31 in that academic year. Chavous, chairman of the council's
education
committee, said that home schooling by parents would qualify as private
instruction. But it is unclear in the bill what guidelines stay-at-home
parents would be required to follow and how they would document those
efforts to the school system...

Chavous said his proposal is consistent with national efforts to lengthen
the school day and the academic year and with research demonstrating
the
cognitive benefits of early childhood intervention. "It would force the
school system to take charge and responsibility for every 3- and 4-year-
old
in the city to make sure they are prepared for kindergarten," he said...


The information about the article was posted on NHEN(National Home
Education Network) and forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To
research
this issue further try this resource:

Website for the DC city council:
http://www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us/

Need research on why it's important to keep young children out of
government institutions? Try Teacher's College Record, Research and
Common
Sense: Therapies for our Homes and Schools by Raymond Moore,
Volume 84,
Number 2, Winter 1982, ISSN-0161-4681 reprinted  and published by
Columbia
University, NY

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Featured Views Published on Wednesday, July 11, 2001
Media Deception & Iraq
by Jeffrey Weiss The Associated Press released a story on June 19,
written by Edith Lederer, that was published in many newspapers in the
United States, alleging that Iraq was importing weapons despite
economic sanctions. I conducted a brief study to find out the genesis of
the article.

The local Des Moines Register picked up the AP story from the wire
and gave the title:  "Iraq evades arms sanctions, U.N. reports say." The
story was based upon findings by Gary Mihollin, director of the
Washington-based Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control.
According to the group, Iraq "evaded U.N. sanctions in the 90s
importing weapons from companies in Eastern Europe and Russia."

The "UN Reports" cited in the headline were in fact, according to the
text of the story, "unpublished" reports  released by "U.S. arms-control
researchers" who got them from "sources outside the United Nations."

The category of "weapons" provided by companies in the study is never
identified; AP writer Edith Lederer, however, makes a reference to Iraq's
"nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programs."

On June 25 I called Edith Lederer in Washington, D.C. at the AP
bureau. The conversation went like this:
Edith: "I can answer one question and give you 15 seconds of my time
so hurry."
Jeffrey: "Have you ever seen the unpublished U.N. report that is the
subject of the story?"
Edith: "No."
Jeffrey: "Have you ever read any of the text of this unpublished report
that is the focus of your story."
Edith: "No."
Jeffrey: "Do you think I can get a copy of this report from Gary in
Wisconsin?"
Edith: "I doubt there is any chance that could happen .. Gary is a
friend."
Jeffrey: So how do we know this report exists?
Edith: You can read the story in Commentary magazine
Jeffrey: "I looked upon the web site and found out the Wisconsin
Project's Iraq program is funded in part by the Pentagon. You describe
them as a non-profit watchdog group.
Edith: "I have to go now, but you can find the story in the Commentary."
On June 26, I got an e-mail response from the Wisconsin Project on my
request for the report. According to Kelly Motz, the "report (she put the
words in quotes!) is "actually an article in Commentary magazine."

Commentary, for those who don't know, is published by the American
Jewish Committee. The July/August issue includes an article,
"Shopping with Saddam Hussein," by Milhollin and Motz. The piece
relies upon "confidential" reports before 1998 from "UN inspectors"
ostensibly interviewed by the authors but never identified.

If the report was written, it was during the years the U.S. and U.K.
acknowledged they had stacked UNSCOM with intelligence officers. A
further irony is that the top weapons-inspector at the time of this report,
former Marine Scott Ritter, says Iraq is "qualitatively disarmed" and that
"there can be no honor in a policy that that leads to the death, through
malnutrition and untreated disease, of 5,000 children under the age of 5
every month." (Boston Globe, 3-9-2000)

The AP story describes the Wisconsin Project as a "nonprofit watch-
dog group" but fails to include a passage from the organization's web
site:  "In the year 2000, the Project launched a joint effort with the
Pentagon to improve export controls in the former Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe."

The story gets better.

A previous report from the Wisconsin Project alleging Iraq had carried
out a successful nuclear test was published in newspapers across the
United States on June 10. On June 11, the chief UN arms inspector
Hans Blix said there had been no nuclear tests and that "the information
is totally wrong." Terry Wallace, professor of Geosciences at the
University of Arizona, said there was no reason to believe the story is
"anything but a hoax." Reuters distributed this piece that was picked up
by a small number of newspapers in the U.S.

Every year UN agencies such as UNICEF and the Food and Agricultural
Organization (FAO) release reports providing statistics of the deaths of
children in Iraq under economic sanctions but they don't appear in many
papers (see the work of Project Censored). Unfortunately, "UN reports"
from the Wisconsin Project are deemed legitimate.
Jeffrey J. Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is the Education Director/Central
Region for the American Friends Service Committee,
4211 Grand Avenue/Des Moines, IA 50310515-274-4851, ext. 16 or 515-
255-2465.
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Reveal Everything Just to Keep a Driver's License
  Wes Vernon
  Saturday, July 14, 2001
Driving may obligate you to tell bureaucrats minute details of your health
problems and other personal matters. Dean C. Eger of New Bern, N.C.,
was
stunned when he received a 10-page questionnaire this month from the
state
Division of Motor Vehicles. Some of the 114 questions were to be
answered
by him, the others to be filled out by his physician. Failure to answer in
30 days "will result in cancellation or denial of your driving privilege.”

NewsMax.com has reviewed the questionnaire and found it to be
extremely
detailed and intrusive. A physician would have a hard time answering it
without going back to the driver and asking questions the doctor himself
had probably not thought to ask most patients.

For example, how is a doctor to know at what age the patient started
drinking alcohol or whether, in the absence of Alzheimer’s disease, the
patient has any memory problems?

"I have not had one person I have asked say they have received such a
message from the Division of Motor Vehicles,” Eger told NewsMax.com.
"I am
very upset by the way our privacy is fading from the American scene. I
do
not want personal information going to every agency, government or
commercial, which could, in some cases, be detrimental to one’s
well-being.”

The 79-year-old Eger sounds very lucid and articulate on the phone. He
sounds 30 or 40 years younger.

But what really leaves him puzzled is that he is "blessed with great
health
and [has] been driving and have never had an accident.”

Wouldn’t anyone who had a record like that be surprised if, out of the
blue, he were to receive a 10-page questionnaire demanding answers to
114
personal questions?

Some clue as to the rationale for the questionnaire comes from Bill
Jones,
a spokesman for the North Carolina DMV. He told NewsMax.com that
such
inquiries were triggered when:


a.. A — A highway patrolman sees something that convinces him a
motorist
should not be driving, and he tells DMV.

a.. B - A driver’s license examiner sees something curious during the
motorist’s application for renewal of his license, and submits that
concern
to DMV headquarters.

a.. C - Anyone - it could be a neighbor or a complete stranger - may
write
the DMV and express a concern about the eligibility of the motorist to be
driving.

a.. D - An adult child of the motorist, out of concern for the parent’s
safety, will write to the DMV expressing a belief that the parent should
not be driving. Eger shot down the last possibility in a conversation with
NewsMax.com. His only adult child lives several states away and
knows full
well that he (Eger) has all his faculties.

Here are samples of what North Carolina’s DMV wants to know:

How Far to Your Church?


a.. Miles to and from work, church, grocery store, drug store, doctor.

a.. Days of week you work. During what hours? Occupation?

a.. Type of vehicle you drive. ___Automobile ___Truck ___Bus
___Other. The
doctor portion of the document requires him to say how long the motorist
has been his patient. And if you ever had any apparently quaint notions
about the privacy of your medical records, you can forget it. If the feds
have to wait awhile to prepare public opinion for a national medical ID
card, complete with computerized records to your medical history, trust
someone to find a way and a rationale extract it through a back door.

Someday, in order to hold on to your driver’s license, you might be in the
position of asking your physician to answer questions about your
cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, "emotional" (Could one think of
a more subjective category than that?), or "any other impairment."

"Do you feel the patient should drive?” "Should he be restricted in driving
distance or to daylight driving?"

The doctor is asked to address his diagnosis, date and type of
operations
or treatments, and on one case (hypoglycemia) the patient’s "attitude”
toward treatment. Does the patient have diabetes?

Is oxygen used at home?

What are locations, dates and discharge diagnoses of any and all
hospitalizations for the past two years?


When was the patient’s last drink? (Do they think a person’s doctor
places
a cop in the patient’s home to observe whether he has a glass of wine
with
dinner?)

Is the patient involved in "social or other type of health aid program such
as mental health, private counseling”? Whose business is that?

Bill Jones, the public information officer with North Carolina’s DMV, was
very cooperative with NewsMax.com. With Southern courtesy, he
explained
that anyone targeted in such a manner as to receive such a
questionnaire
could, in a timely manner, find out the name of the person "who turned
him
in.” However, he immediately sought other terminology on the grounds
that
many people who write the DMV (and the information must be
submitted in
writing with his signature) do so out of conc

[CTRL] (Fwd) Latest issue of 2ndAmendmentNews

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MARYLAND GRASSROOTS OPERATION A MODEL FOR THE NATION
By Weldon Clark


"How do you stop a tragedy like the Titanic?  By charting the right
course
as your boat leaves the dock, of course.  Once an ice berg is off your
bow
there isn't much you can do.  You can sound the alarm all you want, but
you
still have a disaster on your hands.  The lesson is to plan ahead and
make
easy course corrections that will have best effect."

That's the kind of practical philosophy Jim Purtilo applies to fight gun
control in a project he founded and runs in Maryland.  He knows most
major
assaults on our rights started as ideas that were test driven in local or
state legislatures.  Once antigunners discover arguments for enacting a
measure locally, they take it on the road.

That means if you can stop gun control locally, you likely can avoid
having
to fight it nationally.

"Anti-gunners' track record on this is clear, so for us it's just simple
economics," says Purtilo. "We should fight them early and stop gun
control
when it's cheaper than an expensive fight later."

Purtilo's record is clear too:  He dogs gun control zealots over every inch
of ground they go after.  And he wins.

Jim lives in Maryland, one of the gun control incubator states.  When
anti-
gun extremists come up with a new idea for gaining control over both
people
and guns, they try it there first.  But enacting gun control there is
harder since Purtilo started publishing Tripwire, a gun-rights activist
newsletter. Through his growing news organization, Jim puts the light of
day on antigun activities while they can still be attacked successfully
and
economically.

Purtilo researches the inner workings of government, digs out evidence of
what the anti-gunners are up to, exposes the corruption that seems
always
to surround attacks on our basic rights, and gives a rallying point for the
grassroots efforts yearning to make a difference on behalf of our cause.

In order to understand America's gun control movement, you must
understand
Maryland.  And in order to fight gun control in America, you need to learn
what Jim Purtilo's Tripwire is doing for activists on Maryland's front
lines.



FOR MARYLAND GUN OWNERS, NATIONAL LAWS ARE DEJA VU
ALL OVER AGAIN

You surely hear current debate about so-called "gun show loopholes".
But
where did attacks on gun show sales get their start?  In Maryland,
where in
the early 90's left wingers test drove their first attempts to regulate who
can sell guns there.  They drove through a measure to require
gunowners who
want to sell a handgun at a show to get a "temporary dealer license".

What about lawsuits against gun manufacturers? This is another
Maryland
first, dating back to the early 80's.  The so-called "Kelly Decision"
(named after the plaintiff in a suit against manufacturers of so-called
"saturday night specials") set the stage for current Johns Hopkins-
backed
attacks on industry.

Regulating guns as consumer products?  Massachusetts plays second
fiddle to
Maryland here too.  In 1988 Maryland banned sale of any handgun that
is not
evaluated and approved by a state-appointed political board.  (In fact,
this arrangement was accepted by industry at the time in return for
protection against some kinds of lawsuits, overturning case law
established
just a few years before by the Kelly Decision mentioned above.)

In these laws and so many more -- concerning child access to guns,
guns in
schools, confiscation of guns in cases of alleged domestic violence, etc.
-- gun control proponents went to Maryland to get a toe hold on
mandates.
Once their idea is written into law there, then legislators have both cover
and pressure to enact it elsewhere.

These are bad laws, so how did they get on the books in the first place?
Cash, corruption and private backroom deals, the way of life in Maryland.

That was before Purtilo came along.


TRIPWIRE: BECAUSE AN INFORMED VOTER IS FREEDOM'S BEST
FRIEND

Since Purtilo started publication of Tripwire in 1996, legislators get no
free ride to submarine their gun control ideas into law.  Jim exposes the
chicanery in time for people to DO something about it.

Legislators who vote for gun control can no longer tell the folks back
home
they are defenders of liberty without Purtilo dropping a ton of direct mail
to gun owners there exposing the real record.  But that's just for
starters.

Are you a bureaucrat trying to hide proposed changes to gun regulation
in
an obscure state notice?  Expect Purtilo to expose it in time for
gunowners
to rally public opinion opposing it during the comment period.  Are you
an
administrator breaking the law to violate basic civil rights of gunowners?
Don't expect to do it without going under the public's microscope.  Jim
will make sure people see it ... and sometimes he will litigate it too.

When the City of Takoma Park sought to place a total handgun ban on
the
bal

Re: [CTRL] STUDENT FACES EXPULSION FROM COLLEGE FOR WEARING SCOTTISH ATTIRE

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On 13 Jul 2001, at 9:29, YnrChyldzWyld wrote:

>
> I really would like to see your justification for allowing students to
> carry knives on themselves

I will refer you back to Prudy's excellent post on the topic.
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On 12 Jul 2001, at 23:38, YnrChyldzWyld wrote:

>
> Either this kid was unbelievable stupid, or he deliberately wanted to
> provoke something...he knew about the zero-tolerance policy and
> deliberately chose to break it,

It's good to see that a few students haven't been fully brainwashed by
the PC teachers and administrators.  Zero tolerance policies are made
by people with zero intelligence or maybe even IQ's in negative
numbers.  They should be opposed by every thinking person.  He
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[CTRL] Macedonia: the Final Domino?

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/sunley1.html

Macedonia: the Final Domino?
by Johnathan Sunley

The scenario is a familiar one. Having captured a few villages and
terrorized (or expelled) their inhabitants, rebels demanding greater
ethnic – or some other form of – equality close in on the country’s
capital seeking a showdown with the government. The latter tries to
meet force with force but is restrained from doing so by Western
mediators who fly in and out insisting on the need for ‘dialogue’. All of
a sudden, yesterday’s ‘terrorists’ are today’s partners in a ‘peace-
process’.

Talks prevail, military front-lines are frozen and under the eye of the
international community fresh elections or a referendum on the rebels’
grievances are held. A semblance of normality returns and CNN
gradually loses interest in the story. But by now the poor place has
become ungovernable (which was always the rebels’ main aim) and
responsibility for its internal affairs passes to some permutation of the
following:  Nato, the OSCE, EU, UN, World Bank, etc.

Today it is Macedonia which is in danger of becoming another sad little
protectorate in the Balkans. But this is a fate which few countries
in the region – especially those that were once republics in the
former Yugoslavia – have been able to escape over the last ten years.
Indeed, it was exactly a decade ago that that the first such domino
fell, when the legally-elected authorities in Zagreb found themselves
prevented by international pressure from re-establishing control
over parts of Croatia seized by Serbian forces.

The irony is that throughout this turbulent period Macedonia has been
praised for its handling of inter-ethnic relations – which is always
(albeit often inaccurately) said to be the primary cause of conflict
in this area. Its Albanian minority, whether constituting 23% or
40% of the population (as the Albanians themselves claim), has since
the country became independent in 1992 enjoyed rights and a general
sense of respect other minority communities in the Balkans can only
dream about. Almost all governments formed in Skopje over the last
decade have had Albanian participation in them and there were few
protests when during the war in Kosovo in 1999 refugee camps were
set up for no less than 400,000 Albanians fleeing the fighting there.

But whatever else the current crisis is about, it is not human rights
or democracy. In the autumn of 1999, elections were held in Macedonia
to choose a new president. Though these were harshly condemned by
Western observers on account of their blatant irregularities (which
were especially bad in places with a high concentration of Albanians),
this was seen at the time as the price worth paying in order for
the least known of the candidates, Boris Trajkovski, to win on a
ticket of inter-ethnic reconciliation and harmony. The outcome was
the opposite, as Slav Macedonians – enraged by the way in which
Albanian votes appeared to count for more than theirs, and the Albanian
minority – encouraged to believe they could cheat their way to power,
drifted further and further apart.

It is unlikely they would have come to blows, however, but for events
in Kosovo in the aftermath of the war there. Despite the presence
of some 45,000 Nato troops and in Camp Bondsteel one of the largest
US overseas military facilities anywhere in the world, it has apparently
proven impossible to control – let alone disarm – the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA), which goes about its business of drug-smuggling, people-
trafficking and gun-running virtually unhindered.

It was only a matter of time before the KLA would seek to extend its
criminal empire into neighbouring Macedonia. No doubt they were
puzzled when the very same representatives of the international
community who had championed their cause in Kosovo (often with
grotesque zeal: remember US secretary of state Madeline Albright
greedily kissing KLA leader Hasim Thaci?), denounced them in
Macedonia as ‘a bunch of murderous thugs’. But today (just a couple of
months on) Nato secretary-general Lord Robertson is far more cautious
in his choice of words and – in a classic shift of position – has begun
saying that it is the government in Skopje which must take measures
to end the escalating conflict.

Such measures, however, exclude the use of robust force. Not only
that, the Macedonian authorities are meant to stand by as the
international community lends a helping hand to the other side – as
happened a couple of weeks ago when US troops escorted bus-loads of
armed insurgents away from a battle-zone just 10 km outside Skopje.

Enraged by this incident, Slav Macedonians have conjectured that
KFOR’s intervention was essential in order to guarantee the safety of a
small contingent of ‘advisors’ sent in by the US to monitor and
instruct the KLA’s Macedonian wing. To outsiders this may sound
like a typical Balkan conspiracy theory. But nowadays Nato member-
states vie with one another to take

[CTRL] FEAR: Prosecutor to Get Dead Man's Money

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http://news.findlaw.com/ap/o/1110/7-10-2001/20010710143230380.html

   Thursday, July 12, 2001

Prosecutor to Get Dead Man's Money
NEW YORK (AP) _ The estate of a man who committed suicide in jail
while being held on drug charges has been ordered to pay $750,000 to
the Nassau County district attorney's office.

The ruling, part of a settlement in a civil forfeiture case, was the first in
the state in which a prosecutor sought assets from a dead person,
Newsday reported Tuesday.

State law allows prosecutors to seize money from convicted felons if it
can be established that the money was obtained illegally, said Rick
Henshaw, spokesman for District Attorney Denis Dillon.

Robert Vorbeck, 38, was arrested July 2, 1999, for allegedly selling
cocaine to undercover officers, and committed suicide in his county jail
cell 11 days later. He had faced life in prison if convicted of felony drug
charges.

The attorney for his estate, Steven Kessler, said Vorbeck's parents
wanted to settle.

``They just wanted to put this behind them, move on and grieve,''
Kessler said.

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Re: [CTRL] Slobodamnation

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On 11 Jul 2001, at 21:53, Dr Chris R. Tame wrote:

> -Caveat Lector-
>
>
> (Snipped)
>
> What was the source of this article?
>

http://www.nypress.com/14/28/taki/lemaitre.cfm

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[CTRL] Chomsky's proof

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http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/Pitt062501/pitt062501.html

By William Rivers Pitt

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the
rigidity of the system of ideological control—'indoctrination,' we might
say—exercised through the mass media. —Noam Chomsky

June 25, 2001—In the early morning hours of Thursday, June 22, 2001,
a man named Jared T. Bozydaj took to the streets of New Paltz, New
York, with an Intrac Arms 7.62 semi-automatic assault rifle. He fired
pointedly at police officers, wounding one officer named Jeffery Quiepo
in the arm. The shooting went on for several hours before Bozydaj was
disarmed and arrested.

Bozydaj was described as being highly upset by the execution of
Timothy McVeigh. He apparently had decided to take revenge in
McVeigh's name on the police, whom Bozydaj referred to as "control
mechanisms for the government." Weapons and literature in his
apartment indicated that Bozydaj had been planning this attack for
some time.

New Paltz is a small community near the Hudson River about an hour
north of New York City. The downtown district is filled with small stores,
as well as a number of bars that cater to the students of the State
University of New York (SUNY) New Paltz, the campus of which is only
a few blocks away from where this shooting occurred. The best word to
describe the place is 'quaint.'

My girlfriend was born and raised near this town. I have spent many
drunken hours with her in the bars that now bear the bullet holes from
Bozydaj's rampage. My girlfriend's parents report that much of
downtown New Paltz is roped off with yellow police tape today. One can
see quite clearly the damage done by Bozydaj's assault rifle, and the
police believe it is a miracle that no one was killed.

One SUNY student reported that eight bullets passed through her
bedroom wall, and said that she would have been shot in the head if her
radiator had not deflected the rounds.

I discovered this story on the forums of DemocraticUnderground.com,
where someone had posted it as a topic for discussion about McVeigh-
oriented violence. I forwarded the link, a story from the Zwire news
service, to my girlfriend, for obvious reasons. She called her parents and
got the story from the ground. The local New Paltz paper, the Times-
Herald Record, covered the shooting in detail, and she sent me the link
to their story.

The next day, my girlfriend called me."I haven't seen this story in any of
the newspapers," she said. "It wasn't on CNN or Peter Jennings last
night. Why do you think they aren't reporting this? Some guy shot up
my town, and shot a cop. That's news, isn't it?"

I am a news junkie, and had myself noticed that this interesting and
disturbing story had not appeared anywhere in the national news media.
Using the words "New Paltz" and "Bozydaj," I searched The New York
Times, an obvious place for this story to appear, and came up empty. I
did the same at CNN.com, The Washington Post, ABCNews.com and
several other news outlets, and found nothing.

A man, motivated by the execution of Timothy McVeigh, had gone on
an hours-long shooting rampage directed exclusively at cops in a small
New York town with a sophisticated assault rifle. He blew a hole in a
cop, and shot hell out of every storefront in the vicinity. He nearly put a
bullet through the head of a sleeping college student. Somehow, this
was not deemed newsworthy by virtually every major news outlet in
America, including the Times of New York, the state where this
shooting took place.

Why?

An immediate explanation is that the editors of these news sources
were acting out of a sense of responsibility. For most Americans, the
name Timothy McVeigh is synonymous with pure evil. It is likely that a
decision was reached among the purveyors of our information that
nothing should be published or broadcast that will give ear to those who
consider McVeigh a martyred hero. The fear, I suppose, is that if
enough of these kinds of stories get out, some of our militia-oriented
citizenry will think the Revolution is finally at hand, and take to the
streets of their own small burgs with rifles at the ready.

This kind of quiet censorship, however, raises some disturbing
questions. If unreported McVeigh-motivated shootings like this are
happening in New Paltz, where I am lucky enough to have eyes on the
ground, where else are they happening, and going unreported? I have no
friends in Akron, Butte, Silver Springs, Kissimmee, El Paso, or
Needles. Where else in America is violence like this breaking loose?
Why are we not being told of it? What else is being withheld?

Noted linguist Noam Chomsky has observed many times that the
national media is not the information-disbursing entity created by our
love for the First Amendment of the Constitution. Rather, the national
media is the propaganda wing of the status quo. The national media
tells us things in a certain way to keep our eyes on the ground, and to
keep us fro

[CTRL] The Bunker

[kl]

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http://www.nypress.com/14/28/taki/bunker.cfm

The Bunker
George Szamuely
Stalin   Wasn’t Stallin’
In one of   his conversations with one-time Yugoslav Communist
leader Milovan Djilas, Stalin   observed: "Churchill is the kind who, if
you don’t watch him, will slip   a kopeck out of your pocket…
Roosevelt is not like that. He dips in his   hand only for bigger coins.
But Churchill? Churchill—even for a kopeck."

As usual,   Stalin was right on the money, particularly on the nature of
the Anglo-American   "special relationship." While the British act as
the brutish street enforcers,   the Americans are the big-time
mobsters who buy off courts, judges and politicians.   It was entirely in
character, therefore, that the British should have been assigned   the
task of kidnapping Slobodan Milosevic and denying him the due process
that   any citizen of a law-governed state is entitled to.

The coming   show trial in the Hague, on the other hand, with its
preordained verdict, falls   within the jurisdiction of the Americans. It is
so heartwarming to see the Anglo-Americans—those   supposed
champions of freedom under law and the sanctity of contracts—trash
every law, treaty and convention on the books as they pursue their
insane globalist   dreams. Here is what the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights   (ratified by both the British and the
Americans) says: "Anyone who is deprived   of his liberty by arrest or
detention shall be entitled to take proceedings   before a court, in
order that court may decide without delay on the lawfulness   of his
detention and order his release if the detention is not lawful." That
went straight into the wastepaper basket as the Anglo-Americans
abducted Milosevic   before the Yugoslav courts had had a chance to
decide on the legality of his transfer. But then what is one to expect of
governments that establish kangaroo   courts like the International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in   flagrant violation of the
United Nations Charter?

The UN Security   Council, under relentless U.S. pressure, created
the Tribunal in 1993. It was   imposed on the countries of the former
Yugoslavia by the very powers that had   instigated the wars there.
According to the UN Charter, the Security Council   has the power to
take action only in response to a threat to peace. The Charter   does
not permit the Security Council to establish international courts of law,
  to try individuals or to circumvent the national courts of UN members.

Since   as a matter of logic the Security Council cannot delegate to
another body more   powers than it has itself, Carla del Ponte’s little
Tribunal has no legal standing whatsoever, just as Milosevic has said.
The Tribunal   has never been anything more than just another weapon
deployed by the United   States to impose its will on the Balkans. Its
creation violated every precedent   in international law. And its day-to-
day conduct violates every principle of jurisprudence and common
decency. Defendants are seized and held in detention   almost
indefinitely—thousands of miles away from friends, family and
home—before   their cases come to trial, if they ever do. Bail is hardly
ever granted. Prison   authorities read all their mail, which is often
censored, withheld or confiscated. Telephone calls are recorded. There
is no protection against self-incrimination:   "A witness may object to
making any statement which might tend to incriminate   the witness.
The Chamber may, however, compel the witness to answer the
question."   There is no protection against double-jeopardy.
Prosecutors can appeal an acquittal   and can insist on the continued
detention of a defendant who has been acquitted.

Prosecutor   and court is one and the same body. There is no jury.
There is no independent   appeals body. Presumption of guilt is
automatic. Article 1 of the Tribunal’s   statute declares: "The
International Tribunal shall have the power to prosecute   persons
responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law
committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since 1991." Any
halfway   responsible judicial body would at least have said something
like "to put on   trial persons accused of serious violations of
international humanitarian law."   The Tribunal has the right to set its
own rules on procedure and evidence. Since February 1994 its rules
have been amended no less than 20 times. The court—the
prosecutor, in other words—can reject defense counsel if it decides that
  "conduct of that counsel is offensive, abusive or otherwise obstructs
the proper   conduct of the proceedings." Defense counsel, needless
to say, cannot reject prosecutors. Prosecutors can withhold vital
information from the defense.

Defendants   have virtually no right to confront their accusers.
Prosecution witnesses, for   example, have the right not to answer
questions they do not want to answer:   "If the Prosecutor calls a
witness to intro

[CTRL] Slobodamnation

[kl]

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Le Maitre
Taki
Slobodamnation

The dictionary defines hypocrisy as a semblance of having publicly
approved attitudes or principles that one does not actually possess. If
you’re looking for a synonym, it’s the chorus of self-congratulations that
greeted the news of Slobodan Milosevic’s extradition two weeks ago.
Milosevic has been made out to be as nasty a tyrant and schemer as
there is, but it’s all a creation of the International Criminal Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia—i.e., it’s pure unadulterated bullshit. In fact, I’ll
go even further. Milosevic deserves respect and admiration for his
defiant demeanor before the kangaroo court in the Hague.

Slobo is right not to recognize such a court. The Hague court is nothing
more than an arbitrary creation of the bogus "international community,"
which is a precursor to Big Brother, the One World Government of the
future. Make no mistake about it, dear readers, this is just the beginning
of a plan for powerful governments such as that of the United States and
its satellites to kidnap and bring to trial anyone thought to be an
impediment. The most bitter joke of all is that Milosevic’s arrest was
achieved by bribery, one billion greenbacks worth of aid to repair the
damage done to Serbia by the so-called international community’s
own war machine.

For the last decade we were fed a litany of lies by the crooks that led us
on about the causes of the savage ethnic bloodletting in the Balkans.
These are ancient hatreds based on different religions and cultures. The
conflicts started in Croatia and Slovenia in 1991, spread to Bosnia in
1992, and to Kosovo in 1998 and 1999. Now they’re threatening
Macedonia. The total number of dead after 10 years of war stands at up
to 300,000, fewer than the Rwandans managed to kill in a year and a
little more than one tenth of the Vietnamese the United States managed
to kill in 10 years. Milosevic was demonized early on by a know-nothing
media because he was a Serb-Orthodox nationalist who believed in
continuing Tito’s creation of a Serb-led Yugoslavian federation. Of
course, he didn’t do what they said he did single-handedly. Franjo
Tudjman of Croatia was more ruthless by far. So were a variety of
warlords and black marketeers who ruled by the gun and exploited the
people they pretended to protect. The Albanian gangster organization
which goes by the name of the KLA was originally financed and
protected by the United States, the short-sightedness of Uncle Sam
here reminiscent of that other conflict in Afghanistan. The biggest single
ethnic cleansing of the Balkan wars was suffered by the Serbs in the
Krajina region of Croatia, but no one is about to be arrested for that one.
Which brings me to the point I’m trying to make.

Selective justice—like justice delayed—is victor’s justice. To the media
and the public, Slobodan Milosevic is a man with blood on his hands.
He has been refused the presumption of innocence to which he’s
entitled. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
was set up by the United Nations, as corrupt an institution as there is,
and because it’s an expensive undertaking, the UN demands a return on
its investment. An acquittal simply won’t do.   A busybody like Kenneth
Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch—read selective human
rights watch—claims that the arrest of Milosevic is a momentous
occasion for Milosevic’s victims to see justice done. What bullshit.
Tragically, it is too late for Milosevic’s victims. Nothing will bring them
back, so why not stop the bullshit. And what about Serb victims?   In
Kosovo, for example, Serbian forces were undoubtedly guilty of sporadic
attrocities in 1998, but it was the KLA’s original violence that had
provoked them.   No KLA murderer has been or will be brought to
justice. Above all, it was NATO’s  attack on Serbia on March 24,1999
that sparked the real violence against the Albanians.

During the bombing campaign about 500 civilians were killed by NATO.
Some were killed when Serbian television in Belgrade was targeted,
others died when a Belgrade hospital was hit. These acts amount to war
crimes because NATO did not secure UN approval for its actions. Or is
it that a Croat’s life, or an Albanian’s or a Muslim Bosnian’s is worth
much more than a Serb’s? Slobo’s trial is the best political theater the
West can produce. Everybody knows that NATO will not do to Moscow
what it did to Belgrade because Moscow has a few nuclear weapons up
its sleeve. Beijing tortures Falun Gong members to death,  executes
petty criminals and sells their vital organs, shoots down student
protesters.   Is NATO about to do to Beijing what it did to Belgrade?
Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean dictator, instructed a battalion of
troops trained by North Korea to murder and pillage in Matabeleland in
the mid-80s. Is the Hague court about to arrest him and try him? And
what about Ariel Sharon? He was as involved in the Sabra and Shatila
massacre of Palestinian women

[CTRL] (Fwd) LP RELEASE: Marijuana farmer, 75, jailed

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Who's safer when a 75-year-old man
is sent to jail for growing marijuana?

[July 10] WASHINGTON, DC -- Do you feel safer today? You ought to:
A few weeks ago, a 75-year-old Wisconsin farmer with severe arthritis,
glaucoma, and diabetes was sent to jail for growing marijuana. His 80-
year-old brother also faces charges for the same crime.

And they're not alone in the "Who'd-a-Guessed-They're-In-the-Drug-
Business?" Department: Over the past few years, two Old Order Amish
men, a Rabbi of the Year, and a 9-year-old boy have been charged with
selling drugs.

All of which proves that the War on Drugs has made selling illegal
substances so lucrative, say Libertarians, that almost anyone can be
tempted into breaking the law -- even past-their-crime-prime senior
citizens.

"When a crime wave is being fueled by Geritol, you have to surmise that
something is wrong with the law itself," said LP National Director Steve
Dasbach. "And when the Amish are riding get-away buggies after
making drug deals, you know the profit margin in illegal drugs has
become so ridiculous that even otherwise law-abiding people can be
corrupted.

"Whatever the cause, Americans have to decide if locking up senior
citizens, rabbis, and the Amish for drug crimes is an effective use of law
enforcement resources -- or whether police should, instead, be
concentrating on young, energetic murderers, robbers, and rapists."

In June, 75-year-old David Burmesch was sentenced to one year in the
county jail for growing marijuana on his farm. He was also ordered to
serve five years' probation, pay a fine, and perform 200 hours of
community service. His brother, Eugene, 80, is undergoing competency
hearings and could face a similar sentence. Burmesch said he grew
marijuana to help pay for the costs of raising his developmentally
disabled son.

The Burmesch brothers are just one example of America's surprising
new breed of drug dealers:

* In New York, Eli Gottesman, 74, who was once named "Rabbi of the
Year" by his colleagues, is facing charges that he smuggled cocaine
and marijuana into a federal prison. If convicted, he faces 20 years in
prison.

* Continuing the Torah'd crime wave, Yitzchal Fried, a 52-year-old
Orthodox rabbi, was arrested in February 2000 for selling seven ounces
of marijuana to a police informant in Brooklyn. Fried said the marijuana
was an "exit drug" that helps people get off heroin.

* In 1998, two Amish men in Pennsylvania were sentenced to a year in
prison for conspiring with a motorcycle gang to sell cocaine at an
Amish hoedown. Ironically, both men are Old Order Amish -- the most
conservative of all Amish sects -- and reject the use of automobiles,
electricity, and most modern conveniences.

* In May, a 9-year-old boy in Villisca, Iowa, was arrested for selling
marijuana to three 14-year-olds. The boy, who wasn't named because
he is a juvenile, will be sent for rehabilitation.

* In November 2000, the Reverend Travers C. Koerner, 55, was arrested
in Maryland for intent to distribute methamphetamines. The Episcopal
priest was found with $10,000 worth of drugs in his rectory.

What do these cases have in common? They prove that when the
government makes something illegal, the price goes up -- which tempts
more people into becoming criminals, said Dasbach.

"According to Joseph D. MacNamara, a research fellow at the Hoover
Institution, drug prohibition causes the price of drugs to be marked up by
as much as 17,000%," he said. "And the United Nations estimates that
the international black market in drugs is worth $500 billion annually.

"So we shouldn't be surprised that people choose to violate the law
when the law itself creates the enormous profits that fuel the drug
trade. If we want to stop tempting people into breaking the law, then we
need to eliminate the seductive lure of easy drug trade money. And the
only way to do that is by ending the War on Drugs.

"If we don't, then we better get used to the fact that people like 75-
year-old David Burmesch will continue to fill our prisons. And no
American will be safer if that happens."


--- End of forwarded message ---

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 hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.
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[CTRL] A Canal break-in unprecedented for Reclamation bureau

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A Canal break-in unprecedented for Reclamation bureau
07/06/01


The break-in at the A Canal headgates is unprecedented not only in the
history of the Klamath Project but also in that of the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation, a Reclamation official said Thursday.

With the break-in, Reclamation steps into uncharted territory. The
official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there had never been
an incident where people have forced their way onto Reclamation
property and caused damage to water gates or other fixtures or
equipment.

The agency that is responsible for developing and managing hundreds of
irrigation projects throughout the West was created to serve farmers. Up
until now, its unofficial sympathies have been with the farmers of the
Klamath Project.

Klamath Project workers who were required to close the A Canal
Monday did so with distaste. Closing the canal gate rubs against the
entire mission of the agency.

Some of that sympathy appears to have evaporated with Wednesday’s
protest and break-in. Reclamation officials are taking the incident very
seriously.

Since the Bureau of Reclamation is a water-management agency, not
an enforcement agency, it has no authority to investigate crimes or
enforce laws. The FBI and federal marshals have been asked to
investigate the break-in.

Bob Applegate, spokesman for Gov. John Kitzhaber, said the governor
is monitoring the developments.

“The governor’s aware of the situation in the Klamath area and would
urge that citizens make their views known legally and safely, and not
engage in any acts of vandalism,” Applegate said. “We just urge all to
be calm and peaceful while we try to make the best of a bad situation.”
U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials in the California-Nevada regional office in
Sacramento were reportedly discussing the Klamath situation Friday
morning and unavailable for comment.

Reclamation spokesman Jeffrey McCracken said Friday morning he did
not know if the federal agencies will investigate. “We’ve heard nothing
from the marshals or the FBI,” he said. In the meantime, McCracken
said, Klamath Project officials have taken measures to make sure the
gates cannot be opened again by force. He would not elaborate.

The third break-in occurred after a group of more than 100 people forced
their way past a chain link fence surrounding the A Canal headgate and
used welding equipment to re-open one of the six gates that control the
flow of water from Upper Klamath Lake into the canal. The canal is the
main feeder for farmlands of the Klamath Reclamation Project. The gate
had been closed by Klamath Project officials twice previously after
vandals opened it.

Following the first illegal opening sometime early Saturday morning,
Klamath Project officials closed the gate after officials of the Klamath
Irrigation District refused to do so. The irrigation district has a contract
to operate the gate according to instructions from Reclamation, but its
managers refused to comply with the bureau’s directive to close the
gate.

The gate was closed by Reclamation employees Monday. Early
Tuesday morning, Reclamation officials had to close the gate a second
time and it was reopened. This time they welded it shut.

Tuesday afternoon, Kirk Rodgers, acting director of the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific region, and Mike Ryan, acting deputy
director for the region, flew to Klamath Falls to discuss the break-ins
with managers of the irrigation district.

The Reclamation official who spoke off the record expressed concern
that local police chose to stand by rather than protect government
property from damage. Police officers observed the events Wednesday
but did nothing to interfere with the crowd.

The official suggested that when and if federal law officers did arrive,
they would probably take a close look at television coverage and
newspaper photographs that depicted the protesters inside the
headgate enclosure and on the headgates.
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Isn't it strange that the Reclamation official seems to think it's the job of
the police to protect government property?   kl

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[CTRL] A Fair Trial for Milosevic?

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July 3, 2001
A Fair Trial for Milosevic?
Memo To: Attorney General John Ashcroft
From: Jude Wanniski
Re: Hurray for Ramsey Clark
Quite apart from my belief that Slobodan Milosevic has been demonized
to cover up the blunders of the State Department in the last Bush
administration, I’m now disgusted with the willingness of our Political
Establishment to celebrate his kidnapping. The fact that our government
promised $1 billion in ransom to buy the Belgrade government’s
willingness to ship him off for a "fair trial" at the International Court of
Justice at the Hague makes me ashamed to be an American. Yes,
John, I know you are just a cog in the wheel, forced to turn at the
Establishment’s bidding, but this is truly reprehensible. Imagine what it
would have been like if Richard Nixon or Jerry Ford had been indicted by
the Hague Tribunal as war criminals, for their complicity of the
massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, or Sen. Bob Kerrey
dragged before the court for  his slaughter of innocents. President Bill
Clinton was clearly a war criminal, having bombed a Sudan aspirin
factory and killing several folks in the process (not to mention the Iraqi
civilians who got in  the way of his wag-the-dog bombing attacks). What
do we do if he is indicted?

I’d like you to read this press release from a former Attorney
General of the United States in the Lyndon Johnson administration,
Ramsey Clark, whose father Tom was A.G. in the Harry Truman
administration and a Supreme Court Justice from 1949 to 1967. The fact
that Ramsey Clark was despised by conservative Republicans for being
anti-war in the Vietnam era may cause you to hesitate, but this is a
different issue. Please note that former President Clinton’s secretary of
state, Madeleine Albright, has already announced that Milosevic IS A
WAR CRIMINAL and should be dealt with severely after his fair trial. The
New York Times also concluded that Milosevic is a monster and now
treats us to selected photographs designed to prove that he should be
put away for life. Remember, what goes around, comes around. One of
these days the Eurocrats might offer a bundle of euros for your
extradition, or that of your boss. Don’t you worry about that?

INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER CONDEMNS "ILLEGAL, U.S.-
FORCED DEPORTATION OF EX- YUGOSLAV PRESIDENT LOBODAN
MILOSEVIC TO NATO-SPONSORED COURT"

"AN ENORMOUS TRAGEDY FOR YUGOSLAVIA AND THE RULE OF
LAW," SAYS FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL RAMSEY CLARK

The International Action Center (IAC), a nationwide anti-war
organization, denounced today's deportation of ex-Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic to the "International Criminal Court for the Former
Yugoslavia" in The Hague, Netherlands. "It is an enormous tragedy for
Yugoslavia, the Serbian people and the rule of law," said IAC
Chairperson and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. "Serbian
Prime Minister Djindjic and other officials should be investigated for high
crimes against the people, and if found guilty should be sentenced in
accordance with the law."

"Demands should be made to the ICCFY," Mr. Clark continued,
"which is itself illegal, to immediately return Mr. Milosevic. The United
Nations must not encourage the illegal seizure of persons, such as took
place in this case. The people of Yugoslavia should unite in response to
this illegal seizure and demand the return of Mr. Milosevic, as should
people from all over the world."

"Today's U.S.-engineered deportation of former Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic is a gross violation of both legality and Yugoslavia's
national sovereignty," said IAC West Coast Coordinator Richard Becker.
"The ICCFY in The Hague is nothing more than a 'kangaroo court,' set
up by the U.S.-dominated UN Security Council, and run by the NATO
powers."

"The ICCFY's role as an instrument of the United States and other
NATO powers was made apparent during the 1999 NATO war against
Yugoslavia. Despite the fact that the massive bombing of Yugoslavia
constituted grave violations of international law -- including crimes
against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity -- the ICCFY
refused to even consider indicting the NATO powers," Becker continued.
Instead, the ICCFY indicted five Yugoslav leaders, among them then-
President Milosevic. NATO spokesperson Jamie Shea stated in May
1999, "Of course NATO supports the ICCFY – NATO created it."
Sara Flounders, National Co-Director of the IAC, pointed out the fact
that "Milosevic's deportation violated Yugoslavia's constitution, and
decisions of its federal president, parliament and Constitutional
Court. The extradition of Milosevic was carried out today under the
orders of the #1 U.S. lapdog politician in Yugoslavia, Zoran Djindjic,
prime minister of Serbia. In the recent election, Djindjic and his party
were the main conduits for U.S. funds. The U.S. government openly
boasts of having spent more than $100 million fixing the election in
Yugoslavia, a country of 10 million people. The equi

[CTRL] Motorists race to court to challenge red-light cameras

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http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20010706/3462035s.htm

Motorists race to court to challenge red-light cameras Photos called
privacy threat
By Valerie Alvord
Special to USA TODAY
SAN DIEGO -- The camera doesn't lie, or so they say. But attorney
Arthur Tait and more than 300 clients have gone to court to prove that,
at least in California, cameras can lie.
Their cases are drawing attention to law enforcement's war against
drivers who run red lights.
Every day, cameras catch thousands of people in 60 jurisdictions
across the USA as they speed through red lights. In San Diego alone,
more than 60,000 traffic tickets are issued each year from the cameras
at 19 intersections.
Studies consistently show wide public support across the USA for
camera enforcement at intersections. Running traffic lights, police point
out, is extremely dangerous. Lockheed Martin IMS owns and operates
80% of red-light cameras across the country. And there's a waiting list
of communities asking for cameras to be installed because demand for
them is high.
Drivers trying to beat red lights are responsible for about 800 deaths and
200,000 injuries each year, according to insurance industry figures.
More than half of those killed are pedestrians or occupants of vehicles
other than the ones running the lights. The rest are the drivers or
occupants in their cars.
But red-light cameras, which have been around for more than a decade, are picking up 
critics from California to Washington. They say that using pictures to convict 
motorists is an ''Orwellian'' threat to privacy. They cha
llenge the theory that the cameras are infallible. ''In other criminal cases, you have 
a right to confront your accuser,'' Tait says. ''But with this technology, your 
accuser is a camera.''
Tait and his law partner, Coleen Cusack, represent accused red-light runners from San 
Diego to San Francisco who insist they didn't violate the law, even though cameras say 
they did. ''I don't believe I ran a red light,''
 says Pam Scholefield, one of Tait's clients. ''I could have made this easy on myself 
and gone to traffic school, but I didn't because I believe the camera is wrong. 
There's something in the mechanism that triggers someth
ing that's incorrect.''
Tait became the guru of red-light camera law after he helped represent a San Diego man 
who had the money to mount a legal defense against a ticket last year. Publicity from 
winning that case brought in hundreds of referra
ls, he says. He and Cusack then ran an ad in a local free newspaper offering classes 
on how to defend citations. Some students became clients.
All of the clients are fighting the tickets with similar legal arguments, including, 
they say, that the cameras can transmit faulty data and that the pictures don't 
clearly show who's driving. ''Some of the people who got
 tickets were not driving the car,'' Tait says. ''The tickets are sent to the 
registered owner regardless of who was driving.''
Tait was in court Thursday arguing that the red-light cameras are an unconstitutional 
use of police power because the program is designed to bring in revenue, not enhance 
safety. The hearing is expected to continue into n
ext week.
In an earlier court hearing, the attorneys won the right to extract the binary code 
from a camera computer chip and use it to try to recreate the operating program. Tait 
says he hopes it will prove his contention that the
 cameras malfunction and can't be trusted.
Because of the court challenges, San Diego police officers began checking cameras and 
the sensors embedded in asphalt that trigger a photograph. They were looking to 
buttress the city's position that a picture can't be wr
ong. Instead, they found that sensors at three intersections had been moved, which 
threw the data into question.
San Diego Police Chief David Bejarano immediately turned off all 19 cameras pending a 
complete audit, which he hopes will be finished in about two months. The city refunded 
the $271 fines levied against people nabbed at t
he three intersections in question.
It's not just the sensors that are under fire, Tait says. ''This opens up a lot of 
evils. I'm concerned about the privatization of law enforcement and the fact that 
these tickets are almost impossible for the average pers
on to fight. This is an empire that is almost impenetrable.''
Tait cites a report drafted by House staff members for Majority Leader Dick Armey. The 
report asserts that the cameras have compromised safety at intersections nationwide. 
It contends that at intersections with cameras, t
raffic engineers intentionally reduced yellow-light times, which makes rear-end 
collisions more likely. The yellow-light phase has been shortened, the report says, to 
increase the number of violators and generate more fin
es, which are split between municipalities and operating companies, such as Lockheed.
That charge, Lockheed spokesman Mark Maddox says, is ''inaccurate and misinformed.''
Armey's allegatio

[CTRL] Photos called privacy threat - sensors at three intersections had been moved

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Page
3A
Motorists race to court to challenge red-light cameras Photos called
privacy threat
By Valerie Alvord
Special to USA TODAY

SAN DIEGO -- The camera doesn't lie, or so they say. But attorney
Arthur Tait and more than 300 clients have gone to court to prove that,
at least in California, cameras can lie.

Their cases are drawing attention to law enforcement's war against
drivers who run red lights.

Every day, cameras catch thousands of people in 60 jurisdictions
across the USA as they speed through red lights. In San Diego alone,
more than 60,000 traffic tickets are issued each year from the cameras
at 19 intersections.

Studies consistently show wide public support across the USA for
camera enforcement at intersections. Running traffic lights, police point
out, is extremely dangerous. Lockheed Martin IMS owns and operates
80% of red-light cameras across the country. And there's a waiting list
of communities asking for cameras to be installed because demand for
them is high.

Drivers trying to beat red lights are responsible for about 800 deaths and
200,000 injuries each year, according to insurance industry figures.
More than half of those killed are pedestrians or occupants of vehicles
other than the ones running the lights. The rest are the drivers or
occupants in their cars.

But red-light cameras, which have been around for more than a decade,
are picking up critics from California to Washington. They say that using
pictures to convict motorists is an ''Orwellian'' threat to privacy. They
challenge the theory that the cameras are infallible. ''In other criminal
cases, you have a right to confront your accuser,'' Tait says. ''But with
this technology, your accuser is a camera.''

Tait and his law partner, Coleen Cusack, represent accused red-light
runners from San Diego to San Francisco who insist they didn't violate
the law, even though cameras say they did. ''I don't believe I ran a red
light,'' says Pam Scholefield, one of Tait's clients. ''I could have made
this easy on myself and gone to traffic school, but I didn't because I
believe the camera is wrong. There's something in the mechanism that
triggers something that's incorrect.''

Tait became the guru of red-light camera law after he helped represent a
San Diego man who had the money to mount a legal defense against a
ticket last year. Publicity from winning that case brought in hundreds of
referrals, he says. He and Cusack then ran an ad in a local free
newspaper offering classes on how to defend citations. Some students
became clients.

All of the clients are fighting the tickets with similar legal arguments,
including, they say, that the cameras can transmit faulty data and that
the pictures don't clearly show who's driving. ''Some of the people who
got tickets were not driving the car,'' Tait says. ''The tickets are sent to
the registered owner regardless of who was driving.''

Tait was in court Thursday arguing that the red-light cameras are an
unconstitutional use of police power because the program is designed
to bring in revenue, not enhance safety. The hearing is expected to
continue into next week.

In an earlier court hearing, the attorneys won the right to extract the
binary code from a camera computer chip and use it to try to recreate
the operating program. Tait says he hopes it will prove his contention
that the cameras malfunction and can't be trusted.

Because of the court challenges, San Diego police officers began
checking cameras and the sensors embedded in asphalt that trigger a
photograph. They were looking to buttress the city's position that a
picture can't be wrong. Instead, they found that sensors at three
intersections had been moved, which threw the data into question.
San Diego Police Chief David Bejarano immediately turned off all 19
cameras pending a complete audit, which he hopes will be finished in
about two months. The city refunded the $271 fines levied against
people nabbed at the three intersections in question.

It's not just the sensors that are under fire, Tait says. ''This opens up a
lot of evils. I'm concerned about the privatization of law enforcement and
the fact that these tickets are almost impossible for the average person
to fight. This is an empire that is almost impenetrable.''

Tait cites a report drafted by House staff members for Majority Leader
Dick Armey. The report asserts that the cameras have compromised
safety at intersections nationwide. It contends that at intersections with
cameras, traffic engineers intentionally reduced yellow-light times,
which makes rear-end collisions more likely. The yellow-light phase has
been shortened, the report says, to increase the number of violators and
generate more fines, which are split between municipalities and
operating companies, such as Lockheed.

That charge, Lockheed spokesman Mark Maddox says, is ''inaccurate
and misinformed.''

Armey's allegations are ''insulting'' to the integrity of traffic engineers,
says Thomas Bra

[CTRL] SPY CAMS; 'NO IDEA WHAT I WAS VOTING FOR'

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"FELL THROUGH THE CRACKS" SAY COUNCIL MEMBERS.

Friday, July 6, 2001

After days of negative national publicity and an outcry from pro-privacy
groups, members of the Tampa City Council are back-pedaling on a
recent vote held May 10th. The controversy centers on the installation of
high-tech surveillance cameras that utilize an advanced digital face-
recognition technology. The software powering the cameras can scan
crowds of people and instantly match their digital images against a
massive database.

The Control Room in Ybor City where technicians scan the sea of faces
in Ybor City. Now, council members Linda Saul-Selina, Gwen Miller and
Rose Ferlita say they had no idea they had voted to approve the Ybor
City camera software and claim the resolution was buried within pages
of other city business and the associative language "was confusing."
The members, some of whom have appeared on national television
shows to express their displeasure with the system say they're
outraged and think the cameras and the digital databases are a blatant
invasion of privacy.

Tampa Councilman Bob Buckhorn, who sponsored the legislation
behind the face-recognition technology, said he didn't call for "full-blown
public hearings on the matter" because the system didn't immediately
involve the expenditure of taxpayer money. Now, Rose Ferlita is
demanding that the city council take up a vote to terminate the contract
with the software manufacturer.







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[CTRL] Feds Mull Calling in Marshals in Oregon Water Fight

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Feds Mull Calling in Marshals in Oregon Water Fight
Thursday, July  05, 2001

KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — Federal officials were considering whether to
call in U.S. marshals on Thursday to enforce the Endangered Species
Act after angry farmers and residents sent water reserved for threatened
and endangered fish into an irrigation canal.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation also was meeting with officials of the
Klamath Irrigation District in an effort to restore calm.
"It is a discussion of mutual concerns," said bureau spokesman Jeff
McCracken. "We have a responsibility to follow the law."
The Bureau of Reclamation controls the Klamath Project irrigation
system, serving 240,000 acres of farms and ranches in the Klamath
Basin along the Oregon-California border.
On Wednesday, a crowd of 100 to 150 people armed with a diamond-
bladed chain saw and a cutting torch opened a gate that had been
welded shut and reopened a headgate to send water from Upper
Klamath Lake back into the "A" Canal of the Klamath Project.
It was the second time in a week that the headgate had been opened in
defiance of the bureau's decision last April that severe drought made it
impossible to provide water to 90 percent of the land in the Klamath
Project without jeopardizing the survival of endangered sucker fish in
Upper Klamath Lake and threatened coho salmon in the Klamath River.
Water flowed into the canal for over four hours, until a Bureau of
Reclamation official closed it down, the Herald and News newspaper
reported.
Klamath Falls police and county sheriff's deputies observed but did not
interfere because no state or local laws were being broken, the
newspaper said.
The Bureau of Reclamation owns the irrigation facilities, but contracts
with the Klamath Irrigation District to maintain and operate them.
After the headgate was opened Friday night, neither side wanted to
close the gate, saying it was the other's responsibility. The bureau
finally closed it.
"We certainly understand the frustration of the community facing this
situation," said McCracken. "We would hope that cooler heads prevail."
Klamath County Sheriff Tim Evinger said he had notified the Klamath
Irrigation District about the opened gates.
Irrigiation officials said the district would manage Wednesday's flow,
estimated at 200 cubic feet per second.
"It just appears to me that they are trying to save their lives," Evinger
said of those who opened the gate.
Since the water was shut off last April, Klamath Basin farms with no
other source of water have been forced to sell off cattle, let pastures and
hay fields go brown, and give up annual plantings of potatoes, grain and
other crops.
Many other lands in the Klamath Basin served by wells or other
irrigation districts are green.
Ron Johnson, a Klamath Falls farm equipment dealer, said the canal
was reopened because people are frustrated and want to see something
done.
"There is a lot of anger," he said. "It is really unfair to a lot of people who
make their livelihood from farming, having everything taken away from
them like it is."

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[CTRL] Panel finds CIA soft on China

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July 6, 2001
Panel finds CIA soft on China
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

 A commission of outside experts has concluded that CIA reporting
on China is biased and slanted toward a benign view of the emerging
communist power.

 Numerous classified intelligence reports on China, including those
on Chinese military and security issues, were reviewed by a 12-member
commission and found to be flawed, according to U.S. government
officials and outside experts close to the panel.
 The commission concluded in a final report that China-related CIA
intelligence reports and programs suffered from an "institutional
predisposition" to play down or misinterpret national security problems
posed by Beijing's communist regime.
 The commission also said CIA analysts had "overreached" in
making many incorrect or misleading assessments about China's
military and political activities.
 The conclusions of the commission are contained in a classified
report. The commission was headed by retired Army Gen. John Tilelli, a
former commander of U.S. forces in Korea.
 "There were numerous instances where [CIA analysts] just missed
it," said one official who has read the report.
 The commission included several academics such as Harvard
University professor Stephen Rosen, Princeton University professor
Aaron Friedberg and University of Pennsylvania professor Arthur
Waldron, as well as former Ambassador to China James Lilley. Peter
Rodman, a current nominee for assistant defense secretary also took
part, as did retired Army Col. Larry Wortzel, a former attache in China
who is currently with the Heritage Foundation.
 The panel met three times with CIA Director George J. Tenet. CIA
sources said Mr. Tenet tried unsuccessfully to persuade the
commission to soften its findings, arguing that its findings would fuel
critics of the agency.
 One of those critics is Sen. Richard C. Shelby, Alabama Republican
and the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who took
the lead in pushing for the CIA to form the "competitive analysis"
commission.
 Mr. Shelby said in an interview that the CIA has "not viewed China in
a realistic way."
 "They have tried to look the other way when China, in my opinion,
may be moving toward a belligerent stand, if not attitude," Mr. Shelby
said. "They are always looking the other way to put their spin on the
U.S.-Chinese relationship, that everything is going well in the long run.
 "It's just not very real. China is, has been and I believe will be a big
competitor of ours, economically, militarily, politically, in every respect.
They could be our biggest adversary. They are certainly not our
strategic partner as Clinton and Gore would lead you to believe."
 A Pentagon report issued in December by the Office of Net
Assessment, headed by long-time defense strategist Andrew Marshall,
also criticized U.S. intelligence shortfalls on China. The report said the
Pentagon could not predict the outcome of a conflict between China and
Taiwan because of major "intelligence gaps."
 CIA China analysts and senior officials, including Mr. Tenet, declined
to be interviewed. A CIA spokesman denied that its analysts were
biased and said they "call them as they see them."
 One China specialist, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said
the most serious problem of the China analysts at the CIA is their failure
to recognize the growing danger of a Sino-U.S. war.
 "War is a come-as-you-are party, and the Chinese are thinking
about that very seriously," the specialist said. "The problem is you can't
find those guys at CIA thinking about it."
 Official statements about the possibility of military conflict between
Washington and Beijing have been dismissed by senior CIA analysts as
hollow rhetoric, the specialist said.
 While most of the analyses reviewed by the panel are classified,
some of the CIA China division's work is public. Based on published
materials and interviews with officials who have seen its classified
studies, the following problems were identified to The Washington Times:
 c The CIA provided poor analytical support to the White House
during the recent Hainan island incident. Agency analysts failed to
properly predict Beijing's reactions in the aftermath of a collision
between a U.S. EP-3E surveillance plane and a Chinese F-8 fighter jet
over the South China Sea, in which 24 American service members were
held hostage on Hainan island.
 c The CIA's top analyst on Chinese foreign policy, Paul Heer,
reported in the journal Foreign Affairs last year that the idea there are
divisions within the Chinese leadership between hard-liners and
centrists is a "false dichotomy" that is "misguided and even dangerous."
 His view reflects classified CIA analysis that came under fire from
the Tilelli commission and is contrary to the widespread views within
other U.S. intelligence agencies that major internal divisions do exist

[CTRL] (Fwd) LP RELEASE: First Amendment Survey

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Chilling new survey: Americans want
more government censorship of media

WASHINGTON, DC -- The First Amendment is in "intensive care,"
Libertarians said today, after a new survey found that 46% of Americans
think the press has "too much freedom" and a whopping 71% say the
government needs to hold the media in check.

"The First Amendment is in trouble," said Steve Dasbach, Libertarian
Party national director. "If this survey is accurate, then the First
Amendment is in intensive care and may be dying -- not of simple
indifference, but because of criminal negligence by the American
people."

This past week, the New York-based First Amendment Center revealed
that a
startling number of Americans are willing or eager to give the government
more control over speech and the press. Of the 1,102 adults randomly
surveyed by telephone across the nation:

* 46% said the press in America has "too much freedom to do what it
wants." By contrast, only 36% think there is "too much government
censorship."

* 71% think it is somewhat or very important for the government "to
hold the media in check."

* 39% agree "the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it
guarantees." That's up dramatically from just 22% who held that opinion
last year.

* 64% disagreed that "people should be allowed to say things in public
that
might be offensive to racial groups," with 36% saying there should be
laws
against such speech.

For a nation founded on the concept of "inalienable rights" and a
fierce devotion to free speech, this survey is disturbing, said
Dasbach.

"Americans don't seem to understand that free speech is not something
you
can share with the government," he said. "Either the people have free
speech -- and are willing to fervently defend it against all encroachments
-- or else politicians have the power to control what we hear, see, and
read. There is no middle ground."

Unfortunately, too many Americans appear willing to sacrifice their
freedoms to protect themselves against speech they find offensive, said
Dasbach.

"Some people appear willing to relinquish free speech because they are
offended by vulgar music, obscene photographs on the Internet, violent
movies, or lewd dialogue on television," he said. "But that's making a
deal
with the devil.

"If you give away your rights, politicians will eagerly take them. And once
they have that power, politicians won't stop at simply censoring what you
find offensive. Eventually, politicians will go after speech that you find
indispensable. But by then, it will be too late."

What's the solution? Americans need to renew their traditional
commitment to free speech, said Dasbach.

"Don't let the history books record that this was the generation that gave
away its First Amendment rights," he said. "Remember: There's only
one
thing more tragic than a government seizing the rights of its citizens --
and that's citizens willingly forfeiting their rights because they are too
apathetic, indifferent, or lazy to keep them.

"And there's only one thing more tragic than letting power-hungry
politicians murder the First Amendment -- and that's allowing it to die of
criminal neglect."

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In any dispute between a citizen and the government, it is my instinct
to side with the citizen.  I am against bureaucrats, policemen, wowsers,
snouters, smellers, uplifters, lawyers, bishops and all other sworn
enemies of the free man.  I am against all efforts to make men virtuous
by law.  I believe that the government, practically considered, is simply
a camorra of incompetent and mainly dishonest men, transiently licensed
to live by the labor of the rest of us.  I am thus in favor of limiting
its powers as much as possible, even at the cost of considerable
inconvenience, and of giving every citizen, wise or foolish, right or
wrong, the right to criticize it freely, and to advocate changes in
its constitution and personnel...the very commonest of common men has
certain inalienable rights.
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Re: [CTRL] Jacques Cousteau, Environmental Liar? (fwd)

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On 2 Jul 2001, at 22:20, Damian B. Cooper wrote:

>
> If the world population is to be reduced, does it matter which specific
> populations are reduced?
>
> I appreciate your serious response.
>
>

I would prefer to let natural processes determine which populations
survive rather than to allow some self-appointed elitist to make the
decision for us.

BTW, are you a computer program?

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(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to
the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
-Article 29, Universal Declaration of Human Rights Adopted and
proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December
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[CTRL] (Fwd) McVeigh's Death Spurs Outcry Against Poetry

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MCVEIGH'S DEATH SPURS OUTCRY AGAINST POETRY

By Mad Cow Culture ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

June 17, 2001

By misappropriating as his death bed chant "Invictus," the famous poem
by
W.E.Henley, mad cow bomber Timothy McVeigh has created an
infamous stink,
raising important legal, philosophical and academic issues.

W.E.Henley IV, great-grandson of the poet, is furious that a mass
murder
would pervert lines written by a relative who overcame enormous suffering
to excel as a magazine writer. The great-grandson, who has threatened
to
sue the McVeigh estate for "malicious misappropriation of iambic
pentameter," thinks authorities should have at least amputated one of
the
bomber's legs so he, like the poet,  "could be one with the poem."

The original Henley lived to have quite a future. Robert Louis Stevenson
used Henley as the prototype for Long John Silver of "Treasure Island."
Rodin sculpted Henley's bust which is now found at the National Portrait
Gallery in London. Great-grandson Henley said "McVeigh committed
another
crime by appropriating the poem without the suffering. Even the right
wing
wackos understand this. No one is even buying bogus McVeigh
memorabilia on
Ebay.  The guy is history."

McVeigh might be history but not the fuss caused by his deathbed
invocation
of "Invictus." The Dallas School Board has opted to remove all literature
textbooks which contain the poem from its classrooms. Board
President Dr.
Jerry James said in a prepared report "We will not expose
impressionable
students to a poem that has been used by a mass murderer to justify
and
celebrate his wicked acts. We are firm in our conviction that we will not
be party to making this fiend a cult hero. In fact we intend to be master
of our fate, and captain of our soul. I realize there are some First
Amendment issues involved, but the primary concern for the Dallas
School
Board is the health and welfare of our children."

The Dallas News has reported that the Board's edict might go further.
Internet chat rooms are suggesting that during his high school years and
during his service in the Gulf War, McVeigh was actually an avid reader
of
poetry. His high school sweetheart Jane Jones has allegedly claimed
that
McVeigh was an avid reader of Dylan Thomas "Do Not Go Gentle,"
Hamlet's
soliloquy, and Robert Frost's "Out, Out--". Military friends have indicated
that McVeigh had read "Atlas Shrugged" at least six times and had a
fascination with Ahab in "Moby Dick." There is some speculation that
McVeigh was secret admirer of Walt Whitman and has a particular love
for
"Song of Myself".

These post-mortem finding have dismayed members of the now defunct,
bankrupt and disgraced "McVeigh Fan Club" who lament that the
"bomber
should have gone out showing his sensitive, compassionate side."  The
Dallas School Boards, however, according to the Dallas News, is
dismayed
that this reading list, whether apocryphal or not, will become tainted by
an association with a murderer. According to Dr. James, "The last thing
we
want is for students to be thinking that characters in Melville, Whitman,
or Shakespeare are to be admired and emulated because a mass
murderer
embraced them. Frankly, we'd rather our students not read these works
that
are even more likely now to contaminate their minds."

The Dallas School Board has not yet decided on a broader textbook ban
but
already textbook companies are getting the message and without any
apparent
coercion, are significantly reducing the amount of Thoreau, Emerson,
Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Crane, and Twain in American Literature
textbooks.

Some textbook companies are simply creating entire literature texts
around
excerpts from the Bible, which has met with the quiet approval of school
boards in Texas. In Dr. James opinion this effort "serves as a reasonable
extension of President Bush's faith-based initiative. After all, there are
no surprises in the Bible, and we are reasonably certain the murderer
never
read this book."

Not everyone is so sanguine about these developments. The American
Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU) has already sought an injunction in Dallas
Superior
Court against this "flagrant violation of First Amendment Freedoms." The
ACLU has lost the first round  the court, which invited further briefs,
wrote that "local school boards have the right to decide curriculum
content. It is not the court's job to find motive."

The ACLU has vowed to fight this "creeping religious hegemony that
threatens our schools."

Whatever the legality of the Dallas decision, school boards across
America
are looking intently at the drama and the court's response to date.
School
boards in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Mississippi and Florida who have
already
removed "The Exorcist', "Huck Finn," "Black Like Me," and other books
from
school libraries seem more emboldened. City schools in Detroit,
Michigan
have already removed most of th

Re: [CTRL] An Unanswered Question

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On 23 Jun 2001, at 11:51, M. F. Abernathy wrote:

>
> I still haven't seen any information from any media source about *what*
> drug Andrea Yates was using to treat her depression? Was it Prozac? Was it
> Zoloft? Paxil? Why won't the media tell us what drug she was taking? Has
> anybody else gotten any word about what kind of "medicine" she was taking?
>

I heard one of the medications was Haldol.
--

Best Wishes


Joining the traditional rationalizations for state coercion - "God's
will," "the consent of the governed," and "social justice" - comes a
fourth:  "coercion as treatment."  Unlike theocracy, democracy, and
socialism, however, pharmacracy has met little opposition.
  -Thomas S. Szasz

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Re: [CTRL] Jacques Cousteau, Environmental Liar? (fwd)

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On 22 Jun 2001, at 16:00, Andrew Hennessey wrote:

> not for me thanx - I personally don't buy into the fossil fuel argument
> knowing that Bruce Depalma and in fact my friend called andrew M can
> manufacture 300% free energy - albiet DePalma was the sunburst generator
> using electromagnetic fields and Andrew M with a home engineered catalytic
> convertor on water using harmonic frequencies.
>
> The justification for killing off 4 billion people in my opinion is
> FRAUDULENT
>

I agree that those who think we should kill 4 billion should put their
money where their mouth is and commit suicide to demonstrate their
committment to the principle of population reduction.
--

Best Wishes


The fact that nature deals the occasional death blow doesn't hand us
an excuse to imitate it.  *We* invented ethics.  Our environment is
sufficiently buffeted by various forces that the last thing it needs
is humanity throwing extra spanners into the works.
 -PRATCHETT, TERRY (1948-Present, Fantasy/satire author)
 {The Science of Discworld, 1999, with Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen}

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[CTRL] (Fwd) ALERT: #213 US Drug War Pushes Canada Toward Police Stat

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US Drug War Pushes Canada Toward Police State

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DrugSense FOCUS Alert #213 Tuesday, June 19, 2001

The Canadian government may not pursue the drug war as ruthlessly as
the United States, but Canadian politicians aren't immune from drug war
stupidity. As the National Post reported last week, new banking rules
will
put many Canadian citizens under suspicion as money-launderers.

National Post columnist Terence Corcoran noted: "The common thread
running through these money-laundering and other anti-crime laws
around the
world leads straight to Washington and the most futile crime crusade
since
prohibition: the war on drugs. Hundreds of billions of dollars, global
prosecution regimes and out of control police actions are doing little to
stop the drug trade. But they are lining the pockets of bureaucrats and
police workers and laying the groundwork for institutionalized state
control."

Please write a letter to the National Post to say that the US, with its
mixture of high drug abuse rates and high incarceration rates, is no role
model for drug policy.



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ARTICLE

Canada: Column: One Step Closer To A Police State

URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1062/a08.html

Newshawk: Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy http://www.cfdp.ca/
Pubdate: Fri, 15 Jun 2001
Source: National Post (Canada)
Copyright: 2001 Southam Inc.
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/286
Author: Terence Corcoran, National Post

ONE STEP CLOSER TO A POLICE STATE

Claiming to be fighting a valiant war on crime, governments around the
world -- but especially in Canada -- are actually fighting an escalating
war on people. This includes Ottawa's draconian "money-laundering"
regulations. If you send $15,000 in cash to pay for your grandmother's
hip
replacement at a U.S. hospital, your name will go on the list of potential
money launderers. Privacy? Freedom? Guilt? Innocence? Forget it.
Under some
definition, sending cash into the U.S. health-care system probably is
money
laundering.

Another manifestation of Ottawa's war on people at the expense of
individual freedom is Bill C-24, a law to fight organized crime.
Introduced last April, C-24 whipped through final third reading on
Wednesday, just before the MPs fled Ottawa with their pockets stuffed
with the proceeds of organized politics.

The new law vastly expands government power and gives police the right
to
break the law to enforce the law. The Canadian Civil Liberties
Association
has called parts of the legislation "evil," but that didn't phase the
government. People who tried to follow C-24 on its rapid run through the
Commons say it is as bad in the final version as it was the day it was
introduced.

Provincial and local governments have their own power-expansion
ambitions and are more than ready to hand police fresh authority to
stomp on basic rights. Ontario last month reintroduced its own infamous
organized crime legislation, noted mostly for giving government the
ability
to seize the assets of innocent people if prosecutors think the assets
were
acquired, directly or indirectly, through some organized criminal activity.

That these laws go overboard and trample on people's rights nobody
seriously doubts. Oddly, though, it's not until the laws and
regulations are on the books that people begin to realize how much
power governments have taken and how many rights have been lost. The
federal money launderin

Re: [CTRL] Russians thrash their drug takers to stop addiction

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On Sunday, 17 Jun 2001 19:01:49 -0700
Schmidt quacked:

>Hell, I'd pay to be allowed to adminiser this 'therapy' to drug addicts.
>Almost as good as the idea of 'shooting galleries' which have been
>proposed in various Australian locations the last couple of years. I'm
>all in favour as long as the clips of ammunition don't cost more than
>about $10 each.

Hideous Troll, begone!

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[CTRL] The Dead Cry Out (Fwd)

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The Dead Cry Out
by Jeff Elkins

The fix is in. The murderer Lon Horiuchi walks free.

A motion to dismiss criminal charges against FBI Hostage Rescue
Team sniper Lon Horiuchi has been filed with the federal district court
in Boise, Idaho by the craven coward of Boundary County, Prosecutor
Brett Benson.

"Based upon the entirety of the circumstances surrounding this criminal
action, it is unlikely the state will be able to prove beyond a
reasonable doubt the criminal act set forth in the information on
file. Due to the significant time which has passed since the date
of the incident and the unlikely event that this case will be set
for trial in the near future, the state's burden is increased."
Boundary County Prosecuting Attorney Brett Benson announced in an
official press release.

The motion ends nine years of criminal and civil cases that relate to
the federal assassination of Vicki Weaver, and her son Sammy Weaver;
also brought to a false and wicked closure were a myriad of other
civil and criminal actions brought as a result of the assault on
Ruby Ridge. The civil penalties already awarded are all the "justice"
that the innocent dead of Ruby Ridge will ever have.

Brett Benson tried to put a happy face on his rank betrayal of the
citizens of Boundary County. "Good and binding law has been made
that federal agents may be tried on criminal charges under certain
circumstances." whined Benson, referring to the fact that the 9th Circuit
ruled that under limited circumstances charges may be brought against
federal marauders and assassins. Little good the ruling does, when
gutless local authorities bow down before the federal master.

Idaho special prosecutor Stephen Yagman, appointed by Benson's
political predecessor, Denise Woodbury, called the decision "unjustified
and done in a sneaky way." Yagman also stated that a different
prosecutor could file charges in the future.

I guarantee that will never happen. The fix is in and will stay in.
Lon Horiuchi will never face justice. At least not on this earth.

Benson said his decision was "based on the entirety of the
circumstances surrounding this criminal action." One must wonder.
Benson is being investigated by the Idaho Attorney General's office
because of allegations that he falsified notarized documents. That
investigation will now fade away; Benson no doubt will go on to bigger
and better things. Who knows what fat and lucrative cases will be
channeled his way once back in private practice or what future
positions, perhaps working for the federal Leviathan itself, await him.

The fix is in, and Prosecutor Benson’s wallet will not suffer, you can rest
assured.

"The Ruby Ridge incident was a tragedy that deeply affected and divided
many of the citizens of this county and country. It is our hope
that this decision will begin the healing process that is so long
overdue and so much deserved." Benson opined in his press release.

What Benson has done is pour acid on the still open wound of Ruby
Ridge. And rather than cauterizing this terrible wound, it will inflame
it, further increasing our distrust of all government, local, state and
federal. In letting murderer Horiuchi walk free, Benson has done no
favors for freedom; he had the clear opportunity to shine the light of day
on the federal monster but has squandered it. Again, one must ask the
question: Cui Bono? Not the citizens of Boundary County, Idaho nor the
citizens of the United States.

The federal government profits. Lon Horiuchi profits. Brett Benson
profits. They can now rest assured that in Boundary County, Idaho and
all the other localities of the once free United States, the Leviathan
may proceed with impunity to steal and murder without any brake
applied by cowardly and craven local officials.

Like ts terrible cousin Waco, Ruby Ridge will now fester as an open
sore on the body politic. Prosecutor Brett Benson had an opportunity
to heal; but instead of taking the role of physician, he chose to be an
abortionist instead. All good people who worship freedom should
remember his name with loathing and disgust.

Remember the popular movie of a few seasons back, ‘The
Sixth Sense’? The protagonist of that movie, a little boy, had  a dark
talent; the ability to see the animate dead. Luckily, we’re
preserved in reality from actually having such a dubious gift, but
what we do have is the ability to remember the dead, and in some
cases we can almost imagine that we hear them cry out.

The dead of Ruby Ridge cry out for justice but Brett Benson is deaf.
Can you hear the cries of Vicki and Sammy Weaver? I think I can.

June 18, 2001

Jeff Elkins is a freelance consultant and  writer living in North Central
Florida. His personal website is located at www.elkins.org.
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[CTRL] A Note on Unwitting Light-Bearers at the Times (Fwd)

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A Note on Unwitting Light-Bearers at the Times
by Myles Kantor

>From the New York Times’ editorial  on Ireland’s rejection of the (Not
So) Nice Treaty:
“…the Irish vote should remind Europe’s leaders that they need to do
 a better job of selling the benefits of further integration. Otherwise,
voters will reclaim their nations’ sovereignty with a vengeance.”

“Reclaim,” now that’s a curious usage.  Its definitions include “to recall
from wrong or improper conduct,” “to rescue from an undesirable
state,” and “to regain possession of.”  If Irish voters may reclaim
Ireland’s sovereignty, then that implies Ireland’s sovereignty is
currently compromised.

The Times is right: Irish sovereignty is in a precarious
condition. A historically beleaguered country to begin with, Ireland
now faces hegemony by a supra-national Leviathan seeking to
internationalize a statist slew, coupled with a domestic leadership
complicit in the Leviathan’s objective.

Ireland’s rejection of the (Not So) Nice Treaty attests its obstinacy
against imperial ambition.  The Emerald Isle’s not going to let a bunch
of alien bureaucrats dictate its political destiny.  Clearly, the New
York Times supports  European “integration”; yet its usage reflects
cognizance of what that pernicious project entails.

A people cannot reclaim what is already theirs, and insofar as the
Times has identified Ireland’s crisis of autonomy,  we owe it our thanks.
(Smile.)
June 15, 2001
Myles Kantor edits FreeEmigration.com and lives in Boynton Beach,
Florida


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Former Cop - Law Enforcement Is The Police State's Servant
>From J.D. Tuccille c. 2001 About.com  6-15-1

Several months ago, I penned a column called "Cops who say 'no'" that
turned out to be one of the more thoroughly hashed-over pieces that I've
churned out. As happens when I have lots of white space to fill, I waxed
philosophic and evoked my inner literary self even quoting Ralph Waldo
Emerson on the way to making a simple point. I suggested that in an
age of
proliferating laws that micromanage our lives and that involve ever-scarier
law-enforcement powers, police officers have an obligation to consider
the
morality of the laws they enforce, and to refuse to enforce laws that have
no business on the books.

It's nice to be noticed, and my e-mail soon demonstrated that people
have
been paying attention. Messages pro and con streamed in, with a
preponderance of readers saying that they agreed with the point I was
making. Dissenters tended to use stronger language, leaving me only
one
possible response: My mother is not! - or not so that you can prove,
anyway.

Among the more interesting messages was a note from a retired police
officer (I've checked his credentials) who served with a major urban-area
law-enforcement agency, and so has more first-hand familiarity with
modern
policing than I hope to ever have. This former officer, who asked me not
to
use his name so that he gets no more grief at reunion picnics than
necessary, suggested that my heart might be in the right place, but I
just
don't understand the depths of the problem.

Rather than paraphrase what the one-time police officer said so well, I
reproduce his note below... ___

I was a police officer for many years and am now retired. It is apparent to
me that you suffer a few misunderstandings of the police officer's job.

However, that is not to say that you aren't right. There are many laws
that
are stupid, wrong, unconstitutional, feel-good (hate crimes come to
mind)
and silly.

Each police officer is given discretionary decision-making power. That
means that barring the commission of six particular crimes (Burglary,
Arson, Rape, Robbery, Murder and Mayhem) a police officer may
decide for
him or herself whether to arrest, report, release in the field, or simply
to do nothing.

For decades, I nullified bad laws (e.g., concealed carry of a weapon by
honest citizens, gambling and prostitution) and so did many other
officers.
We did it because we had the power to and it was the right thing to do.
Before you suggest how to correct modern day law enforcement, I
suggest you
first review the reason modern local law enforcement is becoming the
police
state's handmaiden.

It is simple: Federal influence. Since the Nixon / Mitchell Administration,
federal funds, training, hiring standards and procedures have penetrated
into local law enforcement in an insidious manner.

Training is of the siege mentality type, fear is inculcated in training,
and the belief that no one needs a firearm but the police is encouraged
and
fostered.

Waco was made possible by a perjured affidavit swearing that a drug lab
was
on the premises. They lied and got the army to help under Titles 26 and
32,
USC. These are the same people who have been training local law
enforcement
for decades.

Until we can remove the federal influence in local law enforcement, it will
just get worse. Hell, it may not even be reversible.

I respect your intentions, but there is a hell of a lot you don't know
about how bad it has gotten in local law enforcement. Many of these
kids
have never read the Constitution, nor have they been required to. They
also
have a natural antipathy towards armed citizens as a result of
brainwashing
in primary and secondary school. Many are also unrestrained and
unfamiliar
with self-discipline. This can be fatal if not harmful to an innocent who
is doing nothing more than lawfully owning a firearm.

The job is one of the safest there is statistically, and I am sick of
police administrators, in their effort to build empire, lying about being
"outgunned." They pander to federal anti-constitutionalists by crying for
more gun laws, but no mention of severe treatment for violent criminals.
No
one is in law enforcement by way of impressment or the draft. They are
all
volunteers and if anyone is in fear of armed citizens and not armed
criminals, they should get another job, perhaps a milk route. I wouldn't
recommend the U.S. Postal Service, though.

Local police are in danger of ceasing to be responsible at all to their
local community and taxpayers. ___

The note is disturbing because it reflects concerns that I've heard before,
but says that the problem is much more advanced than I've suspected.
Two
years ago, The Cato Institute came out with a report that made a splash
at
the time, then as is the way with such things, sank without a trace. In
"Warrior Cops: The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism In American
Police
De

[CTRL] Russians thrash their drug takers to stop addiction

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This leads me to wonder if one of the "businessmen" could be Bill
Howard?


http://www.sunday-
times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/06/17/stifgnrus02002.html?

June 17 2001
RUSSIA

Cold turkey: young addicts in Yekaterinburg are beaten with leather
belts then chained to their beds while they detoxify. Some claim it is a
regime based on sadism

Russians thrash their drug takers to stop addiction
Mark Franchetti, Yekaterinburg


THE teenage heroin addict knew what would happen when his mother
brought him to the City Without Drugs rehabilitation centre. He had
heard about the beatings given to new arrivals. It was just after midnight
when his turn came.

Accompanied by another young addict, he was taken in silence from a
damp, overcrowded cellar where he had briefly been held and escorted
to a derelict house nearby.

He was strapped face down to a narrow bed and his trousers were
pulled down. Moments later the screaming began.

The "treatment" he received is meted out by City Without Drugs, a
group that has declared war on narcotics in the industrial city of
Yekaterinburg, 900 miles east of Moscow. The group's founders, three
wealthy businessmen, claim remarkable success in curing addiction -
but the cure is intimidating in the extreme.

Standing in darkness on either side of the teenager's bed, the guards
pulled out leather belts and folded them for extra thickness. They then
beat his buttocks, taking it in turns to strike while his cries grew louder
and more desperate with each passing minute. One of the assailants
used a cigarette lighter to inspect red buckle marks on raw flesh.
Satisfied, he barked a few threats and called for his next victim.

The second addict, who had been lying terrified on an adjacent bed, was
beaten without delay. At one point the pain was so great that he passed
out. His tormentors hit him in the face to bring him round and resumed
the thrashing. By the end of the session each had received 300 lashes;
both had to be helped back to the cellar, where they were to spend the
rest of their first week at the centre.

"On the first day we beat them with belts until their buttocks turn blue,"
boasted Igor Varov, one of the three businessmen behind City Without
Drugs. "Every week we have to buy a new belt because they go too
soft, but we have been impressed with the quality of Gucci belts.

"Drug addicts are animals who have lost all sense of values. This way,
the next time they think about getting a fix they remember the pain of
the thrashing rather than the rush of the drugs. It's very effective. You
cannot solve this with mild manners - you need tough measures."

It was two years ago that Varov, one of the richest men in
Yekaterinburg, and his partners launched their campaign against the
drug menace. They said they had been forced to take matters into their
own hands because the local authorities had failed to address a level of
addiction that is among the worst in Russia.

Their followers mounted ferocious punitive raids on drug dealers. One
suspected dealer was tied to a tree with a sign saying he was poisoning
the city's youth. Others had their legs broken or their homes set on fire.
But such was the demand for places at the rehabilitation centre that a
second one has opened.

After their initial beating, addicts spend their first few weeks handcuffed
to a bed, left to face their withdrawal symptoms with nothing stronger
than bread and water. Later the inmates are put to work chopping down
trees or labouring.

Nobody is allowed to leave during the treatment, which lasts a year. The
few who have tried to escape have been brought back and punished.
Former inmates who test positive for drugs are also subjected to
beatings.

Before handing over their children, parents are required to sign a form
absolving the managers of responsibility for any harm that might be
done. Some 200 young addicts are under their supervision. Varov
claims his methods have cured 50 former addicts in less than 18
months, several of whom have stayed on to work at the centre. Drug
consumption and trafficking in the city have also dropped sharply, he
says.

Many condemn the methods. Police officers have gathered evidence of
inmates being beaten with batons and sticks. They have also recorded
testimony from addicts who claim to have been handcuffed to iron bars
and left dangling. Such allegations are denied by the centres.

Andrei, 20, who was treated at the centre and is too afraid of reprisals to
give his full name, described how he tried to escape from one centre but
was beaten so badly that he spent three weeks in hospital and was
scarred for life.

"I was made to lie on the floor. Then two guys, one with a rubber baton
and another with a wooden handle from a spade, beat me until I was
unconscious," he said. "I was then left to hang handcuffed for three
days from a wall. They are sadists. They love the power - that's what it
is all about. You can hardly call it therapy."
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[CTRL] Palestinian child killed by other Palestinians in Gaza Strip

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http://english.hk.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/article.html?s
=hke/headlines/010617/world/afp/Palestinian_child_killed_by_other_Pale
stinians_in_Gaza_Strip.html

  Sunday, June 17 3:30 AM SGT
Palestinian child killed by other
Palestinians in Gaza Strip
GAZA CITY, June 16 (AFP) -
A 12-year-old Palestinian was shot dead late Saturday in the
southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah when residents tried to prevent
armed Palestinians from opening fire on an Israeli position, a
Palestinian security official said.
Soliman Al-Masri was killed and three other Palestinians from Rafah,
including a doctor, were injured in the Tel el-Sultan neighbourhood,
when residents tried to stop a group of masked men from firing on a
nearby Israeli position, the source said.
Orders have been given to arrest Palestinians described as "outlaws"
for attacking Israeli soldiers "in violation of orders by Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat," the same sources added.
The Israelis and the Palestinians agreed on a ceasefire on June 13,
following US mediation.
Masri's death is the first incident of this kind since the Palestinian
uprising, or intifada erupted on September 28, bringing the death toll
to 612: 483 Palestinians, 110 Israelis, 13 Israeli Arabs and six
Europeans.
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contained, that you may take children from their parents and parents
from their children, and compel them to fight the battle in any war in
which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it?
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[CTRL] Gun for Hire (Fwd)

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http://spotlight.org/05_17_01/Gun_for_Hire/gun_for_hire.html

Gun for Hire

Folks familiar with the downfall of the once-respected Institute for
Historical Review (IHR), taken over in 1994 by a profit-mad gang of
lawyers and parasites, may think of Greg Raven as merely a common
gunsel and thug. But this would be wrong. He's more-or less-as the
case may be.

It now turns out that Raven's denials that he is a paid agent of the
Church of Scientology may be true. In fact, it may be true that no real
Church of Scientology exists.

It has come to light that this organization is actually owned by a group
of lawyers, most of whom are not even Scientologists!

The record shows that Scientology, its names, trademarks, copyrights,
logos-even including "LRH," the initials of its founder-L. Ron Hubbard-are
the property of a separate corporation, Religious Technology Center,
Inc. (RTC).

And RTC is completely separate from Scientology. It receives fees,
commissions and payments every time that the sect's names appear in
any of the printed material it puts out.

RTC is hidden in a corporate maze. It lists its official address in care of
a little professional mail drop at 419 Larchmont Avenue in Los Angeles
called Village Mail Call.

And yet this obscure corporation owns the multi-million dollar
Scientology empire! How many veteran followers of L. Ron Hubbard
know this?

The board of directors of RTC is composed of lawyers for the most part,
few if any of whom are Scientologists. One of these is Lawrence E.
Heller, a longtime Scientology lawyer.

Significantly, Heller was also the lawyer for Mel Mermelstein, the
"holocaust survivor" who sued the IHR and Liberty Lobby for millions of
dollars in 1991.

In the courtroom, Mermelstein's performance was so poor that the judge
dismissed his suit before the trial. At this, Heller lost his mind and
physically attacked Liberty Lobby's attorney, Mark Lane, who had
(easily) made Mermelstein look like a fool.

The entire entertaining and revealing story is covered in Michael Collins
Piper's book, Best Witness.*

Here is the legal notice and Heller & Co. requires be printed in every
publication issued by Scientology: It is reprinted from International
Scientology News magazine issue No. 16, released in May, 2001 by
Church of Scientology International, 6331 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 801,
Los Angeles, CA 90028-6300. It is printed on page 47 at the bottom in
extremely light 4-point type. This message appears on all official
"Scientology" publications. It proves that Scientology is owned by
Religious Technology Center, Inc.

All Rights Reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Ron Hubbard
Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted
works of L. Ron Hubbard. SCIENTOLOGY, the new FLAG logo, Flag
Service Organization, corporate symbol, SCIENTOLOGY symbol,
GOLDEN AGE OF TECH symbol, OT, FLAG, FREEWINDS,
HUBBARD, LRH, LRH DEVICE, SMI corporate symbol, I HELP logo,
CLEARSOUND logo, CLEARSOUND, E-METER, STANDARD TECH,
STUDENT HAT, MARK SUPER VI/VII E-METER configuration, MARK
SUPER VII QUANTIUM, NED, SAINT HILL, SHSBC, FREEWINDS logo,
MARK SUPER VII QUANTIUM logo, Religious Technology Center
symbol, DIANETICS, THE BRIDGE, Lion symbol, SUPER POWER,
FSSO symbol, "RON" signature, CSI corporate symbol, OT symbol,
Solo Auditor symbol, FSO corporate symbol, Sea Organization symbol
and Sea Organization coat of arms are trademarks and service marks
owned by Religious Technology Center and are used with its
permission.  SCIENTOLOGIST is a collective membership mark
designating members of the affiliated churches and missions of
Scientology. Services relating to Scientology religious philosophy are
delivered throughout the world exclusively by licensees of the Church of
Scientology International with the permission of Religious Technology
Center, holder of the SCIENTOLOGY and DIANETICS trademarks.
Heller and the others who sit on the board of directors of RTC are all
known to be closed to the notorious Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
which is, in turn, a division of the Mossad, Israel's powerful and ruthless
intelligence agency.

No one has ever doubted that the ADL is an illegal organization which
operates inside the U.S. in open and flagrant violation of the Foreign
Agents Registration Act.

But no American politician or newspaper will question the bona fides of
the ADL because all are terrified of its power. The ADL-with some 2000
offices around the country-can rub out any political ambition very easily
because it can control every "mainstream" newspaper through its
control over the advertising that makes a newspaper profitable.

Raven has never been questioned as to his relationship to Heller and the
other lawyers who control the RTC and through it, Scientology.
Is Raven paid for his intelligence work as was Roy Bullock, the famed
ADL spy who narrowly escaped jail? (Bullock was first unmasked as an
ADL spy by this newspaper in 1986.)

To pay Bullock, the ADL sent fu

[CTRL] Federal judge makes world safer, sends elderly nuns to jail

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Federal judge makes world safer, sends elderly nuns to jail
Stephanie Salter Thursday, June 14, 2001

IT MIGHT be fine and dandy with some of you that the government of the
United States has thrown the book at an 88-year-old nun and her 68-
year-old kid sister, who is also a nun. Then again, maybe you don't even
know about this.

Last month, in Columbus, Ga., U.S. Magistrate G. Mallon Faircloth
apparently decided to make the world safe from religious women of
conscience who peacefully trespass on federal property -- specifically,
the military training facility at Fort Benning formerly known as the
School of the Americas:

He sentenced Franciscan nun Dorothy Hennessey, 88, and her younger
sister, Gwen, 68, who is also a Franciscan nun, to six months each in
federal prison -- the maximum possible penalty.

Since 1990, when Maryknoll priest Roy Bourgeois and a handful of other
protesters showed up at the gates of the school (recently renamed the
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation), it has been
targeted by tens of thousands of demonstrators. Every October, adults,
students and little kids gather at the entrance to Fort Benning to decry
the school's deadly role in Latin American politics and to demand its
closure.

Some of the protesters -- more each year -- "cross the line" and
trespass onto the grounds. Usually, they carry coffins and name
placards that represent the people who've died at the hands of SOA
graduates.

The Hennessey sisters were among several thousand who crossed the
line last October and got arrested. So were two other nuns from different
orders -- Elizabeth Anne McKenzie from the Sisters of St. Joseph and
Miriam Spencer from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. Faircloth
slapped them with the maximum six months in prison, too. McKenzie is
71, Spencer, 75.

Proving that he is an interdenominational kind of guy, Faircloth also sent
a Quaker couple from Ohio -- Bill Houston, 72, and Hazel Tulecke, 77 --
to federal prison. Like the nuns, Houston got the max, but Tulecke
received a break: only three months.

Altogether, 26 peaceful trespassers were sentenced by the judge. Most
(21) got the max, but two got off with a few years probation. One man
from Mississippi, Steve Jacobs, received two 6-month sentences.
Merciful magistrate that he is, Faircloth told Gwen Hennessey that she
didn't have to report to the federal pen at Pekin, Ill. -- the nearest prison
to her order's Dubuque, Iowa, motherhouse -- until after she celebrates
the 50th anniversary of taking her vows.

He also offered the older Dorothy the option of serving her sentence
under "motherhouse arrest" in Dubuque. According to the National
Catholic Reporter, Sister Dorothy told the judge, "No thanks" because
she is not an invalid and wanted to be treated the same as her 25 co-
defendants.

Two of 15 Hennessey siblings, Dorothy and Gwen told the Reporter that
their peaceful civil disobedience was a kind of activist memorial to their
late brother, Franciscan friar Ron Hennessey. He served for 34 years as
a missionary in Latin America and was friends with Salvadoran
Archbishop Oscar Romero.

Romero's 1980 assassination was master-minded by graduates of the
School of the Americas.

Like their fellow convicts, the Hennessey sisters said they weren't
looking forward to jail, but they planned to make the best of it.
Said Dorothy: "If there's time left after we get out we might want to go
into prison ministry."

Just knowing that those two women will be off the street for six months
should really make us all sleep better at night, don't you think?
 
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> << So.I guess you would choose to keep your brain tumor rather than
> have it cured by pot with a little stm impairment. >>
>
> No, I choose to use conventional medical treatment for tumors, not some
> half baked ideas.

How does a treatment become "conventional medical treatment"?  It
frequently starts with research on mice or rats.  When this treatment
showed promise on mice, the good ole US of A government pulled the
plug on the research.  The only half baked idea I see is that scientists
should have to accept government dictates on what they study.
 Besides, even if it did  shrink tumors I would get the
> munchies and become fat and unhealthy.
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Re: [CTRL] Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in '74

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On 15 Jun 2001, at 11:27, Bill Howard wrote:

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> << Pot Shrinks Tumors >>
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[CTRL] The State’s Dark Underside (Fwd)

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Eye on the Empire
by Alan Bock
Antiwar.com
June 13, 2001
The State’s Dark Underside

Various loyal acolytes including CNN, most of the newspapers and the
major networks worked diligently to make the killing of Timothy
McVeigh into something of a solemn religious event that bolstered the
power and dignity of the State and the Empire it fitfully tries to run. But
I’m not sure it worked as it might have been intended to work –
especially since so many loyal acolytes of  the state religion are
ambivalent at best about the death penalty – and  it might have
backfired, in any number of ways.

The  wall-to-wall coverage of every conceivable detail of the death of the
most prodigious  mass murderer and certified Enemy of the State in
recent times became ludicrous  to most Americans long before
McVeigh was strapped to a gurney and prepared  for lethal injections.
But most of the courtier press, although populated by  people who have
serious doubts about the legitimacy of the death penalty as  a general
policy – after all, no civilized European country uses it anymore  –
relished this death, savored this death, rubbed Americans’ noses in this
death, and talked about it in terms of justice and closure rather than
barbarism.

EMPIRE  GOING WOBBLY?

I suspect that Timothy McVeigh was so easily turned into a symbol of
the possibility  that the death penalty might sometimes be just because
he struck at the State  during a time when the State was feeling a bit
shaky about its support in the  general populace. He had to be
demonized and he had be killed – in part  because the government
might not like further investigations into still-open  questions like who
knew about Timothy and his plans and when did they know it.

The  mainstream and courtier media couldn’t understand all the fuss
over Ruby Ridge  and Waco, of course. After all, it was just the
government keeping a firm disciplinary  hand on unpleasant people who
had unpleasant ideas and prejudices that would   be laughed down in
polite company. If some of the government agents got a bit  trigger-
happy or overbearing and some people died in the process, well that’s
  just part of keeping order in a country that still contains some
unfortunately  backward and retrograde people and beliefs.

Keeping  the hoi-polloi under control was viewed in most establishment
circles as commendable  – remember that Janet Reno was viewed as
an outsider in Washington until  she performed the marvelous trick of
taking responsibility without accountability  for the holocaust and
slaughter at Waco. That was a trick official Washington  could
appreciate and embrace, and it took Janet to its bosom from that
moment  on. The potentially troublesome outsider became the
courageous woman of integrity  capable of tough decisions.

But  establishment circles were dimly aware that not all Americans
shared this enlightened  view of the proper way to handle unacceptable
religious cultists. Not only did  a few fringey types form or join self-
styled militia groups, but millions of  otherwise ordinary Americans out
in flyover country had serious questions about  the way the government
handled the siege it had started and provoked at Waco.  People were
actually questioning the legitimacy of the American State and the
empire over which it presided.

FORTUITOUS  BOMBING

In  such circumstances the bombing of the empire’s Murrah building in
the provincial  outpost of Oklahoma City (and from my eight years spent
in the Imperial City  I can tell you most people there view Oklahoma as
a provincial outpost) was  both tragedy and blessing. The bomber didn’t
just strike against fellow citizens more or less at random, but at a
symbol of imperial rule. And it turned out  that he had similar feelings
about Waco and some tenuous affiliation with the  troublesome militia
movement. The fact that the militias he had visited considered  him too
kooky and far-out to embrace only delayed for a few moments the full-
court press against the right wing and anybody who had ever spoken
out in criticism  of the U.S. government as a precursor to and possibly
an inciter of mass murder.

President  Clinton played the whole tragedy beautifully, of course, using
it to reinforce  loyalty to the central state and suspicion of anybody who
didn’t embrace it  in all its power and glory. That was one of the many
political tasks at which  he excelled. Since the Oklahoma City bombing
the militia movement has virtually disappeared from the American
landscape. Timothy McVeigh (and whoever else may  or may not have
been involved in his nefarious plans and deeds) in one step  made
doubts about overweening federal power at least somewhat disreputable.

So  the death of Timothy McVeigh became fairly inevitable and was
conflated into  an occasion of reinforcing state worship. The state had
sustained an attack  on its very self, on a concrete manifestation of its
power and control, had  found the perpetrator and determined to make

[CTRL] (Fwd) FEAR: US IA: Seize First, Convict Later

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Pubdate: Sun, 10 Jun 2001
Source: Quad-City Times (IA)
Section: Front Page above the fold, Pg A1
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Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/af.htm (Asset Forfeiture)

SEIZE FIRST, CONVICT LATER

Months or years before some suspected Scott County drug dealers get their
day in criminal court, their seized property and cash already belong to law
enforcement agencies.

One in four Scott County residents who had property and money seized by
local police never faced any criminal charges, a Quad-City Times
investigation of court records shows.

That one in four includes those who are outright innocent, those for whom
police cannot prove criminal charges and those who don't have enough money
to fight the system.

During a four-year period, Scott County police agencies seized and kept
$135,099.60 in cash and thousands of dollars worth of property in 103 cases
that never found their way into criminal court.

Scott County prosecutors defend the numbers, arguing that the system allows
them to take away the profit motive of drug dealing and other criminal
enterprises even in cases that would be difficult or impossible to
prosecute.

Quad-City police say civil forfeiture laws allow them to take profits away
from small-time dealers while offering those dealers leniency in criminal
court in exchange for cooperation in bigger drug cases.

But critics of such laws say the system punishes people by taking their
money and property whether or not they have been charged with a crime.
Oregon voters decided last year that prosecutors must win criminal
convictions before property and cash can be forfeited to police.

Advocates of reform also argue that allowing law enforcement agencies to
keep seized money and property encourages arrests based on money, not
public safety.

The Cases

A five-month Times investigation of 412 forfeiture cases handled in Scott
County between Jan. 1, 1996, and November 2000, showed that about 25
percent, or 103 cases, involved no criminal charges.

Money seized and kept in those cases made up nearly 18 percent of the
$763,221.74 that was seized in Scott County and then distributed to area
police departments, the Iowa Department of Justice and the Scott County
Attorney's office during that time period.

Police also returned $91,444.21 in 62 cases for which forfeiture claims
could not be proven.

In some cases, like that of former Davenport man Ronald Kuhl, those who did
face criminal action were not charged until months or years after their
cash and property were surrendered to police.

Under Iowa law, police can seize money and property suspected of being used
in, or resulting from, criminal acts. Those assets, often used as evidence,
then can be kept for crime-fighting purposes if law enforcement agencies
win forfeiture judgments in civil court. A criminal conviction is not
required before money and property can be forfeited.

On May 27, 1998, Quad-City Metropolitan Enforcement Group, or MEG, agents
seized 28 grams of methamphetamine, plastic packaging, two safes and
$11,498 from Kuhl's Davenport apartment while serving a search warrant.

In August of that year, Scott County District Judge David Sivright ordered
the money forfeited. But Kuhl was not criminally charged until Feb. 14,
2001 — 21/2 years after the cash and property were turned over to police —
when a federal grand jury in Davenport indicted him on meth delivery
charges.

Critics of civil forfeiture laws say cases like Kuhl's — and of others who
never face criminal charges — show a flaw in the system.

"You can be acquitted, never charged or never have your day in court, and
that doesn't change things under the forfeiture statute," said Randall
Wilson, legal director of the Iowa Civil Liberties Union. "Property is
considered forfeited until you go into a court with an attorney and prove
otherwise."

Invisible Wall

Scott County Attorney Bill Davis said he would like to see criminal
convictions every time property or money is seized.

"But they are separate issues," he said. "To seek and win a criminal
conviction, we have to be able to prove our case beyond a reasonable doubt.

"

[CTRL] (Fwd) ALERT: #212 DEA Won't Save Us From OxyContin

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Anti-drug hype usually focuses on illegal drugs, but for the past
several months, the legal painkiller OxyContin has been the subject of
many
drug scare stories. Like most drug hysteria, this crisis has been fueled
by
the media and the drug warriors.

See http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n794/a04.html for an excellent
analysis from the Cleveland Free Times.

USA Today this week took a sensible editorial position on a possible
crackdown on OxyContin by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (see
below).

Editorialists at the paper note that enhanced enforcement proposals by
the
DEA will cause unnecessary suffering for those who really need the
drug. A
DEA official was allowed to respond (also below) with typical DEA
tactics -
obfuscation and misinformation.

Please write a letter to USA Today to cheer the paper's stand for
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US: OPED: DEA Overreaches In Effort To Stop Abuse Of Painkiller
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01.n1054.a01.html
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Pubdate: Wed, 13 Jun 2001
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DEA OVERREACHES IN EFFORT TO STOP ABUSE OF PAINKILLER

The headlines are enough to scare any user of prescription
painkillers:  ''OxyContin addicts, crime wave linked.'' The numbers
scarier still: 120 dead from abusing the powerful drug along with
thousands treated for overdoses, mostly in a string of Eastern states
from Kentucky to Maine.

Now the Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) is stepping in to curb what law
enforcement describes as ''epidemic abuse'' of ''poor man's heroin,'' with
its first-ever plan to attack abuse of a specific brand of prescription.

But the public isn't likely to applaud the DEA's heavy-handed solution, if
it goes into effect. It would set up needless bureaucratic hurdles that
could limit access to other painkillers. Worse, it threatens to undermine
the decade-long fight to reform pain treatment.

OxyContin was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in December 1995
to treat moderate to serious pain in a host of medical conditions. While
the active ingredient, oxycodone, has been around for a half-century,
OxyContin's innovation, and the reason it was prescribed by doctors 6
million times last year, is its timed release of ingredients that allows
the drug to work for 12 hours, twice the normal range.

Like other painkillers, OxyContin also is popular with drug abusers who
crush the pills and snort or inject the powder. That's why the DEA wisely
requires pharmacies to maintain detailed records on OxyContin prescriptions
and other drugs with the most potential for abuse. Similarly, it forbids
the refill of such prescriptions and imposes limits on supplies provided to
manufacturers.

Even so, the DEA claims that OxyContin abuse has become such a powerful
threat that it requires new interdiction efforts.

For instance, the DEA has asked Purdue Pharma, the drug's manufacturer, to
restrict those writing OxyContin prescriptions to pain specialists and
other doctors who regularly deal with chronic pain. But there are fewer
than 4,000 certified pain specialists in the USA. If the restrictions move
forward, millions won't have access to the specialists who can prescribe a
medicine they need.

The DEA also has told Congress that it is considering limits on
supplies of the painkiller, even though it's used by more Americans
than Viagra. Unless the Bush administration steps in and stops t

[CTRL] 41 Nations Using Child Soldiers

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 ABCNEWS.com
Tuesday June 12  9:58 AM ET
41 Nations Using Child Soldiers
By SUSANNA LOOF, Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - More than 300,000 children -

some as young as 7 - are fighting as soldiers in 41 countries,
an
international children's rights group said in a report
released
Tuesday.
They are being used as front-line fighters, minesweepers,
spies,
porters and sex slaves, according to the report by the Coalition
to
Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. Children are often forced to
guard
the oil and diamond fields that finance African insurgencies.
``Every child with an AK-47, however small they are, as long as
they
can hold up that weapon, is turned into an effective killer,''
coalition
spokeswoman Judit Arenas said at a news conference
Tuesday.
The London-based coalition includes several human rights
groups,
including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and
World
Vision International.
Governments recruit children to fight because of ``their very
qualities as
children - they can be cheap, expendable and easier to condition into
fearless killing and unthinking obedience,'' the
report said.
Though the number of child soldiers worldwide has not changed
much
in recent years, the number of countries where they are used
has
increased to 41 from about 30 three years ago, Arenas said.
Africa's wars involve more than 120,000 children, the report
said, while
Myanmar, the southeast Asian country also known as Burma, has the
world's highest number of child soldiers - 50,000.
Rebels in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea use child
soldiers,
and children are fighting in conflicts in Macedonia and Colombia, it said.
The use of child soldiers has decreased in the Middle East and
Latin
America as conflicts there have ended.
Mohammed, 17, was forcibly recruited to fight in Ethiopia when
he was
15. He recalled a 1999 battle in the report.
``It was very bad. They put all the 15- and 16-year-olds in the
front line
while the army retreated. I was with 40 other kids. I was fighting for 24
hours. When I saw that only three of my friends
were alive, I ran back,''
said the boy, who was identified with
only one name.
Even countries not at war have problems, Arenas said. Children
of
Kurdish descent in Sweden and Turkey are being recruited to
return to
their ancestral land and fight for Kurdish independence,
she said.
Most child soldiers are 15 to 18 years old, but cases of
soldiers as
young as 7 are listed in the report, the first global
survey of its kind.
Child soldiers are often given drugs to make them fearless. A
14-year-
old rebel soldier in Sierra Leone said those who refused the drugs were
killed, according to the report.
The U.N. General Assembly adopted a protocol in May 2000 calling
on
governments to prevent troops younger than 18 from taking part
in
combat. The United Nations says 79 countries have signed the
treaty,
but only six have ratified it.
In 87 countries, including the United States and the United
Kingdom,
youth are recruited into government armed forces, paramilitaries, civil
militia and non-state armed groups, though
they are not necessarily
used in combat. The United States allows
voluntary enlistment at 17.
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[CTRL] The perils of looking into American prehistory

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http://www.nationalreview.com/weekend/anthropology/anthropology-
millerprint060901.html

Roots  — Deep Ones
The perils of looking into American prehistory.
By John J. Miller, NR's national political reporter

June 9-10, 2001

One of the secrets of archaeology is that many truly great finds aren't
made by archaeologists. It was a farmer, Harold Conover, who stumbled
on a clue in the late 1980s that led to a magnificent site in Virginia
called Cactus Hill. Conover and his wife were walking on logging roads
near their home when he spotted a few Indian artifacts mixed in the
sand. He soon traced the sand back to a quarry about ten miles away.

Thanks to this detective work, a group of archaeologists led by Joseph
McAvoy started digging near that quarry in the early 1990s. They
unearthed signs of human habitation stretching back about 18,000
years — making Cactus Hill one of the two or three oldest sites in North
America. They also found evidence to support one of the most
provocative developments of our time: the growing suspicion among
physical anthropologists, archaeologists, and even geneticists that
some of the first people who settled in the New World were Europeans.

Ten years ago, hardly anybody outside crackpot circles would have
contemplated this notion.  There's a whole speculative literature of
oddball theories on groups coming to America in antiquity. Ivan Van
Sertima's They Came Before Columbus points to statues produced by
Mexico's Olmec civilization as representations of Negroid faces, and the
book remains a perennial grocery-store seller. Nancy Yaw Davis argued
last year in The Zuni Enigma that New Mexico's Zuni tribe has too much
in common with ancient Japanese culture for it to be a coincidence.

Many of these ideas persist simply because they're hard to disprove,
and it's important to remember that the whole field is afflicted with
celebrated frauds like the Kensington Runestone — a large stone slab
that came to light a century ago and claims to describe the travels of
14th-century Vikings in Minnesota.

Despite the uncertainty, it has become increasingly clear over the last
decade that the history-textbook version of ancient American settlement
no longer holds up. The first Americans, according to the standard view,
arrived about 12,000 years ago by way of a land bridge that once
connected Siberia and Alaska. Thanks to a handful of sites like Cactus
Hill, it is now beyond dispute that some people got here much earlier.

Asia remains a likely source for migrations, because of its proximity
and the fact that today's Indians indisputably have ancestors who lived
there. But Asia may not be the only source, and there's good
reason to think it wasn't.

This ought to be thrilling news for the multiculturalists. What better
project for them than the serious study of America's prehistory — a
glorious mosaic whose rich diversity is only now seeing daylight? But it
must be remembered that multiculturalism is motivated not by sincere
curiosity about the past, but by the sensitivities of modern victimology.

An important part of American Indian identity relies on the belief that, in
some fundamental way, they were here first. They are indigenous, they
are Native, and they make an important moral claim on the national
conscience for this very reason. Yet if some population came before
them — perhaps a group their own ancestors wiped out through war and
disease, in an eerily reversed foreshadowing of the contact Columbus
introduced — then a vital piece of their mythologizing suffers a serious
blow. This revised history drastically undercuts the posturing
occasioned by the 500th anniversary of Columbus's 1492 voyage.

The prime mover behind the European-migration theory is Dennis
Stanford, a jovial anthropologist who has spent nearly three decades at
the Smithsonian Institution studying Stone Age technology. A big table
dominates his office in the National Museum of Natural History, and it's
often cluttered with primitive tools borrowed from the Smithsonian's huge
collection. He is an authority on Clovis Culture, named for the town in
New Mexico where the first remnants of it were found in 1932. The
Clovis people were said to be big-game hunters who stalked
mammoths, and they left behind distinctive relics. Researchers were so
sure that they were the continent's original settlers — about
12,000 years ago — that suggesting otherwise was professional heresy.

But by the late 1980s, Stanford and a few of his colleagues, including
his former student Bruce Bradley, began to harbor serious doubts about
the Clovis theory. For starters, there were a handful of sites, such as
Pennsylvania's Meadowcroft Rockshelter, that seemed older than
Clovis. But more important, in Stanford's view, was the complete lack of
evidence that Clovis culture ever existed outside the Americas. He
spent years scouring museum collections around the world, but always
came away empty. "It was getting pretty discouraging," 

[CTRL] (Fwd) [InTheShadows] The Press Gets It Wrong

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GLOBAL WARMING

The Press Gets It Wrong
Our report doesn't support the Kyoto treaty.

BY Richard S. Lindzen
Monday, June 11, 2001 12:01 a.m.

Last week the National Academy of Sciences released a report on
climate
change, prepared in response to a request from the White House, that
was
depicted in the press as an implicit endorsement of the Kyoto Protocol.
CNN's Michelle Mitchell was typical of the coverage when she declared
that
the report represented "a unanimous decision that global warming is
real,
is getting worse, and is due to man. There is no wiggle room." As one of
11
scientists who prepared the report, I can state that this is simply untrue.
For starters, the NAS never asks that all participants agree to all
elements of a report, but rather that the report represent the span of
views. This the full report did, making clear that there is no consensus,
unanimous or otherwise, about long-term climate trends and what
causes
them.

As usual, far too much public attention was paid to the hastily prepared
summary rather than to the body of the report. The summary began with
a
zinger--that greenhouse gases are accumulating in Earth's atmosphere
as a
result of human activities, causing surface air temperatures and
subsurface
ocean temperatures to rise, etc., before following with the necessary
qualifications. For example, the full text noted that 20 years was too
short a period for estimating long-term trends, but the summary forgot to
mention this.

Our primary conclusion was that despite some knowledge and
agreement, the
science is by no means settled. We are quite confident (1) that global
mean
temperature is about 0.5 degrees Celsius higher than it was a century
ago;
(2) that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide have risen over the past two
centuries; and (3) that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas whose
increase
is likely to warm the earth (one of many, the most important being water
vapor and clouds).

But--and I cannot stress this enough--we are not in a position to
confidently attribute past climate change to carbon dioxide or to forecast
what the climate will be in the future. That is to say, contrary to media
impressions, agreement with the three basic statements tells us almost
nothing relevant to policy discussions.




One reason for this uncertainty is that, as the report states, the climate
is always changing; change is the norm. Two centuries ago, much of the
Northern Hemisphere was emerging from a little ice age. A millennium
ago,
during the Middle Ages, the same region was in a warm period. Thirty
years
ago, we were concerned with global cooling. Distinguishing the small
recent
changes in global mean temperature from the natural variability, which is
unknown, is not a trivial task. All attempts so far make the assumption
that existing computer climate models simulate natural variability, but I
doubt that anyone really believes this assumption.

We simply do not know what relation, if any, exists between global
climate
changes and water vapor, clouds, storms, hurricanes, and other factors,
including regional climate changes, which are generally much larger than
global changes and not correlated with them. Nor do we know how to
predict
changes in greenhouse gases. This is because we cannot forecast
economic
and technological change over the next century, and also because there
are
many man-made substances whose properties and levels are not well
known,
but which could be comparable in importance to carbon dioxide.

What we do is know that a doubling of carbon dioxide by itself would
produce only a modest temperature increase of one degree Celsius.
Larger
projected increases depend on "amplification" of the carbon dioxide by
more
important, but poorly modeled, greenhouse gases, clouds and water
vapor.




The press has frequently tied the existence of climate change to a need
for
Kyoto. The NAS panel did not address this question. My own view,
consistent
with the panel's work, is that the Kyoto Protocol would not result in a
substantial reduction in global warming. Given the difficulties in
significantly limiting levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, a more
effective policy might well focus on other greenhouse substances whose
potential for reducing global warming in a short time may be greater. The
panel was finally asked to evaluate the work of the United Nations'
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, focusing on the Summary
for
Policymakers, the only part ever read or quoted. The Summary for
Policymakers, which is seen as endorsing Kyoto, is commonly
presente

[CTRL] (Fwd) FEAR: Postal Service Has Its Eye on You

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Postal Service Has Its Eye on You
By John Berlau
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Since 1997, the U.S. Postal Service has been conducting a
customer-surveillance program, 'Under the Eagle's Eye,' and reporting
innocent activity to federal law enforcement.

Remember "Know Your Customer"? Two years ago the federal
government
tried to
require banks to profile every customer's "normal and expected
transactions"
and report the slightest deviation to the feds as a "suspicious
activity."
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. withdrew the requirement in March
1999
after receiving 300,000 opposing comments and massive bipartisan
opposition.

But while your bank teller may not have been snooping and snitching on
your
every financial move, your local post office has been (and is) watching
you
closely, Insight has learned. That is, if you have bought money orders,
made wire transfers or sought cash cards from a postal clerk. Since
1997,
in fact, the window clerk may very well have reported you to the
government
as a "suspicious" customer. It doesn't matter that you are not a drug
dealer, terrorist or other type of criminal or that the transaction itself
was perfectly legal. The guiding principle of the new postal program to
combat money laundering, according to a U.S. Postal Service training
video
obtained by Insight, is: "It's better to report 10 legal transactions than
to let one illegal transaction get by."

Many privacy advocates see similarities in the post office's
customer-surveillance program, called "Under the Eagle's Eye," to the
"Know
Your Customer" rules. In fact, in a postal-service training manual also
obtained by Insight, postal clerks are admonished to "know your
customers."

Both the manual and the training video give a broad definition of
"suspicious" in instructing clerks when to fill out a "suspicious
activity
report" after a customer has made a purchase. "The rule of thumb is if it
seems suspicious to you, then it is suspicious," says the manual. "As
we

said before, and will say again, it is better to report many legitimate
transactions that seem suspicious than let one illegal one slip through."

It is statements such as these that raise the ire of leading privacy
advocates on both the left and right, most of whom didn't know about the

program until asked by Insight to comment. For example, Rep. Ron
Paul,
R-Texas, who led the charge on Capitol Hill against the "Know Your
Customer" rules, expressed both surprise and concern about "Under the
Eagle's Eye." He says the video's instructions to report transactions as
suspicious are "the reverse of what the theory used to be: We were
supposed
to let guilty people go by if we were doing harm to innocent people" when
the methods of trying to apprehend criminals violated the rights of
ordinary citizens. Paul says he may introduce legislation to stop "Under
the Eagle's Eye."

The same sort of response came from another prominent critic of "Know
Your
Customer," this time on the left, who was appalled by details of the
training video. "The postal service is training its employees to invade
their customers' privacy," Greg Nojeim, associate director of the
American
Civil Liberties Union Washington National Office, tells Insight. "This
training will result in the reporting to the government of tens of
thousands of innocent transactions that are none of the government's
business. I had thought the postal-service's eagle stood for freedom.
Now I
know it stands for, 'We're watching you!'"

But postal officials who run "Under the Eagle's Eye" say that flagging
customers who do not follow "normal" patterns is essential if law
enforcement is to catch criminals laundering money from illegal
transactions. "The postal service has a responsibility to know what their
legitimate customers are doing with their instruments," Al Gillum, a
former
postal inspector who now is acting program manager, tells Insight. "If
people are buying instruments outside of a norm that the entity itself has
to establish, then that's where you start with suspicious analysis,
suspicious reporting. It literally is based on knowing what our legitimate
customers do, what activities they're involved in."

Gillum's boss, Henry Gibson, the postal-service's Bank Secrecy Act
compliance officer, says the anti-money-laundering program started in
1997
already has helped catch some criminals. "We've received
acknowledgment
from our chief postal inspector that information from our system was very
helpful in the actual catching of some potential bad guys," Gibson says.

Gillum and Gibson are proud that the postal service received a letter of

commendation from then-attorney general Janet Reno in 2000 for this
program.
The database system the postal service developed with Information
Builders,
an information-technology consulting firm, received an award from
Government
Computer News in 2000 and was a finalist in the government/nonprofit
category for the 2001 Compute

[CTRL] Fwd: Anarchy and Community

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Anarchy and Community
by P. Andrew Sandlin

Stephen W. Carson’s 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 Carson’s 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 other’s 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 Nisbet’s 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 individual’s 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 man’s 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 Heller’s 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 men’s 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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[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 I’ve 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 didn’t 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 legal–and, what’s more, actually performed–the more he thought
I was one of those anti-American ideologues who don’t realize what a good
thing they’ve 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 Ripley’s 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.

"It’s 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 can’t drink in the United States."
"But, say, when they go out to a bar and their father orders a–"
"Kids don’t go into bars."
"Of course not, but if a boy’s with his father and–"
"It doesn’t matter," I said. "It’s 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
doesn’t order the beer," Guillaume went on, his patience rapidly eroding. "The
father–"
"It doesn’t matter," I repeated.

Guillaume called over his older brother Maurice, who had a reputation as the
town savant, and explained what we’d 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, I’d 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
country’s 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 Bush’s alcohol troubles gets masticated
in the press, the key point to bear in mind is the one that most easily gets lost.
It’s that there are no customs on Earth more bizarre than America’s
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, there’s no evidence that either of them has an
unnatural relationship with alcohol–so the state of Texas has taken it upon
itself to provide them with one. Owing partly to a jurisdictional
accident–Barbara Bush attends Yale in semi-civilized Connecticut and Jenna
attends UT in enforcement-mad Texas–Barbara 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 Jenna’s own father not only signed that law but actually agitated for
it.

Almost anyone who thinks for a second about Jenna’s 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 president’s havi

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] Pharmacy contaminates shots with meningitis causing bacteria

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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.
- Mirelle Stein, _The Productive Class_

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[CTRL] Idaho standoff: ex lawyer as Nazi ties

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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] (Fwd) Danforth's Supreme Gambit

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Waco Tragedy News

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(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).



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[CTRL] More FBI Misdeed Allegations

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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) If All Drugs Were Legal (Gasp!) . . .

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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.
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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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