[CTRL] Was Confucius a Jesuit Priest?

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http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99apr/9904confucius.htm

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99apr/9904confucius2.htm

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Re: [CTRL] WHITE HOUSE OFFICES LEFT 'TRASHED': PORN

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On 26 Jan 2001, at 8:29, Nessie wrote:


>
> With those same tax dollars the democrats killed at least a half a
> million Iraqi women and children. To ignore that, but get upset over a
> couple computer keys, is sick, evil, or both.
>

So you think it isn't possible for one person to be upset about both
situations?

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The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian;
while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and
keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve
order in the world as well as property.  The same balance
would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms,
for all would be alike; but since some will not, others
dare not lay them aside...Horrid mischief would ensue
were one half the world deprived the use of them.
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[CTRL] Fwd: ALERT: # 196 Boston Globe: Drug Warriors Fabricate Budget Numbers Too

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http://www.drugsense.org/

Boston Globe: Drug Warriors Fabricate
Budget Numbers Too

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26, 2001

Drug war supporters frequently pull
"facts" out of thin air. These alleged
facts (circulated most prominently by
former Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey) are
designed to show that drug war isn't
really a disaster. Now it seems some have
also been creating false budgets to
suggest that the drug war is more humane
than it really is.

As the Boston Globe reported this week, a
new study indicates that some drug law
enforcers have greatly overstated the
percentage of money being spent on
treatment. McCaffrey and his apologists
made much of the general's supposed
support for a kinder and gentler drug war
that was based on treatment and
prevention. But, this study proves that
it's all just more disinformation, and
that nobody really knows exactly how much
money is being wasted on anti-drug efforts
in general.

Please write a letter to the Boston Globe
to say drug warriors have to fudge their
facts, or everyone would know just how
counterproductive the drug war is.

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US: US Is Said To Overstate Spending On
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URL:
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Newshawk: Kim Hanna, Sledhead, FoM,
Richard Evans and Mark Greer
Pubdate: Wed, 24 Jan 2001
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Author: John Donnelly
Cited:
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1262/
US IS SAID TO OVERSTATE SPENDING ON DRUG
CARE

Report Cites $1b In Discrepancies

WASHINGTON - Promising to further stoke
the debate over America's controversial
war against drugs, a Rand Corporation
study has found that three federal
agencies overstated their spending on drug
treatment by $1 billion, and that the
reported costs of some law enforcement
efforts are no more than "educated
guesses."

"I tracked down one budget guy for the
Border Patrol and asked how they
figured out the drug budget and he told
me, 'We made it up,"' said Patrick
J.  Murphy, one of the study's authors and
an assistant professor of politics at the
University of San Francisco.  "He said 10
percent of their budget seemed too low, 20
percent too high, so they settled on 15
percent."

The report, a copy of which was obtained
by the Globe, was requested by Barry R.
McCaffrey, who stepped down last month as
director of the Office of National Drug
Control Policy.  It examined 10 agencies
that report their drug budgets to the drug
policy office.

There were no allegations of misspending
in the report, but the survey said
"flawed" reporting techniques made it
impossible to know how much money was
actually spent on the battle against
illicit drug use.  Critics of US drug
policy have long argued that it gives
short shrift to treatment programs
designed to help addicts overcome their
cravings.

McCaffrey, who did not return telephone
calls seeking comment, insisted on
completing the potentially embarrassing
report because he wanted a better
accounting of the drug war, the authors
said.  They noted that he had long been
bothered by seemingly soft figures in
agencies' budgets, even though he
continued to cite the inflated treatment
numbers in his defense of drug-control
policy.

The drug policy office said in a statement
that it "asked for the Rand reports
because we want the most reliable data"
and that it has "used the Rand findings,
and will continue to do so, to improve the
way drug budgets are presented to the
Congress and the public." Rand is a
consulting and research firm known for its
work on complex subjects.

The statement said that the FBI drug
methodology has been corrected and
that the Veterans Affairs and Education
departments changed their data collection
so as to "substantially address Rand's
findings." It gave no specifics.

The most politically sensitive aspect of
the Rand study, which for more than a year
examined the 1998 federal drug budge

[CTRL] OT HUMOR - Memo to Visiting Yankees From the Southern Tourism Bureau

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Memo to Visiting Yankees From the Southern Tourism Bureau:

1.  Don’t order pasta primavera at Waffle House. It’s just a diner.
They serve breakfast 24 hours a day. Let them cook something
they know. If you confuse them, they’ll kick your ass.

2.  Don’t laugh at our Southern names (Merleen, Bodie, Ovine,
Luther Ray, Tammy Lynn, Darla Beth, Inez, Billy Joe, Sissy,
Clovis, etc.). Or we will just HAVE to kick your ass.

3. Don’t order a bottle of pop or a can of soda down here. Down
here it’s called Coke. Nobody gives a flying damn whether it’s
Pepsi, RC, Dr. Pepper, 7 Up or whatever-it’s still a Coke. Accept it.
Doing otherwise can lead to an ass kicking.

4.  We know our heritage. Most of us are more literate than you
(e.g., Welty, Williams, Faulkner). We are also better educated and
generally a lot nicer. Don’t refer to us as a bunch of hillbillies,
or we’ll kick your ass.

5.  We have plenty of business sense (e.g., Fred Smith of FedEx,
Turner Broadcasting, MCI WorldCom, MTV, Netscape). Naturally,
we do sometimes, have small lapses in judgment (e.g., Carter,
Clinton). We don’t care if you think we are dumb. We are not dumb
enough to let someone move to our state in order to run for the
Senate. If someone tried to do that, we would kick their ass.

6.  Don’t laugh at our Civil War monuments. If Lee had listened to
Longstreet and flanked Meade at Gettysburg instead of sending
Pickett up the middle, you’d be paying taxes to Richmond instead
of Washington. If you visit Stone Mountain and complain about the
carving, we’ll kick your ass.

7.  We are fully aware of how high the humidity is, so shut the hell
up. Just spend your money and get the hell out of here, or we’ll
kick your ass.

8.  Don’t order wheat toast at Cracker Barrel. Everyone will
instantly know that you’re a Yankee. Eat your biscuits like God
intended-with gravy. And don’t put sugar on your grits, or we’ll kick
your ass.

9.  Don’t fake a Southern accent. This will incite a riot, and you will
get your ass kicked.

10.  Don’t talk about how much better things are at home because
we know better. Many of us have visited Northern cesspools like
Detroit, Chicago, and DC, and we have the scars to prove it. If you
don’t like it here, Delta is ready when you are. Move your ass on
home before it gets kicked.

11. Yes, we know how to speak proper English. We talk this way
because we don’t want to sound like you. We don’t care if you
don’t understand what we are saying. All other Southerners
understand what we are saying, and that’s all that matters. Now,
go away and leave us alone, or we’ll kick your ass.

12.  Don’t complain that the South is dirty and polluted. None of
OUR lakes or rivers have caught fire recently. If you whine about
OUR scenic beauty, we’ll kick your ass all the way back to Boston
Harbor.

13.  Don’t ridicule our Southern manners. We say sir and ma’am.
We hold doors open for others. We offer our seats to old folks
because such things are expected of civilized people. Behave
yourselves around our sweet little gray-haired grandmothers or
they’ll kick some manners into your ass just like they did ours.

14.  So you think we’re quaint or losers because most of us live in
 the countryside? That’s because we have enough sense to not
live in filthy, smelly, crime-infested cesspools like New York
or Baltimore. Make fun of our fresh air, and we’ll kick your ass.

15.  Last, but not least, DO NOT DARE to come down here and tell
us how to barbecue. This will get your ass shot (right after it is
kicked). You’re lucky we let you come down here at all. Criticize
our barbecue, and you will go home in a pine box. Minus your ass.

January 27, 2000

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

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[CTRL] Israeli group offers support to conscientious objectors

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http://www.jewishsf.com/bk010126/sfayehyvul.shtml

Israeli group offers support to conscientious objectors
ALEXANDRA J. WALL Bulletin Staff

In 1979, the translator of Yitzhak Rabin's memoirs leaked a
passage to the New York Times.

Peretz Kidron knew just how explosive those few paragraphs would
be.  "Dynamite," he called them. The lines were not in Rabin's
book because they had  been excised by Israeli censors.

The passage told how Rabin, then a 26-year-old brigade
commander, was ordered  by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to
expel 50,000 Arabs from the villages of  Ramle and Lod during the
War of Independence.

"There were some fellows who refused to take part in the expulsion
action,"  Rabin wrote. "Prolonged propaganda activities were
required after the action,  to remove the bitterness of these
[soldiers] and explain why we were obliged to  undertake such a
harsh and cruel action."

If the soldiers that Rabin referred to were serving in the Israel
Defense Force  now and refused to take part in an action they
believed to be unethical, they'd  have a support group to help them.
And some 20 years after Rabin's translator  made that passage
public, he is the spokesperson for that group.

Kidron, a translator and journalist who has a long relationship with
KPFA Radio  in Berkeley, was in the Bay Area recently to promote
the activities of Yesh  Gvul, a support group for soldiers who refuse
to serve in the West Bank and  Gaza Strip. Yesh Gvul means
"there is a limit," or "there is a border."

With his unruly white hair and bright blue shirt, Kidron looked much
like the  kibbutznik he used to be.

Originally from Vienna, Kidron's family fled to Great Britain in 1938
when he  was 5. "I was a refugee at an early age," he said. "If
you're looking for a pat  explanation for my politics, that's it."
Kidron, 68, has been involved with Yesh Gvul since its inception
during the  Lebanon War. At that time, about 170 reservists refused
to serve in the  invasion.

Yesh Gvul believes in selective refusal, meaning soldiers who
refuse to serve  in the territories will still protect Israel in a war
situation within its  borders.

The group faded and resurrected itself in the 1980s, during the
intifada, when some 200 soldiers -- also reservists -- refused to
serve  in the territories. Yesh Gvul has been lying low since the
Oslo peace process  began. But with the current violence in the
territories showing no signs of  abating and an election that -- if the
polls are correct -- will usher in a  more hardline prime minister,
those involved with Yesh Gvul felt the time had  come to resurface.
Only a handful of soldiers have refused to serve in the territories,
but for  the first time, they are not all reservists.

In a highly publicized case, soldier Noam Kuzar received a 28-day
sentence in  military jail for refusing to serve in Jericho. When he
was released, he was  made to do such jobs as clean toilets. He
was not allowed to speak to the  press.

Yesh Gvul representatives have been standing at bus stations,
handing out  fliers to soldiers that quote laws from the Geneva
Convention.

With the headline "Hey soldier, where are you headed?" the flier
suggests that  refusing to obey orders may be the right thing to do.
"It's a moral question, not a geographical one," said Kidron. The
most obvious  reason for refusing to serve is that "the overwhelming
majority of casualties  fell in the conquest of or retention of places
now under Arab rule."

Additionally, he said, it is difficult for a soldier -- even one who is
sympathetic to the Palestinians -- to refrain from inflicting harm
when he  feels as if his life is threatened.

"The soldier is placed in an intolerable situation, where he has to
commit some  kind of atrocity or disobey orders," Kidron said. "The
best way to avoid it is  to not get into the situation in the first place.
Even if you're a nice  occupier, you're still an occupier."

For those refusing to serve, Yesh Gvul tries to boost their morale
by  initiating letter-writing campaigns to incarcerated soldiers or, in
the case of  reservists, offering support to their families. During the
Lebanon War, Kidron said, a U.S. Reconstructionist  congregation
called two conscientious objectors up to the Torah, a move that
received a huge amount of press coverage in Israel.

Such actions of U.S. Jews are much appreciated by the peace
movement in Israel,  he said, since often, American support of
Israel can be misguided.

By giving billions of dollars a year to Israel without placing any
conditions  on how the money is used, Kidron said, "the U.S. is
providing us junkies with a  regular allowance to get our next fix.
But then, when they say, 'Maybe we  should cut off the money and
make us go to detox,' we say, 'That's interfering  with our private
life.'"

Oftentimes, he said, American Jews come off like cheerleaders,
even when  supporting specific Israeli policies that "are leading to
suicidal behavior."

Li

Re: [CTRL] Disclaimers and Men who think they have a right to "hurt" Women

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Amelia,

Thanks for a great post.

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[CTRL] CA news blackout on cause of energy crisis

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/1/26/192056.shtml

Indonesian Power Deal Blows Financial Fuse
Charles R. Smith
Saturday, Jan. 27, 2001
Californians are suffering from a blackout - not
one of electric power but of the news. The mainstream media,
including Time/CNN, continue to maintain that the recent
financial short-circuits inside California's energy grid are all
due to state economic and environmental regulations. Nothing
could be further from the truth.

In 1994, Edison Mission Energy landed a trade trip with Ron
Brown to Indonesia. As a result of that trip, Edison also ended
up with a contract to build the Paiton I coal-fired power plant.
Paiton I was billed as the first "private" electric plant in
Indonesia. In 1994, "private" ownership in Indonesia equated
into owned and operated by the Suharto "first family."

The partners in the Paiton I consortium include Edison Mission
Energy, Mitsui & Co. Ltd. of Japan, General Electric Capital Corp.
and P.T. Batu Hitam Perkasa. Just by coincidence,
of course, P.T. Batu was owned by Indonesian dictator Suharto's
youngest daughter, Titek Prabowo, and her brother-in-law, Hashim
Djojohadikusumo.

According to the Commerce Department, 0.75 percent of the
Paiton project was reserved for Suharto's daughter Prabowo, or an
instant $15 million in cash. Her kickback, along with a cut for
"brother-in-law" Hashim and other Suharto relatives, was
to be provided up front, in cash, in the form of a $50 million
loan. The $50 million loan was to be paid back by the profits
or dividends from the power plant.

The U.S. Commerce Department was not the only agency to take
notice of Edison's special contract with Suharto's daughter. In
1994, agents from the Central Intelligence Agency met with
Chinagate figure John Huang on the Paiton Power Plant. The
1994 meeting between the intelligence agency and Huang included
detailed information about the $2.6 billion Paiton electric
power plant for Indonesia.

According to the documents, CIA agents Bob Beamer, Chris
Crosby, Lia Fidas and Nancy Goldcamp attended an August 1994
TPCC, or Trade Policy Coordinating Committee, meeting with John
Huang.

The subject of the CIA meeting was U.S. government-financed
trade deals that contained "first family involvement" or illegal
payments made to relatives of then Indonesian dictator Suharto.

A 1994 Commerce Department report found in Huang's files noted
that the Indonesian Paiton power plant had encountered difficulties
with financing because the Asian Development Bank (ADB) knew it
contained money for a Suharto family member.

"ADB had raised concern about first family involvement during its
consideration of the $50 million financial portion," states the Paiton
Project document found in Huang's files.

"Ambassador Barry stated that the project is facing two problems
(i) the ADB financing may cave in and (ii) EXIM financing.
Regarding ADB, technical questions have been satisfied, but ADB
is skiddish about involvement of Indonesia's first family (a minority
shareholder is married to Pres. Suharto's daughter)."

In addition, 1994 documents provided by the Offshore Private
Investment Corporation (OPIC) noted that Suharto's daughter
Prabowo and her brother-in-law, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, were
given a total 2.5 percent ownership in the U.S.-sponsored power
project, through their local company BHP.

"ADB is still considering this, b/c of very minimal involvement
of Indo ruling family in the Mission project... ADB's delay
revolves around concern for projects in Indonesia involving the
first family. .75% ownership of the Mission project by daughter
of Indo pres."

Directly after meeting with the CIA on the known Suharto "first
family" involvement inside the Edison Paiton power project, Huang
proceeded to place a three-hour call to his former employer, the
Lippo Group. In 1999, Huang pled guilty to federal charges of
making illegal political contributions to the Clinton-Gore campaign.
Huang took the Fifth Amendment more than 2,000 times when
asked by Judicial Watch if he had ties to Chinese intelligence.

The documents show that Edison officials were aware of the $50
million destined for Suharto's daughter. Newly released documents
also show that Edison Chairman John Bryson actually pressed
Secretary Ron Brown to support the $50 no-payback loan.

Federal Election Commission records show that Mission Energy
CEO John Bryson donated money to the Clinton-Gore campaign
and contributed money to President Clinton's legal defense fund. In
1994, Bryson also wrote a personal letter to Brown, pressing for
quick approval of the $50 million U.S. government-backed loan.

"Dear Ron," wrote Bryson, then chairman of Southern California
Edison. "I am writing to request your support of the application of
the Paiton Private Power Project in Indonesia for funding by the
Asian Development Bank (ADB)."

"We have applied to the ADB for $50 million of funding as part of a
$1.9 billion financing package. 

[CTRL] Zoos raided as German food scares grow

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2001-
01/raided280101.shtml

Zoos raided as German food scares grow
By Imre Karacs in Berlin
28 January 2001
What a sad place the little city zoo in Berlin's Kreuzberg district is.
Children weep for their missing favourites; Gustav the gander, his
wings drooping in sorrow, pines for his harem. All the other geese
have vanished in recent days, along with four ducks and seven
hens. The staff have eaten them.
Nothing seems sacred any more as Germans, confronted by
empty shelves at the supermarkets, go foraging for food. With BSE
beef already off the menu, followed by sausages and now pork,
filling a German belly is becoming nearly impossible. As hunger
grips, no one, not even the dedicated Kreuzberg zoo keepers, will
object to a bit of free-range poultry.
Other options are fast running out. Even those still willing to risk
steak are finding that restaurants are no longer serving it, while
meat counters have at best only a token display of browning beef.
After the first scare in November, shoppers switched to game. Now
the consumers are being informed that venison is also dodgy,
because deer in German forests are apparently fed on the same
kind of bone-meal fodder that has brought BSE to cattle.
Lamb is to be avoided, scientists warn, because of scrapie. Battery
chickens come laced with salmonella and occasionally dioxin.
Cats and dogs, in case anyone should fancy them, are out
because of the low-grade beef they consume.
Other pets, such as hamsters and guinea-pigs, are equally
unwholesome because they, too, have been unwittingly munching
on the remnants of animal carcasses for years.
That, more or less, leaves fish, largely unknown to German cuisine
apart from the roll-mop variety. Fresh fish, in any case, is hard to
find.
There was also pork, of course, prepared in hundreds of ingenious
ways from the humble fried chop to Helmut Kohl's beloved
Saumagen, or stuffed pig's stomach. No German would starve
while there was pork around in abundance.
Unfortunately, officials discovered last week that millions of
Bavarian pigs have for years been fattened up with the help of
illegal drugs, including the sort of anabolic steroids that enabled
East German female athletes to swim as fast as men, at the price
of growing hair on their chests.
To someone who does not wish to repeat the feat, pork is looking
rather unappetising.
It is bad news for most Germans, who would rather die than
become vegetarian. What are they supposed to eat? That is the
question preoccupying much of the nation's media, with television
channels scheduling special programmes every day in search of
the elusive answer. But so far, consumers have only learnt from
these what they cannot eat, not what they can.
That leaves Alfred Biolek, Germany's best-known TV chef, with the task of educating 
the masses. Mr Biolek is trying to wean people off their traditional greasy meat and 
stodgy veg. Viewers learnt the secrets of gnocchi wi
th chanterelle mushrooms last week. They got the recipe for sauerkraut soup a week 
earlier.
What people can eat is also a political question in certain sensitive areas. For 
instance, the German parliament's canteen appears to have banned both beef and pork. 
Its latest offerings include cabbage stew, elk ragout,
and organic vegetarian cannelloni.
Beef has also been declared verboten in the armed forces, presumably on the grounds 
that you cannot have mad soldiers. But too much muscle has never done the troops any 
harm, so pork is still allowed.
Everyone else must get used to elk, reindeer, ostrich, crocodile
and other exotic meats which have recently turned up at the shops,
or go hunting. In this frenzy, the sheep in Kreuzberg are probably
safe for the moment, but the rabbits had better watch out.
Old Gustav, by the way, survived the zoo keepers' feast because
he was thought to be too chewy.


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>
> From: "Amelia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > I am not saying this is true or not true. Just
> > > forwarding.
> > > KS
> > >
> > > The Real Story of Rosa Parks
> >
> > I have been out most of this week so today is the first
> > chance I have had to go over this situation with the alleged
> > failure to use a disclaimer.  The above was at the beginning
> > of the post by Kindred Spirit in addition to the "FYI" in
> > the subject matter.  I believe this was far more than
> > adequate as a disclaimer.
>
> The hell it is.  Stating that one doesn't know whether the contents of
> one's post is true or not does NOT say anything about if one ENDORSES
> the contents of the post.  One can post something that one doesn't
> know is true or not -- or perhaps even knows is a lie -- and still
> endorse the opinions expressed in the post.
>

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[CTRL] More politically correct censorship

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?21508

Sunday, January 28, 2001
Pro-marriage book Harvard dumped does well
Author sees 'political agenda' in university press decision
By Julie Foster
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
Why did Harvard University Press contract with a sociologist to
write a book based on her studies showing married people live
happier, healthier, more financially secure lives -- and then decide
at the last minute not to publish the book?

One Harvard Press reviewer said she didn't like the book's "tone."
That's about as close to an answer as the public can get since the
Press did not return several calls by WorldNetDaily and refused to
release a list of board members, declining further comment to other
media outlets, citing confidentiality concerns.  The Board of
Syndics gives a book final approval for publishing after it has been
reviewed by two anonymous scholars.

"The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier
and Better Off Financially" was written by professor Linda Waite of
the University of Chicago. An expert in sociology, Waite joined
forces with writer Maggie Gallagher to create a manuscript after a
Press editor heard her speech on the same subject to a
professional association. She was given a contract -- and an
advance -- and work began on what would become a critically
acclaimed book.

"It was really late in the process when the deal with Harvard was
canceled," Waite said.

After the manuscript was finished, it was reviewed and sent back
for revisions. The authors made the adjustments and returned the
manuscript to Harvard University Press in June, 1999.  At that
time, one review was extremely positive and the other, though
critiquing a few areas, concluded the book should be published.
The next step is usually a formality: The Board of Syndics gives its
stamp of approval and the book goes to print.

But that's not what happened with "The Case for Marriage."

According to Waite, a board member said she didn't like the book's
tone and objected to some of the research in the book as not being
"scientific" enough.

"I fail to see the validity of that criticism," Waite remarked.

In purely scientific circumstances, a control group is established
and subjected to certain stimuli.  But in the case of sociology --
specifically a study of marriage -- scientists cannot gather a group
of people, tell some to get married, tell others to remain single and
then analyze the results. In his column for the Wall Street Journal,
Stanley Kurtz examines the charge of weak evidence.

"The press board seized upon the failure of Ms. Waite and Ms.
Gallagher to prove causal connections, rather than mere
correlations. But virtually no sociological study can do that," he
wrote. "Proof that marriage increases a man's earning power would
require the random assignment of a group of men to marriage and
bachelorhood, and then a calculation of their earnings. In a review,
the social scientist James Q. Wilson concluded that, despite the
impossibility of running controlled experiments with human beings,
Ms. Waite and Ms. Gallagher's evidence strongly suggests the
benefits of marriage are real."

Nevertheless, Harvard University Press cancelled publication of
Waite's book in early November 1999, for what Kurtz calls
"political" reasons.

"It's hard not to suspect politics at play here, especially
considering the tone of other books to which the Harvard board was
pleased to give its imprimatur," he observes.

Kurtz points to other books published by Harvard University Press
that go far beyond assertions that married people have more and
better sex than singles and tend to be more financially stable.
Feminist Catharine MacKinnon argues that male sexual desire can
be compared to rape -- whether women consent to sex or not. In
his review of  MacKinnon's last Harvard Press book, political
theorist Walter Berns remarked that MacKinnon's argument
expresses a whole-hog hatred of men.

"If scholarly tone is the issue, compare Ms. MacKinnon's rhetoric
on sex to Ms. Waite and Ms. Gallagher's:

Ms. MacKinnon:
What in the liberal view looks like love and romance looks a lot like
hatred and torture to the feminist.

Ms. Waite and Ms. Gallagher: What these prominent researchers
found may shock you: Married people have both more and better
sex than singles do ... The answer, both theory and evidence
suggest, is that the secret ingredient marriage adds is commitment.

"Which sounds to you more like unscientific extremism?" Kurtz
asks.

Nevertheless, Waite's book was denied publication in early
November 1999.  But, by the end of that week, the author said she
had the book out to nearly a dozen trade publishers with offers
pouring in.  In the end, Doubleday submitted the winning offer,
which "was really a blessing," said Waite, who noted the
mainstream publisher ensured the book would be seen by more
than just trade professionals.

While the author said she "fel

[CTRL] Proof

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> The burden of proof is on the person who states an alleged fact. If
>you can't prove something, don't expect people to believe it.

   On  Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:38:34 EST
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>  Mature people don't ask for proof.  They find out the truth for
>themselves.  Prudy

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[CTRL] Reno Admits She's Under FBI Guard

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/1/28/171356.shtml

Reno Admits She's Under FBI Guard
Jack Thompson
Monday, Jan. 29, 2001

On April 30 of last year, at the height of the Elian Gonzalez matter,
The Miami Herald reported that three police squad cars were
"quietly keeping vigil"  over then Attorney General Janet Reno's
home in the 11200 block of Kendall Drive in suburban Miami.

Police sources recently informed me that even though the Elian
saga is long over and Reno is no longer a government official,
security personnel have remained at the Reno family residence.

Janet Reno this day sits inside the home her mother built illegally
without the required building permits.

Outside the home sits Reno's brand new red pick-up truck.  Sure
enough, roaming around the premises are security personnel you
can plainly see as you drive by.

My police sources suggested I file a Freedom of Information Act
request to determine who is paying for these security personnel for
a person who is a  private citizen.But FOIA requests can take a lot
of time.  I decided to call Janet myself, as I have in the past.

At 1:15 pm today, January 28, 2001--Super Bowl Sunday--I called
Janet and gave her my name.  I welcomed her back to Miami, and I
told her I was working on a story about her return to Miami.  I
asked her this question: "Madame Attorney General, who is
providing the security personnel at your home?"

She startled me by answering the question:  "They are provided by
the FBI.  I decided to leave that decision to Director Freeh. You'll
have to ask him for the details."

I thanked her and said good-bye.  So now the question for Director
Freeh:Why is the FBI providing a private citizen protection at
taxpayer expense?

Another question:  Why is it that Johhny Chung, the man who
testified about  the People's Republic of China's illegal campaign
contributions and was nearly killed by PRC operatives, is receiving
no FBI protection?

Further, is it a matter of national policy that we protect the woman
who used her office to thwart an independent counsel's
investigation of Chinagate while leaving open to assassination its
whistleblowers, of which Chung is only one?

Put another way, why is Janet Reno's life more valuable than
thousands of other men, women, and children who today are at
greater risk, and demonstrably so, than is hers?

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The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his
head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill
of Rights.
--H.L. Mencken, A Carnival of Buncombe: Writings on
Politics [1956], edited by Malcolm Moos,p.273

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[CTRL] Stage Three in Education Has Arrived

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north32.html

Stage Three in Education Has Arrived
by  Gary North

There is a fixed pattern in economic development that is not well
understood by the public. There are three main stages of
development. Using political terminology, I call these three stages
the oligarchic/autarchic,  the democratic, and the individualistic. I
realize that we lose some conceptual accuracy by transferring
concepts from one discipline  to another, but when no readily
recognized terms exist in one discipline, imports sometimes help.

Oligarchy

The oligarchic phase of an economy is where skilled craftsmen
produce mainly for the rich. The market is narrow. Competition
is based on quality rather than price. Meanwhile, poor families
produce for themselves (autarchy) and for barter with their
neighbors, with a few local producers of low-quality goods that are
priced in money, but at prices where the poor can just barely afford
them.

To maintain such a hierarchical, stratified economy, political
compulsion is mandatory. A common feature of the medieval
economy was the producers’ guild. Members of a guild cooperated
politically with members of other guilds in cities to pass laws that
restricted access to local consumers. A system of hierarchical
apprenticeship and screening was established by each guild in
order to restrict competition. The goal was to keep price
competitive products away from consumers. This subsidized those
who competed in terms of high quality rather than price. It kept the
masses poor.

Democracy

At some point, those producers with the ability to produce a larger
quantity of goods by means of a new technology break through the
legal barriers. They beat their way into the market by offering
significantly lower prices. The market responds to a fundamental
economic law: "At a lower price, other things remaining the
same, a greater quantity will be demanded." I call this the
democratic phase of economic development. It is marked by a
decline of political compulsion in the market.

Price competition is initially associated with lower quality,
but only when compared to quality that had been available to the
rich elite. For the poor, these new mass-produced products
represent a quantum leap in quality. Buyers who could never have
afforded to buy similar goods at the older, higher prices now find
new products available and affordable. For them, the quality seems
very high: something rather than nothing. The goods’ lower quality
in relation to the older array of prices and products is irrelevant
to the buyers.

Two groups oppose this development: those who produce for the
rich, who now find that some of their rich clients also like a
bargain; and those who produce for the poor, offering shoddy
merchandise at prices that the poor have barely been able to afford.
Both groups lose customers to the new producers.

Individualism

The new mass-market producers at first offer limited choices.
As was said of the Model T Ford, "You can get it in any color,
as long as you want black." The Model T opened the automobile
market to the growing American middle class. But in the 1920’s,
General Motors took this market away from Ford by offering five
brands of GM cars and many options within each brand line. This
price competitive market had begun to increase diversity. Ford
and Chrysler had to imitate this multi-brand automobile marketing
strategy in order to survive. Then came foreign imports in the
1950’s. Today, the level of diversity is beyond most car buyers’
ability to monitor.

Here is the pattern. Price competition initially creates a mass
market for some product line by offering minimal diversity. But
as these new mass production techniques are imitated by
competitors, diversity raises its lovely head. Buyers then are
offered more choices at far lower prices than existed before the
initial market-creating breakthrough took place. They get rising
quality and falling prices.

The microcomputer has been the best example of this process of
diversification in a physical product line during the last two
decades. As for services, the best example is the steady erosion
of network television’s audience to cable and satellite channels.
This process even has a clever phrase: from broadcasting to
narrowcasting. This is the individualism phase. Buyers can get
pretty much what  they want.

Dell Computer will sell you a computer with most of the features
you can imagine. They will even help you to imagine lots of new
ones. Your computer is put together for you personally in Taiwan
(or wherever) and flown to the United States, to be delivered
to your door. This is truly a personal computer. All this came
about because a teenage Michael Dell started producing
microcomputers to order in his college dorm room back in the early
1980’s. He still offers the same service, but he uses a much larger
room.

Stages of Education

The same stages of development have taken place in education.
Prior to the

[CTRL] Special report: trial by jury

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http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/law/story/0,3605,426119,00.htm
l

Perverting the course of justice?

They admitted it. The judge said they had no defence. But last
week, two people who attempted to trash a nuclear submarine
were acquitted.  Marcel Berlins  and  Clare Dyer on why more and
more juries are returning 'perverse' verdicts

Special report: trial by jury
Marcel Berlins and Clare Dyer
MondayJanuary   22, 2001

On the very day that the appeal court described the jury's verdict in
the Bruce Grobbelaar libel trial in the most damning terms that
judges can muster, virtually calling the jurors mad, another12
men and women, in Manchester, were doing their bit to be added
to the roll-call of juries for whom "perverse" is an honourable label.

They brought in a verdict of not guilty on two anti-nuclear protesters
charged with conspiracy to cause criminal   damage to a Trident
submarine in a Barrow-in-Furness shipyard. The two happily
admitted their intention to trash the sub but said they were doing
so because nuclear weapons were immoral and illegal. The judge
told the jury that such ideals formed no defence against the
charge. He was ignored. Not guilty, said the jury.

It was not the first time that juries have, apparently contrary to the
evidence, acquitted defendants charged with sabotage of defence
equipment. But that strand of acquittals is itself part of a greater
English tradition, going back to the trial of William Mead and
William Penn, nonconformists charged in 1670 with unlawful
preaching and conducting a seditious assembly. The jury was
threatened by the judge and locked up for two nights "without
meat, drink, fire or tobacco" after it refused to convict them but still
stubbornly stuck to its verdict. The jurors were then fined and
imprisoned till they paid, but were ultimately released by the Chief
Justice, upholding "the right of juries to give their verdict by their
conscience".

A perverse verdict could just mean - as in the Grobbelaar case - a
totally unreasonable conclusion from the evidence presented. But
the more distinguished form of jury perversity arises when jurors in
a criminal trial, following their consciences and their moral beliefs,
acquit a defendant even where the evidence and the law clearly
point to conviction. Lord Devlin, one of the great law lords, regarded
the jury's right to bring in a perverse acquittal as one of the glories
of our jury system. "It gives protection against laws which the
ordinary man regards as harsh and oppressive . . . an insurance
that the criminal law will conform to the ordinary man's ideas of
what is fair and just. If it does not, the jury will not be a party to its
enforcement."

In 1985, Clive Ponting, a senior Ministry of Defence official, was
tried under the Official Secrets Act for revealing to an MP that
government ministers had misled Parliament over the sinking of the
Argentine warship General Belgrano during the Falklands War.
There was no doubt that he had done so and that he had no legal
defence to the charge, as the trial judge made clear to the jury.
Nevertheless the jury acquitted him. Jurors may not be asked why
they reached a particular verdict, but it emerged that some of them
resented the patronising and over-emphatic way in which the trial
judge, in effect, ordered them to convict. Another factor was the
feeling that the "catch-all" section of the Official Secrets Act under
which Ponting was charged and which allowed no public interest
defence was unfair and oppressive.

Even more striking was the acquittal at the Old Bailey in 1990 of
Pat Pottle and Michael Randle, on a charge of helping the Soviet
spy George Blake escape from Wormwood Scrubs in 1963,
enabling him to flee to Russia. This was not just a case of a jury
disregarding the judge's clear - and legally correct - instruction that
the two men had no defence. The jury knew for a fact that they
were guilty - not least because they had published a book entitled
The Blake Escape - How We Freed George Blake and Why. As if
that wasn't enough, Pottle and Randle, defending themselves,
confirmed their responsibility for the crime and made impassioned
speeches from the dock. They argued that bringing them to court
26 years after the crime was an abuse of the legal process and
showed a political motive behind their prosecution. The jury was
clearly impressed and acquitted, knowing that it was delivering a
perverse verdict, showing two fingers to a system that would
behave in this way. Nor is it just in highly publicised cases raising
quasi-political or social issues that juries have shown their bolshie
independence. Away from the headlines, juries often acquit guilty
defendants simply because they feel strongly that no prosecution
should have been brought. Forgetful elderly shoplifters are frequent
beneficiaries of jury anger at their being in the dock at all.

In the 19th century, juries used to find defendants not guilty of
crimes they had clearly

[CTRL] Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews

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http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/article-nazilaw.html

Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews
Stephen P. Halbrook(1)
17 Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, No. 3, 483-
535 (2000).
We are in danger of forgetting that the Bill of Rights reflects experience
with police excesses. It is not only under Nazi rule that police
excesses are inimical to freedom. It is easy to make light of insistence
on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked
on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that
by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at
first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.
--Justice Felix Frankfurter(2)
The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow
the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors
who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their
own downfall by so doing.
--Adolph Hitler(3)
Gun control laws are depicted as benign and historically
progressive.(4) However, German firearm laws and hysteria created
against Jewish firearm owners played a major role in laying the
groundwork for the eradication of German Jewry in the Holocaust.
Disarming political opponents was a categorical imperative of the Nazi
regime.(5) The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution declares:
"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free
state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be
infringed."(6) This right, which reflects a universal and historical power
of the people in a republic to resist tyranny,(7) was not recognized in
the German Reich.
This article addresses German firearms laws and Nazi policies and
practices to disarm German citizens, particularly political opponents
and Jews. It begins with an account of post-World War I chaos, which
led to the enactment in 1928 by the liberal Weimar republic of
Germany's first comprehensive gun control law. Next, the Nazi seizure
of power in 1933 was consolidated by massive searches and seizures
of firearms from political opponents, who were invariably described as
"communists." After five years of repression and eradication of
dissidents, Hitler signed a new gun control law in 1938 which
benefitted Nazi party members and entities but denied firearm
ownership to enemies of the state. Later that year, in Kristallnacht (the
Night of the Broken Glass), in one fell swoop, the Nazi regime
disarmed Germany's Jews. Without any ability to defend themselves,
the Jewish population could easily be sent to concentration camps for
the Final Solution. After World War II began, Nazi authorities continued
to register and mistrust civilian firearm owners, and German resistence
to the Nazi regime was unsuccessful.(8)
The above topic has never been the subject of a comprehensive
account in the legal literature.(9) This article is based on never before
used sources from archives in Germany, German firearms laws and
regulations, German and American newspapers from the period, and
historical literature. It contributes to the debate concerning firearms
ownership in a democracy and presents the first scholarly analysis of
the use of gun control laws and policies to establish the Hitler regime
and to render political opponents and especially German Jews
defenseless.
I. A LIBERAL REPUBLIC ENACTS GUN CONTROL
Germany's defeat in World War I heralded the demise of the Second
Reich and the birth of the Weimar republic. For several years
thereafter, civil unrest and chaos ensued. Government forces,
buttressed by unofficial Freikorps (Free Corps), battled Communists in
the streets.(10) The most spectacular event was the crushing of the
Spartacist revolt in Berlin and other cities in January 1919, when
Freikorps members captured and murdered the Communist leaders
Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht.(11) This coincided with the
passage of the Verordnung des Rates der Volksbeauftragen über
Waffenbesitz (Regulations of the Council of the People's Delegates on
Weapons Possession), which provided: "All firearms, as well as all
kinds of firearms ammunition, are to be surrendered immediately."(12)
Whoever kept a firearm or ammunition was subject to imprisonment for
five years and a fine of 100,000 marks.(13) That decree would remain in
force until repealed in 1928.(14)
When Spartacists attacked a Berlin police station in March, Reich
Minister of Defense Gustav Noske declared that "any person who
bears arms against government troops will be shot on the spot."(15) A
Social Democrat, Noske was known as the "Bloodhound of the
Revolution."(16) Another order was issued that anyone in mere
possession of arms would be shot with no trial.(17) Under these
orders, hundreds of Berliners were killed.(18)
An inept April Communist uprising in Bavaria fared no better.(19) Lieutenant Rudolf 
Mann, a regimental adjutant in the Freikorps, was humored by the "mopping-up 
operations" against the Reds:
The supreme

[CTRL] Illegal Immigrant Elephant Busted

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http://www.newsday.com/ap/text/international/ap888.htm

Illegal Immigrant Elephant Busted
by MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press Writer
TLALNEPANTLA, Mexico (AP) -- Benny crossed the border illegally
and went to work for a prominent family, but somebody tipped off
the authorities and now a full-fledged scandal has erupted.
It's a common story -- a tipster, an illegal immigrant, an
embarrassing revelation -- except for the fact that Benny is an
American who came to work in Mexico. And he's an elephant.
The prominent family -- Mexico's most famous circus clan, the
three generations of the Vazquez Brothers -- has endured as much
media attention as any U.S. Cabinet nominee grilled about hiring
illegal workers.
They plead necessity. ''Look, we needed an elephant, and they're
not exactly easy to come by in Mexico,'' said Ramon Vazquez, 37,
whose grandparents started the one-ring circus more than three
decades ago.
The Vazquez family won't confirm or deny local press reports
that Benny, a 7-year-old captive-born Asian elephant also known as
Dumbo, was smuggled into Mexico in a crate from Texas in April
without a visa.
The Vazquezes are a bit coy. ''Try to imagine us bringing him
across the river,'' snorted Ramon Vazquez, speculating on the
impossibility of moving three tons of lumbering gray pachyderm
across the muddy Rio Grande.
But Tom Bauer of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Texas
said anybody moving such an animal across the border would have
to get a permit from his office -- and nobody did.
Benny -- the American name that trainers still use, though he is
billed at the Mexico City circus as Dumbo -- was apparently bought
by Ramon Vazquez's father, Guillermo, for $40,000 from his U.S.
owners, a company called Trunks and Humps based in Cut and
Shoot, Texas.
Trunks and Humps owner Bill Swain refused to comment, saying --
oddly for a reputed elephant broker -- ''I don't know how this whole
situation got so out of control.''
Vazquez reportedly got tired of waiting for official permits,
and so Benny was allegedly put in a wooden crate aboard a flatbed
truck and driven across the border, with a $4,500 bribe to Mexican
customs inspectors to overlook the somewhat large shipment.
How exactly did a package the size of a small house get across
with no inspections? Mexico's Customs Service was not available to
comment on that, and U.S. customs officials said they normally do
not check outgoing crates, however large.
Police took on the case soon after Benny's arrival in Mexico on
a tip from Jane Garrison, a Los Angeles-based elephant specialist
with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
U.S. authorities contacted Mexican police, and the case was a
piece of cake. ''We had to locate him, but it was easy because of
his distinguishing mark. He has a hole in his trunk,'' said
Salvador Gonzalez of Mexico's environmental prosecutor's office.
Garrison wants Benny seized and brought back to spend his days
at a U.S. sanctuary for former circus animals. ''If children could
see how animals are treated at the big top, they'd have to be
dragged kicking and screaming to the circus,'' Garrison said.
But Benny's return is unlikely. Authorities formally seized him
in May but ''allowed the circus to keep exhibiting him, because if
you don't keep elephants working they go wild,'' Gonzalez said.
This week Benny performed one of his last shows at the circus.
Trainers unhooked the chain from his hind leg and led him into the
tent at the end of the show to grab a harmonica with his trunk and
''play'' it. He doesn't actually play, but squeals an imitation of
the harmonica's sound.
Benny sat on his rump, stood tall on his hind legs and nodded
when asked whether he liked children. The audience of 200 people,
who paid $2 to $5 for the show, applauded generously.
''He's a good elephant,'' said trainer Junior Herrera.
But most likely Benny's days at the circus are numbered.
Gonzalez said within a week, Benny will be confiscated and sent to
a zoo outside Mexico City.
''He'll keep doing tricks,'' Gonzalez said. ''And the children
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On 2 Feb 2001, at 0:55, Samantha L. wrote:

>
>   Amelia, no offense, but you're really an idiot.
>
> Samantha
>


She presented facts that contradicted your post.  Does everyone
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[CTRL] Fwd: [SSfS] - CALIFORNIA POLICE-STATE UPDATE -

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To: "Separation of School & State" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From:   "Dale R. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> An example of *not* being prudent.
>
> Unless your goal is to destroy privately owned...whatevers.   Dale
>  "Red" Davis Rides Again! Governor's "Executive Order"
> Creates ENERGY POLICE
>
> By Mel Young
>
> If there is anything to be learned from the history of past,
> tyrannical governments, it is that they all started out, little by
> little, creating situations to justify their involvement. This is
> followed by the creation of more and more layers of police-state laws,
> rules, licenses, permits and regulations with the eventual goal being
> to take away ALL of the liberties of the people and enslave them. And,
> it should be noted, ALL governments have supposedly "good" reasons for
> the new laws, permits and other tools of tyranny.
>
> One can point to the "creation" of the massive crime waves and the
> growth of the mobs early in the last century to the government's
> outlawing booze. Prohibition not only made super millionaires out of
> the likes of Joe Kennedy and many others; it was used as an excuse for
> a whole slew of new laws, supposedly enacted on the behalf of the
> people, but in reality, on behalf of the growth of the socialist state
> and big government.
>
> One of the most dangerous laws was the landmark infringement on the
> Second Amendment with the passing of the first antigun bill, requiring
> that owners / purchasers of automatic weapons must purchase a permit
> (read register) from the government. That law was supposed to force Al
> Capone, Baby-Face Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde, and a whole slew of other
> mob thugs of the time to race to their nearest Treasury Department
> Office to buy a permit for their "Tommy" guns so they could be
> arrested.
>
> Hello out there.does anyone know of a single incident in history
> where the crook has gone to the government to register a firearm?
>
> Thought the law was worthless with respect to reducing crime or the
> use of automatic weapons by crooks, it did serve the purpose of giving
> government more control and power over the people and, of course,
> forcing a major crack in the Second Amendment.
>
> OK..nuff said on that subject.
>
> Last night, Governor Gray (RED) Davis of California was featured on
> the evening news, announcing his executive orders to combat our State
> of California-created energy crisis. Was it to restore the status quo
> by forcing the purchasers of the power plants in California to sell
> them back to the power generating companies; which were forced by the
> State of California to sell them in the first place? Not hardly.
>
> What Red Davis has announced is a new bureaucracy to determine what
> lights you and I "need" versus what lights we do not "need". This
> applies in spades to businesses and industry.
>
> Under the new, Socialist, "Davis" plan, the governor is setting up
> "Energy Police" operations. According to the governor, guidelines will
> be drawn up over the next week or so and sent out to all police
> agencies in the state; whereby the police will be empowered to
> determine if you or I are burning lights that we do not need and issue
> tickets (only a puny $1,000 fine for each ticket) to the evil users of
> light.
>
> The more I've been reading up on this fiasco, the more it stinks to
> high heaven. Pardon my paranoia, if I dare to suggest that this whole
> energy crisis situation appears now to have been a carefully crafted
> plan to destroy the privately owned utilities in such a way that the
> State and Federal Governments could get into the act, seize power
> companies, natural gas transmission facilities, etc. and further
> increase the government's stranglehold on us, as another step towards
> the NWO / One World Government Socialist Police State.
>
> A year ago, if anyone in California were asked if they thought a
> police-state energy saving policy would eventually be put in place in
> California, the answer would have been a resounding "NO WAY"!
>
> WAKE UP AMERICA.as CA goes, so will go the nation.
>
> As a former Electrical Superintendent and Plant Engineer in industry,
> I can tell you that the State of California's energy policy, with
> respect to lighting, is a total disaster; designed and run by idiots.
>
> As the ranch resident lamp lighter, I'm going to write up a special
> report on good energy policy versus the State of California's
> ridiculous nonsense. I'll also write up some valuable information for
> consumers so that they can easily determine their own cost of lighting
> and ways to save both energy and money.
>
> Remember that CA has been the "proving grounds" for many decades for
> the Communist Party USA and the socialist fellow trav

[CTRL] Fwd: Fossils of man‘s earliest ancestor found in Kenya

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Fossils of man‘s earliest ancestor found in Kenya

KENYA: December 5, 2000

NAIROBI - A team of French and Kenyan scientists has unearthed
fossilised remains of mankind‘s earliest ancestor that predate
previous discoveries by more than 1.5 million years, they
announced on Monday. „Millennium man“, as the hominid creature
has been nicknamed, was discovered in the Tugen hills of Kenya‘s
Baringo district on October 25 by a team from College de France in
Paris and the Community Museums of Kenya.

„This discovery concerns all humans on earth,“ palaeontologist
Martin Pickford told a news conference in the Kenyan capital.

„It is at least six million years old, which means it is older than
the remains found at Aramis in Ethiopia, which were 4.5 million
years old.“

Scientists found fossiled body parts belonging to at least five
individuals - male and female - which showed the creature was
chimpanzee-sized, walked predominantly on its back legs but also
had strong arms for climbing trees.

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Re: [CTRL] Senator: Gore May Be Seeking Vice Presidency Under Bush

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{HYPERLINK "/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0012A&L=ctrl&D=0&P=26090"}
{HYPERLINK "http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/12/3/183023.shtml"}If this 
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Dems just taking advantage of the "zero year curse" no
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Re: [CTRL] Not Everyone Adores Gore

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On 8 Dec 2000, at 4:37, Bob Stokes wrote:


> Assistant Supervisor of Elections Dick Carlsberg said he talked to the
> clerks in the office and they told him, "There's been a definite surge
> in party affiliation changes, and it's been from Democrat to
> Republican."
>
>

The same thing is happening in Oklahoma, according to local news
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Re: [CTRL] Not Everyone Adores Gore

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On 8 Dec 2000, at 9:53, Samantha L. wrote:

>
>   I suspect in the long-term we'll see the opposite:  registered
>   Democrats
> going out to vote in record numbers.
>
> Samantha
>

In some places, notably Chicago and South Florida, they already
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Re: [CTRL] Not Everyone Adores Gore

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On 8 Dec 2000, at 13:47, Samantha L. wrote:

>   And your factual support for such a statement is..?
>
> Samantha

While it's no longer necessary for armies of the dead to travel from polling
place to polling place, the same thing is accomplished now by dedicated
party bosses who manufacture phantom votes for those who are no longer
able to make it in to vote.

And yes, I am aware that there is also Republican vote fraud, but the
majority of it seems to occur in primaries and/or local elections - probably
because they don't control enough punch-card precincts to get away with it
on a national level, unlike the Democrats.

The Votescam video shot in Miami showed the League of
Women Voters using pencils to punch holes in the computer vote cards
This coincided with evidence the Colliers had gleaned in Miami years
earlier where they discovered that precinct captains had taken ballot
cards home a week before elections to punch out a slate of candidates
using an IBM Port-o-punch. This device could punch identical holes in a
pad of 50 cards. The tweezers were used to pull out tabs that didn't "fall
out" because the cards were packed together when they were punched.
...then-State Attorney in Miami, Janet Reno, ... As detailed in
Votescam, when Attorney Ellis Rubin, appointed by the Miami Circuit
Court, brought our evidence of vote fraud to Janet Reno in Dade
County, she told Rubin that prosecution would bring down too
many people, including judges and news media heads.
***

"Statistical evidence establishes beyond reasonable doubt that 19,120 Presidential 
race ballots were destroyed
by deliberate double-punching ballots in Palm Beach County FL with a 'second punch' 
for Al Gore or Pat Buchanan."
"There is explicit statistical evidence of massive ballot tampering in Palm Beach 
[County]. These ballots show
Democratic voter fraud . . . NOT Republican fraud or 'voter error' as publicized by 
the national media. Statistical evidence
cannot prove any single ballot was tampered with, nor show which individual tampered 
with any single ballot. It can show
specific places and times and methods where the fraud was done. (For example, if 
15,000 dollars are missing from the
register the day after your cashier left on a Los Vegas vacation, there is no direct 
evidence that the cashier stole the
money. If, however, 19,120 dollars are missing from the register the next year when 
the cashier again leaves for
vacation in Los Vegas, one has reason to investigate the cashier closely.)"
"ONLY Palm Beach County Florida voters seem incapable of understanding and using this 
style of ballot. Palm Beach
 County has an error rate TEN TIMES larger than reported in ANY other county in the 
nation using paper punch ballots!"
"ONLY in Palm Beach (and in ONLY the most heavily Democratic precincts) were 19,120 
ballots rejected in 2000 for
double punching. . . (This is a 4.4% error rate overall; in the rest of Florida there 
is less than 1/2 of ONE percent 'double
punch' error rate!"
"ONLY in Palm Beach did this 'double punch' error happen ONLY in the 
Gore-Bush-Buchanan selections for President.
(In a truly random 'error,' the mistakes happen in every race, all at about the same 
rate. In Palm Beach, the massive errors
 -- over 19,000 -- ONLY happened in the Presidential race.)"
"ONLY in Palm Beach did Gore GAIN 750 votes in a recount. In 50 out of 67 counties in 
FL, the actual change in the
recount was 5-7 votes, and in 63 out of 67 counties, the total change was less than 30 
votes either way. Further, in
63 out of 67 counties the 'changes' were somewhat evenly divided between ALL the 
candidates, in rough proportion
to the original number of votes. This is the statistically expected result, and 
represents a true and legal recount of the
ballots without any change in the ballots themselves."
"Palm Beach [County] had an error rate in favor of Gore more than 120 TIMES greater 
than any other county. . . ."
"In EVERY precinct in Palm Beach where Gore got more votes than there are registered 
Democrats, Bush received
less than 60% of the registered Republican votes. In NO precinct in Palm Beach County 
did Bush receive more than
 80% of the number of registered Republicans."
"ONLY in Palm Beach did Bush receive LESS than 65% of the registered Republican voters.
(Registered Republicans = 231,626 while Bush voters = 152,954.) On average, in every 
other county in FL Bush received
MORE votes than there were registered Republicans."
"Also, unique in the entire state, the percentage of Republican voters COUNTED as 
voting in Palm Beach was much
less than normal, despite the pre-election attention to Florida as a critical state; 
and massive Republican get -out-the-vote
campaigns."
"ONLY in Palm Beach County do the smaller (Congressional) races outdraw the 
Presidential race."
"ONLY in Palm Beach did Buchanan get less than HALF of the votes he received before in 
1996."
"There is a simple, single explanation for ALL of 

Re: [CTRL] Not Everyone Adores Gore

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On 9 Dec 2000, at 7:18, Prudence L. Kuhn wrote:
>
> And don't forget that the forthcoming depression is the fault of the
> Clinton/Gore administration.  Prudy
>

Is it really only forthcoming?

In any case, if Gore becomes president he'll get to claim it.  You
however, will no doubt be able to prove it was all caused by Calvin
Coolidge.

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[CTRL] Court battles loom as Quebec passes 'seditious' secession law

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December 8, 2000
Court battles loom as Quebec passes 'seditious' secession law
Ottawa asked to intervene
Paul Wells
National Post
.
Bruised by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's strong showing in
Quebec in the federal election, the provincial government yesterday
set the stage for a new court battle over the rules of secession by
passing Bill 99, a law declaring the province can separate in
defiance of Canadian law and Canada's parliament.
Quebec's tiny Equality Party immediately announced it will
challenge the law in Quebec court as "false, unconstitutional, anti-
Canadian, and seditious." The party's leader, Keith Henderson,
called on the federal government either to strike the Quebec bill
down or to join his court challenge.
The National Assembly voted along straight party lines yesterday
in adopting the bill, subtitled "An Act Affirming the Fundamental
Rights and Prerogatives of the Quebec People and the Quebec
State."
Parti Québécois members and Mario Dumont, the only sitting
member of the Action Démocratique party, voted in favour. The
Liberal opposition voted against the bill.
The bill states that "the Quebec people has the inalienable right to
freely decide the political regime and legal status of Quebec."
It adds that "the Quebec people, acting through its own political
institutions, shall determine alone the mode of exercise of its right
to choose the political regime and legal status of Quebec."
Other sections assert that any referendum on Quebec's future
would carry with a 50%-plus-one majority of votes cast and that in
any secession, Quebec's territory would be indivisible.
During final debate on the bill, Lucien Bouchard, Quebec's Premier,
called it "more than simple law; it is more like a charter of political
rights for the people of Quebec."
But Jean Charest, the Opposition Liberal leader, pleaded with the
government to abandon its proposed law. It will certainly be struck
down in courts, Mr. Charest said, thus weakening the province's
political hand rather than strengthening it. "We will not subscribe,
Mr. Speaker, to any act that risks weakening Quebec," he said.
The court challenge Mr. Charest warned about is ready to be filed
by the Equality Party, which fields candidates in every provincial
election but has not succeeded in getting any elected since 1989.
The new bill comes just as separatist sentiment seems to be
waning. The federal Liberals captured 44% of Quebec's popular
vote in the recent election.
The bill now goes to Lise Thibault, the province's Lieutenant-
Governor, for the royal assent that would make it law. However, the
Equality Party has asked Ms. Thibault to refuse to sign the bill, a
manoeuvre known as "reserve," which has not been used for nearly
a century. If Ms. Thibault doesn't reserve her assent, Equality
wants the federal government to disallow the bill, another rarely
used method for keeping provincial bills from becoming law.
A federal source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said
yesterday the chances of immediate federal intervention are close
to zero. As with earlier court challenges to the separatists
launched by private citizens, such as that of lawyer Guy Bertrand
in 1995, Ottawa is "watching closely," but will not immediately get
involved, the source said.
If the federal government refuses to intervene, Mr. Henderson will
send his lawyers to court to have the law declared unconstitutional.
"Unless the federal government grows a spine, it's going to be up to
citizens to litigate," Brent Tyler, a lawyer for Equality, said in a
telephone interview.
He said his case will be filed within days. But because private
citizens can only launch cases in lower courts, it could take years
to work its way up the ladder of appeals unless Ottawa steps in to
take the question directly to the Supreme Court, Mr. Tyler said.
"We're saying, 'Look, why not short-circuit this process?' We're
more than happy to do it if the feds are going to be derelict in their
duty, but somebody has to do it."
Bill 99 was introduced by Mr. Bouchard's Parti Québécois
government nearly a year ago as a rebuttal to federal Bill C-20, the
so-called "Clarity Law." Mr. Bouchard introduced his bill in a crisis
atmosphere, ordering air time on the province's television networks
to explain why he thought Quebec's rights were under federal
assault and needed defending.
The Clarity Law, a cornerstone of Mr. Chrétien's unity strategy,
asserted that Parliament would be required to judge the clarity of
any future referendum question on secession, and then to vote
again on whether the results of a referendum vote were clear
enough to allow secession negotiations to begin. The law was
written to conform closely with the language of the Supreme
Court's historic 1998 opinion on secession. The court ruled
secession negotiations must follow a vote by a "clear majority" on
a "clear question," while leaving it up to undefine

[CTRL] The Conspiracies of Empire

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 http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/trask1.html

The Conspiracies of Empire
by H. Arthur Scott Trask
"Finally I say let demagogues and world-redeemers babble their
emptiness to empty ears; twice duped is too much."
~ Robinson Jeffers
Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor
by Robert B. Stinnett
New  York, NY: Free Press; 260pp., $26.00
The late Murray Rothbard often argued that
 far from being evidence of a "paranoid" strain in the American
mind, belief in conspiracies as a factor in American history was
usually not taken far enough.
  The truth behind most conspiracies, he alleged, was far
more heinous and diabolical than even the most diehard conspiracy
theorist suspected. While many have assumed Rothbard was only
being half serious, a new book on the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor by Robert B. Stinnett offers compelling evidence that
Murray had it right. The truth that emerges as one makes his way
through this exhaustively researched volume is of an American
political and military establishment whose brilliance is exceeded
only by its utter lack of moral scruple or genuine patriotism. Sixty
years after the fateful attack, Stinnett has uncovered, presented,
and substantiated the truth behind Pearl Harbor. It is now clear that
FDR did know the Japanese attack was coming. He knew more
than a year in advance of Japanese plans to bomb the United
States’ Pacific fleet at Pearl, and he knew more than a week before
that the attack would come early Sunday morning.
  He knew because American naval intelligence had
cracked the Japanese naval codes in the early fall of 1940, 15
months before the fateful attack.
The smoke had barely cleared from Pearl Harbor before rightwing
journalists, cranky poets, and some Republican politicians began
suspecting that somehow Pearl Harbor was all a set-up. Since
then, revisionist historians have contended that FDR both provoked
and welcomed the war; and some even charged that he knew of the
attack beforehand. Establishment historians and government
officials countered these charges by insisting that the attack was
indeed a surprise due to a failure of American intelligence and
incompetence in the naval high command. Stinnett quotes historian
Stephen E. Ambrose who claimed, as recently as a 1999 Wall
Street Journal editorial, that "the real problem was that American
intelligence was terrible." According to Ambrose (who echoes the
official story), the navy had not yet broken the Japanese naval
codes, and the Japanese task force maintained strict radio silence
on its way to Hawaii. As a result, "in late November, intelligence
‘lost’ the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet." Other historians have
contended that the Japanese caught us by surprise due to faulty
analysis of pretty good intelligence, bureaucratic squabbling among
high-level naval officers in Washington, underestimation of
Japanese daring and capabilities, and expectations that the attack
would come against Dutch or British possessions in East Asia, not
against Hawaii. Stinnett exposes each one of these theories to be
false. For instance, he amply demonstrates that the ships of the
Japanese carrier fleet engaged in daily radio communication with
the high command in Japan, military commands in the Central
Pacific, and with each other. Stinnett found out the truth by reading
American naval intelligence radio intercepts of the Japanese
transmissions. American intelligence did not lose the carriers.
How did Stinnett manage to uncover the truth when congressional
investigations (in both 1945-1946 and 1995) failed to do so? The
answer lies in Stinnett’s intelligence, integrity, and unflagging
research effort (lasting 17 years), qualities that we know from
experience are all too lacking in congressional investigations. But it
also lies in a crucial Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request
filed by the author in 1983. In that year, Stinnett learned of the
existence of the Pacific War communications intelligence files of
the United States Navy (a top secret file containing over one million
documents relating to U.S. communication intelligence before and
during the war). The author’s request was at first denied, but in
1994 the navy decided to declassify the records, or at least most of
them.
  As the Stinnett soon discovered, key intercepts and
documents were kept back, some were missing from the records,
and other documents had been altered to conceal vital information.
However, enough information was released, perhaps inadvertently,
to enable Stinnett to piece together the truth.
American communication intelligence operations in the Pacific
theater was primarily a naval operation. The intelligence network
was composed of 21 radio intercept stations located along the
North American coast from Panama to Alaska and on Pacific
islands from Hawaii to the Philippines. As Stinnett demonstrates,
well over 90 percent of all Japanese radio transmissions were
intercepted by one o

[CTRL] New U.N. treaty ratified quietly

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_lamb/20001209_xchla_new_
un_tre.shtml

Saturday, December 9, 2000
New U.N. treaty ratified quietly
by Henry Lamb

The U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification was ratified by the
U.S. Senate on October 18, but few Senators yet know that it has
been ratified.  Senator Craig Thomas (R-WY) introduced a package
of 34 treaties, all of which were ratified by a show of hands -- no
recorded vote.
Initially, Senator Thomas' office told callers that the Senator had
nothing to do with the ratification.  On December 8, his office called
to explain that Senator Thomas just happened to be on the Senate
Floor late in the afternoon of October 18 -- and was asked by the
leadership to handle procedurally, the package of treaties.  Senator
Thomas has asked the Foreign Relations Committee to explain
how, and why, the Desertification Treaty was included in the
package.
At the recent climate change talks in the Hague, Senator Larry
Craig (R-ID) said the treaty had not been ratified, until corrected by
one of his staff.  Phone calls to Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN),
and other Senators, caught staffers off guard:  Nobody knew how
their boss voted on the ratification.  They could not know -- there
was no recorded vote.
This treaty was signed by the Clinton administration in 1994.  It
has been locked up in the Foreign Relations Committee since.
Normally, treaties of such monumental importance are debated in
committee and then forwarded to the Senate floor for further debate
and disposition.
Not this time.  The treaty appeared in a package of 34 treaties --
most of which were single-issue treaties with single nations,
dealing with stolen vehicles, criminals, and the like.  The
Desertification Treaty, however, is not a single-issue treaty with a
single nation.
This treaty is one of several environmental treaties that emerged
from the 1992 U.N. Conference on  Environment and Development
in Rio de Janeiro.  One of those treaties, the Convention on Climate
Change, was ratified in 1992.  The Convention on Biological
Diversity failed ratification in 1994.  The Convention to Combat
Desertification was skillfully maneuvered through the Senate to
avoid the public reaction which killed the Convention on Biological
Diversity.
The Desertification Treaty claims jurisdiction over 70% of the
earth's land area -- virtually all of the land that is not covered by the
Convention on Biological Diversity.  Moreover, this new treaty
creates a structure through which all other environmental treaties
are supposed to be integrated under a common United Nations
implementation regime.  A companion treaty is now being
developed by the U.N. Commission on Water for the 21st Century.
The United Nations is, in fact, creating the structure in international
law and, through its extensive bureaucracies, to control the use of
all natural resources on earth.
The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty on October 18, 2000 -- whether
or not it knew what it was doing.  On November 17, the Clinton
administration delivered the ratification documents to the United
Nations. The United States is now bound by the international law
that claims the power to dictate land use in 70% of the earth's
land.
The name of the treaty implies that it is concerned about deserts --
in fact, it is concerned about all land use.  To combat
desertification, the treaty seeks to prevent land use that its
enforcers think may lead to desertification.  Converting forests to
pasture, for example, or pasture to row crops, or crop land to
subdivisions, are all uses that may lead to desertification,
according to literature produced by the United Nations.
There is no distinction between federal land and privately owned
land when it comes to land use under the jurisdiction of the U.N.
The U.N. sees its role to be the establishment of policy -- it is up to
the participating nations to see that the policy is implemented.
The recent rash of land acquisition measures promoted by the
administration and Congress seeks to get more land under federal
ownership.  The vast expansion of regulatory control over land use
by all federal agencies makes it easier for the United States to
comply with its international obligations under a variety of
international treaties.  This new treaty extends even further the
U.S. obligation to control land use.
According to the treaty itself, no reservations can be included in its
ratification (Article 37).  The Resolution of Ratification adopted by
the Senate contains several reservations -- all of which will be
ignored by the United Nations.
Withdrawal from the treaty cannot even begin until after three years
of participation -- and then another year must pass before
withdrawal is recognized by the U.N. -- assuming, of course, that
there is some desire in the Senate to withdraw.


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[CTRL] Fw: Double Standard

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Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 3:02 PM
Subject: Fw: Double Standard


> ROFL
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> Subject: Fwd: Double Standard
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> > >Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 01:40:49 EST
> > >Subject: Double Standard
> > >> >
> > >
> > >
> > >Not long ago, our "esteemed" leader, Monica's
boyfriend,
> > >insisted that: "If there is no penetration, there
is no sex!"
> > >
> > >It is logical, therefore, that if a ballot is not
penetrated...
> > >there is no vote.





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[CTRL] Ensuring honest elections- Long!

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 I like most of this very much. I have a small problem with parts of it,
such as forbidding ALL absentee ballots (#14) and with #17, having the
military form their own precincts. However, in general, this is the best
proposal I've seen to date. I apologize if this is a re-run for any of
you. It was written last month (which makes it ANCIENT, in 'net time,
LOL!), but I just saw it, and felt it to be worth passing along

~Olga

Proposed Model Legislation For Every County In The US
By Jim Conduit, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

11-26-00

As the Ruling Elite and their disgusting Big Media is attempting to
close
the
trap door on the American public regarding rigged elections. Here are
the
elements of Model Legislation for voting procedures in each county and
each
state. These will be posted in the Action Index on the votefraud.org
website.

PLEASE NOTE: If any one can offer another provision to this 'model
legislation'...please do so by letter or email.

Here are elements of the model legislation:

1. Paper ballots, printed in English, easily read, to be marked in
indelible
ink by the voter.

2. Ballots kept in a clear plastic box all day in full public view in a
section of the room where only the voter depositing his ballot can go,
one
time, to deposit his ballot, under the observation at a distance by
designated poll watchers, whose job it is in part to observe that each
voter
deposits only one ballot.

3. Ballot box opened and counted at closing time in the presence of all
competing factions who wish to observe, and in the presence of the 8 or
so
citizens who have been chosen to do the counting.

4. Since there are about 200 to 250 ballots in the average precinct, we
would
need 8 workers per precinct a team of two designated counters to handle
50
to
65 ballots each. Papers and pencils (as opposed to indelible markers
which
are not to be allowed in the counting area) for tabulating the votes
would
be
provided by Board of Elections. The tally sheets to be used by the
official
counters would be printed along with the ballots by the Board of
Elections
so
that the tally sheets match the ballots, as the tally sheets will be the

official evidence, and the official paper trail, signed by each of the
official counters who use them.

5. Ballot Counters for each precinct would be chosen from eligible
voters in
the precinct a week in advance. After the Board of Elections had mailed
a
post card to all eligible voters 30 days before the election date, which

would announce the time and place where the official counters for their
precinct would be chosen (probably exactly one week before election day
at
the same place as where the precinct polling place will be on election
day)
-- all who wanted to be eligible to be an official counter would show up
or
submit their name in affidavit form at the designated time and place, to
be
put in a hat or otherwise drawn by lot. Two citizens would be chosen for

every 50 or so ballots anticipated at that precinct. One of the eight
official counter positions could be reserved for High School Seniors or
College students who are registered to vote, and a separate drawing by
lot
could be conducted for that position. This would be to prepare the next
generation for how votes should be counted, so we never get into this
mess
again.

6. The vote counters should each be paid $50 per hour for their work, so

that
every regular citizen would want to be chosen; this would insure that
normal
citizens, not government workers, would be counting the votes on
election
day
as a rule. Alternative counters would also be chosen in case one of more
of
the counters was sick or unexpectedly detained on election night.

7. At closing time, when the ballots are counted, any citizens would be
able
to observe with video cameras, but a deputy sheriff or national
guardsman
would be there for the sole purpose of maintaining order and, in
general,
quiet during the counting. (To the objection that this is too much like
a
military state, the sheriff who provided the deputies would be up for
election soon, and the national guardsmen are regular citizens, not
professional soldiers.

8. The tally sheets would be signed by the two official counters who did
the
counting with that tally sheet. Then all the tally sheets would be added
up
a
by the precinct leaders designated by the Board of elections AND in the
presence of all those who counted the ballots at that precincts. Then
the
precinct captains AND the 8 or so counters would all sign the master
tally
sheet, which would have the complete results for the entire precinct
Copies
of that tally sheet should be given to the two precinct captains AND all

eight or so counters.

9. Since all the counters and the election night precinct captains would

sign
the results as true and valid for their section of the counting process;

this
would give a legal basis and paper trail upon which the Board of
Elections
director would sign the election 

[CTRL] Why Al Gore battled on: The promise of pardon

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Dateline D.C. - Sunday, December 10, 2000

Why Al Gore battled on: The promise of pardon
WASHINGTON - To many of us, the meaning of the words, "From
now on all will be sweetness and light," has changed from what it
once meant. It has turned into a sarcastic rejoinder, or a funny line
in some Madison Avenue publicity jingle.
So, while some politicians believe that their immediate future is
secure and rosy, those more cautious are saying, "We can't
expect sweetness or light for the next four years."
Bill Clinton would love the promise of sweetness and light, but
would be relieved to settle for a pardon for all his criminal actions.
The word is out in Washington that the desperate bids by Al Gore
to steal the presidency are at the urging of our incumbent president.
The immense costs of Gore's maneuvering and the scorn being
heaped on America from abroad because of the delay in naming a
new president could have been avoided. The legal actions would
never have happened if the vice president had asked Gov. George
W. Bush to give a blanket pardon to the president for any charges,
criminal or civil, related to Bill or Hillary's abuses of power or federal
election law violations. Compensation would have been offered to
victims by a government always generous with taxpayers' money.
Al Gore could have conceded; George Bush would be president-
elect and Slick Willie would be home free!
Then, of course, at his inauguration next month, Gov. Bush would have made a wonderful 
speech. It would have been about healing wounds, national unity and a new beginning. 
Our new president would have concluded by saying
that his action would begin a "new era of sweetness and light."
Don't worry. The real winner of this year's election is moving toward the White House 
with all deliberate speed. Hillary Rodham Clinton started her presidential campaign 
for 2004, no mistake, on the night of Nov. 7, when
Rick Lazio conceded the Senate election in New York State to Hillary.
Day by day as Bush and Gore struggled for the Florida vote, Hillary Clinton's not 
unpleasant visage (nipped, tucked, bleached and with plenty of makeup, of course) 
looked more and more like that of a cat that had eaten, n
ot one, but three canaries! Watching the very self-satisfied senator-elect from New 
York leaving Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd's office in the Capitol after one of 
the rites of passage new senators must undergo, was
truly educational. Sen.-elect Clinton walked with aplomb, back straight, file folder 
in one hand, the other arm swinging. She had a new "defining" hairstyle, and wore her 
trademark dark suit with a dusty red shirt and a g
old chain at her throat and the last few feathers from those luckless canaries hardly 
discernible at the corners of her mouth.
In the next two years, we must expect many new legends amounting to a hagiography of a 
former New York junior senator, who vowed (like Hillary) to serve a full term in the 
U.S. Senate, but was overtaken by presidential as
piration. Everything Robert Kennedy did - his civil rights excursions, his 
anti-corruption campaigns, his this and his that - now will be reframed as Hillary's 
precedents. Furthermore, like "Little Bobby," New York's newe
st senator is not one to let a promise stand in the way.
Hillary certainly shares the same traits as the Kennedys in her ability to cozy up to 
organized crime.
Why ever would we say such a thing? Well, looking at critters that come out from under 
the rocks is important! The most recent example being Rep. Patrick Kennedy's massive 
outpouring of fellowship with Arthur Coia, the er
stwhile leader of the Laborers' International Union of North America and a recently 
convicted felon. Lucky Art Coia enjoyed not only the friendship of New England's mob 
leaders, but also the Kennedy and Clinton clans. May
be "friendship" is the wrong word; perhaps it's more accurately called "an alliance" 
between the White House mob, the Capitol Hill mob and the Rhode Island Mafia.
While strange things occur in politics, any alliance between Hillary Clinton and Al 
Gore is improbable. First, as a future presidential contender, Hillary has become the 
beneficiary of the struggles in Florida between the
 governor of Texas and the vice president. The prospects of both men are damaged for 
the 2004 campaign. For Al Gore, it is the ultimate disaster, and it certainly 
justifies the first lady's dislike of him.
In her eight years as first lady, Hillary fought almost daily with the vice president 
and his staff. It is said that throughout the Clinton presidency, the First Couple 
never once invited the Gores to a private dinner - n
ot even to eat popcorn at presidential film showings.
Throughout all this time with its excitements and scandals, Hillary made sure that the 
unfortunate Al would never make it, without her permission, with her "very own" 
constituencies. This meant that, touching his forelock
 politely, Al had to humbly ask before going to th

[CTRL] Want a Myotron?

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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/970707/7weir.htm


As the military continues its search for nonlethal
weapons, one device that works on contact has already
hit the streets.
It is called the "Pulse Wave Myotron." A sales video
shows it in action. A big, thuggish-looking "criminal"
approaches a well-dressed woman. As he tries to choke
her, she touches him with a white device about the size
of a pack of cigarettes.
He falls to the floor in a fetal position, seemingly
paralyzed but with eyes open, and he does not recover
for minutes.

"Contact with the Myotron," says the narrator, "feels
like millions of tiny needles are sent racing through
the body.
This is a result of scrambling the signals from the
motor cortex region of the brain," he says. "It is
horrible," says William Gunby, CEO of the company that
developed the Myotron. "It is no toy."

The Myotron overrides voluntary--but not
involuntary--muscle movements, so the victim's vital
functions are maintained. Sales are targeted at women,
but law enforcement officers and agencies--including
the Arizona state police and bailiffs with the New York
Supreme Court--have purchased the device, Gunby says.

A special model built for law enforcement, called
the Black Widow, is being tested by the FBI, he says.
"I hope they don't order a lot soon," he adds. "The
Russian government just ordered 100,000 of them, and I
need to replenish my stock."


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[CTRL] Staffers quit firm over attempt to switch electors

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http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=144786

Analysis: Staffers quit firm over attempt to switch electors
Friday, 15 December 2000 17:43 (ET)
Analysis: Staffers quit firm over attempt to switch electors
By PETER ROFF, UPI Political Analyst
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Two top staffers in a Democratic
consulting firm have resigned in a disagreement over a plan to
contact Republican presidential electors in an effort to sway them
to vote for Al Gore when electors cast their ballots on Dec. 18.
 Ben Chao, one of two men who resigned from the firm of Bob
Beckel and Associates, told United Press International Friday that
"Beckel is compiling a report he will send, or may have already
sent, to Republican electors on voting patterns, allegations of fraud
in the election" and other political and demographic information
about the 2000 election.
 His letter will include "an editorial comment from him reminding the
electors they have the option of abstaining from voting in the
Electoral College."
 "I did not think it was in my best interests or those of my clients to
be associated in any way with this activity, so I resigned," Chao
said, adding that it was an amicable separation
 Beckel, who heads the firm and managed Walter Mondale's failed
presidential race in 1984, is well-known as a frequent guest on
political chat shows and as an occasional substitute host on
CNN's Crossfire.
 He did not return telephone calls to his office Friday seeking
comment.
 "He is not doing background checks or opposition research on
electors," Chao said. "The report he is going to send them is the
only communication he has had or will have with electors."
 "I think there are any number of people out there with any number
of schemes.
 "It is probably a lot more talk than it is reality," Chao said. "I think
Beckel is doing something completely different" from what other
people are said to be doing, "and he is working alone."
 Chao says that any efforts to disrupt the electoral process as it
goes forward would be ill-advised. Electors meet in their state
capitals Monday to cast their ballots, which are counted in a joint
session of Congress Jan. 6. The other staffer who resigned is Bud
Jackson.
 "We Democrats need to be talking about what we are about, what
we are for, not what we are against," Chao said.
 Shortly after the Nov. 7 election, United Press International and
other news outlets reported on efforts by Beckel to, using his word,
"kidnap" Republican electors who are not bound by law to
Republican Texas Gov. George W. Bush and to switch them to Al
Gore.
 After a barrage of publicity and with Gore campaign chairman Bill
Daley and recount advisor Warren Christopher publicly disavowing
his effort, Beckel softened his tone, saying he was merely
compiling information to send to some of the Bush electors.
 "The simple fact of it (is) that when the Supreme Court decision
came down, I got the sense that if three electors flip giving Gore the
presidency, he would not accept it," Chao said. "If by some fluke,
Al Gore wins a vote in the House, he would not accept it.
Therefore, I saw no reason to instigate potential trouble with this
report.
 "I urged [Beckel] not to send the report. He told me 'Ben, this is
something I have to do.' At that point, I figured I am a young guy in
the business, I make my living working for political candidates, and
so I quit."
 Chao said he still considers Beckel a close personal friend.
--
Copyright 2000 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.


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[CTRL] Saving General Powell-Jeff Jacoby's Jaundiced J'accuse!

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Houston Review
December 6,
2000


Saving General Powell-
Jeff Jacoby's Jaundiced J'accuse!

by
Derek Copold

The Boston Globe’s Jeff Jacoby has slapped on his war paint,
and now he’s going after General Colin Powell’s scalp. Ensconced
in his comfy New England digs, the vicariously brave columnist
finds Monsieur le Général to be lacking "strategic vision and
innovation." Instead of "thinking outside the box," the Globe’s
token conservative laments, Powell fixates on mundane issues
–like being careful with munitions. Oh, if only Powell would relax
and learn to love the bomb, all would be well according to Jacoby.
It’s his past, Jacoby growls, which condemned the poor general to
a life less visionary. Instead of learning about military operations in
law school like him, Powell foolishly turned to the Army. He
became a "company man," addicted to consensus. How Jacoby
sees any kind of reliance on consensus in the U.S. Army(!) is
something of a mystery he doesn’t bother to share with his
readers. Who knows? Maybe Jacoby gleaned this gem of military
insight while enduring a lecture on civil torts.
No matter, for however he learned to see consensus, he learned it
well. Jacoby sees consensus everywhere. The stench of
consensus was all over Powell’s Gulf War record, he argues,
because Powell opposed military intervention. But how does this
work? In 1991, then-President Bush and then-Secretary of Defense
Dick Cheney supported the war, and so did the American public.
Knowing this, it would seem to us mere mortals that Powell was
arguing against the consensus. Ah! But Jacoby’s a god of the
press, capable of discerning what the consensus on consensus is,
even when no one agrees with him.
In this state of ersatz convention, the Globe’s writer also
condemns Powell’s Gulf War advice, taking for granted that Desert
Storm was a boon to the nation and the world. If this is so, Boston
must be a very happy place. Where else can one believe united
Muslim enmity against the United States is a good thing? Those
cheerful New Englanders are probably overjoyed to see Iranian
influence growing in the region too. Maybe they’re looking to get a
discount on Persian rugs. The bombing of the World Trade Center,
the Khobar towers and the USS Cole, costing over 50 lives?
Clearly, these are strategic gains.
Jacoby also sulks about Powell’s distaste for an abortive 1989
Panamanian coup, which, the columnist believes, would have
prevented the American invasion. Yes, we can see Jacoby’s point.
The general should know better than to be cautious with his men.
He should be like –like Jeff Jacoby –and never let details, such as
lacking firm intelligence, get in his way. So what if an ill-prepared
intervention would have led to casualties as happened in Somalia?
Damn the facts and act, Jacoby and his mates would scream. Got
to think outside the box. Don’t worry, we’ll send the dead soldiers’
moms a nice flag with some pretty flowers.
Powell is something of a Scrooge as well, pouts Jacoby. The
Beantown neo-con complains that during the Reagan
administration the general opposed sending stinger missiles to the
Afghan rebels, now known as the Taliban. Imagine that. Having
trouble giving a deadly accurate weapon to the people who
regularly refer to our fair land as the "Great Satan." Hey, it’s just a
term of affection. Don’t sweat it. Osama bin Laden promised to
return the extras to us one of these days.
What really busts Jacoby’s pencils, though, is the general’s
tiresome reliance on that old, lame couldn’t-find-a-vital-US-interest
excuse, especially when it comes to Bosnia. Jacoby gets so bent
out shape that he loses all sense of geography. Sniffs the snarling
columnist, "A U.S. general who cannot discern a vital Western
interest in stopping genocide in the heart of Europe is not the man
to run the State Department."
How did Bosnia become the "heart of Europe?" Those of us
not intoxicated by our imagined sense of strategic vision look at a
map and see Yugoslavia in the most remote corner of Europe, over
the  Adriatic Sea and above Italy’s boot, cut off from the rest of the
continent by the Alps. Bosnia’s more like the right big toe of
Europe, or maybe even its shin.
It’s said there are people who wear their heart on their sleeve,
but on their shoe?
Well, why not? It’s certainly a fitting place for Jacoby’s heart,
as it’s sure to sink a few feet when George W. Bush is
inaugurated.  Colin Powell’s appointment as Secretary of State is
all but certain. W is going to pick him, and there are zero,
count’em, zero senators eager to be known to history forevermore
as "that white guy who voted against the black war hero." Strange
as it may seem after having endured the Mad Maddy years, the
US’s top diplomat will actually believe in diplomacy. What a
shocking development.
It certainly is for Jacoby. The thought of foreign policy discussions
contemplating a few scant options no

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[CTRL] A 'Modern' Democracy That Can't Count Votes

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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/decision2000/lat_vote001211
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A 'Modern' Democracy That Can't Count Votes
Special Report: What happened in Florida is the rule and not
the exception. A coast-to-coast study by The Times finds a
shoddy system that can only be trusted when the election isn't
close.
By Times Staff Writers
Because ballots can be bought, stolen, miscounted, lost, thrown
out or sent to Denmark, nobody knows with any precision how
many votes go uncounted in American elections.
For weeks, Florida has riveted the nation with a mind-numbing
array of failures: misleading ballots, contradictory counting
standards, discarded votes--19,000 in one county alone. But an
examination by The Times in a dozen states from Washington to
Texas to New York shows that Florida is not the exception. It is
the rule.
State and local officials give priority to curbing crime, filling
potholes and picking up trash. That often leaves elections across
the country underfunded, badly managed, ill equipped and
poorly staffed. Election workers are temporaries, pay is a
pittance, training is brief and voting systems are frequently
obsolete.
"You know why we never paid attention to this until now?" asks
Candy Marendt, co-director of the Indiana Elections Division.
"I'll tell you: because we don't really want to know. We don't
want to know that our democracy isn't really so sacred. . . .
"It can be very ugly."
The examination shows:
* New York City voters use metal lever-action machines so old
they are no longer made, each with 27,000 parts. Similar
machines in Louisiana are vulnerable to rigging with pliers, a
screwdriver, a cigarette lighter and a Q-Tip.
* In Texas, "vote whores" do favors for people in return for their
absentee ballots. Sometimes the canvassers or consultants, as
they prefer to be called, simply buy the ballots. Failing all else,
they steal them from mailboxes.
* Alaska has more registered voters than voting-age people.
Indiana, which encourages voting with sign-ups by mail and at
driver's license bureaus, has jammed its registration lists with
hundreds of thousands of people who should not be on them.
They include felons, the dead and many who have registered
repeatedly.
* In Oregon, a preliminary survey indicates that more than
36,000 of the state's 1.5 million voters may have mailed in
ballots this year that were signed by someone else. Some
students in Wisconsin say they voted as many as four times.
* Louisiana's former election commissioner, Jerry Fowler,
pleaded guilty 14 days ago to a kickback scheme with a voting
machine dealer. Even when relationships are legal, lines of
authority blur. In the state of Washington, dealers program vote
counters. In Arizona, they go as far as to help feed in the ballots.
To many Americans, the right to vote is sacred, a hard-won
legacy of the women's suffrage and civil rights movements.
Memories of those 20th century struggles remain fresh among
voters of the new century. Yet the system that counts their
ballots has fallen into disarray and dysfunction.
The voting system is so troubled that the National Bureau of
Standards, a federal agency now known as the National Institute
of Standards and Technology, said 12 years ago that an election
mainstay, prescored punch-card ballots, should be junked--but
more than 500 counties throughout the nation still use them.
Federal standards for voting equipment took effect in 1990, but
they are not mandatory. A number of states, including Florida,
have written some or all of the standards into their own codes.
But all existing equipment was excepted, meaning that decades-
old systems in Florida and elsewhere are exempt.
America has learned two things from the 2000 election, says
Robert Richie, executive director of the Center for Voting and
Democracy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan election watchdog group in
the Washington suburb of Takoma Park, Md.: "Your vote
certainly counts.
"On the other hand, your vote may not be counted."
Long-Term Neglect
If the problem were out-and-out fraud, many would recognize it
as an object so familiar on the political landscape as to be a
running joke. The late Earl Long used to say that he wanted to
be buried in Louisiana so he could stay politically active.
This year's election did include corruption, but the real problem
was less obvious: In almost innumerable ways, the election
system that counts the votes has suffered from long-term neglect
and mismanagement.
Much of the bumbling is caused by inexperience and lack of
funding. "People ask, 'If we can put a man on the moon, why
can't we have an election system that works?' " says William
Kimberling, a deputy director at the Federal Election
Commission. "I say, 'Yes, and it will cost just about as much.' "
The Board of Elections in New York City, for instance, hired
25,000 temporary workers this year. The job pays $130 for a
day that stretches from before 6 a.m. until after 9 p.m. "Would
yo

[CTRL] Fwd: ALERT: # 193 Even Feds Can See Flaws Of Drug Tests

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Even Feds Can See Flaws Of Drug Tests

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The inherent unfairness of urine testing for illegal drugs is so
obvious that the federal government has finally recognized it. As
reported in the Wall Street Journal this week, many airline
employees were fired for failing drug tests even though test results
were ompletely incorrect.

In the wake of that news, federal officials are altering some
procedures in order to protect the rights of federal employees
required to take urine tests. It's good to see some type of reform,
but this does nothing for people in the private sector and it does not
address all the problems of drug testing. Please write a letter to the
Journal or another paper where this story has appeared to say that
random drug testing is worse than unfair, it's unnecessary and its
one ore attack on personal privacy in the name of the drug war.

WRITE A LETTER TODAY

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US NY: Workers Get Greater Drug Test Protection
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US: US Issues New Rules On Drug-Test Accuracy
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U.S. ISSUES NEW RULES ON DRUG-TEST ACCURACY

WASHINGTON -- The Transportation Department unveiled rules
intended to encourage more accurate drug testing of airline workers
and other transportation employees and to ensure that workers
have an opportunity to challenge results.

But the rules -- which cover 8.5 million transportation workers
nationwide, from truckers to pipeline operators -- don't go as far as
some union officials would like in defining the procedures
companies must follow in administering drug tests. The rules are
also likely to draw fire from private drug-testing labs, whose trade
group has slammed such proposals in the past as an attempted
"public blacklisting" of the industry.

In October, the Department of Health and Human Services said it
was launching inspections of all 65 federally certified drug-testing
labs that test transportation workers after a case involving a Delta
Air Lines pilot raised questions about how samples were validated
at a lab in Kansas. The airline initially fired the pilot and four flight
attendants after LabOne Inc. reported their urine samples had been
"substituted." After the lab's findings were questioned by
pilots-union leaders, the airline offered to reinstate the employees
because of doubts about the results.

Transportation Department officials said the rules weren't related to
the irregularities cited at LabOne or the Department of Health and
Human Services inquiry. They said the rules are an attempt to
tighten standards in areas of the drug-testing industry that have
been loosely regulated until now.

One department official noted that many employers started out
running their own drug-testing programs in house. "Now, many
outsource [drug testing] to third-party providers, and the whole
nature of the way the programs are administered has changed," the
official said. "There wasn't a whole lot written about what these
persons

[CTRL] Unabomber - government op?

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[CTRL] THE AMERICAN LENIN by L. Neil Smith

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http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBVi
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THE AMERICAN LENIN

-- by L. Neil Smith --

It's harder and harder these days to tell a
liberal from a conservative -- given the former
category's increasingly blatant hostility toward
the First Amendment, and the latter's prissy new
disdain for the Second Amendment -- but it's
still easy to tell a liberal from a libertarian.

Just ask about either Amendment.

If what you get back is a spirited defense of
the ideas of this country's Founding Fathers,
what you've got is a libertarian. By shameful
default, libertarians have become America's last
and only reliable stewards of the Bill of Rights.

But if -- and this usually seems a bit more
difficult to most people -- you'd like to know
whether an individual is a libertarian or a
conservative, ask about Abraham Lincoln.

Suppose a woman -- with plenty of personal
faults herself, let that be stipulated --
desired to leave her husband: partly because he
made a regular practice, in order to go out and
get drunk, of stealing money she had earned
herself by raising chickens or taking in
laundry; and partly because he'd already
demonstrated a proclivity for domestic violence
the first time she'd complained about his
stealing.

Now, when he stood in the doorway and beat her
to a bloody pulp to keep her home, would we
memorialize him as a hero? Or would we treat him
like a dangerous lunatic who should be locked
up, if for no other reason, then for trying to
maintain the appearance of a relationship where
there wasn't a relationship any more? What
value, we would ask, does he find in continuing
to possess her in an involuntary association,
when her heart and mind had left him long ago?

History tells us that Lincoln was a politically
ambitious lawyer who eagerly prostituted himself
to northern industrialists who were unwilling
to pay world prices for their raw materials and
who, rather than practice real capitalism,
enlisted brute government force -- "sell to us
at our price or pay a fine that'll put you out
of business" -- for dealing with uncooperative
southern suppliers. That's what an export
tariff's all about. In support of this "noble
principle", when southerners demonstrated
what amounted to no more than token resistance,
Lincoln permitted an internal war to begin that
butchered more Americans than all of this
country's foreign wars -- before or afterward --
rolled into one.

Lincoln saw the introduction of total war on the
American continent -- indiscriminate mass
slaughter and destruction without regard to age,
gender, or combat status of the victims -- and
oversaw the systematic shelling and burning of
entire cities for strategic and tactical
purposes.
For the same purposes, Lincoln declared, rather
late in the war, that black slaves were now free
in the south -- where he had no effective
jurisdiction -- while declaring at the same
time, somewhat more quietly but for the record
nonetheless, that if maintaining slavery could
have won his war for him, he'd have done that,
instead.

The fact is, Lincoln didn't abolish slavery at
all, he nationalized it, imposing income
taxation and military conscription upon what had
been a free country before he took over --
income taxation and military conscription to
which newly "freed" blacks soon found themselves
subjected right alongside newly-enslaved whites.
If the civil war was truly fought against
slavery -- a dubious, "politically correct"
assertion with no historical evidence to back it
up -- then clearly, slavery won.

Lincoln brought secret police to America, along
with the traditional midnight "knock on the
door", illegally suspending the Bill of Rights
and, like the Latin America dictators he
anticipated, "disappearing" thousands in the
north whose only crime was that they disagreed
with him. To finance his crimes against
humanity, Lincoln allowed the printing of
worthless paper money in unprecedented volumes,
ultimately plunging America into a long, grim
depression -- in the south, it lasted half a
century -- he didn't have to live through,
himself.

In the end, Lincoln didn't unite this country --
that can't be done by force -- he divided it
along lines of an unspeakably ugly hatred and
resentment that continue to exist almost a
century and a half after they were drawn. If
Lincoln could have been put on trial in
Nuremburg for war crimes, he'd have received the
same sentence as the highest-ranking Nazis.

If real libertarians ran things, they'd melt all
the Lincoln pennies, shred all the Lincoln
fives, take a wrecking ball to the Lincoln
Memorial, and consider erecting monuments to
John Wilkes Booth. Libertarians know Lincoln as
the worst President America has ever had to
suffer, with Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt,
and Lyndon Johnson running a distant second,
third, and fourth.

Conservatives, on the other hand, adore Lincoln,
publicly admire his methods, and revere him as
the best President America ever had. One
wonders

[CTRL] Castro Regime Pitches a Fit Over HUD Nominee Martinez

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Castro Regime Pitches a Fit Over HUD Nominee Martinez
CNSNews.com
Friday, Dec. 22, 2000
The Castro dictatorship is furious about President-elect Bush's
nomination of Mel Martinez for secretary of Housing and Urban
Development.
The official Cuban "news" agency Prensa Latina said that
Martinez's nomination was a "payback" for "the help [Bush]
received from Cuban Americans in Florida, who helped him defeat
his Democratic rival, Albert Gore."
Prensa Latina described Martinez as "a rabidly anti-Cuban
Republican" and "an unconditional ally of the Bush family" who is
"one of the political hacks in Florida's Cuban communities."
The Cuban "news" agency claimed Bush "stole the election, an act
of fraud that bore the fingerprints of the extreme right of Florida's
Cuban community."
Martinez's nomination, according to Prensa Latina, settles "Bush's
debt of gratitude toward [Florida Cubans], the only Hispanics who
voted in bloc against Gore because the Democratic administration
authorized the return to Cuba of the kidnapped boy Elian
Gonzalez."
Martinez had demanded that the Clinton administration allow the
boy to remain free in the United States.
Martinez arrived in the United States at the age of 15 as a Cuban
exile and lived in foster homes before being reunited with his family.
He is chairman of the Orange County, Fla., Board of
Commissioners. He also served in top positions with the Orlando
Utilities Commission and the Orlando Housing Authority.
Bush said Martinez is a "perfect pick" to run HUD. Martinez said
the nomination fulfills his American dream.
Martinez vowed to work hard to make sure all Americans have
"affordable housing."
Home Builders Pleased
While Martinez's nomination infuriated Cuba, it pleases the
National Association of Home Builders.
NAHB President Robert Mitchell said Thursday, "Given his
experience in dealing with growth management issues and his
inclusive approach to identifying sound smart growth policies, Mel
Martinez is well suited to lead the Department of Housing and
Urban Development."
Mitchell said the appointment sent a clear message that Bush "is
committed to pursuing a housing policy that will promote affordable
homeownership and rental opportunities for all Americans."
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[CTRL] McCain Falls From Boat, Treated

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McCain Falls From Boat, Treated
The Associated Press
Friday, Dec. 22, 2000; 11:06 p.m. EST
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands ––  Sen. John McCain
fell from a charter boat Friday and was treated at a hospital for a
cut on his ear, a Republican Party official said.

"I spoke to him at the hospital on his way out and it didn't appear
to be a very serious injury," said Holland Redfield, a Republican
national committeeman for the U.S. Virgin Islands.

McCain, a Republican from Arizona who lost his party's nomination
to President-elect George W. Bush, is vacationing in the islands.

Redfield said McCain laughed about the accident.

"I told him that he wasn't supposed to come down to the Virgin
Islands and get injured. He was supposed to come down here and
enjoy himself," Redfield said.

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[CTRL] Ga. Man Accused of Threatening Bush

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Ga. Man Accused of Threatening Bush
The Associated Press
Friday, Dec. 22, 2000; 8:59 p.m. EST
ATLANTA ––  The Secret Service on Friday arrested a 37-year-old
man, whose twin brother was executed last August in Texas, for
making a threat against President-elect George W. Bush.

Bruce Roberson of Norcross was arrested after Gwinnett County
police were called to his home Thursday night to quell a domestic
dispute. He told officers he planned to harm the former Texas
governor, "to take him down." Police said Roberson told them Bush
"stole the election and he's not going to get away with it."

U.S. Magistrate E. Clayton Scofield III ordered Roberson be held
without bail until a hearing on Dec. 28.

The twin, Brian Keith Roberson, was executed by injection Aug. 9.
He was convicted in the 1986 stabbing deaths of an elderly couple
that lived near him in Dallas.

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[CTRL] Amsterdam in shock as killer gangs muscle in on tourist haunts

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Amsterdam in shock as killer gangs muscle in on tourist haunts

Arms war:  Police on alert after clashes over weapons
smuggling

Andrew Osborn  in Amsterdam

Saturday  December  23, 2000

When a hooded man wearing a baseball cap strolled into a sushi
bar close to historic Dam Square in Amsterdam and executed
three diners in cold blood, the police knew they had a problem.
Two of the dead were members of the city's increasingly murky
underworld and serious players in the arms smuggling trade which
seems to have found Amsterdam as its nerve centre.
The two Yugoslav nationals had chosen the fashionable Kobe
House restaurant for a Friday night meal with their Dutch
girlfriends. Seated at a communal table sipping their beers and
waiting for their raw fish to be served up, they presented an easy
target.
The assassin picked them off at close range with a powerful
automatic shotgun in a matter of seconds, killing one of the two
men's girlfriends in the process. The other girl escaped with her life.
Though the killer fled, a man was arrested earlier this month and
remains in police custody.
The nature of the killings has sent shockwaves through the city's police force, 
prompting the authorities to embark upon the biggest mafia clampdown Amsterdam has 
seen.
Gangland feuding and tit-for-tat killing is not new to the city - there are around 15 
gang-related deaths every year - but its growing intensity has shocked the police, who 
are especially worried that it is now being done
 so openly.
In the past, gangland figures settled their scores in private in the small hours in 
well-known troublespots far from the   city centre and its tourists. But in recent 
months the old rules of the game no longer seem to app
ly and innocent passers-by have sometimes found themselves caught in the crossfire.
The Kobe House restaurant, now reopened for business and attracting large numbers of 
diners anxious to eat at the same table as the underworld victims, is in the heart of 
the city centre. It is also opposite a police stat
ion.
Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal, the street where it is located, is lined with hotels, 
restaurants, bars and a busy shopping centre. The pavement outside is awash with 
bikes, and trams trundle past narrow gabled houses.
Its central location and the brutal nature of the killing set alarm bells ringing at 
police headquarters. A line was crossed and the gloves have come off.
On the other side of town, sitting in an airy office plastered with sailing 
photographs, one of the men charged with cleaning up the mess, public prosecutor 
Jeroen Steenbrink, is adamant that there is no need to panic. Bu
t Mr Steenbrink does admit that the Kobe House killings and a spate of other killings 
in the last two months, often in broad daylight, represent a radical departure for 
Amsterdam.
"Two things are special about this. The first is that we've had a lot of killings in a 
very short period of time and the second is that they are now taking place on the 
street. We've also begun to find more and more heavy
 weapons - the kind used in wars or by terrorists."
There is growing evidence, he adds, that the city is filling up with mobsters from the 
Balkans who are heavily involved in the illicit arms trade. Many of the exotic weapons 
found in recent   months are of Yugoslav origin
. "More and more Yugoslav people are taking leading positions in organised crime 
gangs. Some of them are bodyguards or hitmen and come only for a few days and do their 
job. Others stay longer. A few years ago, we had lots
 of Russians but that's over. Now we have Yugoslavs."
The Amsterdam police regularly exchange intelligence with their counterparts in 
Germany where a large number of Yugoslav mobsters operate.
A series of bloody internecine Balkan conflicts in the past 10 years has produced a 
steady stream of ready-made gangsters and a flow of cheap weapons. Nor were the Kobe 
House killings an isolated incident.
In September, Jan Femer, a leading underworld figure, was gunned down as he sat in his 
car in the centre of town."He was shot at close range; it was very professional and he 
died immediately," said Mr Steenbrink.
In October, Sam Klepper, a leading figure in the Hell's Angels and supposedly the 
Godfather of the Amsterdam underworld, met his end during a shootout in a crowded 
shopping centre. It was 5 o'clock in the evening and agai
n the action took place opposite a police station. Klepper's bodyguards returned fire 
but were unable to protect their boss.
A few weeks ago a Turkish gangster was also executed at close range in downtown 
Amsterdam, again opposite a police station and again in broad daylight.
According to the authorities, gangland feuding and the battle to retain control of the 
city's complicated network of arms and drug rackets has now become so brutal that even 
the criminals are running scared.
"The criminal gangs are very nervous. S

[CTRL] Wrangle delays Bush decision on Pentagon job boss

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Wrangle delays Bush decision on Pentagon job boss

Special report: the US elections

Martin Kettle  in Washington

Saturday  December  23, 2000

George W Bush has been forced to delay the announcement of his
new defence secretary after acrimonious behind-the-scenes battles
between the Republican party's pragmatic and conservative wings
over who should get the key Pentagon job.
Earlier this week it had appeared that Mr Bush was likely to select
a strong conservative, former Senator Dan Coats of Indiana, to a
post which would include overseeing the introduction of the
controversial missile defence shield programme.
However, since Mr Bush met Mr Coats in Washington on Monday,
the president-elect has come under increasing pressure to appoint
Paul Wolfowitz, a favourite of the Republican foreign policy
establishment and a former Asia expert in the Reagan era.
As a result of the standoff between supporters of the rival
candidates, Mr Bush is looking again at other options, including
Donald Rice, who was secretary of the air force during the Gulf war
in George Bush Sr's administration.
Two other names who have come back into the frame as outsiders
for the Pentagon job   are Richard Armitage, another Reagan and
Bush Sr veteran, and the former Democratic senator Sam Nunn,
who chaired the Senate armed services committee during the Gulf
war.
Pressure on Mr Bush to select Mr Coats has come from
Republican conservatives who admired his campaign in the Senate
in 1993 against Bill Clinton's policy allowing gays to serve in the
US military, and from congressional Republican leaders such as
Senator Trent Lott, who see him as a man committed to high
spending on defence.
Support for Mr Wolfowitz has come from the vice-president-elect,
Dick Cheney, himself a former defence secretary. Mr Wolfowitz
was senior foreign policy adviser to Mr Cheney when he was in
charge of the Pentagon, and has been an important tutor to Mr
Bush on international issues.
Mr Bush is reported to have been disappointed with Mr Coats when
the two men met this week, and to believe that Mr Wolfowitz may
not have the administrative and political clout to control the
Pentagon's perpetually warring factions.
"I would characterise my search as deliberate," Mr Bush   said
when asked about the delay in making the appointment at an
Austin press conference yesterday. "When I make my mind up,
people will know that my decision is not not based upon politics or
who's in favour in some political organisation or not, but it's going to
be based upon what's right for the country."
The battle for the Pentagon job suggests such claims must be
taken with a pinch of salt. Mr Bush is having to perform an
increasingly delicate balancing act as he constructs his
administration.
In Republican terms, he has appointed moderates to key positions
in his foreign policy team so far, with Colin Powell as secretary of
state and Condoleezza Rice as his principal White House adviser.
Party conservatives want the Pentagon job to go to someone from
their wing of the party.
On the domestic front, Mr Bush's balancing act was in evidence
yesterday when he went against predictions and appointed the
former Missouri senator and rightwinger John Ashcroft as his
attorney general, and the New Jersey governor and moderate
Christine Todd Whitman as head of the Environmental Protection
Agency.


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[CTRL] At last, an EO that makes sense

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From: Joe Gillaspie  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat Dec 23, 2000 1:34am
Subject: [Fwd: executive order on health]


THE WHITE HOUSE
Ofice of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
ecember 20, 2000
XECUTIVE ORDER
- - - - - - -
TO PROTECT THE PRIVACY OF PROTECTED HEALTH
INFORMATION IN OVERSIGHT INVESTIGATIONS
By the authority vested in me as President of the United States by
the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is
ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy.
It shall be the policy of the Government of the United States that
law enforcement may not use protected health information
concerning an individual that is discovered during the course of
health oversight activities for unrelated civil, administrative, or
criminal investigations of a non-health oversight matter, except
when the balance of relevant factors weighs clearly in favor of its
use.  That is, protected health information may not be so used
unless the public interest and the need for disclosure clearly
outweigh the potential for injury to the patient, to the physician-
patient relationship, and to the treatment services.  Protecting the
privacy of patients' protected health information promotes trust in
the health care system.  It improves the quality of health care by
fostering an environment in which patients can feel more
comfortable in providing health care professionals with accurate
and detailed information about their personal health.  In order to
provide greater protections to patients' privacy, the Department of
Health and Human Services is issuing final regulations concerning
the confidentiality of individually identifiable health information under
the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
(HIPAA).  HIPAA applies only to "covered entities," such as health
care plans, providers, and clearinghouses.
HIPAA regulations therefore do not apply to other organizations and
individuals that gain access to protected health information,
including Federal officials who gain access to health records during
health oversight activities.
Under the new HIPAA regulations, health oversight investigators
will appropriately have ready access to medical records for
oversight purposes.  Health oversight investigators generally do not
seek access to the medical records of a particular patient, but
instead review large numbers of records to determine whether a
health care provider or organization is violating the law, such as
through fraud against the Medicare system.  Access to many
health records is often necessary in order to gain enough evidence
to detect and bring enforcement actions against fraud in the health
care system.  Stricter rules apply under the HIPAA regulations,
however, when law enforcement officials seek protected health
information in order to investigate criminal activity outside of the
health oversight realm.  In the course of their efforts to protect
the health care system, health oversight investigators may also
uncover evidence of wrongdoing unrelated to the health care
system, such as evidence of criminal conduct by an individual who
has sought health care.  For records containing that evidence, the
issue thus arises whether the information should be available for
law enforcement purposes under the less restrictive oversight rules
or the more restrictive rules that apply to non-oversight criminal
investigations.  A similar issue has arisen in other
circumstances.  Under 18 U.S.C. 3486, an individual's health
records obtained for health oversight purposes pursuant to an
administrative subpoena may not be used against that individual
patient in an unrelated investigation by law enforcement unless a
judicial officer finds good cause.  Under that statute, a judicial
officer determines whether there is good cause by weighing the
public interest and the need for disclosure against the potential for
injury to the patient, to the physician-patient relationship, and to
the treatment services.  It is appropriate to extend limitations on
the use of health information to all situations in which the
government obtains medical records for a health oversight purpose.
 In recognition of the increasing importance of protecting health
information as shown in the medical privacy rule, a higher standard
than exists in 18 U.S.C. 3486 is necessary.  It is, therefore, the
policy of the Government of the United States that law enforcement
may not use protected health information concerning an individual,
discovered during the course of health oversight activities for
unrelated civil, administrative, or criminal investigations, against
that individual except when the balance of relevant factors weighs
clearly in favor of its use.  That is, protected health information may
not be so used unless the public interest and the need for
disclosure clearly outweigh the potential for injury to the
patient, to the physician-pa

[CTRL] IT'S THE FRAUD, STUPID

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http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/18473.htm

IT'S THE FRAUD, STUPID
Wednesday,December 20,2000
By STEPHEN BRONARS & JOHN R. LOTT JR
WITH last month's political turmoil, there is a strong consensus to
reform how we vote. Pollster Frank Luntz reports that well over 50
percent of Americans now support some form of electronic voting,
including voting at home via computers. Yet, our understandable
desire to relegate the distinction between "dimples" and "pregnant
chads" to history books overlooks most of the irregularities in
voting: votes cast illegally.

Without these irregularities, Bush would have carried Florida with at
least a few thousand more votes. For example, a review of voting
rolls by the Miami Herald reveals that more than 5,000 felons, over
75 percent of whom were registered as Democrats, apparently
voted.

News stories from around the nation point to other widespread
problems.

Missouri: In St. Louis, a judge, who was a former aide to House
Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, ordered city polls held open for an
extra three hours. The suit filed by Democrats on behalf of two
voters claimed that they had insufficient time to vote. Yet, one of
these "voters" had died in August 1999, and the other turned out
not to be registered. While city polls were eventually closed down
after an hour, the Missouri gubernatorial and senatorial races might
well have been affected, as the democratic margins of victory were
slim - only 22,000 and 49,000 respectively.

Wisconsin: A Marquette University student newspaper found that
174 out of a 1,000 students surveyed had exploited Wisconsin's
permissive Election Day registration procedures to vote more than
once. Most voted twice (at school and at home by absentee ballot),
though some voted four or more times. In Milwaukee homeless
people were offered cigarettes so that they would go with
Democratic campaign workers to obtain absentee ballots. Gore
won Wisconsin by only 5,396 votes.

Oregon: In that state voting is now exclusively done by mail.
Election officials caught four people posing as election officials and
collecting mail-in ballots that voters were dropping off at the
elections department on Election Day. Similarly, at a Bush rally in
Oregon, voters who tried to hand in their ballots to Republican
officials were apparently deceived into giving them to people not
connected with the campaign. Gore won Oregon by 6,800 votes.

But the biggest problem is bloated voter registration roles. Take
Philadelphia, where people apparently take their civic
responsibilities seriously. In that city, 1,025,259 are registered
voters out of 1,065,455 residents aged 18 and over. As a number of
adults are ineligible to vote (e.g., felons and non-citizens), the
number of registered voters clearly exceeds the number of eligible
people.

These numbers cannot be explained simply by voters being left on
the rolls after they have moved or died. Preliminary numbers show
some precincts had 100 percent of the registered voters voting,
with 99 percent of their votes going for Gore. There is no obvious
explanation for how this is possible.

It is one thing to ensure convenience in registering to vote. It is
quite another to have no real checks on who is registered. The
federal 1993 Motor Voter law allows nonvoters to remain on the
registration rolls for up to four years before they can be removed,
preventing states from regularly checking registration rolls for
nonexistent people. Few jurisdictions check voter identifications
and criminal backgrounds checks are virtually never done. Rules
allowing voters to register on Election Day even prevent verifying
the voter's address.

These problems occur all over America. Some are humorous, such
as the discovery of some Chicagoans successfully registering their
cats to vote. But the numbers don't add up in cities ranging from
Detroit to St. Louis, and many races apparently turned on these
results. Simply making sure that we "count all the votes" - the
mantra repeated constantly over the last month - is not the answer
if those aren't real votes.

Stephen Bronars is chairman of the University of Texas Economics
Department, and John Lott is a senior research scholar at the Yale
University Law School

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[CTRL] Meet Your Enemy

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/sobran/sobran122.html

Meet Your Enemy
by Joseph Sobran
It  has now been 59 years since the Japanese attacked Pearl
Harbor, and the debate continues: Did Franklin Roosevelt know of
the attack in advance and deliberately refrain from informing the
American  commanders in Hawaii?

The controversy has been renewed by Robert B. Stinnett's recent
book, Day of Deceit, which argues that Roosevelt did know and
did withhold the information for the purpose of allowing the United
States to be drawn into the war the great majority of Americans
passionately wanted to stay out of. The interesting thing is that
Stinnett thinks Roosevelt was justified in doing this, on grounds
that only the United States could prevent a German victory in the
war and had a duty to do so.

Critics retort that Stinnett hasn't fully proved his case. Roosevelt
did try to provoke the Germans and Japanese into some military
strike that would inflame American opinion and lead to war, they
agree, but he didn't necessarily know that Pearl Harbor would be
the site of the crucial incident. Besides, he couldn't have known
that Adolf Hitler would be foolish enough to declare war on the
United States a few days later, thereby giving Roosevelt license to
enter the war in Europe.

What nobody now disputes is that Roosevelt lied to the American
public for two years when he continually insisted that he was trying
to keep America out of the war. He was secretly scheming with
Winston Churchill for precisely the opposite purpose, and he told
his advisor Harry Hopkins that he could be impeached if the extent
of his illegal aid to the British were discovered. Roosevelt knew very
well what he was doing.

Apart from being diabolically treacherous, keeping the people in the
dark about the fateful decision to go to war is the antithesis of
everything democracy is supposed to be. Like most demagogues,
Roosevelt flattered the people and pandered to them while holding
them in profound contempt. Those who defend him are forced to
defend lies that are no longer deniable.

The alleged "lesson of Pearl Harbor" is that we must always
be ready for war. But the real lesson is broader: your own
government is your natural enemy. Those in power can't be trusted.
They will take your money, your freedom, and if necessary your life.

That's why we have constitutional safeguards, dividing power to
prevent the sort of one-man rule Roosevelt, like Hitler, Stalin, and
so many others, aspired to. One of the evils of monarchy, as
opposed to the republican form of government envisioned by the
Framers of the U.S. Constitution, was that a king could, by his own
arbitrary will, plunge his nation into war. Roosevelt saw the
Constitution purely as an obstacle to be surmounted.

But the wars of the old kings were minor skirmishes compared with
the total wars waged by modern rulers who don't call themselves
kings. Men like Stalin and Roosevelt didn't wear jeweled crowns
and ermine robes; they styled themselves "men of the people." But
they were far deadlier than any George III or Ivan the Terrible.

Over two centuries our rulers have learned to outflank, ignore, or
destroy many of the limits on their power. They pose a greater
threat to us than the foreign countries and "terrorists" they warn
us against and claim to protect us from. It's not a hypothetical
threat, either: by expanding the taxing power and debasing money,
they have made government a system of organized plunder.

The most successful terrorist organizations on earth are
government tax agencies, which are called revenue "services."
When the government gives things names, you should keep your
sense of irony handy. These "services" serve only the state; they
control the rest of us by force and fear.

There are many evil governments around the world, but they are
chiefly the enemies of their own subjects. By the same token, our
own enemies are not in Baghdad or Tehran or Peking, but in
Washington. That is where the immediate peril to our freedom
resides. Saddam Hussein may be a beast, but you aren't forced to
work for him five months of every year.

Fifty-nine years ago the real enemy of the American people was
not Hitler or Hirohito. It was the man they had elected to a third
term as their president.
December 23, 2000


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our leadership and our government now use
 force to state their cases, and there are too few people who are willing to stand up 
and challenge that, including the media.
Consequently, the very tenets of our liberty are going
to be taken away. --Rep. Tom Coburn

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Re: [CTRL] Meet Your Enemy

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On 23 Dec 2000, at 8:48, Nessie wrote:

> -Caveat Lector-
>
> >What nobody now disputes is thatRoosevelt lied
to the American
> >public
> for two years when he continually insisted
that he was trying to keep
> America out of the war. He was secretly
scheming with Winston Churchill
> for precisely the opposite purpose, and he
told his advisor Harry
> Hopkins that he could be impeached if the
extent of his illegal aid to
> the British were discovered. Roosevelt knew
very well what he was doing.
>
>
> Americans had a moral responsibility to smash
the Nazis, if only to
> undue the misdeeds of our real rulers, the
capitalists. It is highly
> unlikely the Hitler would ever have risen to
power without the direct
> support of American capitalists. For details
read Treason's Peace by
> Armbruster and Facts and Fascism by Seldes.
>
Nessie, my sense of the article is that the quarrrel is with the
means used to accomplish entry into
the war, not the fact that we participated.  I
don't remember the exact number killed at Pearl
Harbor, but I seem to recall it was in the
thousands. In addition the careers and
reputations of two top navy men were
deliberately trashed.
The bottom line remains that
one's government is likely his worst enemy.

On 23 Dec 2000, at 22:48, Cliff Hume wrote:

> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Nessie:

> If you would browse around in some used book store down there in the
> States, you could probably pick up a copy of The Rockefeller File, and
> possibly, None Dare Call it Conspiracy. About 25 or more million of
> the None Dare Call it Conspiracy book have been circulating around the
> USA and Canada since the early sixties and many of the Rockefeller
> File have been floating around just as long.
>
> It might be a good idea to look for a copy of Professor Antony C.
> Sutton's Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler.
>
> snip
>
> . Read
> Professor Carroll Quigley's, Tragedy and Hope - The History of The
> World in Our Time.
>
> Kindest regards.
>
> Cliff Hume.

Thanks for the reading list, Cliff.  I guess I've become somewhat
lazy over the past few years -  with so much information available
on line I tend to forget that sometimes the best way to obtain info
is to make a trek to the local library or used-book store.


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[CTRL] FBI intercept of Cuban radio calls weren't sent on

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http://www.herald.com/content/today/news/national/digdocs/110404
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Published Saturday, December 23, 2000, in the Miami Herald

Messages may have warned of shoot-down
FBI intercept of Cuban radio calls weren't sent on, Clinton advisor
says
Official says he would have kept Brothers to the Rescue planes
from flying.
BY GAIL EPSTEIN NIEVES
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The FBI intercepted clandestine communications between Havana
and its South Florida intelligence agents that forecast a potentially
violent confrontation between Cuba and Brothers to the Rescue
more than a week before the Feb. 24, 1996, shoot-down that killed
four men, newly released documents from the Cuban spy trial show.
But the FBI apparently did not share its knowledge -- significantly
more foreboding and specific than was publicly known before now --
with the White House's top advisors on Cuba, those advisors said
Friday.
``I'm flabbergasted, furious and not at all surprised,'' Richard
Nuccio, President Bill Clinton's Cuba advisor at the time, told The
Herald. ``This is the first I've known that these intercepts were
going on. I never recall getting any information through FBI
channels about Brothers to the Rescue.''
Had Nuccio known the nature of Havana's messages, he said, ``it
would have made my case stronger'' to keep Brothers leader Jose
Basulto out of the air that fateful day -- effectively canceling the
flights and perhaps avoi
ding the shoot-down.
There is no question that U.S. officials had warnings that Cuba might attack the 
Brothers' aircraft. But Nuccio and others have maintained that while they had 
concerns, they had no hard information suggesting a shoot-down
 would occur -- especially over international waters. Previously published reports 
never included evidence as specific as the FBI's intercepted messages.
RADIO BROADCASTS
At issue is a newly declassified series of transcripts of shortwave radio broadcasts 
routinely intercepted by the FBI in late 1995 and early 1996. In them, Havana 
intelligence bosses expressed to their Miami-based agents
increasing frustration with Basulto, who was flying over Cuba dropping anti-Castro 
leaflets.
By Jan. 29, the ``high command'' in Cuba had approved ``Operation Scorpion, so as to 
perfect challenges to counter-revolutionary actions by Brothers to the Rescue,'' said 
a radio message on that date.
Operation Scorpion took shape over the next two weeks, the decoded messages indicate.
Between Feb. 14 and Feb. 24, the shoot-down day, Havana repeatedly warned its 
Miami-based agents who had infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue not to fly on Brothers 
planes between Feb. 24 and Feb. 27.
Nuccio said no one ever told him of those warnings. In fact, he says, the FBI never 
told him that it knew Cuba had infiltrated Brothers to the Rescue.
One message stands out. It allegedly was written by Eduardo Delgado Rodriguez, code 
named ``MX,'' a Cuban general who has headed the Interior Ministry's Directorate of 
Intelligence (DI), Cuban's main foreign espionage age
ncy.
According to prosecutors, the message was directed to double agents Juan Pablo Roque, 
code named ``German,'' and Rene Gonzalez, code named ``Castor.''
Gonzalez is one of five spy suspects on trial in federal court.
It states: ``MX instructs that under no circumstances should German nor Castor fly 
with Brothers to the Rescue or another organization on days 24, 25, 26 and 27, 
coinciding with celebration of Concilio Cubano [a planned n
ational conference of dissident groups in Havana], in order to avoid any incident of 
provocation that they may carry out and our response to it.''
Nuccio said no one ever told him of that message, which he called ``significant'' 
because it appears to foreshadow a violent response -- one that necessitated keeping 
Cuban agents off the planes.
``No one had ever told me, `We have these intercepts going on and here's what these 
guys were planning and clearly they are double agents.' These are all things that 
would have been crucial to me in my job that the FBI ch
ose not to pass along,'' he said.
``Unless they told me, they weren't telling the person who was in the best position to 
judge the significance of that information.''
Jill Stillman, spokeswoman for the FBI in Washington, declined to comment.
``We do not comment on ongoing investigations, including trials,'' she said. ``We will 
not comment on whether we spoke to someone from the White House.''
FBI INFORMATION
It was unclear whether the FBI shared its intelligence information with Nuccio's boss, 
Sandy Berger, who at the time was the No. 2 person at the security council. Berger 
today is Clinton's national security advisor.
``Certainly the White House had no specific information that we were expecting an 
attack on the Brothers to the Rescue that day, but I can't speak for the FBI,'' said 
P.J. Crowley, the White House's National Security Coun
cil spokesman.
Basulto declined to comment Friday. He said he was following a
gag order 

[CTRL] Gore lawyer accused of witness tampering

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http://www.sun-
sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,360148573,00.html

Gore lawyer accused of witness tampering

By NICOLE STERGHOS BROCHU, Sun-Sentinel

Web-posted:   8:43 a.m. Dec. 23, 2000
   A Palm Beach landscaper has filed a Florida Bar complaint
against celebrated litigator David Boies, accusing the New York
lawyer of unprofessional conduct, including attempts to buy off a
witness.
   A Florida Bar attorney confirmed that the Bar has received a
complaint making witness-tampering allegations against Boies but
declined to elaborate, citing the Bar's confidentiality rules.
   "All I can do is confirm the existence of it," said Ken Marvin, who
leads the Bar's Tallahassee office. "This complaint will be treated
like any other."
   Boies, best known as the man who beat Microsoft and even
more recently as the poised defender of Al Gore's court battle for
the presidency, did not return calls for comment Thursday and
Friday.
   Scott Lewis, owner of a landscaping company locked in a bitter
and protracted breach-of-contract lawsuit with a Boies client,
claims that Boies offered to give Gary Scudiero a sprinkler
business in return for his testimony against Lewis and his wife,
Carol.
   At the time, Scudiero was working as supervisor at Nical of Palm
Beach,  the landscaping company that sued Lewis over the broken
agreement to buy Lewis' business for $800,000.
   Scudiero has said in court papers that Boies, whose children are
the beneficiaries of a trust that owns 25 percent of Nical, was
acting as his boss when he told him Scudiero would receive Nical's
irrigation business in return for his testimony.
   Scudiero later quit working for Nical and its owner, Amy Habie,
and three days later, he was named as a co-defendant in a $10
million federal antitrust lawsuit Boies filed on Habie's behalf after
she lost her breach-of-contract lawsuit against Lewis. The federal
lawsuit, which accused the Lewises, Scudiero and two others of
conspiring to ruin Habie's business, eventually was tossed out of
court, as well.
   The allegations are similar to those filed in New York regarding
an estate case on which Boies served as counsel. In that case, the
New York Supreme Court's Departmental Disciplinary Committee
is investigating a complaint that names Boies and four other
lawyers in connection with an offer to pay a witness to testify.
   One of the lawyers named in the New York complaint has said
the offer to pay the witness $25,000 for the first 50 hours and up to
$1 million in bonuses was compensation for her time, not a payoff
for her testimony.
   Boies is also facing possible disciplinary action in a third,
unrelated complaint, this one dealing with the presidential election.
A conservative watchdog group has accused Boies and another
lawyer  of unprofessional conduct by filing what it called an
inaccurate affidavit with two Florida courts.
   As for the recent Florida Bar complaint, Scott and Carol Lewis
refused to comment on the advice of their attorney.
   Their complaint is the latest volley in a four-year battle that has
occupied two courts, 10 judges, 27 attorneys, and thousands and
thousands of pages of testimony and court filings.
   The fight began in 1996, when Habie and Nical bought Scott
Lewis Gardening & Trimming Inc., then stopped paying Lewis after
accusing him of breaching the contract by opening a competing
company.
   Boies served as Habie's lead attorney in both the breach-of-
contract and federal antitrust cases.
   In both cases, judges have ruled that Habie has no case against
the Lewises and others, decisions that have been upheld on appeal.
   The breach-of-contract lawsuit, though, continues to drag on as
Lewis accuses Habie of violating the terms of a settlement. So far,
a judge has imposed two contempt-of-court orders against Habie
and Nical, as well as several sanctions.
   Though Boies does not hold a Florida law license, he has worked
on several Florida cases, including Gore's, after getting special
permission from the courts.
   Marvin said that if the allegations are proved true and discipline is
deemed warranted, sanctions could range from public reprimand to
suspension of Boies' law license.
   Nicole Sterghos Brochu can be reached at nbrochu@sun-
sentinel.com or 561-243-6603.



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[CTRL] And the dead shall vote

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http://www.herald.com/content/today/news/dade/digdocs/110495.ht
m

Unregistered voters cast ballots in Dade
Dead man's vote, scores of others were allowed illegally, Herald
finds
BY MANNY GARCIA AND TOM DUBOCQ
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

SEE ALSO

How this story was done
André Alismé died of cancer in 1997. Yet a vote in his name was
cast in last month's presidential election, one of more than 100
illegal ballots uncovered by The Herald in Miami-Dade County.
Violating rules meant to safeguard the integrity of balloting, Miami-
Dade poll workers allowed scores of unregistered voters -- including
out-of-state residents -- to vote on Nov. 7.
They cast ballots at polling places where they were not listed on
voter rolls. All they had to do was sign sworn statements that they
were eligible to vote.
They were not.
Nobody at the polls checked, as required by county regulations
and state law -- which meant that those illegal ballots counted in
one of the closest presidential races in history.
All of those voters would have been caught before casting ballots
had poll workers followed a simple procedure -- making a phone
call to elections headquarters to check whether each voter was
indeed eligible to vote.
The Herald examined ballots cast at just 138 of Miami-Dade's 617
precincts, finding that 144 ineligible voters had been allowed to sign
in at polls where they were not registered. If that trend holds true in
the rest of Dade, hundreds more illegal ballots may have been cast.
Poll workers overwhelmed by heavy voter turnout struggled with two
competing mandates: sustaining citizens' right to vote while
combating fraud at the ballot box. As a result, the anti-fraud rules
weren't always followed:
 Frustrated poll workers said they were stymied by constant busy
signals when they tried to call an Elections Department hot line to
verify voter registration.
 Some were so poorly trained that they didn't know the verification
requirements. They said they let people vote -- some without any
identification -- based on gut feelings that voters were honest.
 Other poll workers, feeling pressured by long lines and short
tempers, said they ignored the rules or bent them just to avoid ugly
confrontations.
Some poll workers were too trusting, said Miami-Dade Elections
Supervisor David Leahy. ``Some clerks obviously did not follow
procedures,'' Leahy said. ``A lot of what we do is on the honor
system. Clearly you cannot have a deceased person voting.''
The Herald investigation shows that the already controversial
Florida presidential election also was marred by illegal voting.
Those votes also point to a larger problem: The safeguards enacted
after Miami's fraud-tainted 1997 mayoral election didn't keep
cheaters from voting.
Much of the fraud unearthed in 1997 involved absentee balloting,
and most reforms were aimed at stamping out fraudulent mail-in
ballots. The trouble this year came at the polls, where some
precinct workers ignored systematic safeguards.
The vote cast for André Alismé exemplifies what went wrong.
A Haitian immigrant, Alismé registered to vote in Miami-Dade on
Sept. 10, 1996. The registered Democrat cast his first and only
ballot as an American citizen in the presidential election that year.
He was 60 years old when he died the following May. After spotting
his obituary in the newspaper, the Elections Department routinely
verified his death with the Florida Department of Vital Statistics.
Then his registration was canceled, on June 2, 1997.
On Nov. 7, Alismé's name was resurrected at the Korean
Presbyterian Church of Miami, 13700 NE 10th Ave., the polling
place for Precinct 141. Alismé's name was handwritten on Page 65
of the precinct roll, along with an obvious forgery of his signature.
The roll shows that Ballot No. 119451 was cast in Alismé's name.
``No, no, that cannot be! André Alismé is deceased,'' said Elda
Suffret, who lives with Alismé's son at the family's El Portal home.
``There is no other André Alismé in Miami. His sons have different
names, and they are not U.S. citizens. I don't know how this could
happen.''
THE CASE OF AN IMPOSTOR
Dead man's identity is used to cast an illegal vote
Precinct 141 was particularly busy on Election Day -- 855 ballots
were cast there, a 67 percent turnout. Nearly 90 percent of the
presidential vote went for Al Gore.
Despite the heavy turnout, precinct supervisor Thomas Dennard
said he clearly remembers the man who called himself Alismé.
``It was early in the morning, and it was a madhouse,'' Dennard
said. ``He was sitting at the end of a long table waiting to be
helped.''
Like 46 other voters at Precinct 141, the impostor needed
Dennard's approval to cast a ballot because Alismé's name was
not printed on the precinct's voter rolls.
The procedure is clear. Poll workers are supposed to get
identification from the walk-in voter -- preferably a current voter
registration card and photo identification.
If the voter doesn't have that, poll workers are supposed to wri

[CTRL] Age of Consent Conspiracy Theories by Jeremy Sapienza

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/sapienza/sapienza19.html

Age of Consent Conspiracy Theories
by Jeremy Sapienza

I am an adult, as far as the Law is concerned. I can smoke
cigarettes, own property, hold a job, and kill people in foreign
countries for the government. I can sign a lease, own a shotgun,
cast a vote, and am expected to give part of my income to the
bureaucracy. Yes!  I can go hurtling down the pavement in a two
ton chunk of steel, within just feet of other vehicles...but I better not
even think of having a beer!
This has got to be one of the strangest phenomenons in American
culture. The double standard of adulthood. I have always hated the
fact that a "minor" could join the military, possibly putting himself
in harm's way, but could not smoke a cigarette, which contrary to
statist belief isn't nearly a millionth as evil as our imperialist
armed forces.
Since the moral or legislative basis of this phenomenon must be
absolutely ridiculous, and, as I have pointed out in previous
articles, I am magnetically drawn to theories of government-
orchestrated conspiracies, I will point out some things that I have
noticed in relation to the state's widely varying definitions of "minor"
and "adult."
Let's begin with military service. Why is it that the government has
decided that you are old enough, at 17, to have your limbs blown
off ina country whose name you cannot pronounce correctly, and
that you may murder in masses the inhabitants of a particular
country, but you cannot puff on a lit paper tube filled with dried, non-
hallucinogenic leaves? Because their aim is not to protect you from
harm. In this scenario you are one of two objects: a warrior getting
loot and exerting power and influence in foreign countries and
slaughtering anyone who objects, or a producer of wealth which
they will eventually loot from you to finance further mass
extranational murder sprees.  As long as they can put you in one
of the two categories, cannon fodder or host, they are content. If
you refuse to be filed into one of the two groups, you are in danger
of being annihilated by those whose wills you defy. The point is,
you have to be alive for them to feed off you. They don't care so
much if you die in the course of doing their bidding overseas. If
you're doing that, you probably weren't such superstar
entrepreneurial material anyhow.
For the same reason they restrict our smoking and drinking and
drug taking, they also let us drive cars, keep more than half of our
money, hold private property. They can't stop us from doing things
that annoy them slightly, things that they aren't allowed to deny
us. They have to keep us in a state of "unrealization"
so that we continue to produce for them. Exactly like Gene
Callahan's Matrix analogy. they have to keep the majority of us
content so that we ignore or never discover the evil goings-on of the
institutionalized force racket. And they need to allow us some
freedoms also so that they don't kill the economic goose that lays
the golden eggs that live in the nest that the government raids to
perpetuate its existence.
The only reason they let adults drink at all is because it was proven
in the 30s by such free-market heroes as Al Capone that they can't
stop it!
Back in my own personal Dark Ages, when I wasn't such a rabid
libertarian, I used to say that it is unfair for legislation to be enacted
governing the peaceful conduct of kids, because they cannot yet
vote. Now, in my Enlightenment, I realize that the statement is
correct, but its justification is flawed. Laws should not govern
children, or decide their "age of consent." The age at which
children mature varies between individuals. I wanted to drop out of
school and move out at 16. Many kids move out earlier, some stay
with their parents forever.
But the ability to vote has nothing to do with whether one should be
governed by others. None of us are morally beholden to any
mandate of any government or any majority. It is wise to obey
enforceable laws, nonetheless, because the bureaucrats have to
legal right to relieve you of your life.
I remember this every time I drive home from a friend's house after
I've had a beer or two. I'm not a heavy drinker, and I've never
given myself the chance to drive drunk, but Blood Alcohol Content
computers don't determine if you are impaired, just that you have
had a certain amount of spirituous beverage. Same goes for the
jack-booted thugs we call "police." And if I'm caught with any liquor
on my breath, regardless of the amount, I'll be in big trouble with
Mr. Thug and his buddies because I'm under the federally
mandated drinking age.
It's a good thing that I completely ignored the laws governing
nightclub and bar entry when I was younger. I started going out and
partying when I was 15. Now, close to my 21st birthday, it's all out
of my system, and I'm a productive member of society, instead of
living off my parent's (or the government's) financial teat and just
beginning to drink

Re: [CTRL] Does Patriotism Equal 'Hate Site'?Wiesenthal Center Names 3,000 'Offenders' Incl

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On 25 Dec 2000, at 23:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Asked what criteria were used to determine what
> constitutes a "hate website," Wiesenthal Center spokesman Rick Eaton
> responded, "That's not a question I can give you an answer to."
>
> Eaton admitted "there were some sites that should not have been listed
> on there," and said there was the possibility some sites were listed
> by accident. He added that many sites not appearing to be problematic
> now "may have had material that qualified them" as hate sites at the
> time the list was created, though he further admits he does not have
> any proof to back up his claim. Eaton said the revised list will be
> "substantially different" from the one removed this fall.
>
> "We are confident when the new list comes out, nobody will be
> offended," Eaton told WND.
>
> Eaton's tone was very different from the one used by Rabbi Abraham
> Cooper, associate dean of the Los Angeles-based center. Cooper told
> WND that in all cases, the center "followed the cheese of these
> extremist groups" and was led to believe the websites are
> hate-motivated. Cooper also said he was "not in a position to answer"
> questions related to criteria used to identify cyberhate.
>
>

It appears that this organization has become so much like what it
was founded to fight against that there is no discernible difference
between them.

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the most dangerous places in America are p
laces where strict gun-control laws provide assurance to violent criminals that their 
victims will not be able to defend themse
lves. --Thomas Sowell

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[CTRL] Mass shooting in Massachusetts

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The following was snipped from my inbox.  Has anyone else
heard anything about this?

Dearest Friends,

Right now, I am watching news coverage of a "mass
shooting" in Wakefield,
Massachusetts.  It struck me as very strange that there
are reports of BATF
being involved, and one of the first things I noticed
were the "police"
dressed from head to toe in black, with black helmets,
black face masks, and
the letters:  S.O.U. on the backs of their black
uniforms.  Does anyone have
any clue what S.O.U. might mean?

These shootings are a strange phenomenon indeed.  What
do you folks think?
Whatever happened to the traditional police uniforms
(in other words, why do
they look like military instead of everyday, average
law enforcement
officers?)  Just some food for thought.

God bless,
(Name withheld)


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[CTRL] Russian soldiers recruited on streets

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 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,24-58308,00.html

TUESDAY DECEMBER 26 2000
Russian soldiers recruited on streets
FROM ALICE LAGNADO IN MOSCOW
THE Russian Army is rounding up hundreds of young men in the
street in a desperate attempt to fulfil quotas for its conscript forces.
The Army must recruit conscripts by the new year, but draft-
dodging in Moscow is so rampant that it has resorted to arresting
men at random. Only 22 per cent of young men in Moscow sign up
for national service, which is feared because of rampant bullying
and the war in Chechnya, which kills about 30 soldiers a week.

At 9am last Friday Artyom Fyodorov, 23, a journalist and law
student, set off for work from his home in central Moscow. When
he arrived at his local underground station he was stopped by a
policeman. He was taken to the draft office where he was told he
would serve in a base outside Moscow.

His mother Yevgenia was at home when she got the call. “My child
has been kidnapped. Don’t any of these people think about how the
mothers feel?” Mr Fyodorov was not against serving in the army —
if he had been a healthy, strong young man — but he contracted
hepatitis B three years ago and since then has suffered stomach
problems, so expected to fail the medical check. But the army told
him that he was “fit to serve with limitations” meaning that he will
be exempt from divisions such as the paratroopers.

Elena Stefanovskaya, of the Soldiers’ Mothers’ Committee, said:
“There has been a concerted action for the past week to fulfil
quotas by December 31. Boys are taken in the metro, at home or
in the street.”
Copyright 2000 Times Newspapers Ltd.

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suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
- G. K. Chesterton, ILN, 10/4/19

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Re: [CTRL] License to Kill

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On 27 Dec 2000, at 22:58, BB wrote:

> You people are all so busy arguing ridiculous points, and
> feeling so smug as to how you can each of you poke each
> other in the eye, that you are very far afield of the intent of the
> article, which was simply to point out that there is black racism and
> a refusal on the part of the media to acknowledge it.
>

Thank you.  I was just about to post a similar thought.

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Re: [CTRL] Shalala won't implement prescription drug law

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On 27 Dec 2000, at 22:11, Amelia wrote:

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>
>
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new law aimed at cutting prescription drug prices
> by allowing them to be reimported from Canada won't be implemented by
> Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala.
>
> In a letter Tuesday to President Clinton, Shalala said the law had
> "serious flaws and loopholes."
>
> Those concerns "make it impossible for me to demonstrate that it is
> safe and cost effective," she wrote. "As such, I cannot sanction the
> allocation of taxpayer dollars to implement such a system."
>

Looks like the pharmaceuticals have another big fish in their pocket.

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[CTRL] Fwd: Legal Scholars Say Government Regs. Led To Boston Shootings

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Legal Scholars Say Government Regs. Led to Boston Shootings
By Sierra Times - Posted: 12.29.00

Government’s Warrantless Search & Attempted Warrantless
Seizure Leads to Shooting Rampage; Boston Again the Scene of
Tax Revolt; Legal Scholar Says Government Evasion of
Constitutional Requirements for Tax Searches and Seizures Led to
Killings

Reports indicate an employee of a Boston Internet consulting firm
shot and killed seven co-workers who apparently participated in
plans to honor warrantless government searches for and seizures
of the employee’s earnings, accrued and future.

The law, constitutional and statutory, requires a Fourth Amendment
warrant, executive or judicial, for tax searches and seizures, but the
IRS has routinely operated without them, provoking an outcry,
producing litigation, and fomenting office stress that has now
resulted in violence. "Without a valid warrant, no legally valid proof
of a tax debt exists," said Virginia L. Cropsey, J.D., a graduate of
Wayne State University School of Law and the University of
Michigan, and author of an Internet newsletter and new website
that expose the legal insufficiency of IRS notices of levy.

"The Fourth Amendment accords protection to a person’s "effects,"
Cropsey says, "and that includes a person’s accounts receivable."
The Fourth Amendment was inspired by the 1761 speech in
Boston against the writs of assistance by James Otis, an attorney
engaged by the merchants of Boston. British issuance of the writs
of assistance, which are similar to the current IRS "process" led to
the Revolutionary War. A young John Adams, later second
President of the United States, heard the Otis speech and was
inspired to draft a provision, Article XIV, for the 1780
Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, which later became the
basic language for the Fourth Amendment, Cropsey says. At the
time of the construction of the Bill of Rights, Richard Henry Lee,
Senator from Virginia, and an ancestor of Robert E. Lee, saw to it
the word "effects" rather than "possessions" was used in the
Fourth Amendment, so that accounts receivable, which would
include the apparent shooter, Michael McDermott’s earnings, have
Fourth Amendment protection.

This means, and the 4th and 5th Amendment pre-judgment seizure
case law shows, that a warrant is required, according to Cropsey.
Additionally, wages are special property for purposes of pre-
judgment seizure under the Supreme Court decision in Sniadach v.
Family Finance Corp. You can’t seize property for taxes in this
country pre-judgment without a sworn statement, says Cropsey.
"Certainly the government should have to swear the debt is owed
and demonstrate probable cause for these searches and seizures.
The IRS has no business writing your employer about you and
interfering with your employment relations without proper
authorization."


Recently Cropsey showed that the Fourth Amendment’s "no
warrants" clause was intended by the Framers to require at a
minimum, an executive branch warrant for tax seizures. “I call it ‘all
about adjectives,’” said Cropsey. “I read the case law more
carefully than most attorneys, and noted that the Supreme Court
said in its 1977 opinion in GM Leasing that a judicial warrant was
necessary for entry into private premises for tax seizures. I knew
from the plain language of the Fourth Amendment, and from
research I did on the 1762 case of Entick v. Carrington & Three
Other King’s Messengers, a British sedition case, and from other
research, that at least an executive branch warrant was necessary
for other tax seizures. I’m a bit like the kid in “6th Sense” – I don’t
see dead people, but I see something the others didn’t due to my
careful reading of the Fourth Amendment’s 'no warrants' clause – I
see executive branch warrants."

These executive branch warrants were held to be required for federal
tax seizures. Pre-1954 case law exposed in a 1998 opinion in
Williams v. Boulder Dam Credit Union by Clark County Nevada
Magistrate Victor Miller held the executive branch warrant is
required, Cropsey says.  Cases concerning the issue of the
warrant requirement are just beginning to make their way through
the courts, she says. In order to avoid a Fourth Amendment test,
the government does not cross the line and technically seize the
property; it has not been using the language obfuscated case law
says is required for seizure – "is seized and levied upon,"
according to Cropsey, who says she spent over 1000 hours
researching the issue and who has 60 pages briefed on the subject
in the Michigan Court of Appeals, as well as on the question of
whether private sector employers are required to withhold wages
without a signed wage withholding order in effect.

"They used quite a few standard legal tricks. It was a textbook case
of stealthy encroachment." The levy situation leaves banks and
employers subject to suit on contracts, and without a defense that
they honored a levy under 26 U.S.C. 6331 & 6332 since no levy

[CTRL] What we can do after Wakefield

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http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/363/oped/What_we_can_do_aft
er_Wakefield+.shtml

THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING

What we can do after Wakefield

By John R. Lott Jr., 12/28/2000

WITH A GUNMAN'S  attack that killed seven people at a Wakefield
Internet company  on Tuesday, the question is simple: What can
be done to stop similar shootings in the future?
For many the answer is more government regulation.  The creation
of gun-free zones, waiting periods, background checks, and safe
storage regulations are just a few of the laws typically proposed.
Yet, Massachusetts already has these restrictions and  many
more.
Surely the intentions of these laws are noble. The goal of
preventing concealed handguns or creating gun-free zones is to
protect people.  But what might appear to be the most obvious
policy may actually cost lives.
When  gun control laws are passed, it is law-abiding citizens, not
would-be criminals, who obey them. Unfortunately, the police
cannot be everywhere, so these laws risk creating situations in
which the good guys cannot defend themselves from the bad ones.
This point was driven home to me when I received an e-mail from a
friend recently, telling me that he had just dropped off his kids at a
public school and outside the school was a sign that said ''This is a
gun-free  zone.'' I couldn't help think, if I put up a sign on my home
that said, ''This home is a gun-free zone,'' would it make it more
attractive or less attractive to criminals entering my home and
attacking  myself or my family?
While horrible crimes like the one in Wakefield get the attention
they deserve,  rarely mentioned are the many attacks that are
stopped by citizens who are able to defend themselves.  About two
million times a year people use guns defensively.  Few realize that
some of the public school shootings were stopped by citizens with
guns.
For example, in the first public shooting spree at a high school, in
Pearl, Miss., in October 1997 that left two dead, an assistant
principal retrieved  a gun from his car and physically immobilized
the shooter for more than five  minutes before police arrived.
A  school-related shooting in Edinboro, Pa., in spring 1998 that left
one dead, was stopped after a bystander pointed a shotgun at the
shooter when he started to reload his gun. The police did not arrive
for another 11 minutes.
But anecdotal stories cannot resolve this debate.  A study at the
University of Chicago by  a colleague  and myself compiled data on
all of the multiple-victim public shootings that occurred in the
United States from 1977 to 1999. Included were incidents in which
at least two people were killed or injured in a public place; to focus
on the type of shooting seen in Wakefield, we excluded gang wars
or shootings that were the byproduct of another crime,  such as
robbery.  The United States averaged more than 20 such shootings
annually, with an average of 1.5 people killed and 2.5 wounded in
each one.
So what can stop these attacks? We have examined a range of
different gun laws, such as waiting periods, as well the frequency
and level of punishment.   However, while arrest and conviction
rates, prison sentences, and the death penalty reduce murders
generally, they do not consistently deter public shootings.
The reason is simple: Those who commit these crimes usually die.
 They are either killed in the attack or commit suicide.  The normal
penalties rarely apply.
To be effective, policies must deal with what motivates these
criminals, which is to kill and injure as many people as possible.
Some appear to do it for the publicity, which is itself related to the
amount of harm they inflict.
The best way to stop these attacks is to enact policies that can
limit the carnage. We found only one policy that effectively
accomplishes  this: the passage of right-to-carry laws.
With Michigan's adoption this month, 32 states now give adults the
right to carry concealed handguns as long as they do not have a
criminal record or a history of significant mental illness. When
states passed such  laws during the 23 years we studied, the
number of multiple-victim public shootings declined by a dramatic
67 percent. Deaths and injuries from these  shootings fell on
average by 78 percent.
To the extent that attacks still occur in states after these laws are
enacted, they disproportionately occur in areas in which concealed
handguns are forbidden. The people who get these permits are
extremely law-abiding and rarely lose their permits for any reason.
Without letting law-abiding citizens  defend themselves, we risk
leaving victims as sitting ducks.
John R. Lott Jr. is a senior research scholar at Yale University Law
School and the author of ''More Guns, Less Crime.''
This story ran on page A15 of the Boston Globe on 12/28/2000.

© Copyright 2000 Globe Newspaper Company.


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[CTRL] New rules on the horizon

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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulcraigroberts/pcr20001227.
shtml

December 27, 2000

New rules on the horizon

2001 arrives without the manned
 space flights to Jupiter and Saturn envisioned by Stanley Kubrick
and Arthur C. Clarke. The U.S. space program was a casualty of
the end of the Cold War. Could the next casualty be American
constitutional democracy now that we no longer have a foreign
opponent to unify us?

The last election revealed a country split not only geographically
between urbanized areas with large minority populations and the
rest of the country, but also between those committed to the
constitutional process and those who believe the ends justify the
means.

This fissure is not a split over policy issues, such as whether to
privatize Social Security, cut tax rates or build a missile defense
system. The country is divided by the Democrats' claim that their
party's causes are so moral as to place them above the
Constitution. When one party sees its causes so imbued with
morality as to justify any action to retain power, constitutionalism
is dead.

Much has been written about the challenges to the Florida vote,
and readers grew tired of it before the real lesson was learned. The
important point is not that the judiciary decided the presidential
election. The vital fact is that the Supreme Court had to deal with
the astonishing claim that the election of Al Gore was so important
that Democrats were entitled to revote already cast ballots until
Gore won.

Democrats demanded a revote, not in counties that Gore lost but in
counties he carried. In the close election Democrats saw an
opportunity to reinterpret spoiled ballots and ballots that did not
mark a choice for president as votes for Al Gore. There were similar
ballots in every county in the United States, but the revote game
was only to be played by Democrats in three Florida counties.
There was no evidence of vote fraud, except on the part of
Democrats. The attempt to revote was clearly a violation of Florida
law and the U.S. Constitution. To deflect attention from this highly
visible exercise in vote fraud, Democrats conducted a defamatory
campaign, alleging that blacks had been intimidated (in counties
controlled by Democrats) and that ballots (designed by Democrats)
were deceptive and confused the elderly.

In a country with a nonpartisan media, such a visible attempt to
steal an election would have been mercilessly exposed. But
Democrats knew the media would serve as the propaganda arm of
their party. Eight years of Bill Clinton have made clear that the
media judges politicians by their stand on "the issues," not by their
behavior. A stolen election is OK if it is stolen for the right causes.
Consequently, the media served as an amplifier for lies and
defamation. One result is that blacks believe they were
disenfranchised despite hard evidence that a larger percentage of
blacks voted than whites.

Certain of the media's support, Democrats turned for help to the
Democratic Florida Supreme Court. This court actively participated
in the vote fraud. Without authority, cause or legal reason, the
court ignored the state's election rules and U.S. Constitution to
order a continuation of the revote. The Florida Supreme Court
agreed with the media that Gore's election justified the raw use of
power.

Although checked at the last moment by the U.S. Supreme Court,
this blatant use of power to steal an election evoked no shame or
remorse in Democrats. Democrats have passed beyond that.
Democrats are liberated from constitutional process by the sanctity
of their ends. This is the important change.

The Democrats almost succeeded in stealing the election.
Republicans found themselves so much on the defensive that they
were afraid to call vote fraud by its own name. Instead, Republicans
argued the legal and constitutional case for the existing rules and
were accused of using technicalities to frustrate the will of the
people.

In a word, Republicans uncharacteristically stood up to the
Democrats' power play but acquiesced in the pretense that the
issue to be resolved was contending interpretations of election
rules. Republicans lacked the confidence and moral strength to
stand up to Democrats on the issue of vote fraud.

Republican timidity showed itself again immediately following the
party's rescue by the Supreme Court. A bill to permit military
personnel to vote where stationed passed the House by a lopsided
vote of 297 to 114. But Senate Republicans deferred to Democrats'
objections and refused to bring up the bill for a vote. Once again,
Republicans protected their enemies and took no action to counter
Democratic propaganda about disenfranchised voters.

This bodes ill for the future. Unless Republicans can secure a
larger percentage of the white vote, defamatory post-election
campaigns, lawyers and judges will determine future election
outcomes. For Democrats, power has become a divine right
justified by the superiority 

[CTRL] Wounded Knee - Chilling Modern Parallels

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The 110th Anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre
Some Chilling Modern Parallels
by  S. Leon Felkins, Major, US Army (Retired)

While it is a popular theme of books and movies, many of us are
quite tired of hearing about the evils of the past. After all "it didn't
happen on my watch" as we used to say in the Navy. Not only did
I have nothing to do with these atrocities, there is nothing I can
do about it now. Sure the President can issue official apologies
and token compensations but these actions fall far short of curing
the ills of the past. They are essentially useless if not harmful.

So, that is not the reason for this report. No, there is a far more
important reason to take time to note the 110th anniversary of the
Wounded Knee Massacre and to once again examine what
happened on that very cold 29th day of December, 1890, on
Wounded Knee creek in South Dakota. That reason is that the
specific activities and causes of that tragedy are not as far removed
from some recent events in the U.S. Given that, let us consider
once again Santayana's famous quote:

 "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to
  repeat it."
   ~ from George Santayana's The Life of Reason

What Actually Happened?

I will not go into a detailed discussion of the events surrounding
the massacre of these "Native Americans", a.k.a. "Indians",[Note
1] as they are covered extensively elsewhere. The web
page of the Library Of Congress introduces the subject this way:

"On December 29, 1890 at Wounded Knee Creek, on the Pine
Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, some 500 soldiers of the United
States Seventh Cavalry opened fire on approximately 350 Lakota
(Sioux) Indians of Chief Big Foot's Miniconjou band. At the end of
the confrontation, between 150 and 300 Sioux men, women, and
children, including Chief Big Foot, were dead. This event marked
the end of Lakota resistance until the 1970s. Apart from the few
minor skirmishes that followed, the Wounded Knee massacre
ended the Indian Wars."

Further details will be provided below as necessary to support my
major points. However, if you would like to examine the event in
further details now, here are some of the better links on the web:

 - A brief but informative introduction by PBS is here.
   The PBS site has a few photographs, including a picture
   of Soldiers posing with three of the four Hotchkiss Guns used
 against the Lakota at Wounded Knee.

 -Massacre At Wounded Knee, 1890 (includes eye-witness
accounts from both sides as well as pictures). A photo of mass
burial is here.

  -Wounded Knee Home Page (includes several links to related
issues).

   -THE MEDALS OF WOUNDED KNEE (about the issue of the
awarding of the Medals of Honor).

  -Doctor Sally Wagner Testifies At Wounded Knee Hearings
   1890

  -Massacre at Wounded Knee (includes references to books and
videos).

Events and Issues Closely Related to Concerns We Have Today

In reading the various documented reports of this incident, some
statements are eerily close to events in our modern times.
Following is a list of the major ones.

The Cruel Blunders and Inaction of our Government – Including
Congress

Massive bureaucracy and Congressional inaction was a serious
and often disastrous problem then as it is today. By a series of
shenanigans and bogus treaties, the Indians had been
progressively relieved of their land and pushed into relatively small
reservations. This greatly reduced their hunting range while at the
same time, the animals to hunt were becoming scarcer and
scarcer (the buffalo had been exterminated by the white settlers
and government hired hunters). The efforts of the natives at farming
in these barren "Badlands" was a total failure. For the winter of '90,
they were facing starvation and death by freezing as they had
little food or clothing – both of which were promised by
Congress and were part of the terms of the treaties.

Congress was not giving the problem much attention. They were
taking as long to approve the budget then as they do today --
except then thousands of people were suffering and dying. You can
imagine how serious it is for the Lakotas to be without food and
clothing in the blizzards of the Dakotas while Congress continued
to debate the budget in the nicely heated Washington Capitol
building. The desperate situation is best described by a message
General Miles sent to his superior in Washington on December 19,
pleading for action by Congress (from Dr. Sally Wagner's
Testimony).

"The difficult Indian problem cannot be solved permanently at
this end of the line. It requires the fulfillment of Congress of
 the treaty obligations which the Indians were entreated and
 coerced into signing. They signed away a valuable portion of
 their reservation, and it is now occupied by white people, for
 which they have received nothing. They understood that ample
 provision would be made for their support; ins

Re: [CTRL] Remembering President Clinton

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On 29 Dec 2000, at 19:01, Bill Richer wrote:

> -Caveat Lector-
>
>
> No question that Bill Clinton had brains and charisma and a big
> opportunity to make this country a better place. For lack of a better
> phrase, he blew it.
>
>

I think this will be his legacy:  He exposed the hypocrisy of the
radical feminists.

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the head. I saw my president get head. -Elon Gold

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[CTRL] Virgin, Utah: Where every household must have a gun

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http://www.denverpost.com/news/news1226g.htm

Virgin, Utah: Where every household must have a gun
By Susan Greene
Denver Post National Writer

Dec. 26, 2000- VIRGIN, Utah - Darcey Spendlove credits her
peace of mind to the 13 guns she and her husband keep at their
ranch home in this remote southwestern Utah hamlet.

That's why the 25-year-old councilwoman supported an ordinance
in June requiring all townsfolk to own firearms so they, too, can
enjoy that sense of safety.

"It's like a security blanket that I could whip out and use whenever I
need to," Spendlove said of her favorite gun, the .243-caliber rifle
her parents gave her on her 16th birthday. "Everyone should
experience the freedom of knowing you can protect yourself. It's
probably the greatest right we have as Americans."

The ordinance states, "In order to provide for and protect the safety,
security and general welfare of the town and its inhabitants, every
household residing in the Virgin Town limits is required to maintain
a firearm, together with ammunition therefor."

The measure has brought worldwide attention to this 318-resident
community, which previously was known mainly for the locally
made beef jerky sold along state Highway 9 - the road to Zion
National Park.

Inspiration for the ordinance stemmed partly from the April 1999
shootings at Columbine High School, which triggered a national
debate about firearm sales and moves in several states toward
stricter background checks on gun buyers. Mayor Jay Lee,
Spendlove's colleague on the town council, bristled at such gun-
control efforts and decided, at least in Virgin, it was time to take
action.

"I just couldn't sit back and watch the government and the United
Nations take away our freedom to protect ourselves from One
World Order," said Lee, a hardware store manager, scoutmaster
and father of eight. "I bet if I were to go to each of those Columbine
parents, they would say they wished a fast-acting teacher with a
gun was there to protect their kids."

Lee modeled his bill after the only other measure of its kind in the
nation - an 18-year-old ordinance in Kennesaw, Ga., where city
officials boast that residential burglaries have dropped 89 percent.
Virgin's version exempts felons, residents bound by restraining
orders, those with physical and mental disabilities and anyone who
refuses to own a gun for religious and philosophical reasons.
Residents who can't afford guns also are exempt.
In other words, the ordinance isn't really enforceable.

"I put in the word "required' because it wouldn't be an ordinance
without it," Lee said. "But I guess we can't force people to comply.
It's not like we're out penalizing people who don't own guns."

The Virgin native, who grew up shooting rabbits from the back of
his dad's pickup truck, says guns are a part of the town's culture -
a way of life threatened by gun control. Further, he notes that local
anti-government sentiment has grown with recent federal
requirements for desert tortoise conservation and with the abrupt
ban on mining and grazing caused by President Clinton's 1996
designation of the nearby Grand Staircase-Escalante National
Monument.

And so, Lee says, his ordinance is more a political statement than
a call to arms.

"The day is coming when the government could come and take our
firearms. This way, we can hold up our ordinance and say we're
required by law to have guns and there's nothing the state or feds
can do about it," the mayor said.

Lee's Second Amendment fervor persuaded Spendlove and two
other council members to support his ordinance.

"I've never been a fanatic about guns, but Mayor Lee really got me
thinking," Spendlove said.

Councilman Kenneth Cornelius cast the lone dissenting vote on
grounds that the ordinance "has no teeth and is probably illegal."
Cornelius worries the measure will lure "gun freaks" to Virgin.
Since it took effect six months ago, he said the town clerk has
"received e-mails and inquiries from people who want to move here
for gun reasons."

"It's slightly embarrassing," he said of the ordinance. "I don't want
to become a mecca, a haven for gun nuts. This town is really
opening itself up for a lot of trouble by trying to do this. It scares
me."

Cornelius, who works for a nearby building contractor, lambasted
Lee for spreading paranoia throughout town.

"It's kind of scary (to have) a government entity worrying about a
government entity coming to take you over," he said. "The mayor
gets off on some things like that and sometimes go astray."
Lee, for his part, dismissed his colleague's barbs as "nonsense."
He noted that Cornelius was the subject of Virgin's last legal run-in -
 a domestic dispute for which the councilman pleaded guilty to
destroying property.

"My wife and I were having problems," Cornelius acknowledged. "I
guess in a small town like this, everybody knows everybody else's
business."



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[CTRL] Excerpt from Clinton Interview on the NRA with Dan Rather on 18 Dec 2000

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>>Rather: The National Rifle Association.
>>
>>Clinton: (Pause) An effective adversary, but I think on balance, a
negative force.
>>
>>Rather: Can -
>>
>>Clinton: B - because they're trying to convince their people that
what we're trying - that we're trying to do something we're not trying
to do.
>>
>>Rather: Which is?
>>
>>Clinton: Take everybody's guns away. You know, that's why I - I
like giving speeches - in debate with 'em. Because I always tell
everybody I talk to, if you missed a day in the deer woods or a
single sport shooting contest, you ought to vote against me and
our whole crowd. But if you didn't, they must be telling you
something that's not true here. Let's look at what we're really for.
>>
>>So I - I - I think the National - the NRA did a lot of good things in
Arkansas when I was there. Partner education programs. They
helped me resolve some property disputes. They really did some
good things. But now they're just into terrifying people and building
their membership and raising money. And - and, you know, it's just
not true we're trying to take your guns away. And it's just not true
that we've interfered with legitimate hunters and sports people. And
it's just not true that we've done enough in America to protect from
the dangers of criminals and kids having guns.
>>
>>So - but, you got to give it to 'em, they've done a good job. They -
 they probably had more to do with anyone (sic) else in the fact we
didn't win the House this time. And they hurt Al Gore.
>>

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[CTRL] The War on Drugs Is a War on Liberty

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The War on Drugs Is a War on Liberty
by Scott Wilkerson

William S. Burroughs, the visionary novelist and social critic,
warned that the United States government’s war on drugs was
nothing more than the pretext for establishing in our culture a vast
police apparatus that would forever supercede all our claims to
privacy and property.

Nowhere is this nightmarish scenario more visibly prescient than
in the case of actor Robert Downey Jr.

We all remember the details. The ghastly spectacle of Al Gore’s
Thanksgiving voting piracy was briefly punctuated by news of how
the police stormed into Downey’s Palm Springs hotel room on an
anonymous tip that he was inside with illegal narcotics and a gun,
two things the government would love to keep from all citizens.

Indeed, they found him with cocaine, his drug of choice, and some
other neuro-morphic delights. His mug shot was, of course,
splayed endlessly across the entertainment news, but quickly
coopted by the "important" news segments as evidence of the
increasing dissolution of Hollywood and further proof that white
males are, after all, the real problem in America.

The prosecutor from the District Attorney’s office in his case now
reports that it is very likely a deal between the "authorities"
and Downey’s defense will result in another engagement with a
rehabilitation center instead of prison. Even the system recognizes
that it is absurd to pursue non-violent drug offenders as though they
were rapists or murderers or secessionists.

Strangely, the same Hollywood Left that loves Downey’s oblique
sexuality and his campy wit, that has given him a splendid guest
starring spot on Ally McBoring, that has recognized his comic
genius with a Golden Globe nomination, and has rightly ignored the
"authorities’" hysterical demands for his head did not publicly
condemn the gratuitous invasion of his civil liberties when he was
arrested because someone made a phone call! What in the world
is going on here? Just more confusion because of loose
equivocation on the meaning of words like "laws" and "rights."

The government does seem intuitively to understand that Downey
is more useful to society than some wacked out crack-fiend robber
gangsta from South Central and, therefore, extends to him a
modicum of indulgence.

But rather than re-examine the entire construction of its narcotics
policies, the government merely renegotiates, every ninety days,
the terms of Downey’s case. And the same Hollywood, that
threatens to relocate to Europe every time a conservative dares to
utter a discouraging word about some group’s victimological drivel,
remains silent when one of its own becomes the poster boy for
Federal Usurpation of Individual Liberty because it cannot discern
whether Downey’s "right" to privacy is more or less fundamental
than the state’s "laws" against doing to your own body whatever
you like

Let us celebrate Robert Downey Jr.’s drug habit and his heroic
serial returns to the front lines of this central debate. Burroughs
correctly perceived that the government secretly resents those
liberties it presumes to protect. We are complicit in the delusion
that we are safe as long as we play it straight. But the war on
drugs is a war on the individual. And each of us is a soldier in that
battle.

December 30, 2000

Scott Wilkerson is curator of the Ward Library at the Mises
Institute.


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To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence
to written law, would be to lose the law itself,
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[CTRL] Nun hacked to death in church rampage

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=001851641145319&rtmo=VkmP4j
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Nun hacked to death in church rampage
By Richard Eden

A NUN was hacked to death and 12 worshippers were injured
yesterday when a group of men wielding machetes stormed a
Roman Catholic cathedral in the Caribbean island of St Lucia.
The attackers made their way to the altar in Castries Cathedral, in
the former British colony's capital, where they set fire to the priest,
Father Charles Gaillard, and injured an altar server.

"It was like a scene from hell," said one of the worshippers, Cletus
Springer, who was returning to his seat after receiving Holy
Communion when he heard wailing and screams from the back of
the church.

Mr Springer, a local newspaper columnist, said: "I looked up and
saw flames. The church was in flames. People were scampering
here and there. I saw four men methodically going around setting
people on fire, chopping people."

More than 400 people were attending Mass, with many of them
lined up in the aisles to receive Holy Communion, when the
attackers entered the church. Worshippers pounced on one of the
intruders and held him until police arrived, but three other men
escaped. The motive for the attack was unclear.

Mr Springer said the attackers appeared calm. He said: "You could
say they were possessed the way they went about it, so
methodically, purposefully, calmly setting people ablaze, chopping
people."

Police were questioning the man they arrested, Chris John, last
night and were searching for three other suspects. The nun who
died was named as Sister Mel.

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[CTRL] Bush to pull US troops out of Balkans

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http://www.sunday-
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December 31 2000
UNITED STATES

Bush to pull US troops out of Balkans
Tom Rhodes,  New York

IN A MOVE certain to upset his European allies, George W Bush
plans to begin withdrawing American peacekeepers from the
Balkans shortly after he moves into the White House next month.

Senior advisers to the Republican president-elect have told The
Sunday Times that America will have removed all 10,000 of its
ground troops from Bosnia and Kosovo within four years, leaving
only logistical and intelligence teams behind.

John Hulsman, a conservative analyst tapped as a Balkans adviser
for the new administration, said Bush was concerned about
"imperial overstretch" - a buzzword within the new national security
team for America's involvement in "nation building" abroad during
the presidency of Bill Clinton.

"There will be a philosophical sea change when Bush is in the
White House," Hulsman said. "As soon as he arrives, there will be
a drawing down of American forces and after four years there will
be no American ground troops in the Balkans."

Hulsman, who works at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative
think tank in Washington, advised the president-elect on Balkans
policy during his campaign for the White House. He said there was
growing scepticism inside the Bush camp about humanitarian
missions that were not in the American national interest.

Richard Perle, a former assistant defence secretary under
President Ronald Reagan and an even more senior adviser to
Bush, said questions were being asked about America's true role
in the region.

Perle said incoming members of the national security team,
including Condoleezza Rice, General Colin Powell, the next
secretary of state, and Donald Rumsfeld, appointed last week as
defence secretary, were unhappy with some of the tasks being
given to fighting troops in the field.

Some in the 82nd Airborne, the crack parachute division, for
example, had been acting as kindergarten escorts and social
workers. "I think they will look at what the soldiers are spending
their time doing and whether that is appropriate for American
troops," he said.

Perle insisted any pullout would not take place without consultation
with allies. He speculated that German forces might shoulder the
brunt of future regional responsibilities.

The first hint of a withdrawal came in October, shortly before the
American election, when Rice spoke of a "new division of labour" in
the Balkans, requiring Europeans to "step up to their
responsibilities".

Lord Robertson, the Nato secretary-general, telephoned the Bush
camp shortly afterwards and said he had been assured by the
Republican's advisers that no such move was afoot.

Powell said after his nomination earlier this month, however, that
he would undertake a review of all deployments soon after Bush's
inauguration on January 20.

"We're going to consult to see if we can find ways that are less of a
burden," he said of the missions in Kosovo and Bosnia. "We're not
cutting and running."

For all the talk of consultation and reviews, plans are already being
drafted to begin part of the withdrawal shortly after Bush enters the
White House.

Hulsman said the first of the 5,500 troops in Kosovo and 4,500 in
Bosnia could be brought home within months in what would be a
symbolic change of policy in Washington.

Under one proposal, the new administration would inform Nato at
the end of next month that its eventual goal was to turn over entire
responsibility for peacekeeping troops to its European allies.
America would agree to provide continued but limited logistical and
intelligence assistance to the Nato mission in the Balkans.

The proposal can only add to fears among allies already anxious
about the implications of a Bush presidency for European security.
Concerns centre on the president-elect's determination to build a
"son of star wars" missile defence system.

Bush has said he wants a system that would include America's
allies. Britain and other countries are worried it could have a
destabilising effect by violating the 1972 US-Soviet anti-ballistic
missile treaty, under which both sides agreed limits to defensive
shields.

Bush's resolve to press ahead with the project has been confirmed
by the appointment of Rumsfeld, who oversaw a commission two
years ago that concluded that rogue nations could threaten
America with ballistic missiles sooner than analysts predicted.

The Foreign Office yesterday declined to comment on any likely
changes in American Balkan policy. One British diplomat in the
region warned, however, that even if Bush wanted a significant
drawdown of troops it would be difficult to win the approval of his
Nato partners. "We've always thought the American role is
essential," he said.

In France opinion on American involvement has always been more
divided, with many military officers opposed to Washington's
dominant influence in peacekeeping. "Ther

[CTRL] Scientists study slave settlement

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http://augustachronicle.com/stories/062999/met_MNS-
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Scientists study slave settlement

Archaeologists' dig at Cumberland Island site unearths significant
part of Georgia history

Web posted  Jun. 29 at 12:18 AM
By Gordon Jackson
Morris News Service

CUMBERLAND ISLAND, Ga. -- A group of 27 chimneys jutting
from the ground like monoliths are the only visible evidence of a
slave community that once thrived on Cumberland Island.

As many as 300 slaves lived in the community until they were freed
at the end of the Civil War, but much of what is known about the
life of blacks on the island has not been documented.

An archaeological dig in the past six weeks at the site called The
Chimneys, however, has revealed a wealth of information to
researchers. In fact, archaeologists say the site is one of the most
significant and well-preserved slave settlements anywhere.

``It's very unusual to find a site in this good of a state,'' said David
Brewer, an archaeologist with the National Park Service. ``This is
one of the best unexcavated sites in the world.''

The main goal for the archaeologists is preserving the chimneys,
but they had to dig first to check out the land surrounding the
structures.

The property has been held by private landowners for years and
has not been disturbed by any development. It has been under the
protection of the National Park Service since the island was
declared a national seashore in 1972.

``You just don't find a site like this anymore,'' said John Cornelison
Jr., a park service archaeologist.

Despite only digging around five of the 27 chimneys because of
limited funding, the project has answered many questions about life
on the island among slaves, researchers said.

For instance, the archaeologists uncovered evidence that the
slaves were segregated by marital status and gender - with married
couples living in one part of the village, single men in another area
and single women in another.

The dig also revealed the slaves' quarters were segregated by job
skills as well, with overseers living in different areas from laborers
or craftsmen.

A large number of gun flints found at the site indicate the slaves
had weapons so they could hunt for food on the island, Mr.
Cornelison said. A large number of buttons from military uniforms
found show the slaves wore surplus uniforms as clothing, he said.

Researchers could also determine much about life in the village by
what they didn't find.

``We found no manacles or anything else ,'' Mr. Cornelison said.
``We generally believe Robert Stafford treated his slaves pretty
good, as good as you can treat somebody you are holding against
their will.''

Of course, there weren't many places for slaves to go on the island
and they had little or no contact with the outside world, Mr.
Cornelison said.

The researchers also have been able to dispel a rumor that Mr.
Stafford, who grew cotton on the island, burned down the slaves'
cabins in anger after the Civil War ended.

There is no evidence of ashes indicating the cabins had been
burned.

Mr. Stafford was born on the island in 1790 and lived there until he
died in 1877. He inherited the land from his father, Thomas
Stafford, who settled on the island prior to 1783, said John Mitchell,
museum curator for the Cumberland Island National Seashore
Museum.

There is no reference to the area being called The Chimneys until
after the island was designated a national seashore, which
indicates the name was likely coined by the park service, Mr.
Mitchell said.

Other items found at the site include pipe stems, hand-painted
marbles, bottles, ornate pottery shards, an 1819 half dollar, fishing
weights, a metal lice comb, a broach and an earring.

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[CTRL] No crazier than the Fed

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Funny Money
A whole new meaning for 'local' currency
Monday, October 16, 2000
By Michael Y. Park

NEW YORK  — The money Paul Glover uses at the local hardware
store in Ithaca, N.Y., doesn't have any dead presidents on it.

In Ithaca we trust: Ithaca Hours are used only in upstate New York.
Instead, the graphic artist hands over a couple of odd-looking bills
in maize yellow and acid green — currency he made himself.
And instead of calling the police, the clerk behind the register
takes the money and hands back strange bills of his own, this time
in pumpkin orange and powder blue.

In fact, Glover might actually spend his whole day without touching
a U.S. Federal Reserve note, those ratty greenbacks that are so
boring it's a notable cultural event when Ben Franklin gets a face-lift.
The money he uses is called Ithaca Hours, and it's the most
successful example of a trend that's been spreading across the
country over the past nine years: local currencies.

>From Bread to Greenbacks

Since Ithaca Hours started up in 1991 — the first attempt at a local
currency since 1972 — more than 60 local money systems have
sprouted up across the country, almost all circumscribed to a
specific region and helped along with the assistance of local
merchants, consumers and chambers of commerce. In Brooklyn,
N.Y.,they're Greenbacks; in New Orleans, it's Mo Money; in
Berkeley, Calif., it'sBread.

Proponents of local currencies see them as an ideal way to keep
money and people in the area. Ithaca Hours, for example, must be
used in a 20-mileradius of Ithaca, with the idea that whoever uses
them will support neighborhood shops instead of, say, New York
City merchants.

And it's perfectly legal to print your own money as long as it
doesn't resemble U.S. dollars and can be exchanged with regular
dollars.
"By using local currencies, you're saying, 'I support local
businesses,'" Susan Witt, executive director of the E.F.
Schumacher Society, said. "The consumer is taking responsibility
for his community."

Mo money, mo problems? This currency is traded in New Orleans.
The E.F. Schumacher Society is a Great Barrington, Mass.-based
non-profit organization that pushes for local currencies and
ecologically based community development.

Glover, who had studied city management and economics, started
the Hours system when he noticed the devastating effects of the
1990-1991 recession on central New York.

"All my friends had a lot of skills that were not being utilized by the
formal economy, and they had time that they would have been
pleased to translate into cash," he said.

So Glover came up with the idea of a money based not on precious
metals or the U.S. economy but on labor, or work-hours,with one
hour of work being equivalent to $10. Local businesses quickly
jumped on board, and by the end of the decade, 460 area
businesses accepted and dispensed Ithaca Hours,thousands of
users put them in their wallets and purses and millions of dollars
worth of Hours had traded hands, according to Glover.

Psychological Boost or Real Benefit?

The American Liberty Dollar: back to the gold standard.
Economist Ralph C. Bryant, senior fellow in economics at the
Brookings Institute, wasn't sure it was more than a psychological
boost.

"I think these ideas are not helpful to the people there and are an
illusion," he said. "We don’t have S & H green stamps anymore, do
we?"

Critics notwithstanding, the Hour model has inspired more than the
Ithacans.All the way in Honolulu, Hawaii, retired architect Bernard
von NotHaus has created a silver- and gold-backed currency that
he hopes may eventually lead to the repeal of the Federal Reserve
system.

His group, of course, is called the National Organization for the
Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and Internal Revenue Code, or
NORFED.

He sees the NORFED American Liberty Dollar — backed by a
cache of gold and silver — as the kind of currency the Founding
Fathers intended the nation to use, and as something that will
strengthen the economy not just of small regions but the entire
United States.

The AL Dollars are to be traded at a one-to-one exchange rate with
the "dreaded Federal Reserve note."

The U.S. took its currency entirely off the gold standard in 1971.
Since then, von NotHaus said, the country might have gotten
weaker, but if anything proves that America and freedom have a
chance in the future, it's local currencies and the right of people to
make their own money.

"Liberty knows no bounds," he said. "And liberty's popping up all
over the place — in the form of American Liberty Dollars!"


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[CTRL] Fwd: There'll Be No Civil Liberties At The International Criminal Court

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There'll Be No Civil Liberties At The International
Criminal Court
By Ted Galen Carpenter

http://www.cato.org/dailys/12-27-00.html
 12-31-00
Ted Galen Carpenter is vice president for defense and
foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. He is the
editor of "NATO's Empty Victory: A Postmortem on the
Balkan War" and the author of "Beyond NATO: Staying Out
of Europe's Wars."

Proponents of the new International Criminal Court are
again pressuring the United States to join that
institution as it is about to become operational.
The latest salvo is an editorial in the Washington Post
urging the lame-duck Clinton administration to sign the
treaty establishing the Court before the signature-
deadline passes on Dec. 31. The New York Times
editorial page has said the same and urged the
administration to forward the document to the
Senate for ratification.

The Post pressed the idea that America must take steps
to support the Court -symbolically or practically- or
risk offending other nations. Typically, the Times
focused on rebutting Pentagon fears that, if the United
States becomes a member, American military personnel
might someday be hauled before the Court and accused of
war crimes. Dismissing such concerns as misplaced,
the Times (along with most ICC supporters) pretends as
though that is the only objection to the Court. In
reality, the Pentagon's fears are the least
of the problems with the ICC.

The Criminal Court is a horrific institution from the
standpoint of civil liberties. It would make a mockery
of even the most basic due process guarantees. We have
already had a glimpse of the probable abuses from the
operation of the ICC's predecessors, the special war
crimes tribunals in the Balkans and Rwanda.

Rights that Americans take for granted would be greatly
diluted or absent entirely in ICC trials. For example,
there is no right to a trial by an impartial jury. A
verdict is rendered by majority vote of a panel of
appointed judges. Thus, a 3-2 vote could doom a
defendant to a lengthy prison term - in some cases even
a life term.

If that were not bad enough, some - perhaps all- of the
judges on a panel might come from countries where there
is no concept of an independent judiciary or a
tradition of fair trials. A defendant could even face
jurists who were officials in regimes that were openly
biased against his government or political movement.

It gets worse. There is no protection against double
jeopardy. If a defendant is acquitted of charges, the
prosecutor's office can appeal the verdict to an
appellate body within the ICC. A hapless defendant
could be subjected to prosecution for the same offense
again, and again, and again.

Nor is there any guarantee of either a speedy or a
public trial. The Court could hold indicted individuals
for months or even years before judicial proceedings
get underway. The Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal has
held sessions behind closed doors - supposedly to
protect the privacy of alleged victims of war crimes.

Such nonpublic sessions underscore perhaps the worst
feature of the ICC.

The right of defendants to confront their accusers is
highly conditional. The Court would have the authority
to conceal the identity of witnesses whenever it deemed
that step to be appropriate.

That is an especially pernicious dilution of due
process standards. Frequently, the ability to rebut
testimony depends on knowledge of the witness' identity
and background. Such knowledge may yield important clues
about possible personal malice, a history of
prevarication, or a hidden financial or ideological
agenda. Without that knowledge, cross-examination
must be conducted in an informational vacuum, and a
defense attorney operates at an impossible
disadvantage.

Most opponents of the Criminal Court in this country
stress that we should not want to risk having Americans
tried before such a tribunal. That is a valid but
secondary point. People who value civil liberties and
due process of law should not want anyone tried before
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[CTRL] Fwd: Kwanzaa: Holiday From The FBI

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> Kwanzaa: holiday from the FBI
>
> Source: Townhall.com
> Published: January 1, 2001 Author: Ann Coulter
>
> Earlier this week, President Clinton issued a formal White House
> proclamation celebrating the first day of Kwanzaa. His announcement
> began with some claptrap about preserving "what we value of our past,"
> and Kwanzaa being a "wonderful example" with its "focus on the values
> that have sustained African-Americans through the centuries."
>
> Except for the small historical detail that Kwanzaa was invented in
> 1966 amidst the madness of the multicultural '60s by a black radical
> stooge of the FBI, Ron Karenga, a.k.a. Dr. Maulana Karenga. Karenga
> was a founder of United Slaves, a violent nationalist rival to the
> Black Panthers and a dupe of the FBI.
>
> In what was probably ultimately a foolish gamble, during the violent
> '60s, the FBI encouraged the most offensive black nationalist
> organizations in order both to discredit and split the left. The more
> preposterous the organization, the better. Karenga's United Slaves was
> perfect. Despite public perception blending the black activists of the
> '60s, the Black Panthers did not hate whites and did not seek armed
> revolution. That was the trope of Karenga's United Slaves. In the
> annals of the American '60s, Karenga was the Father Gapon, stooge of
> the czarist police.
>
> Whether Karenga was a willing dupe, or just a dupe, remains unclear.
> Interestingly though, in an 1995 interview with Ethnic NewsWatch,
> Karenga matter-of-factly explained that the forces out to get O.J.
> Simpson for the "framed" murder of two whites included: "the FBI, the
> CIA, the State Department, Interpol, the Chicago Police Department"
> and so on. (He further noted that "the evidence was not strong enough
> to prohibit or eliminate unreasonable doubt" -- an interesting
> standard of proof.) Karenga should know about FBI infiltration.
>
> Also, in the category of the-gentleman-doth-protest-too-much, back in
> the '70s, Nigerian newspapers were claiming that many American black
> radicals were CIA operatives. Karenga leapt in to denounce the idea
> publicly, saying, "Africans must stop generalizing about the loyalties
> and motives of Afro-Americans, including the widespread suspicion of
> black Americans being CIA agents."
>
> There is no question now that the FBI fueled the bloody rivalry
> between the Panthers and United Slaves, leading in one outburst to the
> shooting of Panther Al "Bunchy" Carter on the UCLA campus by Karenga's
> United Slaves. Karenga himself served time, a useful stepping-stone
> for his current position as a black studies professor at California
> State University at Long Beach.
>
> Kwanzaa itself is a lunatic blend of schmaltzy '60s rhetoric, black
> racism and Marxism. Indeed, the seven "principles" of Kwanzaa praise
> collectivism in every possible arena of life -- economics, work,
> personality, even litter removal ("Kuumba: Everyone should strive to
> improve the community and make it more beautiful.") It takes a village
> to raise a police snitch.
>
> Asked to distinguish Kawaida, the philosophy underlying Kwanzaa, from
> "classical Marxism" in the 1995 interview, Karenga basically said that
> under Kawaida, we also hate whites. While taking the "best of" -- I'm
> not making this up -- "early Chinese and Cuban socialism," Kawaida
> practitioners believe one's racial identity "determines life
> conditions, life-chances and self-understanding." There's a happy
> Horatio Alger story for you.
>
> Coincidentally, the seven principles of Kwanzaa are the very same
> seven principles of the Symbionese Liberation Army, another charming
> invention of the Least-Great Generation. In 1974, Patricia Hearst,
> kidnap victim-cum-SLA revolutionary, posed next to the banner of her
> alleged captors, a seven-headed cobra. Each snake head stood for one
> of the SLA's revolutionary principles (and this sounds like Saturday
> Night Live's send-up of the second presidential debate in which George
> Bush rattled off an endless series of Nigerian names): Umojo,
> Kujichagulia, Ujima, Ujamaa, Nia, Kuumba and Imani -- precisely the
> seven "principles" of Kwanzaa.
>
> With his Kwanzaa greetings, President Clinton is saluting the
> intellectual sibling of the Symbionese Liberation Army, killer of
> housewives and police, and the founder of United Slaves, who were such
> lunatics that they shot Panthers for not being sufficiently violent --
> all with the FBI as their covert ally. It's as if David Duke invented
> a holiday called "Anglica," and the president of the United States
> issued a presidential proclamation honoring the synthetic holiday.
> People might well stand up and take notice if that happened.
>
> Liberals have become so mesmerized by the hegemonic multicultural
> nonsense that they have forgotten the real history -- the violence,
> the Marxism, the insanity. Most absurdly, for leftists anyway, is that
> they have forgott

Re: [CTRL] Fw: Lima Sex Maniacs

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On 2 Jan 2001, at 7:58, Ynr Chyldz Wyld wrote:

> -Caveat Lector-
>
> I have no intention of joining, if only because it sounds extremely
> sexist, but also because it implies acceptance of sexual molestation
> and abuse of children under the umbrella of 'consensual incest'...and
> I resent that they are usurping the term 'libertarian' to describe
> themselves...
>
> Is this a 'conspiracy' to undermine the true tenets of the Libertarian
> party?
>

My guess is "Yes".

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[CTRL] The danger of declining poverty

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Page 6
Libertarian Party News
January 2001

Poverty crisis

New figures from the U. S. Census Bureau indicate that the
percentage of Philadelphia school-age children living in poverty fell
by about 19% over the last three years.  Since poverty correlates
with poor academic achievement, this is good news, right?  Not
according to school officials.

"It could mean a decrease in federal funds," Jim Sheffer, chief of
federal programs for the Pennsylvania Department of Education,
told the Philadelphia Inquirer.  "We're very concerned," added
William Kozlowski, the director of the Philadelphia district's Office
of Grants and Fiscal Services.  "We knew all along this could be a
problem."

No word on what measures will be taken by city officials to
increase the poverty population.

-Education Intelligence Agency Communique
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with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself
with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn
fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but
if he may not, he is not a free man any more than
a dog. - G. K. Chesterton, Broadcast talk 6-11-35

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[CTRL] Land 'theft' by the New York Times

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January 2001
Page 9

New York
LP protests land  'theft' by the New York Times

The state Libertarian Party has condemned a plan by the New York
Times to seize land by eminent domain so it can build a new office
in downtown New York.

"The New York Times and other media should expose eminent
domain and corporate welfare - not use state power to deprive
people of their property", said New York LP State Chair Richard
Cooper in December.

The New York Times has asked the state to condemn millions of
dollars of privately owned property on Eighth  Avenue - and turn it
over to the influential media corporation under eminent domain law -
so it can construct a huge new office building.

But the plan is "legalized theft", said Cooper.

"The New York Times [wants to] erect a new building at the
expense of taxpayers, the landowners and their tenants," he said.
"New York taxpayers would foot the bill for them.

"Libertarians [know that] corporate welfare and eminent domain is
legalized theft, using state power to deprive people of their
property."

And Bronx LP member Robert Goodman asked, "Why can't the
Times shop and pay for space like everyone else?"

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[CTRL] Fwd: Ignoring a hate crime in D.C.

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>What makes this commentary noteworthy is that the writer is
black.
>---
>Michelle Malkin
>
>December 29, 2000
>
>Ignoring a hate crime in D.C.
>
>Here in the land of pontificators and tolerance preachers, a hateful
crime
>goes unpunished. President Clinton, our lame duck lip-biter, is
nowhere to
>be found. Neither are the chest-beaters at the New York Times.
And the
>rainbow coalition of loud-mouthed minority leaders, always on the
ready to
>exploit racial divisions, seems to have vanished into thin air.
>
>One month ago this week, cowardly goons firebombed the A-1
grocery store in
>Northeast Washington. No one was injured. But the pipe bomb,
tossed into the
>store's entrance, roasted the front of the building. The vandals also
>spraypainted racist epithets and threats all over the
establishment's outer
>wall. If the owner of the store had been black, and the
neighborhood white,
>this violent incident in the nation's capital would have undoubtedly
made
>front-page headlines and the nightly news. Instead, it merited a
grand total
>of two stories in the mainstream press -- one in each metro
section of the
>Washington Post and Washington Times -- and a brief editorial in
the Post.
>"It just didn't get a lot of media attention," Lt. Scott Dignan of the
D.C.
>police told me this week.
>
>Dignan surmises that the presidential election might have
overshadowed the
>firebombing. But he also notes that the case didn't lend itself to
the "easy
>soundbites" that often accompany other high-profile hate crimes.
That's
>because the victim of this assault is of Asian descent -- Korean
immigrant
>Frank Han -- and his vocal enemies are members of the
hatemongering New
>Black Panther Party, founded by ex-Nation of Islam official Khallid
>Muhammad.
>
>The New Black Panther Party had been boycotting the grocery
story since Nov.
>22, when Han tried to stop a black teenage girl from
shortchanging him over
>an ice cream bar. According to the store owners, the item was 65
cents, but
>the 14-year-old put only a quarter on the counter and then
attempted to
>leave. Surveillance video reportedly showed Han trying to detain
the girl --
>who then initiated a melee by punching Han in the face. Han
struck back in
>self-defense, he says, and the girl's two friends (all of whom had
ditched
>school) joined in attacking him. Others entered the scene,
ransacking and
>stealing from the store.
>
>Instead of condemning the youths for breaking school rules and
terrorizing a
>local, law-abiding business, radical black activists demonstrated
at the
>store chanting "black power," "shut 'em down," and "death to the
>bloodsucker." The Washington Times reported that one "field
marshal" for the
>group shouted into a megaphone: "We will use all means
necessary, any means
>necessary, to shut this store down." Malik Shabazz, a New Black
Panther
>attorney, accused the store of "stealing" in an "exploitive
relationship, or
>what some people call 'bloodsucking.'"
>
>"Bloodsucker" is a pet term of the New Black Panther Party,
hurled at
>Asians, Jews, whites, and anyone else making an honest living
instead of
>carping about racism.
>
>Shabazz said his group had nothing to do with the firebombing.
Yet, the
>message of the boycotters was the same message the bombers
left at the
>store: "Burn them down, Shut them down, Black Power!" The
group's leader,
>Khallid Muhammad, is infamous for his embrace of race-based
violence. He
>advised the new black-led government of South Africa to murder
all whites
>who refused to the leave the country: "We kill the women. We kill
the
>babies, we kill the blind. We kill the cripples. We kill them all."
He also
>praised Colin Ferguson, the Long Island commuter train gunman
who
>slaughtered whites and Asian-Americans in a racist rage.
>
>From New York to Los Angeles, black resentment against Asian-
American
>entrepreneurs has boiled into violence. Few dare to denounce it
for fear of
>antagonizing a politically protected group that disguises its hatred
behind
>
>a cloak of victimhood. This corrupt racial double standard must
end.
>
>An FBI spokesman told me the agency completed an
investigation into the
>firebombing last week. The incoming Bush administration can
show its
>commitment to civil rights -- and begin the "healing" -- by
prosecuting the
>hate-filled perpetrators in the A-1 grocery store case to the full
extent of
>the law.
>
>http://www.townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/mm20001229.
shtml
>


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[CTRL] China says Falun Gong still threat, blames enemies abroad

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Thu Jan 04 2001 10:13:27 ET
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm

China says Falun Gong still threat, blames enemies abroad

Through regular open protests and unceasing dissemination of
millions of items of underground propaganda, the banned Falun
Gong sect still poses a serious threat to China's social order, the
official news agency Xinhua said in a lengthy editorial Thursday.
Xinhua blamed the continuing strength of the sect on supporters
overseas, saying, "Those Sinophobic Western forces, unceasing in
their plots to 'Westernize' or 'split up' the Chinese nation; those
foreign enemies who are fundamentally unwilling to witness a
flourishing and powerful China; they see in the 'Falun Gong' cult a
good chance to make a mess of China and undermine the political
strength of Chinese regime."

The editorial effectively admitted Beijing's harsh 14-month
crackdown on the spiritual group has not been effective, citing
numerous instances of adherents' continued activities
 aimed at winning public attention.

In the face of a national media blackout that keeps all but officially
sanctioned negative stories off the airwaves and out of the
newspapers, sect members have kept up their own
campaign to prick the public conscience through painted signs,
private letters and regular public demonstrations.
The demonstrations are put down regularly, often with bloody
violence.

The Xinhua editorial told of how "several hundred" adherents
disrupted kite flying and bird watching on Tiananmen Square over
the New Year's weekend with their protests.

Over New Year's Eve and into the next day, officers in plain clothes
and uniforms beat down several hundred protesters and herded
them into waiting buses, witnesses said.


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[CTRL] The OK Corral

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http://reason.com/sullum/122600.html

 December 26, 2000
The OK Corral
By Jacob Sullum
Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating was recently in the spotlight as a
leading contender
for U.S. attorney general. Now that George
W. Bush has picked defeated Missouri Sen. John
Ashcroft
instead, Keating won't be heading the Department of Justice.
As a result, he'll have more time to reflect on what passes for
justice in Oklahoma. In particular, he should be thinking about Will
Foster.
Foster, a 42-year-old father of three, was arrested in 1995 for
growing marijuana in
the basement of his Tulsa home. He said
he needed the drug to relieve chronic pain caused by rheumatoid
arthritis.
In California or one of the eight other states that allow the medical
use of marijuana,
a defendant like Foster can get off. In
Oklahoma, he got 93 years.
On December 28, 1995, acting on a tip that Foster was selling
methamphetamine, police
broke into his house and tore it apart
in front of his terrified 5-year-old daughter, looking for evidence of
the crime specified in the warrant. They didn't find any, although
they looked everywhere, even inside the little girl's teddy bear.
But they did find Foster's marijuana garden, which was concealed
behind a locked steel door in an old bomb shelter. There were
about 70 plants.
During Foster's trial, the prosecution claimed the plants were
equivalent to 2,652
joints. A marijuana cultivation expert who
testified for the defense said the yield would
be more like 12.5
ounces, or about 600 joints--not an outlandish amount for someone
who
smoked marijuana daily to control pain.
Foster, who made about $100,000 a year as a computer
programmer, insisted that he had
never sold marijuana, and no
one testified that he had. But in January 1997 the jury convicted
him of possession with intent to distribute, along with cultivation,
the aggravating factor of possession "in the presence of a minor
under age 11," and
failure to obtain marijuana tax stamps (a
legal fiction used to increase punishment).
The sentences recommended by the jury added up to 93 years,
and Judge Bill Beasley said
they should be served
consecutively. He noted that Foster had rejected plea bargains

promising sentences totaling 10 to 12 years.
Tulsa County Assistant District Attorney Brian Crain told Reason
magazine that he asked
the jury to recommend "20, 200,
2,000, whatever number of years they wanted to
give." He said
the sentence was appropriate "because it falls within the

statute, and I think that the statute is appropriate."
In August 1998 a state appeals court disagreed. Saying Foster's
sentence "shocks
our conscience," the court reduced it to 20
years, making him eligible for parole.
Days later, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted
unanimously to release Foster.
Supporters, including three
prison supervisors who said they rarely intervene on behalf of

inmates, urged Gov. Keating to sign the parole order.
In his own letter to Keating, Foster noted that he had served five
years in the Army,
put himself through college, and started a
successful computer business. "Most
important is that I have
never committed a crime against any person or thing in my entire

   adult or childhood life," he wrote. "The only victim in the crime
that I am
serving time for is my family. They have to live every
day without...the guidance, support
and income that I have
always provided."
In January 1999 Keating rejected the parole board's
recommendation, something a spokesman said happens only
about 25 percent of the time. The spokesman said the decision

was due to "a combination of factors," including objections from the
prosecutor.

A letter from Keating's office to a Foster supporter implied that one
reason for
keeping him in prison was that he had "made public
statements concerning...his plans
to resist anti-drug laws if he
is released." The letter apparently was referring to
interviews in
which Foster had criticized the war on drugs--which suggests that
he is
being punished for his political views.
In August 1999 the parole board again approved Foster's release,
and Keating again said
no. A few months ago, the board voted
a third time to parole Foster, a decision that took
effect on
December 21. Now that it looks like Keating will be staying in
Oklahoma City,
he'll have another chance to display his
compassion, instinct for fairness, and sense of
proportion.
As for Will Foster, he's had enough of Oklahoma. He has asked to
serve his parole in California.
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Re: [CTRL] 93 Christians Killed For Not Coverting to Islam

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> In the first place, I have some grave reservations about the
> veracity of this blurb.  It does not correspond to what little I
> know of Islam, in that Islam does not have any evangelicism (convert
> or die) in its history.

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Jihad, the Arab Conquests and the Position of Non-
Muslim Subjects

Apologists of Islam still insist on perpetuating the
myth of an Islam which accorded equality to her non-
Muslim subjects, they talk of a time when all the
various religious communities lived in perfect harmony
in the Islamic lands. The same apologists minimize, or
even excuse, the persecution, the discrimination, the
forced conversions, the massacres, the destruction of
the churches, synagogues, fire temples and other
places of worship.  This rosy but totally false
picture of Islam is also built up by

(1) ignoring the destruction and the massacres during
the actual process of the Arab conquests;

(2) by concentrating almost exclusively on the fate of
Jews and Christians, and consequently dismissing the
fate of idolaters (are they not human?), Zoroastrians,
Hindus and Buddhists

(3) by relying on Muslim sources, as though they are
bound to be less biased!

(4) by ignoring, or excusing the appalling behaviour
of the Prophet towards the Jews;

(5) by ignoring the intolerant, hostile, anti- Jewish,
anti-Christian, and above all, anti-pagan sentiments
expressed in the Koran which were the source of much
intolerant, fanatical and violent behaviour throughout
the history of Islam against all non-Muslims.

EARLY ATTITUDES: Muhammad and the Koran

The Koran has been divided into early and late Suras,
the Meccan and Medinan Suras respectively.  Most of
the tolerant sentiments of Muhammad are to be found in
the early, Meccan Suras:

cix  "Recite: O Unbelievers, I worship not what you
worship, and you do not worship what I worship.  I
shall never worship what you worship. Neither will you
worship what I worship. To you your religion, to me my
religion l.45   "We well know what the infidels say:
but you are not to compel them."

xliii. 88,89 "And [Muhammad] says, "O Lord, these are
people who do not believe." Bear with them and wish
them 'Peace' . In the end they shall know their
folly."

The exceptions are to be found in Sura ii, which is
usually considered Medinan i.e. late:

ii.256 "There is no compulsion in religion";

ii.62"Those who believe [i.e.Muslims] and those who
follow the Jewish scriptures, and the Christians and
the Sabians, and who believe in God and the Last Day
and work righteousness, shall have their reward with
their Lord, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they
grieve."

Unfortunately, as he gained in confidence and
increased his political and military power, Muhammad
turned from being a "persuader to being a legislator
and warrior, dictating obedience." The Medinan
chapters such as Suras ix, v, iv, xxii, xlvii, viii,
and ii reveal Muhammad at his most belligerent,
dogmatic and intolerant.

 Muslim theologians are unanimous in declaring that no
religious toleration was extended to the idolaters of
Arabia at the time of Muhammad. The only choice given
them was death or the acceptance of Islam. This total
intolerance never seems to be taken into consideration
by the apologists of Islam when they lay claims to
Islamic tolerance.  Unbelievers in general are shown
no mercy in the Koran which is full of lurid
descriptions of the punishments awaiting them.
xxii.9:"As for the unbelievers for them garments of
fire shall be cut and there shall be poured over their
heads boiling water whereby whatever is in their
bowels and skins shall be dissolved and they will be
punished with hooked iron- rods.  The Koran also
enjoins all Muslims to fight and kill non-believers:
xlvii.4: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike off
their heads; then when you have made wide slaughter
among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives."

CHRI

[CTRL] The year's 10 most underreported stories

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http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21206

THURSDAY
JANUARY 4
2001

The year's 10 most underreported stories
WND's 'Operation Spike' pinpoints major events media ignored
By David Kupelian
©  2001 WorldNetDaily.com

Here, with our readers' help, are WorldNetDaily editors' picks for
the 10 most underreported stories of the past year.


VOTER FRAUD

Hands down, the biggest – and most underreported – story of 2000
was voter fraud.

As WorldNetDaily Editor Joseph Farah wrote in "Voter fraud
epidemic," "Voter fraud is epidemic throughout the country. From
Miami to L.A., elections have been won and lost because of illegal
voter registration and phony ballot counts. No wonder fewer and
fewer people are bothering to vote. What's the point? Elections are
being rigged. The fix is in. The sanctity of the American electoral
system is not under attack, it is under siege."

An exclusive WND investigation revealed that President Bill Clinton
and the California Democratic Party conspired to mail non-citizens
and non-eligible voters bogus "Voter Identification Cards" to make it
easier for them to cast ballots.

In Florida, Haitian voters were intimidated and coerced by Gore
supporters to vote for the Democratic candidate.

In Wisconsin, the votes of homeless people were purchased for
packs of cigarettes.

In some predominantly Democratic precincts in Texas, 125 percent
of registered voters cast ballots.

But perhaps the most deeply disturbing of all voter fraud stories to
emerge during the election season centered on the military.
Reports surfaced that entire units of U.S. servicemen overseas
were denied absentee ballots, preventing them from voting for their
next commander-in-chief. WorldNetDaily's Jon Dougherty was the
preeminent reporter nationally on this issue, and was first to sound
the alarm, even before the election ("Military missing absentee
ballots"), that a significant number of America's military service
personnel were not going to be able to vote in the closest – and by
many accounts the most important – election in memory.

CLINTON, GORE COMPLICITY IN OIL PRICE-HIKES
One of the giant stories of the year, by any news organization's
yardstick, was the unprecedented run-up in oil prices. All but
unreported, however, were some of the hidden, but very real,
reasons for the huge increases.

WorldNetDaily was virtually alone among the news media in
reporting how the Clinton administration clearly contributed to the
dramatic increase in oil prices. "Contradictory and self-serving
policies," reported Ken Timmerman in November, "led the Clinton-
Gore administration to cause the current skyrocketing oil prices,
say Middle East and petroleum industry analysts."
The former Time magazine correspondent showed how, "by
interfering in the oil markets in 1998 when prices were perceived by
some to be too low, the administration put into motion the huge
current run-up of prices, according to Matthew Simmons, who has
tracked oil prices for 30 years as the head of a Houston-based
investment bank, Simmons & Co. International.”
Another WorldNetDaily report spotlighting Clinton's and Gore's
complicity in raising oil prices proved to be a blockbuster – featured
and discussed for several consecutive days on the Rush Limbaugh
show. In that story, Clinton approves oil-price hikes, WND
disclosed: "Oil ministers from OPEC nations have quietly told
national security advisers on Capitol Hill that the oil production
cutbacks -- and resulting price increases -- are being implemented
at the request of the Clinton administration on behalf of Russia,
Indonesia, Mexico and Iran.

"Russia, Mexico and Indonesia are reported to be directing their
increased oil profits toward paying back overdue Western loans,"
the article revealed. "According to one government defense adviser,
the windfall profits are part of a larger scheme to use the American
public to pay off failed and corrupt investment schemes in the three
countries."

THE REAL IMPACT OF CLINTON LAND GRABS

Roads across public lands in national forests are being quietly
closed to vehicles, horses, and even hikers. "Human exclusion
zones" is the official term. People are losing their homes and
livelihoods with scarcely a notice by the mass media. Entire
industries -- cattle grazing, timber cutting, mining -- are being shut
down in the name of protecting the environment from any use by
human beings, including recreation.

In 1996, President Clinton used the 1906 Antiquities Act to create
the designation of Utah's 1.7 million-acre Grand Staircase-
Escalante National Monument. Although no more of these
controversial monument designations were made for the next
several years, beginning last January -- toward the very end of his
second term as president -- Clinton began designating more
monuments in rapid succession: 10 new monuments in all in 2000.

Although all the monuments are already public land, inside each
monument there are "inholdings" – private property, state parks

[CTRL] Lawyer: INS ordered Elián files destroyed

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http://www.sun-
sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,360155151,00.html


Lawyer: INS ordered Elián files destroyed
By DAVID CÁZARES
Web-posted:  11:33 p.m. Jan.  5, 2001
Miami employees of the Immigration and Naturalization Service
were ordered to destroy or conceal documents and electronic mail
related to the Elián González case, according to a deposition by
an attorney who represents INS workers.
   In a deposition given last month for the federal lawsuit that Elián's
Miami relatives have filed against the U.S. government, Coral
Springs attorney Donald Appignani testified that INS employees
had told him that "the U.S. government could be breaking the law."
   "Basically, that is what I heard," Appignani testified. "People
were instructed to remove anything derogatory to the Elián
González case."
   Appignani, a labor lawyer who represents the union that bargains
for INS employees and also handles the employees' equal
employment complaints against the government, would not reveal
which employees told him of the orders, who gave the instructions,
or what information the documents and e-mail contained. He said
he did not hear the orders directly; they were related to him by
employees.
   At the urging of his clients, Appignani in November approached
lawyer Ronald Guralnick with the information. Guralnick represents
the family of Lázaro González, the great-uncle who tried to keep
the boy here and is now suing the federal government and Miami
police, claiming the April 22 raid that removed the boy violated the
family's constitutional rights.
   Guralnick deems the information so valuable that he has asked
U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno to order Appignani to disclose
all he knows.
   "This is a major break in the case," Guralnick said. "I'm looking
forward to the court's ruling on our motion to compel attorney
Appignani to testify to the questions he refused to answer at
deposition, and I'm looking forward to talking to his clients."
   Aloyma M. Sanchez, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's
Office, said it would support Guralnick's motion to compel
Appignani to provide more detail.
   "These are serious allegations," Sanchez said. "We want to
uncover the truth."
   Appignani also testified that INS employees thought there was
an atmosphere of contempt toward Cuban-Americans at the INS
regional office in Miami, which could prove detrimental to the
government if brought out at trial before a jury.
   He said he saw a cup circulated at INS offices with a plastic
wrapper imprinted with a Cuban flag inside a circle with a red line
drawn through it. On the other side was an image of a stopwatch
with the number 154 inside -- for the 154 seconds it took agents to
remove Elián from his Miami relatives' home.
   Appignani also confirmed he had told Guralnick that, after the
raid, INS Regional Director Robert Wallis told about 50 INS
employees that "it was the happiest day of his life when he saw a
photograph of a person on the ground with a gun pointed at his
head, because before the negotiations (between the Justice
Department and the relatives' lawyers) this person wouldn't shake
his hand."
   Appignani said he did not hear Wallis say this but was told he
had.
   Wallis could not be reached for comment Friday.
   Under questioning from Justice Department Attorney Nina
Pelletier, Appignani said he did not go to the authorities after
employees told him they thought laws had been broken but went to
Guralnick because that's what his clients had asked him to do.
   In court documents, Appignani said he should not have to reveal
who his clients are because they fear reprisal by their employers,
the INS and the Justice Department.
   "I don't really know if anything illegal was done or not, but it's not
my position to figure that out," he said. "The reason they didn't go
to the authorities is because the authorities are the employer and
the defendant in the case."
   It's uncertain how much the INS employees' complaints will play
in the trial because unless Guralnick and his investigators can
prove that INS officials ordered the destruction of evidence, it would
be difficult to allege a crime.
   David Cázares can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
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[CTRL] Court frees Limone after 33 years in prison

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Personally, I would like to see former Special Agent H. Paul Rico
spend the rest of his life in prison.  Fat chance anything will be
done to him, though.
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http://boston.com/dailyglobe2/006/metro/Court_frees_Limone_after_
33_years_in_prison+.shtml

Court frees Limone after 33 years in prison
By Ralph Ranalli, Globe Correspondent, 1/6/2001

 AMBRIDGE - One arm cradling a bouquet of yellow roses, the
other wrapped tightly around his tearful wife, Peter Limone walked
out of Middlesex Superior Courthouse yesterday a free man after
allegedly being framed for murder by the FBI and spending 33
years in prison, four of them on death row.

''Mr. Limone's long wait is over,'' said Middlesex Superior Court
Judge Margaret Hinkle, prompting applause and tears from a large
group of relatives and supporters of Limone in the East Cambridge
courtroom.

Hinkle, who said it was ''now time to move on,'' granted a joint
motion by defense lawyers and Suffolk District Attorney Ralph C.
Martin II's office to give Limone, 66, a new trial and vacate his life
sentence.

After spending half his life behind bars for the murder of Edward
''Teddy'' Deegan in 1965, Limone was freed largely on the basis of
secret FBI documents uncovered by a Justice Department task
force investigating corruption in the bureau's use of organized crime
informants.

The documents, which were never turned over to defense lawyers in
the Deegan case, suggest that a onetime FBI informant, Vincent J.
''Jimmy the Bear'' Flemmi, planned Deegan's murder, not Limone.
The key witness against Limone - hit man-turned-FBI-witness
Joseph ''The Animal'' Barboza - was Flemmi's best friend.
The documents say that an informant told the FBI who the
participants in the murder were, and Limone and the three men
convicted along with him weren't among them.

The documents also suggest that FBI agents not only covered up
evidence that Limone and three other men were wrongly convicted
in order to protect Flemmi and his gangster brother, Stephen - an
FBI informant for nearly 30 years - but also knew about the Deegan
murder plot in advance and did nothing to stop it.

''The conduct of the bureau at the time of the murder of Mr. Deegan
and the trial of Mr. Limone tarnishes that agency,'' said Hinkle, a
former assistant US attorney.

Limone had harsh words yesterday for the bureau, particularly
former Special Agent H. Paul Rico, who was Barboza's FBI handler
and is reportedly a target of the Justice Department corruption task
force.

''He framed me. He knew what he was doing,'' the silver-haired
Limone said of the agent, who is retired and living in Florida. ''He's
scum. He set it all up.''

Overall, however, the mood of the Limone family was joyful and free
of bitterness and rancor.

Flanked by his wife, Olympia, his four children, and six of his eight
grandchildren, Limone spoke mostly of his gratitude for the people
who stood by him and helped him over the years, particularly his
relatives and his attorney, John Cavicchi.

''I just give thanks to the good people I have been involved with,'' he
said. ''I am very happy.''

Prison, he said, was ''very hard, every day in there, knowing I was
innocent.'' His time was made even harder by watching two
codefendants, Henry Tameleo and Louis Greco, die in prison while
their appeals were rejected by court after court.

Defense lawyers allege that Barboza and the FBI framed Limone,
Tameleo, Greco, and a fourth codefendant, Joseph Salvati, in order
to settle personal scores and to satisfy a mandate from FBI
headquarters to make cases against the underworld.

Tameleo was believed to be a top figure in the Patriarca New
England crime family and Limone and Greco were reputed
associates.

Salvati, who owed Barboza money, had his life sentence
commuted by Governor William F. Weld in 1997. Martin's office
also filed motions with Hinkle Thursday to vacate Salvati's
sentence and grant him a new trial.

Assistant District Attorney Mark Lee said the newly discovered FBI
documents were a key factor - along with other recently uncovered
witness statements and evidence indicating Limone and Salvati's
innocence - in their decision to drop their opposition to a new trial.
''The documents painted a very compelling picture,'' Lee said.
''What happened here was wrong enough for us to come into court
and say that this mandates a new trial.''

Publicly, Martin's office had no comment on whether they would
pursue a new trial or drop the case, but privately, sources close to
the office called it a practical impossibility because of the age of
the case, the doubts cast on it by the FBI documents, and the fact
that Barboza  was murdered in 1976.

Limone and his lawyer said they would wait before considering
whether to file a civil lawsuit against the FBI or state prosecutors.
Cavicchi, however, said that based on what has been paid to other
wrongfully imprisoned defendants, ''$5 million might be a good
starting point.''

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[CTRL] Black slavery is alive

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Jewish World Review Jan. 3, 2001 / 8 Teves, 5761
Walter Williams

Black slavery is alive

http://www.jewishworldreview.com

-- BLACK SLAVES are still available -- just not in the United
States. To make a purchase, you'dhave to travel to the Sudan as
Gerald Williams, Harvard University pre-med student, did in
October 2000.

Slavery in the Sudan is in part a result of a 15-year war by the
Muslim north against the black Christian and animist south. Arab
militias, armed by the Khartoum government, raid villages, mostly
those of the Dinka tribe. They shoot the men and enslave the
women and children. Women and children are kept as personal
property or they're taken north and auctioned off.

In Sudanese slave markets, a woman or child can be purchased for
$90. An Anti-Slavery International investigator interviewed Abuk
Thuc Akwar, a 13-year-old girl who, along with 24other children,
was captured by the militia, marched north and given to a farmer.
The investigator reported, "Throughout the day she worked in his
sorghum fields and at night in his bed. During the march, she was
raped and called a black donkey." The girl managed to escape with
the help of the master's jealous wife.

Williams visited the Sudan as part of an eight-person delegation
sponsored by Christian Solidarity International (CSI). CSI, as well
as the Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG), have a
stopgap mission of buying, at a cost of $85 each, Christian African
women and children whom Muslims capture and enslave. AASG's
purchase emancipates them.

Williams' tales of Muslim atrocities are horrific. Six-year-old
Mawien Ahir Bol failed to clean a goat pen to his master's
satisfaction. The penalty: His index finger was cut off. Yak
Kenyang Adieu's punishment for being too sick to tend to his
master's goats was the loss of all fingers on his right hand.
Williams' trip freed, through purchase, these two boys and 20 other
slaves. Should you be interested in learning more about slavery,
the American Anti-Slavery Group's web site is: www.anti-
slavery.com.

Chattel slavery also exists in the former French colony of
Mauritania, where it was officially outlawed in 1980. The U.S. State
Department estimated that as of 1994 there were 90,000 blacks
living as property of Berbers. The Berbers use their slaves for labor,
sex and breeding.

They're also exchanged for camels, trucks, guns or money. Slave
offspring become the property of the master. According to a 1990
Human Rights Watch report, routine Mauritanian slave
punishments include beatings, denial of food and prolonged
exposure to the sun, with hands and feet tied together. Serious
infringement of the master's rule can mean prolonged horrible
tortures such as the "insect treatment" -- where the slave is bound
head and foot, and insects placed in his ears and other body
orifices -- and "burning coals," where the slave is bound and buried
with hot coals placed on parts of his body.

American Anti-Slavery Group says, "Most distressing is the
silence of the American media whose reports counted for so much
in the battle to end apartheid in South Africa." Only recently, and
thankfully so, have mainstream black organizations such as the
Congressional Black Caucus and the NAACP taken a stand
against chattel slavery in Mauritania and Sudan. At one time
Minister Louis Farakhan simply denied that his brother Muslims
could perpetrate such an injustice, but now he's quietly accepted
the evidence. Jesse Jackson remains silent.

Slavery is not the only African injustice that goes practically
ignored. There's the frequent outbreaks of genocide in Rwanda,
Burundi, Liberia and the Congo. In fact, it's fairly safe to say that
most of today's most flagrant human rights abuses occur in Africa.
But unfortunately they get little attention -- maybe it's because
Africans instead of Europeans are the perpetrators; Europeans are
held accountable to civilized standards of behavior, while Africans
aren't.


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Re: [CTRL] Has America lost its Goodness?

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On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 12:00:03 -0800, Prudence L. Kuhn wrote:

>In the America of older times, whole families of children were
>taken in by neighbors if their parents died.  Widows received food,
>fuel and other help from neighbors if it was needed.  The old were
>kept in the homes and maintained; so were the
>mentally and physically afflicted.  Hungry people were given food.
>Sick people were helped and treated by neighbors and doctors
>who could only hope for remuneration.  Neighbors helped each
>other with the plowing, the planting and the harvesting.   If a
>woman died in childbirth and the baby lived, a neighbor woman
>might volunteer to nurse the child along with her own.  In other
>words, people cared for and helped people.

Anyone offering or receiving such help these days will very likely be
paid a visit by the IRS demanding their cut.

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Re: [CTRL] Fw: TDI - Gun Control - 2001-01-09

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On 9 Jan 2001, at 9:32, Ynr Chyldz Wyld wrote:

: *
> > http://www.sightings.com/general6/finally.htm * * The story concerns
> > Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack who * apparently has recently
> > proposed a bill which would require * non-gunowners to register and
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Date: Mon Jan 8, 2001 5:41pm
Subject: A very subtle gun registration scheme

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There has been much chatter on the Internet about Vermont State
Rep.
Fred Maslack's recently proposed bill, to "register" non-gunowners
and require them to pay a $500 fee to the state, if they do not own
a firearm. To read more about this, go to:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a5296aa72e3.htm

The longer I looked at this, the more I realized how subtle this
registration scheme really is, and actually detrimental to the 2nd
amendment.

You heard me right. Detrimental to the 2nd amendment. POISON.

Think about this, folks. So, it encourages gun ownership. OK, great.
Buy a gun to avoid the $500.00 tax. If you don't buy a gun, you are
then registered with "Big Brother", and placed on a governmental
list
that you DO NOT own a firearm.

You say, "no problem", correct?

Guess again.

If there is a list being created by a governmental agency, of folks
that do not own guns, then it is reasonable to assume that those
NOT
on the "list" actually own guns. Guess what? Real gunowners are
then
KNOWN by Big Brother!!

Bingo! Gun registration at its best!! And done with the approval of
the pro-gun community (if pro-gunners buy this). Don't you see now,
that registering non-gunowners is the SAME THING as registering
and
licensing gunowners?

And we all know that registration leads to gun confiscation.
Sometimes
it leads to Genocide. Go to:

http://www.goa-texas.org/kopel.htm

http://www.goa-texas.org/racism.htm

And the way I saw gunowners placing their stamp of approval on
this
registration scheme (even some pro-gun groups approved of this
bill),
it may prove to be the "Trojan horse" the anti's are looking for, to
move their victim disarmament agenda forward.

May we NOT receive what we have asked for! And may this bill
proposed
by Vermont State Rep.Fred Maslack, die the death it deserves.

With Respect,

Gun Owners Alliance
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[CTRL] Adam was an Aussie not an African, Australian researchers say

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http://english.hk.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/asia/afp/article.ht
ml?s=hke/headlines/010109/asia/afp/Adam_was_an_Aussie_not_a
n_African__Australian_researchers_say.html

Yahoo! Hong Kong - News
Asia
Tuesday, January  9 10:00 AM SGT
Adam was an Aussie not an African, Australian researchers say
SYDNEY, Jan 9 (AFP) -
Adam and Eve were Australians, not Africans as most experts on
human evolution now believe, according to recently completed
Australian research.
The research, soon to be published by an American scientific
journal, presents a new genetic tree showing anatomically modern
humanity emerged from a common ancestor who lived in Australia
60,000 years ago.
A team led by anthropologist Alan Thorne of Canberra's Australian
National University, also shows Australia was once home to a
group of Aboriginal people whose genetic line has vanished from
the planet.
The discoveries are based on new analysis of the oldest DNA
recovered from human remains; genetic material from a 60,000-
year-old skeleton found near Lake Mungo in the eastern Australian
state of New South Wales in 1974.
Mungo Man, as he has been dubbed, is creating a stir in the
scientific community by casting serious doubt on the Out of Africa
model of human evolution which has been backed by most
international experts.
It holds that all living people are descended from a group of homo
sapiens that left Africa around 100,000 to 150,000 years ago.
DNA from a Croatian Neanderthal who lived about 28,000 years ago
was previously the oldest.
Thorne said most primitive forms of DNA known in living humans
until now had been found in sub-Saharan Africa, leading to the
theory that mankind originated in Africa and left it as modern Homo
Sapiens before spreading around the world.
"And so what we have now found is a lineage that is older than any
of those," Thorne told ABC radio.
"It's earlier than the putative most recent common ancestor, the so-
called Eve point in mitochondrial evolution.
"So under a strict out of Africa hypothesise I have to say well they
were wrong, obviously Eve was an Australian."
Thorne also believes modern Aboriginal Australians descended
from two groups of distinctly different people.
"What I have always argued is that there is a distinct difference
anatomically between these two groups of people," he said.
He believes one group entered Australia about 40,000 years before
the others, a new group of "robust" people, who became visible in
Australia about 20,000 years ago and appear to have arrived with
edge-ground tools.
"I suspect that these new robust people enter Australia with a new
tool kit and then mix together with other people who are already
here to produce the extraordinary mix of people that we now call
Aboriginal Australians," he said.



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[CTRL] Blair 'tomatoed' over Iraq policy

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http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=150644

Blair 'tomatoed' over Iraq policy
Tuesday, 9 January 2001 10:46 (ET)

 BRISTOL, England, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Prime Minister Tony Blair faced
a
barrage of rotten fruit Tuesday and took a direct hit from a tomato
thrown
by demonstrators protesting Britain's policy toward Iraq. He was
uninjured.
 The tomato smashed into his back as Blair entered the City of
Bristol
College to open a new campus. An aide wiped the mess from his
jacket, but
the tomato attack left a large, red stain on the back right shoulder.
 The protesters lobbed more tomatoes and other fruit, including
small,
rotten oranges at Blair, but the projectiles missed the prime
minister.
Police, including officers on horseback, held back about two dozen
demonstrators as surged toward Blair.
 Inside the college, a woman protester shouted, "How many Iraqi
children
have you killed today?" The prime minister appeared to take no
notice as he
continued on his way to a brief formal opening ceremony.
 Some of the protesters were identified as students carrying
banners with
slogans such as "Cut the War Tax" and "People Are More
Important Than Oil,"
in protest of U.N. sanctions against President Saddam Hussein's
regime
following the Gulf War.
 Student Sean Western said, "A tomato was thrown as his (Blair's)
head, and
the rebound hit me. They threw one (tomato) straight into his car,
and he
started walking in, and there were six other tomatoes thrown, and
there was
a woman screaming her head off."
 The protests appeared linked to a demonstration planned for
London on Jan.
16 announced Tuesday by campaigners against the Iraqi sanctions.
 The demonstrators didn't limit their protests to the Iraqi situation.
Also
on hand was a group from Farmers for Action, who led the fuel tax
protests
that nearly brought Britain to a standstill last September. The
farmers
brought along a dozen tractors and trucks, but police stopped them
short of
the city council offices where Blair was to make a speech.
 The journey to Bristol marked the prime minister's first campaign
trip of
the new year in the run-up of a general election widely expected to
be set
for May 3.


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[CTRL] Meet Hillary Rodham Clinton The Salad Days

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Meet Hillary Rodham Clinton

The Salad Days
Ms. Stanley's article originally posted at

http://www.etherzone.com
 By Barbara Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

12-23-00

When I first read about Bill Clinton in the Wall St.
Journal and learned
that he was nicknamed Willy Slick (later reversed to
Slick Willy)
because he promised whatever was needed to get what he
wanted and then
reneged on the deal, I wondered what kind of woman
would marry and stay
with this kind of man.

Was she a naïve, young, easily impressionable girl led
astray by a
wily cad? Was she a Stepford Wife of a skirt chasing,
draft dodging
coward, silently ashamed, yet trapped in a loveless
marriage? I watched
her. I listened to what she said and I paid real close
attention to her
in all the situations I found her: as wife, as co-
president, as mother.
And I found her wanting in her many roles.

That phony smile she gives her daughter was belied by
the day I saw
Hillary and Bill up on stage with Chelsea, who had
suffered a sprained
ankle in ballet class and was on crutches. When the
event was over,
departing the stage via a four step down path was
proving difficult for
this thirteen year old. Neither parent had even a
glance in her
direction. Neither parent seemed aware of her at all.
She finally was
rescued and helped down by a man from the audience. How
odd, I thought.
If it were one of my kids, you know their safety would
be my first
concern and I m sure I could have managed a smile for
those nearby or a
word of conversation while I was doing it, too.

Then they left Arkansas after they stole the election
and at the airport
I watched a devastated girl, face distorted by heart
felt grief hugging
goodbye her school chum. Neither parent, again, seemed
to be even the
slightest bit aware she was in some intense pain. Then
I read about how
Hillary and Bill would grill the child at the dinner
table, until she
cried, to toughen her up for the campaign trail. Then I
realized Hillary
probably had her to cement a family vote and was happy
to have others
raise and attend to her. I wondered if there ever was a
kind, simple
moment together, but as I scanned their faces, saw
nothing of tenderness
or kindness or motherly care and concern on Hillary s.

Then I was to learn that Hillary had an affair with a
married Vince
Foster. I read from reliable sources that they hugged
and French kissed
and grabbed ass right out in the open, in front of
others. So much for
respect for the marriage of either. If love, intense
love, happens to
two people who are married to others, then that must be
respectfully
addressed. But I was wrong; they are not respectful of
each other, of
marriage, or anything else but their own power.

I then read that the four of them: Vince, Hillary, Bill
and his female
du jour would double date. Ok. So that s what the
sanctity of marriage
means to them. Nothing. Just like the sanctity of the
law and here I
watched what Hillary, the smartest lawyer in the world
had as a track
record. When I dug, I found nothing much at all and
absolutely no trial
experience. So I dug some more and found something very
interesting:
back decades ago, when the Chicoms were looking to buy
a politician for
the long haul, they opened the Worthen Bank and the
bank s first loan of
$4 Billion to Saddam Hussein to get his chem/bio labs
up and running was
shepherded by the young attorney Hillary Rodham.

As I watched, I learned. The cattle future trading that
was impossible
for anyone other than the regulating Governor s wife.
She claimed she
read the Wall St. Journal and following the intel
therein, turned $1,000
into almost $100,000. Now I read the Journal and I know
this is bogus. I
watched at she sat posed to mimic the portrait of Abe
Lincoln above her,
in her pretty pink sweater set and lied through her
teeth, blaming some
staffer for all her problems while the law firm burned
out shredders
getting rid of the paper trail.

Then I learned that Foster was murdered and wondered
just who those
blonde dyed hairs found on his undershorts belonged to?
Was it as was
rumoured, one of Bill s service girls from his hippie
days, or did they
belong to some other suicide blonde (dyed by her own
hand, an old
expression that fits a pun here). Then came the
documents from Foster s
office that Hillary had put in her bedroom closet. Gee,
so much for
lawyerly ethics, eh? Then all the phone calls, the
scramble after the
body was found that was never really explained, along
with that private
line that suddenly disconnected and was now never to
have existed in the
first place.

The incredibly Marxist and police statist Health Care
Plan that actually
had prison terms and huge fines if a doctor was used
without the
gatekeeper s permission; the fact that the gatekeeper
legally kept any
unspent funds at the end of each year, funds that
should have gone for
patient tests and care; the closed meeting that started
with a budget of
$800,000 and came in at a busting $13.2 Million with 

[CTRL] Hatch Admits Shielding Reno from Right-Wing

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Hatch Admits Shielding Reno from Right-Wing

***

January 08, 2001
With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

For the story behind the story...
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecove
r.shtml?a=2001/1/7/220859">Hatch Admits
Shielding Reno

Hatch Admits Shielding Reno from Right-Wing
--
Sen. Orrin Hatch, chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee, revealed Sunday that
he shielded Clinton Attorney General Janet
Reno from attacks by "right-wing" critics
during her 1993 confirmation hearings.

The admission came while the senator
responded to critics of Bush attorney
general nominee John Ashcroft during an
appearance on "Fox News Sunday."

"I'd like to suggest to them that they
ought to look back to Attorney General
Janet Reno's nomination. A lot of the
right-wing groups started coming out of
the woodwork and I was the one who stopped
them and made it very fair."

Last September, Ohio congressman James
Traficant told Fox News Channel that he
had several affidavits from potential
confirmation witnesses who alleged corrupt
conduct by Reno while she was state's
attorney in Miami, Florida. Traficant said
the witnesses were not allowed to testify
during the Senate hearing on Reno.

"I want to know why, and how long it took
for the FBI to investigate [Reno], if they
gave this information to the Senate,
if the Senate knew about compromises they
had from outside the government?
"Reno's accusers say they gave statements
to the FBI, the Ohio Democrat claimed."I
want to know if the president got that
information?,"
Traficant added. "I want to know the
timespan from when the FBI went down and
interviewed these affiants on these
particular allegations, and how long it
took for her to be confirmed?

"Based on the affidavits, which he has yet
to release, the Ohio Democrat suggested
Reno was a protege of the Miami mob and had
been stopped by local police for drunk
driving and other personal misconduct
while state's attorney."

Janet Reno was one of the exceptions,"
Traficant complained. "They waived that 72-
hour period from the hearing to the
confirmation. And in a lovefest she became
the attorney general..."

***


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[CTRL] US to Outlaw Hemp Products

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ACTION ALERT -- December 30, 2000

U.S. to Outlaw Hemp Products

On November 30, 2000, the Drug Enforcement
Administration published its Semiannual Regulatory
Agenda (Unified Agenda) in the Federal Register.
Included in this agenda is the intent of the DEA to
outlaw currently legal hemp products through changes to
their administrative regulations.

Administrative rules or regulations (these are
interchangeable terms) are promulgated by governmental
agencies and have the force of statutory law. Federal
administrative regulations are first published in the
Federal Register and later codified in the Code of
Federal Regulations.
Once proposed rules are published in the Federal
Register, the public generally has 30 days to comment
on the rules before the agency makes its final
decision.

Under the title "Use of Marijuana for Industrial
Purposes" in the Unified Agenda published in the
Federal Register on 11/30/00, the DEA describes
its intent to publish three proposed rules regarding
hemp products.
http://www.levellers.org/dea/unified.agenda.html
 1) Interpretive rule: The DEA will formally state its interpretation of existing law 
with respect to THC.
According to the DEA's interpretation
of the Controlled Substances Act, any product
containing any amount of THC is considered a Schedule I
controlled substance, even though such products
are made from portions of the cannabis plant that have
been excluded from the federal definition of marijuana
since 1937.
http://www.levellers.org/dea/thcdefn.html
 2) Proposed rule: The DEA will revise the wording of
their own regulations so that both naturally-occurring
and synthetic THC will be considered Schedule I
controlled substances.  Right now, DEA rules only
prohibit synthetic THC, not the naturally-occurring THC
that is contained in trace amounts in industrial hemp
products.

3) Interim rule: This rule will exempt some hemp
products that are not intended for human consumption
(paper, rope and clothing).  However, sterilized seed
for human consumption (used to make cookies, tortilla
chips, pancakes, etc.) will be banned.  Highly
nutritious hemp seed oil will also be banned.  Hemp
personal care products (soap, shampoo, lip balm,
lotion, etc.) are still in question.  The DEA would
like to outlaw them as well and is still looking for
evidence that THC can be absorbed through the skin when
these products are used.  If they find (or invent)
this evidence, then they may also ban hemp clothing,
which is also in contact with the skin and hemp rolling
papers which are consumed when burned!

These proposed rules have been reviewed and approved by
the U.S. Justice Department, DEA and Office of National
Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). A July 10, 2000 letter
from Barry McCaffrey (ONDCP) to Congresswoman Patsy
T. Mink shows where the federal government is coming
from.  In this letter, McCaffrey states that hemp used
for human consumption is "confounding our Federal drug
control testing programs".
http://www.hempembargo.com/topstories/1010.htm
 Apparently, this is in response to soldiers and transportation workers blaming hemp 
consumption for THC-
positive urinalysis tests.  Instead of enacting a
behavioral testing program to weed out employees that
are impaired by a wide range of conditions, be it
cannabis use, stress, lack of sleep or use of other
substances, the government has decided to make
it a felony to possess hemp products that have been
safely consumed by humans for over 10,000 years!

The next step is for a Notice of Proposed Rule-Making
to be published in the Federal Register.  At that
point, the public will have 30 days to comment on the
proposed rules, but at that point, it may well be too
late for hemp.  The only time we may have to save hemp
products in the U.S. is now!

CONTACT CONGRESS NOW!!!
We need to contact our federal Senators and
Representatives to put pressure on the DEA to NOT
officially publish these proposed rules.
Please call, fax, write and email your federal
representatives.  Time is of the essence since we do
not know when the DEA will officially publish
its proposed rules.  Make sure you ask your
congressmembers to strongly oppose this proposed rule-
making, not just inquire about it.  To date,
the DEA has received over 200 "inquiries" from
congressmembers, but those inquiries weren't logged as
opposition to the matter.

PHONES:
Capitol Switchboard:
Senate: (202) 224-3121
House: (202) 225-3121

FAX CONGRESS FOR FREE!
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana
Laws is providing
a
free service to send a fax to your members of congress.

1) Go to http://congress.nw.dc.us/norml/
2) Fill out your name and contact information and click
next.
3) A list of your federal representatives (based on
your zip code) will
appear.
4) Select the "Stop the DEA from Banning Industrial
Hemp" button and
click next.
5) You can either use the text that NORML has provided,
the text that
CO-HIP provides below, or compose your own message.
Then click

[CTRL] Clinton Calls for Marijuana Decriminalization (and Lies While Doing So)

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Clinton Calls for Marijuana
Decriminalization (and Lies While Doing So)
Leave it to lame duck president Bill Clinton to taint a
potentially breakthrough moment -- calling for marijuana
decriminalization and major Drug War reform -- with hypocrisy
and lies.
President Clinton, of course, is an ex-pot smoker whose
infamous claim that he smoked but "didn't inhale" made him a
laughing stock worldwide. In an interview with the magazine
Rolling Stone, published in early December, he was asked if
he thought that "people should go to jail for using or even
selling small amounts of marijuana".
Clinton's answer:
"I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been
decriminalized in some places, and should be. ... We really
need a re-examination of our entire policy on imprisonment.
... "
This from the man whose own administration has for eight
solid years savagely prosecuted the Drug War -- particularly
casual marijuana use. In fact, during Clinton's regime
America suffered the largest number of marijuana arrests in
its history -- over 4,175,357 persons were arrested on
marijuana charges between 1992-99. Tens of thousands of
non-violent drug offenders now waste behind bars.
National Review, America's leading conservative magazine,
which has long called for ending the Drug War, asked the
right question in an editorial after the interview came out:
"Then why didn't [Clinton] do anything about it during the
eight years that he was president -- such as propose a law,
give a speech, or even plant a friendly question in a press
conference?"
Allen St. Pierre, Executive Director of NORML, called
Clinton's statement "incredibly belated..."
The Las Vegas Review-Journal put it most bluntly: "To call
Mr. Clinton a hypocrite is to insult hypocrites everywhere."
Katha Pollitt, a columnist for the leftwing Nation magazine,
charges that Clinton lied in the interview when he claimed he
had tried to reform the drug laws by eliminating the
grotesque disparity between crack and powdered cocaine
penalties, a disparity that has filled prisons with
small-time drug users. Clinton claimed Republicans in
Congress thwarted his efforts to end the disparity. Actually,
says Pollitt, in 1997 Clinton proposed *reducing* the
disparity -- from 100-to-1 to 10-to-1 -- but himself resisted
calls to eliminate the disparity entirely.
Clinton could begin to make amends for his hypocritical
support of a brutal policy by pardoning all non-violent drug
offenders -- as Libertarian Party presidential candidate
Harry Browne proposed during his campaign.
Don't inhale -- um, hold your breath -- waiting.
(Sources: DrugSense Weekly, plus publications/organizations
sources mentioned in article)


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[CTRL] Nader Wants Internet Control

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Nader Wants Internet Control
by Declan McCullagh and Nicholas Morehead

8:25 a.m. Jan. 10, 2001 PST
WASHINGTON -- To most people, the Internet is a way to
communicate, an untapped business opportunity, or a
symbol of dot-com greed run amok.

Not so Ralph Nader. The former Green Party presidential
candidate sees an opportunity for a new global
bureaucracy.

On Tuesday, Nader called for the creation of a "World
Consumer Protection Organization," comparable to the
United Nations' World Intellectual Property
Organization, only "more democratically run."

Nader, at a National Press Club event, said the
proposed WCPO would focus on regulation of privacy, e-
commerce, intellectual property, antitrust and Internet
governance -- areas he said affected consumers directly.

"The technology of the Internet is far ahead of any
legal framework, any ethical framework or global
framework," Nader said. "Are we going to be left with
self-regulatory standards set and implemented by
individual companies?  Are we going to be left with
standards set by the Better Business Bureau
as a last resort?"

Another justification: Fraud. During the panel
discussion organized by Forbes magazine, Nader said a
recent Harris poll showed that 6 million Americans felt
that they were "somehow defrauded" on the Internet
during 2000.

The odds of a WCPO being created anytime soon, of
course, range between zero and infinitesimal.

In an era where the U.S. shies away from paying its
U.N. dues because of ongoing hostility from
conservatives, Republicans are hardly likely to embrace
a new international organization that has Internet
regulation as its sole purpose. And Capitol Hill's
reaction to a U.N. proposal that recommended taxing all
e-mail was uniformly negative.

"A business-hating authoritarian like Nader doesn't
really want a U.N. for privacy," says Wayne Crews,
director of information policy at the libertarian Cato
Institute. "He would be most content simply dictating
policy himself."

"But knowing the hostility of many other nations toward
an Americanized Internet with more open attitudes toward
privacy and commerce, he's perfectly happy to allow
them to help carry the water," Crews says.

But free-market types, oddly enough for an event
organized by Forbes, weren't invited. Forbes ASAP co-
sponsors an annual Technology and Society conference
that's critical of regulation.

Instead, the reactions from the other two panelists
ranged from neutral to enthusiastic.

"The crime is not new," said Piyush Gupta, founder and
CEO of LiquidPrice.com, a site that allows buyers to
search for and purchase brand-name items from pre-
approved retailers. "The troubling fact is that
efficiency of the Web allows for these scams to scale
dramatically."

Gupta said he foresaw "dark clouds on the horizon," and
echoed Nader's remarks about the problems of online
fraud.

In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission has
taken the lead in combating Internet fraud.

An IBM representative also called for additional
government intervention. "There is no magic bullet
here," said David Allison, IBM's worldwide director of
e-business strategy. "We have to think of it in more of
a management perspective rather than a technological
one.

"Business has to ante up. Consumers have to do their
part and get educated, and the government has to get
involved."


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[CTRL] Damn You, Sapienza!

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Damn You, Sapienza!
by Ryan McMaken

It has been brought to my attention that a LewRockwell.com writer
by the name of Sapienza has used his last name to gain special
financing on a car he recently purchased. Apparently the bank
thought he was "Spanish" since his last name ends in the letter
"a."

The proper surname means so much these days. You see, in this
affirmative action world, I am very fortunate to be 50% Mexican.
The real tragic part, though, is that the 50% happens to be on my
mother’s side.

So, it turns out I’m forever cursed with my father’s Scots-Irish name
that no one would ever look twice at when financing my car.
I inherited my father’s rather light complexion, too. Strike two.

It doesn’t matter for the really important stuff though. After years
of college applications, and scholarships, and graduate school
applications, etc, I’ve learned how to maximize my ethnicity. In my
college essays I always made sure to stick in some reverie about
my little abuelita cooking chile rellenos in the kitchen while her 18
children talked about mariachi bands and Henry Cisneros all under
a giant picture of our Lady of Guadalupe.

College types like to read that kind of stuff. I always make sure and
check that little "Mexican/Latino/Non-Black Hispanic" box on
the applications because you only have to be 50%. That’s right!
50%! I hear that if you’re a Kiowa Indian or something you only
have to be 1/245 Indian, but with Mexicans it’s a full ½. I never
mention that I’m also 50% WASP. College types definitely do NOT
like to hear that. Once again, my last name is kind of a giveaway,
but did I mention that part about 50%?

You see how hard I work at it. Even with all this effort, I was never
once offered a deal from my bank because of the whole
Mexican/Latino thing. They never even asked. I have the
percentages all ready for them if they do. Meanwhile, Mr. Italian-
Man Sapienza over there is taking advantage of what should be my
discount. I suppose I’ll let it slip this time. It turns out that Latium
is actually in Italy and the Latin language originated there.
Sapienza can come to our club through the back door if he really
wants to.

For the most part, though, "Latino" refers to those people
down in Latin America, or those of us descended from them.
Hispanic is no longer the preferred choice apparently. I guess it
refers too much to Hispania in ancient Spain. Those hated
Spaniards brought over Catholicism and the Spanish language and
even had the nerve to import the alphabet and sanitation.
Since Hispanic is too Spanish, the Hispanics go by Latino which
one would think might smack too much of Latin stuff, but I guess
they don’t mind. I’d expect to take a trip down there and find a
bunch of people in togas named Marcus and Quintus and Dexter. It
turns out that’s not true at all. Those of us who don’t mind being
associated with the Spanish part too much still go by Hispanic.

The name that really confuses me though, is "chicano." In
Mexico, calling someone a "chicano" is the equivalent
of calling someone "white trash" around here. For some
reason, the name caught on in the 60’s and never totally went
away.It’s kind of like the clap.

Now, if you’re looking to be like me and milk the system, don’t
make a mistake that many people do. You do not ever want to be
Portuguese.

It turns out that Portuguese-speaking people don’t count as
minorities.

If you’re a street child from Rio and you’re looking for some
affirmative action, forget about it. The Brazilians don’t have a large
enough lobby in Congress to get minority status. Brazilians are
Anglos.

 It’s the law.

You could be the son of King Juan Carlos of Spain, but you’ll still
be considered disadvantaged. Float down the river a ways to some
peasant village in Portugal though, and everyone there is of the
privileged white classes. That’s what they tell me.

One guy who’s well aware of that little technicality is our illustrious
Colorado Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Ben’s more
Portuguese than anything else, but he likes to play Indian.
Campbell knew that his dark skin got him nowhere as long as he
was Portuguese, so he added the "Nighthorse" part and never
looked back. I hear  he’s 1/187th Apache.

As you can see, we half-breeds have to know a lot of rules. It’s
hard work getting all the free stuff you 100% white people send our
way.

My only regret is that my children won’t be able to take advantage
of those fine gifts. I married a gringa. Our kids will only be 25%.
25% gets you nothing. Their only hope is to get in on the Indian
thing. We’ve already decided the first boy is to be named Carlos
"Dances With Chihuahuas" McMaken. It adds some good variety.

God Bless America!

January 10, 2001

Ryan McMaken is a graduate student in American politics at the
University of Colorado.

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[CTRL] Government Looting Moves North

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>Ontario's Bill 155 is legislation that, if passed into law, will allow
>the Queen in Right of Ontario to take people's land or
possessions - on
>the basis that they are or were purchased with the proceeds of
crime,
>or could be used in a crime - without first finding them guilty of an
>offence.
>
>Have a gun, a knife, a set of scales, a computer in your house?
The
>cops will be capable of taking any such thing and having you
prove that
>you didn't purchase it with the proceeds of crime, or that you are
not
>going to use it to commit a crime.  Same goes for your car, your
house,
>your cottage, your cash...you name it.  There is a process, of
course,
>but the American example teaches us that obtaining your
property will
>be largely a process of rubber-stamping requests (search the web
in
>respect of the infamous, American "RICO" statute, and how
innocent
>Americans have had their property seized without ever having
committed
>an offence.
>
>It is an outrage that, in Canada, any politician would propose
>legislation permitting the Crown to take your property without first
>proving that the property was the proceeds of a crime or used to
commit
>a crime.  Bill 155 will allow the government to loot the property of
>law-abiding citizens, period.
>
>The government of Ontario is trying to sell Bill 155 as anti-biker-gang
>legislation.  It is not.  It is much wider in scope than that.  Even
>the title for the legislation should make that clear:  the "Remedies
>for Organized Crime *and Other Unlawful Activities* Act, 2000".
>Written as it is, the government could take your property for violating
>a law of Quebec (e.g., sign law).  Section 2 states that "In this part
>[entitled "Proceeds of Unlawful Activity":
>
>" "unlawful activity" means an act or omission that,
>
>(a) is an offence under an Act of Canada, Ontario or another province
>of Canada..."
>
>The Bill gives that same definition in respect of "Instruments" (as
>opposed to proceeds) of Unlawful Activity.
>
>Speeding is an offence in Ontario: cars are used to speed and some
>(like Ferraris, Porsches and Mercedes) are worth a fair penny - how
>many government employees will show up at the auction?  The possession
>or sale of some erotica in Canada is considered criminal, and some
>erotica retailers innocently offer erotica that someone from time to
>time deems "obscene": erotica is sold in buildings, with cash registers
>and other equipment, and it is impossible to distinguish the cash used
>to buy an obscene thing from that used to buy a not-obscene thing.
>Sometimes people who are underage by cigarettes or alcohol from
>retailers/bars.  Who is to say that your registered fire arm won't one
>day be used in a crime: gone.  Perhaps your boat will be used to
>smuggle cigarettes or drugs: gone.  Perhaps marijuana will grow on some
>of your land: bye bye farm (prove you didn't intend it to grow there).
>The list of possibilities is virtually endless.
>
>Notice something else: unlawful activity includes not only "acts"
>(i.e., doing something) but "omissions" (not doing something).
>Consider the various forms of registration required in Canada and the
>Provinces, as examples.
>
>This legislation is BROAD, SWEEPING and capable of facilitating
>government corruption, theft and abuse at several levels.  If made law,
>property rights will be meaningless: if made law, this bill arguably
>will be the single greatest assault on property rights ever imposed by
>a government in Canada.  And you can be sure that the governments of
>other provinces are watching to see whether or not the Harris
>government can push this thing through.  If they do so, you can expect
>the same government looting/disguised-taxation law to be passed in the
>other provinces.
>
>Arguably, the law would also violate our most long-lived guarantee of
>property rights in Canada: the Magna Carta.  Some people have argued
>that, because the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not
>specifically grant or recognize rights of property - or because it does
>not list the Magna Carta as a constitutional statute - Canadians have
>no property rights.  Contrary to what some have suggested, however, I
>would argue that the Magna Carta - which protects property rights
>expressly - remains part of the law of Ontario.  It has been applied in
>Ontario *even since the coming into force of the Canadian Charter of
>Rights and Freedoms and has been held still to be law in Ontario*.
>
>Section 28 of the Magna Carta states:
>
>"No constable or other bailiff of ourse shall take the corn or other
>chattels of any one except he straightway give money for them, or can
>be allowed a respite in that regard by the will of the seller".
>
>Section 52 states, in part:
>
>"If anyone shall have been disseized by us, or removed, without a legal
>sentence of his peers, from his lands, castles, liberties or lawful
>right, we shall straightway restore them to him."
>
>Thus, the Magna Carta prevents Her Majesty fr

[CTRL] Alice in Florida

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Jewish World Review Dec. 21, 2000 / 24 Kislev, 5761
Thomas Sowell
Alice in Florida

http://www.jewishworldreview.com --
EVEN THOSE of us who
have been complaining for years about the bias and shallowness of
the media should admit that we never expected the media to be
quite so grossly biased or so unbelievably shallow as they have
been about the outcome of the recent presidential election.
Their arguments have been like something out of Alice in
Wonderland.
The big post-election spin in the media has been that the Supreme
Court of the United States gave George W. Bush the election,
thereby undermining his legitimacy and perhaps its own.
Reality check: The U.S. Supreme Court did not put one vote in
Bush's column, while the Florida Supreme Court ordered hundreds
of votes added to Gore's column.
Does anyone have any idea where we are headed if judges can
order votes added to a candidate's total? The fact that the Florida
Supreme Court got away with it is a constitutional time bomb.
Only the fact that the Supreme Court of the United States stepped
in prevented them from doing more of the same until the real votes
cast for Bush were outweighed by the guesswork "votes"created in
heavily Democratic counties by local Democratic officials
"interpreting" dented ballots.
Does it take a rocket scientist to figure out that there is something
wrong with freezing the vote totals in the vast majority of Florida
counties, while allowing new methods of adding votes to be used
only in a few heavily Democratic counties? Yet who in the media
called that an attempt to "steal the election" for Gore?
Who in the media talked about stealing the election when Gore
supporters tried to disqualify 25,000 absentee ballots on the
flimsiest of technicalities, rejected completely by two Florida
courts? Who in the media talked about stealing the election when
Gore supporter Bob Beckel, after "quiet intelligence-gathering" on
members of the electoral college (reported in the Wall Street
Journal of November 16th), tried to "persuade" Bush electors to
betray the voters they represented by switching their vote to Gore
in the electoral college?

Where are we headed constitutionally if this kind of betrayal -- with
or without the implied blackmail -- reduces the whole electoral
process to a question of what kind of cheap tricks you can get
away with? Bob Beckel seemed shocked that some people were
outraged by his attempt to subvert the election and the
constitution. He could not understand why there were death threats
against him and his family. How can you practice amorality and
then be shocked at other people's amoral behavior?
As for George W. Bush's legitimacy, there have been four men in
this century who became president without getting a single vote for
that office -- Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman,Lyndon Johnson
and Gerald Ford -- and nobody questioned their legitimacy. They
became president because of procedures prescribed by the
Constitution of the United States -- and so did George W. Bush.
The only difference is that Bush also had more than 49 million
popular votes and 271votes in the electoral college.
Hitler and Goebbels said that the people will believe any lie, if it is
big enough and repeated often enough, loud enough. Now we are
seeing that principle being applied in this country, with repeated
assertions that Gore "really" won the popular vote in Florida but his
votes just were not all counted. Yet those who are saying that have
never demanded that votes be counted in Republican counties the
same way that they were counted -- under the Florida Supreme
Court's orders -- in selected Democratic counties. Early on, Gore
rejected a statewide manual recount, for fear of losing.
Seven of the nine justices of the U. S. Supreme Court voted that
the Florida Supreme Court'sactions were unconstitutional. The only
disagreement among these seven was whether it was already too
late to try to hold a statewide manual recount, in view of
approaching deadlines. Five said it was and two thought it wasn't.
That is how the 5 to 4 vote emerged on the remedy.
But it was 7 to 2 that the Florida Supreme Court was wrong.
Yet most media people have raised no question about the Florida
Supreme Court's legitimacy. No one except the U.S. Supreme
Court asked where the Florida justices got the authority to takeover
the job of the election officials designated by the state law to make
decisions on election procedures. Few in the media said anything
about the dangerous precedent of a state court intervening in a
federal election to create a one-sided way of selecting a President
of the United States. It is Alice in Wonderland.


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[CTRL] Release: Linda Chavez (Fwd)

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Linda Chavez's only crime: She's not a
preening hypocrite like other politicians

WASHINGTON, DC -- Linda Chavez should receive a
profound "thank you" and perhaps a special Congressional award
for her personal efforts to help a penniless immigrant -- instead of
being forced to withdraw her name from consideration as the next
Secretary of Labor, the Libertarian Party said today.

"By sheltering a destitute, battered immigrant woman in her
home, Linda Chavez showed what real compassion is, and set a
shining example for all Americans," said Steve Dasbach, the
party's national director.

"Ordinary Americans might describe Chavez's behavior as a
selfless act of charity. Unfortunately, many politicians call it a
crime. Only in Washington, DC, could being a Good Samaritan be
considered a liability."

On Tuesday, Chavez abruptly withdrew from consideration as
U.S. Labor Secretary in the wake of revelations that she invited an
undocumented Guatemalan woman, Marta Mercado, to live in her
home in the early 1990s.

According to reports, Mercado had been beaten and badly
abused by a boyfriend and lived temporarily in a shelter for battered
women before being taken in by Chavez. In gratitude, Mercado
performed some minor household chores and was given some
spending money by the Chavez family.

Critics described Chavez's actions as "exploitation," a
violation of the Immigration Reform Act of 1986, and a possibly
illegal employer/employee relationship.

But Libertarians ask: When did compassion become a crime?

"When it becomes a crime to shelter an impoverished, abused
woman -- regardless of where she came from or how she got here --
it's the politicians who wrote the law that should be put on trial,"
said Dasbach.

And even if Chavez did technically violate the law, it simply
proves that the United States has too many laws, he said.

"Why should it be the government's business whom you take
into your home?" he asked. "Why should it be the government's
business if you shelter a refugee? And why should it be the
government's business whether or not you pay that person to do
chores?"

In fact, if Chavez's version of the facts is correct, said
Dasbach, then the country needs more people like her -- and fewer
politicians who confuse their favorite government programs with real
compassion.

"Unfortunately, most politicians think that casting a vote for
a new government program and spending other peoples' money
makes them compassionate," he said. "All it does is make them
hypocrites. They get an opportunity to preen in front of the TV
cameras, and brag about how full of compassion they are.

"But if politicians genuinely want to help the hungry, the
homeless, and the desperate, Libertarians challenge them to do
what Linda Chavez did: Take a poor person into your home. Make
them feel welcome. Give them clothing. Give them support. Give
them money. Give them love.

"Until they do that, politicians have no right to criticize
Linda Chavez for helping another human being in need."

Praise for Chavez's personal behavior aside, the Libertarian
Party is not saying that she should have been appointed Secretary
of Labor, noted Dasbach.

"President-elect George W. Bush likes to talk about
compassionate conservatism," he said. "From what we've seen,
Linda Chavez can do far more good being compassionate than she
can as another big-government conservative, running an inefficient,
wasteful, unnecessary government department."


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[CTRL] Riady to Plead Guilty to Illegally Funding Clinton's Campaign

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/011101/riady.sml

Riady to Plead Guilty to Illegally Funding Clinton's Campaign
Thursday, January 11, 2001

Indonesian billionaire James Riady agreed late Thursday to plead
guilty to illegally funding President Clinton's 1992 campaign, and to
pay a record $8.6 million criminal fine, Fox News has learned.
Department of Justice sources told Fox News that Riady has
agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy for concealing
foreign contributions. He will not face jail time.
Riady and his companies, Lippo Group and Lippo Bank, will pay an
$8.6 million fine. He is expected to fly from Indonesia to Los
Angeles for an initial court appearance on Tuesday.
The Justice Department confirmed that Riady will pay a record $8.6
million fine and plead guilty to one felony charge of conspiring to
defraud the United States by unlawfully reimbursing campaign
donors with foreign corporate funds in violation of federal election
law.
The plea agreement was filed today at U.S. District Court in Los
Angeles. Under the terms, Riady, an Indonesian citizen, will
surrender himself to the United States at a court appearance
Tuesday in Los Angeles, according to sources.
He will enter the plea on behalf of himself and, in addition, will enter
a guilty plea on behalf of LippoBank California, a California state-
chartered bank affiliated with Lippo Group. That guilty plea is on 86
misdemeanor counts charging Riady and his former employee John
Huang with making illegal foreign campaign contributions from 1988
through 1994.
The agreement calls for Riady to continue cooperating with
authorities. The Justice Department says he has met with
government prosecutors and agents a half dozen times since
August 2000.
Riady will also waive his right to apply for re-entry into the United
States for two years, except when required by the U.S.
government. He will perform 400 hours of community service and
forfeit any refunds from any political campaign committees.
He's also barred from making, reimbursing or directing any future
campaign contributions in U.S. elections.
Information filed with the plea agreement alleges that between May
1990 and June 1994, Riady and Huang conspired to obstruct the
Federal Elections Commission by reimbursing campaign
contributions with funds obtained from foreigners.
— Fox News' Bryan Sierra and the Associated Press contributed
to this report


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[CTRL] Do Blacks Owe Jews Reparations?

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 Do Blacks Owe Jews Reparations?
Michael Savage
Monday, Jan. 8, 2001

The Third Wave leftist hoaxsters are pushing "reparations" for
slavery.  Now, slavery ended in the U.S. 130 years ago.  There is
no black person (born in the U.S.) who was ever a slave.  There is
not a living white person (born in the U.S.) who ever owned a slave.
Yet the hoaxsters push their newest "Big Lie"?
Using their Marxist "Animal Farm" thinking caps, they argue that
all blacks suffered as a result of slavery, that they were
permanently damaged by the institution of slavery, and that there is
no statute of limitations on such a crime against (black) humanity.
Putting aside all other considerations for the sake of brevity and
accepting such premises, let us reason together.
While Jewish people alive today did not directly endure slavery,
their ancestors did, building the pyramids of Egypt and such. Since
the legalistic hoaxsters argue against statutes of limitations for
claims going back over one century past, why not go back 50
centuries and have all Jewish people make claim for reparations
against all Egyptians?
And, not to disrespect revisionist black "historians" who claim the
great pyramids and other Egyptian discoveries and creations were
made by black Africans (not by Semitic Egyptians), we can ask for
reparations from the NAACP and other black supremacist
organizations.

How about it, John Conyers?

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[CTRL] THE FANATICISM OF LINDA CHAVEZ

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THE FANATICISM OF LINDA CHAVEZ
By Jeff Jacoby
The Boston Globe

January 11, 2001


Linda Chavez has only herself to blame
for the fact that she won't be the next
secretary of labor.  Frankly, she should
have known better.

She should have known better than to
open her heart to a stranger in need.  Let
alone a stranger who had just spent 10
days in a shelter for battered women.  Let
alone a battered woman who couldn't speak
English,had very little money, and was
fleeing a country racked by civil war and
political murder.

What was Chavez thinking?  Was she out
of her right-wing mind?  How could she and
her husband have allowed Marta Mercado to
share their home while trying to get her
life in order and obtain a green card?
How could she have driven Mercado to
English classes?  Or showed her how to get
around on the subway?  Or occasionally
given her -- of all things!  --
spending money?  She must have been
deranged to think she could extend
such compassion to another person and get
away with it.

Anyone who's been around Washington as
long as Chavez has knows that people who
aspire to government power and influence
don't do such things.

You think Senator Ted Kennedy, who lost no
time calling Chavez's extraordinary
generosity "a very troubling new
allegation," would let a homeless Central
American refugee move in with *his*
family?  You think John J.  Sweeney, the
AFL-CIO boss who declared war on Chavez and
pronounced her relationship with Mercado
"really unfortunate," is going to drive
some battered woman with no green card to
her English classes?

Oh, no.  Nosiree.  It's all well and
good to talk about helping the vulnerable
and being kind to strangers and the-
greatest-of-these-is-charity.  But to
actually live that way?  To respond to the
misfortune of another human being with
genuine self-sacrifice?  To show concern
for the poor by reaching into your *own*
pocket?

Real Washington players know that only
a fanatic behaves like that. And that was
just the point that Kennedy and Sweeney --
and People for the American Way's Ralph
Neas and the National Council of La Raza
and all those other leftist mouthpieces
that joined in assailing Chavez -- were
trying to make about her all along: She's
a fanatic.

And she persists in her fanaticism!
"Knowing everything that has happened over
the last week," she said at her press
conference on Tuesday, "if that woman
showed up at my door, if I was asked . . .
to do that again, I would do it in an
instant, without hesitation."

She probably would.  She and her
husband have a history of bending over
backward to help immigrants and others in
difficulty.  They opened their home to the
Bui brothers, refugees from Vietnam.  They
paid for private school for the children
of Ada Iturrino, a single mother from
Puerto Rico.  They aided Margarita
Valladares in becoming a citizen and
getting her first job.  "They are a family
who help anybody, no matter who the person
is," Valladares said Tuesday afternoon.
"No matter what the problem, they are
always there."

And to think such a woman almost
became secretary of labor.

Would-be future Cabinet secretaries,
you're on notice: If you meet an
undocumented immigrant whose life is a
shambles, don't do what Chavez did.
Call the Immigration and Naturalization
Service instead.  Get that foreigner
deported.  After all, "harboring an
illegal alien" -- as the New York Times
lectured in its editorial cheering
Chavez's fall -- "is a felony."

So stifle any urge you may feel to do
the decent thing.  Remember: It isn't your
job to help the luckless and forlorn.
It's the federal government's job.  That's
why we have those Cabinet departments in
the first place.  What kind of society
would we be if ordinary men and women
started going out of their way to take
care of each other without waiting
for Senator Kennedy to introduce a bill
making it legal?

And let's hope there will be no more
flouting of the immigration laws in the
name of a higher moral code.  At her press
conference Chavez said, "I don't check
green cards when I see a woman who is
battered and who has no place to live and
nothing to eat."  Man, this extremist just
doesn't get it: In America we *do* check
green cards, thanks to the Immigration
Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) and
the harsh sanctions it imposes on anyone
caught employing an illegal immigrant.

That law isn't on Washington's radar
screen anymore, but not long ago you could
have heard some of the very voices that
this week denounced Chavez denounce with
equal passion the cruel provisions of the
law she is accused of skirting.  Kennedy
called them "inherently unfair" and
introduced a bill to repeal them.  Neas
found them "morally unacceptable."
La Raza said they were "intolerable."

They were right.  IRCA is a shameful
law.  It punishes Americans for giving
immigrants jobs that other Americans don't
want.  It fosters discrimination against
job-seeke

Re: [CTRL] Fw: Ashcroft Appearance on Schlafly's 1997 Conspiracist Video

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Oh, my God, another conspiracy theorist!

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Re: [CTRL] FW: [RRE]restoring the Confederacy

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On 12 Jan 2001, at 15:16, Nessie wrote:


> Of course states have rights, and so do property owners.  Nobody
> is contesting that.  The real controversies begin when the exercise of
> putative "rights" spills over the borders and property lines and
> affect others.  That is why we have a federal government, and it is
> why we have laws, and democracy, and a judicial system.

You statement is unquestionably true - however I fail miserably
when I try to understand how a self-professed anarchist ends up
supporting a government, laws, a judicial system.

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Re: [CTRL] FW: [RRE]restoring the Confederacy

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On 12 Jan 2001, at 20:18, Jayson R. Jones wrote:

> Carl Replies:
> >I will just speak for myself. Rational Anarchism acknowledges that
> >all government is inherently corrupt.  It also understands stands
> >that humanity by its very nature, needs social
> >organization/government. hence
> it is
> >concomitant upon the rational anarchist to seek that social
> >organization/government which isleastcorrupt/offensive/restrictive.
>
> Jayson writes:
> "The theory that regards the absence of all direct or coersive
> government as a political ideal and that proposes the cooperative and
> voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode
> of civilized society."  That is my ideal.  However, Libertarianism is
> a viable and acceptable step in that direction.  It does us all good
> when the Republicrats fight among themselves.  It shows them for what
> they are. If we can use their own words, actions and even institutions
> against them, so much the better.  Tea Party anyone? Jayson (Gotta lay
> off the exprsso late at night)
>
How does Carl's least corrupt/offensive/restrictive government differ
from Libertarianism?


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