Fill The Hill 2004 - June 5, 2004 - Ottawa, Canada
>From: "Jody Pressman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:04:27 -0500 http://fillthehill.ca/ I'm proud to announce that the website for the largest drug reform rally in Canadian history has launched. Fill the Hill 2004 now has a home on the internet at fillthehill.ca Fill the Hill 2004 will feature a broad cross-section of Canada's leading political actors and activists in the fight for a sensible drug policy. Speakers include Libby Davies, NDP M.P. for Vancouver-East and former member of the ‘decrim’ Bill (C-38) House committee, Marc Emery, President of the B.C. Marijuana Party, Philippe Lucas from Canadians for Safe Access and the Vancouver Island Compassion Society, David Malmo-Levine, recent Supreme Court appellant and Vancouver cannabis activist, Alison Myrden, noted medical marijuana activist, Honourable Senator Pierre Claude Nolin, member of the Senate of Canada and Chair of the comprehensive and extensive Special Senate Committee on Illegal Drugs, Eugene Oscapella, director of the Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy, Kirk Tousaw, Policy Director for the BCCLA, Marc Boris-St. Maurice, leader of the Marijuana Party of Canada, and last but certainly not least, Alan Young, respected lawyer, law professor, and author of Justice Defiled: Perverts, Potheads, Serial Killers & Lawyers. http://fillthehill.ca/ will serve as an important organizational and communication tool in the coming months to keep people informed about this exciting and unprecedented event. Be sure to check our our website, join our mailing list, plan to be in Ottawa on Saturday June 5, 2004 to 'fill the Hill' and support reform to our failed marijuana laws. Jody Pressman Fill the Hill, Event Coordinator http://fillthehill.ca/
Ontario, Canada's Largest Marijuana Growing Operation -- Molson Brewery, Barrie, Ontario
News Stories: http://www.mapinc.org/people/molson A marijuana growing operation at the former Molson brewery in Barrie -- thought to be the largest ever discovered in the province -- is twice as big as originally thought. Pictures of the operation: http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771096-1.jpg http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771098-2.jpg http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771100-3.jpg http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771104-4.jpg http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771107-5.jpg http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771110-6.jpg http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//77-7.jpg http://www.cannabisculture.com/uploads//771114-8.jpg -- Fill The Hill * Ottawa, Canada -- Saturday, June 5th '04 * fillthehill.ca
Mitnick wants war stories
This sounds like a very interesting project! -Tim http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39118685,00.htm Mitnick calls for hackers' war stories Patrick Gray ZDNet Australia December 19, 2003, 10:40 GMT Notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick is collating tales of hackers' 'art' into a book Famed hacker and master social engineer Kevin Mitnick has been commissioned to write a new book following the success of his first text The Art of Deception. The new book, tentatively titled The Art of Intrusion will tell the stories of real hacks, with the names of attackers obscured to protect them from the authorities and their victims. Mitnick has called on retired hackers to come forward with their stories, offering a $500 (#283) prize for the best story that makes it into the book, and a $200 payment for all stories that make the final draft. "I'm going to tell the true stories of some of the untold most salacious hacks in cyberspace. The sexy, the ingenious, the innovative and the clever," he told ZDNet Australia by phone from the US "The stories are not going to be the same attack vector or the same class of vulnerability. I'm looking for stories that will include a variety of attack methods exploiting physical, operational, network host, and personnel security vulnerabilities." Fame found Kevin Mitnick when the US government made an example of him, incarcerating him for five years for computer based offences. Four of his years inside were served before he was even tried, and he was forced to endure eight months in solitary confinement because "the government said I could start a nuclear war if I had access to a telephone," Mitnick says. In trouble with the law for technological mischief since 1982, Mitnick became a fugitive in January 1993 when he skipped town after authorities sought to question him about a possible parole violation. During that time he used various aliases, including Eric Weiss -- Harry Houdini's real name -- and worked several jobs, including a stint as a systems administrator at a law firm. He was captured in 1995 by the FBI after two years on the run. The hunt for Mitnick and his subsequent capture were dramatised in the novel Takedown, which was subsequently turned into a movie of the same name. The book was written by Mitnick's rival and security professional Tsutomu Shimomura, and co-authored by New York Times journalist John Markoff. Shimomura assisted the FBI in tracking Mitnick, who launched a scathing attack on the Takedown account of events in a chapter of his last book that was never published. Mitnick was released from custody into supervised release in early 2000. The conditions of his release meant he was not allowed to use a computer. When it came time to write his book, however, the government was flexible. "The government had given me permission to obtain a computer prior to my supervised release expiring. I wasn't permitted to use the Internet but I did use a computer to do the last book. It was more difficult... I had to actually send a floppy disk to my co-author, that's how we traded material -- by physical postal mail," Mitnick explained. "But now these restrictions have been lifted I think it's really going to increase our productivity now we can use this marvellous thing called email." The terms of Mitnick's supervised release were lifted in January this year. As well as being able to use the Internet again, Mitnick has been able to leave the US -- a luxury not afforded to him while under the conditions of his release agreement. "Lately I've been travelling all around the world, I've been to Brazil -- I just got back from Portugal. I've been in the Czech Republic, Poland, Spain, Helsinki [in] Finland -- which is kind of funny because Nokia mobile phones, one of our prior victims, actually sponsored my talk which is great. They've been forgiving," he said. Conceding his notoriety is at least in part responsible for his "reversal of fortune" -- he claimed he was worried that the initial conditions of his release would make it difficult for him to find a job -- Mitnick says his well-known name is useful in getting his foot in the door. "My demand in the speaking arena -- my name value or my branding -- is really a product of the sensationalism that was attached to the 'Kevin Mitnick' case... if that never happened I might be a fantastic author, a fantastic consultant, and a world renowned security professional, but by name I might not be known," Mitnick argued. "I do attribute the trials and tribulations that I experienced in the past to why my name is so well known, and... this notoriety -- it does drive some business." Mitnick plans to hand the finished manuscript to his publisher in September next year. Have you got a story for Mitnick's new book? Email him at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nextel chills radio station into disciplining disgruntled customer (and show host)
Pubdate: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 Source: City Paper (PA) Copyright: 2003 CP Communications, Inc. Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.citypaper.net/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/88 Author: Morris Bracy Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Forchion THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY The first time self-described marijuana-legalization spokesperson Patrick Duff smoked weed, he was an 11-year-old kid in Delran, N.J. "I was a very adventurous young man," says Duff, who, when he didn't get high that first time, wondered what all the hype was about. He couldn't have known that he and Mary Jane would have such an enduring, committed relationship. Sixteen years later, Duff found himself hosting Open Minds, an hourlong weekly program on New World Radio 1540 AM. For an eight-week, buy-your-own-airtime stint that began in October, Duff -- along with a ganja-themed local hip-hop act, Herbillest -- provided a local forum for legalization activists to state their case to Philadelphians. Unlike other shows with similar themes, Duff says that he "wasn't going to go on there and be irate and get real crazy about the situation, [but] actually find people who could solve the problem." Past guests include Cannabis Hall of Fame inductee and author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes Jack Herer, Vancouver's "Prince of Pot," Marc Emery, and our very own "NJ Weedman," Ed Forchion. Duff just couldn't keep the topic on weed the whole time, though, and took on cell phone giant Nextel Communications when his i90 cell gave out. He says he trusted that his $4.95-a-month manufacturer's insurance policy, along with a $35 deductible, would guarantee a new replacement. But as he went through three replacements in six months, he read the fine print and found that Nextel reserved the right to replace broken phones with "refurbished" ones. Duff, who felt like he was getting hustled, demanded the company tell consumers new phones weren't an option and that all phones were used. He then challenged a Nextel rep to defend the company's policies on the air. Nextel responded by calling his station and apparently convincing the general manager to do some in-house censorship. In a letter from the station, Duff was threatened with being "immediately canceled" should he "even breathe the name Nextel." Chris Doherty, Nextel's senior director of public affairs, admits they called but says they didn't threaten the station with a libel suit. According to Doherty, the company's main concern was preventing an irate Duff from publicly making slanderous comments. Doherty claims that during a phone exchange, Duff drew a parallel between Nextel's actions and the Columbine massacre. He feared similar comments might be expressed on the airwaves. New World GM Sam Speiser had no comment. Though his show's off the air, Duff is considering buying more New World time slots. Duff's next move will be his most ambitious yet -- assuming it works. To celebrate the end of the NJ Weedman's drug-possession parole, he's helping the local counterculture celebrity organize a smokeout at the Liberty Bell. Originally scheduled for Dec. 6 -- it was canceled due to snow -- the smokeout is slated to be held this Saturday. Unlike past smokeouts, where everyone quits smoking cigarettes, this will be more of a "smoke-in," where everyone present will celebrate "with the sacrament of marijuana," Duff says. The rally is slated to begin at 3 p.m. and last until 5 p.m., with the "sacrament" to be lit at precisely 4:20 p.m. (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.) According to Duff, invitations went out to Woody Harrelson, Ashton Kutcher, Al Gore and Bill Clinton. "People aren't going to be able to stop us. There's going to be hundreds and hundreds of us," says Duff, who's confident that the event will be an unprecedented success despite ramped-up security around national monuments since the 9/11 attacks. Holding the event on federal property is by design, since participants -- arrested participants, hypothetically -- could seek protection from prosecution under religious-freedom claims. (Forchion, who got pinched with 40 pounds, is a Rastafarian who says court rulings have defended his right to smoke weed during religious rituals.) The location also keeps the Philadelphia Police Department out of the mix, as Independence Mall lies under the National Park Service's purview. As of earlier this week, Park Service spokesperson Phil Sheridan said he hadn't heard about the planned protest, so no responses were available. "There are areas designated for exercising your First Amendment rights," says Sheridan, "but you cannot break the law [to do so]."
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Marijuana once again legal in Ontario, Canada
An unforeseen consequence of government incompetence. http://ontario.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=25324 TORONTO - Ontario Consumers for Safe Access to Recreational Cannabis is happy to inform consumers that, because of Health Canada's failure to implement constitutional Medical Marijuana Access Regulations, wide-open marijuana legalization is back in Ontario! "The police will likely still have their 'business as usual' public relations line, but since Health Canada has defied the order of the Ontario Court of Appeal by not allowing a grower to supply multiple patients, as ordered, the MMAR is unconstitutional," said Tim Meehan, communications director of OCSARC. "Because it's unconstitutional, that means that according to the Parker decision by the same court in 2000, the possession of marijuana law is dead once again." OCSARC reminds people that while they might still be arrested and prosecuted by police and prosecutors who refuse to acknowledge the status of the law, they may seek substantial financial compensation later. "This is a notice to police that while they do have the power to arrest harmless marijuana smokers, they will be doing so at their own peril. Cannabis consumers will not allow themselves to be treated as second class citizens, and many will be armed with legal information and representation in case the harassment continues," said Meehan. OCSARC (Ontario Consumers for Safe Access to Recreational Cannabis) is a Toronto-based organization working to end prohibition and promote reasonable and responsible regulation and quality assurance in the cannabis market.
Toronto man charged with wardriving, possession of child pornography
http://www.torontopolice.on.ca/newsreleases/release.php?id=4732 November 21, 2003 - 01:20 pm CHILD PORNOGRAPHY ARREST USING STOLEN INTERNET SIGNAL Corporate Communications 416-808-7100 On Wednesday November 19th, 2003 at approximately 5:03am, Sgt. Don Woods (7167) of 11 Division observed the accused driving his car the wrong way on a one way street in a residential subdivision in Toronto. The accused was investigated and observed to be naked from the waist down. He had a laptop computer on the passenger seat and on the screen was a young girl performing a sex act on an older man. The laptop had a wireless adapter card (known as a WI-FI card) allowing the accused to access the Internet through any insecure wireless Internet signal. (known as War Driving) The accused was taken to 11 Division and members of the Child Exploitation Section of the Sex Crimes Unit were called in. A lengthy investigation revealed that the accused also had been downloading child pornography using KaZaa, a peer to peer file sharing program and had been posing as a younger man in chatrooms to meet young girls. With the assistance of the O.P.P.s Project P, a search warrant was executed at the residence of the accused in Delhi, Ontario. 10 Computers and hundreds of compact discs containing hundreds of thousands of images and movies of child pornography were recovered. Accused : Walter NOWAKOWSKI 36 years Delhi, Ontario Charged : Possession of Child Pornography (2 Counts) Accessing Child Pornography Distribute Child Pornography Theft of Telecommunications Make Child Pornography The accused is in custody and will appear in courtroom #101 at Old City Hall, on Monday November 24th, 2003, at 10:00 a.m. for a bail hearing.. The public is reminded that if they are operating a wireless network at their home or business, their system needs to be secured against such actions. Sgt. Jim Muscat for Detective Sergeant Paul Gillespie and Staff Inspector Bruce Smollet
Drug policy activist *searched and detained* by notorious South Carolina principal after being invited onto school grounds
x27;s pamphlet and an SSDP
sticker. He told me he would read the pamphlet even if I didn't believe
him (which I assured him I did) and I apologized for not having anymore
copies of the "Safety First" booklet on me to give to him. I then realized
he took the copy of the pamphlet that had the names of the teachers and
staff I had just encountered written on the back and when I asked for it
back, in exchange for a different pamphlet, I was told, "I didn't need to
have the names of his teachers." As if it was going to be so difficult to
remember all four names.
A tresspass warning was filled out with my name on it and my picture was
taken by Cpl. Aucoin. ("No smiling!" he told me.) After he snapped my mug,
I was given the warning which I was told to sign and I was reminded that it
didn't have to be this way, they could have had me arrested, if they
wanted. Now, having not lined up local counsel in advance, I wasn't too
eager to spend an evening in the Berkeley County jail and frankly, I'm glad
it didn't have to come to that. Before I left, I was also told to stay
away from the strip mall behind the school and that I would be "run out" if
I tried to come back there again. I guess tomorrow we'll see about that! I
left the principal's office, walked off campus towards my car and on my way
I ran into a few more students back in the strip mall parking lot. I told
them what happened and we had a nice laugh.
Dan Goldman
McCrackin Victim #108
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Dan Goldman is a 2001 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he
received a B.A. in history. He has been active in SSDP since the first meeting
of the UW-Madison chapter in the fall of 1999. Since then he has attended every
national SSDP conference, and in the spring of 2001, he organized SSDP's first
regional conference for SSDP activists throughout the midwest. Upon graduating,
Dan worked for the Drug Reform Coordination Network in Washington, DC and most
recently, he was the September 11th Detention Coordinator for the American
Friends Service Committee's Immigrant Rights Program, in Newark, NJ. Dan
currently resides in Madison, WI, where he is working on his first book.
--
Tim Meehan, Communications Director
Ontario Consumers for Safe Access to Recreational Cannabis
[EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.ocsarc.org * 416-844-2431
Brinword on again in Kelowna, BC: CanPrivComm's replacement drops police surveillence camera lawsuit
Too bad George Radwanski didn't just bring his lunch to work more often. This was one of his more prominent causes, an important one, which his successor is just rolling over on. --- http://tinyurl.com/g30t The Toronto Star Jul. 5, 2003. 01:00 AM Radwanski stand-in cleans house Sidelines aides, ends pricey B.C. court challenge Staff co-operating with auditors: Robert Marleau TONDA MACCHARLES OTTAWA BUREAU OTTAWARobert Marleau, the man replacing former privacy commissioner George Radwanski, has moved quickly to overhaul the beleaguered office, halting a $250,000 court challenge to RCMP surveillance cameras yesterday and sidelining two of Radwanski's most controversial senior aides. Marleau, a former clerk of the Commons who is filling the job on an interim basis, said in an interview he dropped the high-profile court action in Kelowna, B.C., that Radwanski had undertaken as a crusade because it was not "a useful way of spending public funds." Marleau also accepted on Wednesday the resignation and early retirement of Art Lamarche, Radwanski's chief of corporate services. Marleau said there was no special incentive package offered to Lamarche to retire July 31; it was Lamarche's own decision. The interim privacy commissioner also ordered Dona Vallieres, Radwanski's director of communications and frequent travel companion, to take "special leave" with full pay pending the outcome of Auditor-General Sheila Fraser's financial probe. "When I came in, I took stock of the situation and thought it was in her best interests and our best interests while the audit was ongoing, and pending its results, that she go on special leave," Marleau said. He would not speculate on the likelihood of Vallieres returning to her job. "The audit will dictate the outcome," he said. Vallieres travelled extensively with her former boss to Paris, Madrid, London, Rome, New York and New Zealand among other destinations. Her expense claims show she often dined at the same Ottawa restaurants preferred by the ex-commissioner. A self-described sufferer of chronic fatigue syndrome, Vallieres had refused to appear before the Commons committee investigating Radwanski's expenses, saying she was ill. She did, however, appear at Radwanski's news conference the following day. Vallieres has declined interviews, but indignantly denied to a CTV reporter she had any improper relationship with Radwanski. In 2001-2002, documents show Radwanski claimed $182,777 in domestic and foreign travel expenses. Vallieres claimed a total of $129,542 for the same period. Marleau declined to reveal the salaries of Vallieres and Lamarche, who is on "special leave" with full pay until his July 31 retirement, but both are considered senior executives in the public service. Under recently announced pay increases, an executive's salary ranges from $102,200 to $165,000. The NDP's Pat Martin said he was pleased with the moves by Marleau, and said the results of the auditor general's investigation may mean future sanction for Radwanski's former aides. "(Canadians) should be comforted by the fact that any maladministration of public funds may be considered a criminal matter," he said. Neither Lamarche nor Vallieres returned the Star's calls yesterday. Marleau, and all senior officials in the privacy office, have already met with and provided documents to federal auditors from Fraser's office, and more interviews are set for Monday, he said. As well, a "broad" audit of staffing practices by the Public Service Commission is underway. "As far as I'm concerned, they have complete access," Marleau said. "I look forward to their findings." As for the Kelowna surveillance camera court challenge Radwanski had launched, Marleau said he made a "risk assessment" of the likelihood of success and the future legal costs, and believed it was "not reasonable" to proceed. Up to now, the merits of the case hadn't been argued, yet the challenge had already cost $250,000 to litigate, mostly in fees to Toronto lawyer Morris Manning. The challenge, Marleau said, was not "the best use of funds of this small office." The federal justice department opposed Radwanski's efforts to bring the matter to court, and Radwanski had lost his first bid for standing to intervene. Marleau said the office still has concerns about the privacy implications of surveillance cameras, and if it received a complaint from an individual Kelowna resident, which it has not, it would "pursue" the matter, and apply a test of "reasonableness" to the use of surveillance equipment. -- Tim Meehan, Communications Director Ontario Consumers for Safe Access to Recreational Cannabis [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.ocsarc.org * 416-854-6343
Legal marijuana in Ontario, Canada tries courts, police
http://www.mapinc.org/cancom/2870ddf8-d939-49a0-babb-a629a4384311 Pubdate: Sunday, June 29, 2003 Source: Ottawa Citizen (CN ON) Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/ Author: Jake Rupert Messy marijuana law tries courts, police Right now, there is no law against possessing marijuana for personal use in the province, due to a couple of recent court rulings. Police officers, lawyers and judges are asking what happens next. Jake Rupert The Ottawa Citizen If you're confused about whether it is legal or illegal to possess marijuana in Ontario, you're not alone. And you have some pretty good company. It seems the answer to the simple question of whether possession of marijuana is legal right now depends on who you ask. Police and federal Crown attorneys will tell you that, in their opinion, it's still illegal to possess marijuana. On the other hand, judges and defence lawyers will tell you there is no law against having marijuana for personal use. The fact is that, right now, in law and in practice, there is no law against possessing marijuana for personal use in the province, due to a couple of recent court rulings. The proof can be seen in our courts these days as judges in Ottawa and across Ontario are simply dismissing the charges against people because the charges have no legal merit. Justice Bruce MacPhee, Eastern Ontario's regional senior Ontario Court judge, said he quashed three of them in the week of June 16-20. "In my view, the charge of simple possession of marijuana, less than 30 grams, is no longer capable of finding its way onto a proper information." Barring a drastic move by the federal government -- which isn't going to happen anytime soon -- there will be no law against possession at least until the Ontario Court of Appeal rules on the case that nullified the law. There is no date for that case to be heard at the province's highest court. Brian McAllister, the Windsor lawyer who brought down the law, thinks the hearing will happen in late July or early August. A ruling will follow sometime after that. "As it stands, it looks like we were heading for a summer of unregulated marijuana use in Ontario," said Mr. McAllister. "We're actually in the middle of an interesting social experiment. It will be interesting to see what happens. Will people use marijuana more? I don't know. "Maybe we should look at the results to see what direction we will take on the issue in the future." Things got to this point because of a federal law, coupled with a series of court rulings based on the law. In the early to mid-1990s, social activists began clamouring for a law allowing people suffering from various ailments to smoke marijuana because it helped ease their pain and suffering. At the same time, doctors began writing prescriptions for marijuana. In June 1999, then-health minister Allan Rock started granting exemptions to people for medicinal use. However, these people still had to obtain the drug through illegal connections. The exemptions were also being granted at the minister's discretion. In July 2000, the Ontario Court of Appeal struck down the section of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act prohibiting possession of less than 30 grams of marijuana. In the ruling, the court agreed that the possession law violated the federal charter rights of Terry Parker, a man suffering from severe epilepsy who'd been arrested twice by Toronto police for cultivation and possession of the drug. The court found that if the government wasn't going to make a legal supply of the drug available, it couldn't make it a crime for people to grow it and possess it themselves. The appeal court gave the federal government a year to replace the possession law -- or it would cease to exist. Instead of filling the void created by the decision, the government came up with marijuana medical-access regulations. Still, this program didn't provide a legal supply of the drug to people with minister's exemptions. The bomb dropped on Jan. 2 this year when Mr. McAllister successfully argued to Ontario Court Justice Douglas Phillips that a charge of marijuana possession against a 17-year-old client in Windsor should be thrown out because the government hadn't replaced the law that was struck down by the appeals court, and, therefore, according to the July 2000 appeal court ruling, the law no longer existed. The judge agreed the law prohibiting possession was legal no more and tossed out the charge. The Crown appealed. Hard on the heels of this decision, after hearing a month of arguments last fall, Ontario Superior Court Justice Sydney Lederman declared the government's medicinal-marijuana program unconstitutional because it didn't provide a legal source of marijuana for sick people. The Crown appealed. In the spring, the Crown's appeal of Judge Phillips' ruling in the Windsor case was heard, and, on May 16, was rejected by Ontario Superior Court Justice Steven Rogin. The law d
Passport to Brinworld: Canadian Passport office digitizing all photos for UN database
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2003/06/11/108882.html Your ID going digital By TOM GODFREY - Toronto Sun The passport office has begun digitizing the photographs of millions of Canadians whose mugshots may end up in a United Nations-sanctioned global facial recognition database. The move is to meet standards set by the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which requires a tiny computer chip with a person's picture and basic information be input into every passport from its 188 member states. ICAO officials last week ruled facial recognition technology will be the method used to identify travellers, who will have their photos downloaded into the database of a foreign country every time their passport is scanned at a border. The UN body said the global database can be used to nab or monitor terrorists, fugitives and others sought by police. All passports will be chipped Jacques Perron, of the Canadian Passport Office, said about four million Canadians have had their photos digitized since the program began two years ago. "At some point every Canadian passport will have a chip inside," Perron said. "There is nothing to prevent nations from collecting data and putting them on a database." He said no date has been set for when the chip will be inside Canadian passports, but officials are using facial recognition to screen people applying for passports to curb fraud. ICAO spokesman Denis Chagnon said facial recognition will increase air security and speed up the flow of passengers. "If police are trying to find someone their face can be flagged on a database," Chagnon said. "Anyone who holds a passport will become part of a global database."
Re: What shall we do with a bad government...
Bill Stewart said: >Then there's the old "America: Love it or Leave it" line, >from folks who got really really upset when people _did_ leave it >to avoid Selective Slavery during the Vietnam Police Action. Some yahoo from Kansas has been flaming me with that one, too, after I responded to his incoherent rant about Michael Moore using WMD, or something. I haven't had the heart to tell him Canada hasn't been annexed (yet). -Tim http://www.salvagingelectrons.com/degaulle
