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--- Begin Message --- -Caveat Lector- ...but if snipers are killing Kennedys or people at gas stations in front
of your children, or shooting your children at school, or crashing
planeloads of your children into the Pentagon, don't expect HIA
to use traffic cams specified by DoT as being able to resolve
license plates to be used to get a short list of snipers, or cams that
actually do OCR(optical character recognition) yards from where
snipers live to take that short list and catch your neighborhood
sniper and intimidator of your elected representatives before
the Iraqwar vote.

White House workers get Cipro before 9/11 and mail is confiscated
in Bird's Nest, Virginia, after boston mideasterners pass through 9/11,
anthrax mailed a week later, what's wrong with this picture? This
surveillance will be used against dissidents and refuseniks only!
That's whose license plate numbers are being tracked and phones
messed with and fiber optic dug up by HIA.

FAA-Andrews was oh so uncoordinated with its FAA belly button 9/11,
but in combination with other FAA entities Dulles and Reagan National
airports, FAA-Andrews AFB and the rest of the Potomac Valley FAA
TRACON will all be run from a former electronic warfare center, Vint
Hill, soon if not already. They'll seem even more stupid, incompetent,
and uncoordinated when it counts again. FAA and Andrews were
under the same hats, and in the same building, 9/11, so we'll just
hear that the wire was too long or a rat chewed it now that Dulles
and Andrews FAA are all under the same hat in the same building
at Vince Hill--Vince Petruskie electronic warfare center for the
restoration of public confidence in OKCbomb government.

The Pentagon plane 9/11 was being surveilled by a helicopter.
Don't you worry!

-Bob

Bodhi Man wrote:

This article can be found on the web at
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021111&s=mejia20021030


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More Surveillance on the Way
by ROBIN MEJIA

[posted online on October 30, 2002]

The USA Patriot Act was passed with much fanfare last October, but it was
soon clear that lawmakers passed the package without examining all the
parts. Today, we're still struggling to determine how new law enforcement
powers granted by Patriot are being used.

In June, the House Judiciary Committee asked the Attorney General for
specifics on this issue. On October 17, the committee released the DOJ's
answers.

Much of what was learned was troubling. For example, Patriot opened
loopholes that let electronic communications service providers give customer
records to law enforcement officials without a warrant. In lay terms, the
folks that provide your email account are an electronic service provider,
and your actual emails could fall into the category of customer records.

In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, the Attorney General's office
confirmed that they have received anecdotal accounts of providers turning
over records without a warrant but "there are no statistics detailing the
number of times that disclosures have occurred or the basis for such
disclosures."

In this context, a recent amendment to the Senate's Homeland Security bill
seems all the more ominous. The amendment, offered by Orrin Hatch, was based
on a bill passed in the House on July 15 just before the August recess
called the Cyber Security Enhancement Act, or CSEA. Introduced by Rep. Lamar
Smith, who brought us Patriot's computer surveillance language, CSEA, if
passed, would make it even easier for government agents to get your
electronic records, without a warrant and without telling you.

Traditionally getting electronic records, which can include your actual
emails, has required a warrant, and companies that handed over such
information without that warrant could face penalties. The Patriot Act
created an exception to that requirement: communications providers can now
voluntarily disclose customer records to law enforcement officials in
situations where the provider has a reasonable belief that disclosing the
records is necessary to prevent an imminent danger. The language in Hatch's
amendment expands that exception in two ways. First, it removes the
imminence requirement. Under the new rules, a provider would only have to
believe that disclosing the records would help prevent some theoretical
future danger. Second, a provider would no longer need to have a reasonable
belief that the communication relates to this vaguely defined danger. He or
she will only have to be acting in good faith.

These changes make it much easier for law enforcement officials to access
previously difficult-to-obtain personal information without a warrant. After
all, if a danger no longer has to be imminent to eliminate the need for
court oversight, when will a warrant be needed? And changing the standard
required of the provider to a "good faith" belief would make it harder for
providers to refuse law enforcement requests. "Good faith" is a very
subjective guideline -- all it means is that an employee at an ISP or phone
company must sincerely believe that they are acting to avoid danger,
regardless of whether a reasonable person would agree. It's easy to imagine
that if an FBI agent shows up at your ISP's door and says that seeing your
emails would help them avoid a future threat, that would be enough to give
most employees a good faith belief that they should hand them over.

QUOT-Essentially, it's a standard that you can't ever refute," said Chris
Hoofnagle, legislative counsel to the Electronic Privacy Information Center
(EPIC). "Basically, it immunizes the ISPs."

Or, as Jennifer Granick, Clinical Director at Center for Internet and
Society at Stanford Law School puts it, "Who knows what arrangements will be
made between law enforcement and ISPs?"

Additionally, while the Patriot Act granted exemptions specifically to law
enforcement operatives, the new rules would allow communications providers
to turn over records to any government agency. While it's at least
conceivable that the Centers for Disease Control might have a valid need for
your records, the way the bill is worded, your local city council would have
the same standing.

Other provisions change computer wiretap laws to allow more emergency
tapping and create mandatory sentencing guidelines in cases when someone
uses a computer in the commissions of a crime, as if this was somehow
comparable to using a gun to facilitate a criminal transgression.

How did these provisions get added to the Senate's contentious homeland
security bill by unanimous consent? Hoofnagle explains that the bill makes
most of these changes by reference-substituting one word here and another
there in an existing law. This means that unless someone gets out the
existing language and actually analyzes it against the standing statute,
they can't really tell how the bill has been modified. The bill's first
placement was on the House suspension calendar-which normally contains
uncontroversial legislation-for quick consideration before the August
recess, so it's likely that not every representative actually did his or her
homework before voting. That passage--the House vote was 385 to 3--allowed
Hatch present it to the Senate as "non-controversial" and "passed with
overwhelming bipartisan support."

The bill's original name--the Cyber Security Enhancement Act--didn't hurt
either, given the government's abysmal record on cyber-security.
Unfortunately this bill's focus on increasing email surveillance and
lengthening prison sentences does nothing to improve the actual security of
the government's computer systems.

With the uncertain timetable for Senate action on the Homeland Security
bill, activists say fast action is needed to educate Senators about the
problems with this amendment.

The Electronic Frontiers Foundation launched an action alert on its web
site, which has so far generated more than 6,000 emails to members of
Congress. Granick spoke at Def Con, an annual conference of more than 4,000
hackers and security professionals, August 2, calling on the audience to
contact their representatives in Washington.

EPIC, which has followed this bill since it was introduced, sent a lengthy
letter to the bill's House sponsors earlier this year. Anita Ramasastry,
associate director at the Shidler Center for Law, Commerce, and Technology
at the University of Washington School of Law wrote an article on
FindLaw.com when CSEA was introduced in the House, arguing for amendments to
some of the bill's most egregious sections.

It's important that Senators know what the new changes will actually do and
what you think about changes. So go write and call. Ask that the amendment
be dropped, or at the least, that time is taken to fully analyze all of the
Homeland Security bill's provisions before it is passed.































Orgasmatron


I am the one, Orgasmatron, the outstretched grasping hand
My image is of agony, my servants rape the land
Obsequies and arrogant, clandestine and vain
Two thousand years of misery, of torture in my name
Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
My name is called religion, sadistic sacred whore
I twist the truth, I rule the world, my crown is called deceit
I am the emperor of lies, you grovel at my feet
I rob you and I slaughter you, your downfall is my gain
And all my promises are lies, all my love is hate
I am the politician, and i decide your fate
I march before a martyred world, an army for the fight
I speak of great heroic days, of victory and might
I hold a banner drenched in blood, I urge you to be brave
I hold you to your destiny, I lead you to your grave
Your bones will build my palaces, your eyes will stud my crown
For I am Mars, the god of war, and I will cut you down



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