-Caveat Lector- RadTimes # 73 - October, 2000 An informally produced compendium of vital irregularities. "We're living in rad times!" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUOTE: "A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." --Howard Scott ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents: --------------- --Activist leader held on felonies for convention protests --The Antiglobalization Movement Gets Global --Interpol looks for new directions in fighting cybercrime --School shooters: Secret service findings --The choice: Arm all or arm none --Israeli-U.S. Agreement Near For Spy-Planes Procurement Linked stories: *US Election Fraud & Scams *Anti-Olympics Protests 2000 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Begin stories: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Activist leader held on felonies for convention protests AP Wire Service Oct 14, 2000 PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ A Philadelphia judge has upheld four felony charges against a nationally known activist accused of directing demonstrations and inciting vandalism by protesters during the Republican National Convention. Kate Sorensen, 38, of the Direct Action Network, was ordered held Friday for trial on charges of riot, causing or risking a catastrophe, criminal mischief and conspiracy to commit all three crimes. She initially faced 20 charges including 10 felonies, which were later reduced. She also was initially held on $1 million bail; she is out on $100,000 bail. A trial date has not been set. Nearly 400 demonstrators were arrested during sometimes violent clashes with police and street-blocking protests coinciding with the GOP convention this summer. Fifteen police officers were injured and more than 20 city vehicles damaged during the mayhem. Assistant District Attorney David E. Desiderio said Sorensen should be held responsible for vandalism caused by members of the group that she led. He said Sorensen directed people in the crowds to move to block streets. ``When you run with the crowd you are liable for the acts of the crowd,'' Desiderio said. Defense attorney Lawrence Krasner said Sorensen merely was a participant. He said all the evidence pointed to one thing: ``It's a description of a walk around the city. She's not telling people to block the road,'' Krasner said. Sorensen is one of three high-profile activists accused of leading disruptive demonstrations. Also charged with more serious offenses as activist leaders were John Sellers, director of the Ruckus Society of Berkeley, Calif., and Paul Davis, leader of Philadelphia ACT-UP. All three groups _ Ruckus, DAN, and ACT-UP _ were key organizers of recent mass demonstrations, including the 50,000-person protests in Seattle during the World Trade Organization meetings last fall. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Antiglobalization Movement Gets Global <http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=9889> Tamara Straus, AlterNet October 3, 2000 If you were watching news coverage of the protests in Prague the other week, then what you probably saw were bleeding cops, Molotov cocktail-throwing anarchists and thousands of youthful radicals in a disorganized protest. But the truth was far from those images. Although violence did break out among some demonstrators and up to 55 Czech cops did get injured, the protests organized by the Initiative against Economic Globalization in Prague (INPEG) were largely nonviolent and successful. Come September 26, 10,000 protesters from practically every major city in Europe and North America gathered in the city of spires. Black-clad anarchists from Bristol could be seen rubbing shoulders with Slovak environmentalists. Members of the Italian group Ya Basta!, which takes its name from its support of the Zapatista revolutionaries, could be found marching in matching white fire suits, followed by Greek workers in red bandanas carrying flags with the hammer and sickle. There were Canadians and Americans, Swedes and Poles. And their target was the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the two international lending institutions which were holding their 55th annual meetings in Prague and which protesters insist have increased world poverty, wrought environmental damage and sought to make the world over in terms that best suit the United States. Franz Kafka was the true host of last week's events. His ghostly presence loomed over the sea of 12,000 dark-suited bureaucrats, bankers and politicians who had gathered in a meeting hall intended for apparatchiks of the Communist Party. Surely the author of The Castle would have appreciated that the financial elite were forced to share the same medieval city with a gang of postmodern flower children. He also would have been amused by the presence of hundreds of representatives of non-governmental organizations, environmentalists, human rights activists and church leaders, who had made a pilgrimage to Prague to denounce the Bank and the Fund. I am certain the Czech misanthrope was present when David Hawley, a spokesman for the International Monetary Fund, announced in perfect bureaucratese that the meetings were closing ahead of time. "They moved more quickly than anticipated," said Hawley. "It has nothing to do with protesters." But the protesters knew better. They had pulled off much of what they intended: disruption of the Bank meetings and a media spotlight, however weak, on the darker sides of globalization. "We have continued the spirit of Seattle," said Scott Codey, an American organizer with INPEG. "The atmosphere was positive, celebratory. Thousands of people from all over the world shared their views on antiglobalization." However there was much not to celebrate in Prague. After dozens of demonstrators broke through police barricades and got within yards of the bankers' meeting hall for a one-hour battle with cops, and after protesters were covered in tear gas after the more radical types smashed storefront windows in the Wenceslas Square neighborhood, Czech police abandoned the restraint that had been so admirable the first day of the protests. Come the second day, the 11,000-member force rounded up activists for no apparent reason and put them in jail. There things got decidedly worse. Among the 859 protesters in jail, many were denied food, water and phone calls. In numerous cases, they were severely beaten. Reports were flooding in of broken limbs and ribs, black eyes and other kinds of abuse. Suddenly, the benign image of the fledgling Czech democracy had endured some serious tarnishing. "I was pleasantly surprised by the professionalism of the police at first," said Marek Vesely, a legal observer with Citizens Legal Watch, a Czech nonprofit. "But it seems that the emotions repressed were released elsewhere." In addition to investigating a range of human rights violations, Citizens Legal Watch is tying to determine if police provocateurs urged on the crowds and, as was widely rumored, if the FBI provided names of those activists who were not allowed to cross the Czech border. With almost a tenth of their number in jail, Prague activists spent the latter part of their stay in Prague protesting not the IMF and the World Bank but the Czech police system. It was not unlike Seattle, Washington, D.C, Philadelphia or L.A. But there was an increased sense that violent protest, and police brutality, can no longer take center stage of anticapitalist demonstrations. "If we're really serious about doing an action," said Tedd Cain, an INPEG activist from Chicago, "then we need to make certain there are de-escalation teams, people who are responsible for breaking up the violence." Other activists were not so sure of this possibility. They talked about different traditions of protest, particularly those of Europeans, some of whom see violence as a means toward radical reform. "You cannot control who comes to the protests," said Scott Codey. What activists uniformly would like to control is their media presentation. They are deeply frustrated the press describes them as ignorant and rebellious simply because of their youth. Also among activist frustrations is the way the term antiglobalization is used against them. Activists argue they are not against the benefits of globalization: speedy travel, mass communications and quick dissemination of information (especially through the Internet, which is a key weapon in the activist arsenal.) "We have a fleet of messenger pigeons and we'll be using them in the next protest," joked INPEG organizer Patrick Twomey in reference to the usual Luddite accusations. Rather activists say they seek to get out a complex message: that multinational corporations and the institutions that support them (the WTO, the World Bank, the IMF and many a Western government) are causing vast economic imbalances between rich and poor and tremendous third world debt. They are anticapitalists not because they are against private business but because they believe capitalism has gone too far. It is unclear what the reactions to the Prague protests will be. Certainly, many in the United States are horrified by protesters' brawls with Czech police and the $2.5 million in property damage Prague incurred. But among the financial elite there are signs that opinions about economic globalization are changing. Even before the Prague protests Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, acknowledged there is a "deep-seated antipathy toward free market competition." And the day after protests sent delegates scurrying to the safety of their hotels, World Bank President James Wolfensohn told an audience of central bankers, finance ministers and financiers: "Outside these walls, young people are demonstrating against globalization. I believe deeply that many of them are asking legitimate questions, and I embrace the commitment of a new generation to fight poverty. I share their passion and their questioning." Whether or not Wolfensohn's statement is the stuff of empty rhetoric remains to be seen. But what is clear is that the World Bank, largely because of Wolfensohnn, is taking steps toward reform. In the Bank's World Development Report 2000/2001 the focus was on reducing poverty not only through macroeconomic restructuring but also through attention to health, environmental and educational issues. This is what the NGO community has been advocating for over 30 years. And though very few Bank critics felt change was happening quick enough, 350 of them were permitted to attend this year's annual meetings (as opposed to the two NGOs who were let in five years ago). As for the International Monetary Fund's declarations of reform, encapsulated by IMF Managing Director Horst Kohler who said "we need to make the globalization work for the benefit of all" the response among institutionalized activists was generally bleary-eyed. Ryan Hunter, who works for Friends of the Earth, Slovakia, told me, "We cannot do needed environmental research because the IMF refuses documents on its Slovakian programs, even though the Slovakian government has written to Kohler in support of our request." Unlike the World Bank, which has begun to make some documents available for public scrunity, the IMF remains an institution with zero transparency. Whither the antiglobalization movement? you might ask at this point. Will it continue to hopscotch from protest to protest? Will it remain mired in police brutality scandals that shed harsh light on the limits of civil disobedience? The best answer I heard was from an environmental activist from Seattle. "I think many people from many international communities will go back home and organize against corporate power and corporate control," said Robin Denburg. "Prague has created connections that we can use to organize ourselves." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interpol looks for new directions in fighting cybercrime October 16, 2000 By ANGELA DOLAND Associated Press Writer LYON, France (AP) _ The elusive Russian gang made big sales of child pornography in cyberspace, where it lured international clients emboldened by online anonymity and willing to pay thousands of dollars for unspeakable images. Italian and Russian investigators made the initial raids on the shadowy group and its clients late last month. But they were powerless to make arrests beyond their national borders. So Italian authorities called Interpol, the global police force, whose agents immediately went into action to coordinate worldwide sweeps to try to put an end the transnational network. Interpol's potential as the world's top cybercrime fighter is clear: It has a membership of 178 countries, a global roster second only to the United Nations. And Internet-related crime is, by definition, international. But the Lyon, France-based organization's staff worries that it lacks the resources to organize better police training and broaden international raids against online criminals. And it's counting on the private sector for help. ``It's make-or-break time,'' said Rainer-Diethardt Buhrer, the South African head of Interpol's economic crime branch, which tackles most cybercrimes. In an interview at Interpol headquarters, a shining glass tower beside the Rhone River, Buhrer said Interpol must push forward to coordinate more training initiatives for the world's police forces, who often know too little about cybercrime and lack resources to fight it. Some countries, especially in Eastern Europe, don't even have the money for airline tickets to send investigators to low-budget training courses, Buhrer said. A weak link in one country can foil law enforcement efforts from San Francisco to Manila because cyberspace has now borders. In the wake of the disastrous ``ILOVEYOU'' computer virus, world leaders have been quick to show interest in the growing danger. At a high-level international conference in Paris this May, French President Jacques Chirac called for countries to bolster Interpol's role in fighting cybercrime. But the world's governments haven't been forthcoming with money _ not even for their own anti-cybercrime units. Interpol only has a half-dozen people who work part-time on information technology crimes. Interpol operates on a budget of about dlrs 27 million a year, a negligible part of which goes toward fighting cybercrimes, which range from data destruction to hacking to online child pornography. So Interpol has scratched off an old taboo in the conservative world of law enforcement: It is asking for help from the private sector. The organization hopes information technology companies will join the struggle because of their interest in cleaning up the Net. Private companies lose hundreds of millions of dollars each year to such crime. Interpol staff says such assistance could come as software or hardware, for example, or in training programs. The Internet Alliance has already offered help. The Washington D.C.-based group of major companies including America Online, Microsoft and IBM is helping Interpol make a video and CD-ROM to help teach the world's police forces about Internet-related crimes. And this summer, Interpol revealed it was in talks with Atomic Tangerine, a Silicon Valley security company, about pairing up to fight cybercrime. Companies and police are still hammering out the standards for how much cooperation is acceptable in the still-mysterious field of information technology crime. ``There are some areas where we can collectively use our resources,'' said Ron Teixeira, a specialist on law enforcement for the Internet Alliance. ``But we need to understand the line between voluntary cooperation and industry being the agents of the state.'' For police, too, such teamwork can be tricky. ``You have to be careful who you deal with,'' Buhrer said. But ``getting even the most elementary evidence requires cooperation with the private sector.'' Case in point: Last year, after a Swiss man's racy virtual friendship soured, his former correspondent registered an e-mail address in his name. Eventually, the woman used the phony address to implicate the man's company in a case of chemical trafficking. Trying to track down the woman behind the disastrous messages, Swiss Federal Police asked Interpol to help secure the needed information from Microsoft in the United States, which cooperated by turning over records. ``This happens on a daily basis,'' Buhrer said. Despite the difficulties of coordinating efforts in 178 countries with varying police laws, Interpol has showed signs of promise in fighting cybercrime. It coordinated a 1998 sweep against an elaborate child pornography ring, the ``wOnderland club,'' which culminated in simultaneous arrests in 12 countries. Based on that success, Italian investigators contacted Interpol after the Sept. 27 arrest of eight Italians and three Russians linked to a pornography ring that offered a gruesome catalog on the Internet. Its inventory included films of children being tortured and killed. Agnes Fournier de Saint Maur, the Interpol specialist coordinating the crackdown, said the international agency's job is sometimes complicated by countries who prefer to turn a blind eye to cybercrimes. ``Some countries are actually using sex deviance ... to make money on the Internet,'' she said, citing the example of countries that sell access to perverse Web sites or chat rooms. With vastly different legal systems and cultures, countries can't seem to decide on exactly what activities should be outlawed. And computer attack is still not universally recognized as a crime. Efforts are underway to standardize international cybercrime law, but they may take some time to implement. The 41-nation Council of Europe _ working with the United States, Canada, Japan and South Africa _ released a draft treaty on information technology crime, but it won't be ready for signature until at least the fall of 2001. Such efforts, despite their good will, often don't make police work in the tough field much easier. ``Unfortunately, the product that is presented is often not quite what law enforcement wanted,'' Buhrer said. ``It's rather watered down, and sometimes certain chapters are missing completely.'' ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- School shooters: Secret service findings <http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/find15.html> October 15, 2000 Bill Dedman Here are preliminary findings from the Secret Service's study of 41 school shooters in 37 incidents. The Secret Service shared the findings with the Sun-Times, without confidential information from the files. The Sun-Times selected quotations from public records to illustrate the findings. PLANNING: They don't "snap." These attacks were neither spontaneous nor impulsive. In almost all cases, the attacker developed the idea in advance. Half considered the attack for at least two weeks and had a plan for at least two days. Two years before the shootings at Columbine near Littleton, Colo., Dylan Klebold wrote in his journal, "I'll go on my killing spree against anyone I want." One student showed his friends four bullets: three for people he hated and one for himself. And that's just how he used them. CONCERN: Almost all attackers had come to the attention of someone (school officials, police, fellow students) for disturbing behavior. One student worried his friends by talking often of putting rat poison in the cheese shakers at a pizza restaurant. Others wrote poems about homicide and suicide. Adults usually didn't investigate, remaining unaware of the depth of the problem. Few of the boys had close relationships with adults. Few participated in organized sports or other group activities. Q. Where were the grown-ups? A. Luke Woodham in Pearl, Miss., recalls, "Most of them didn't care. I just felt like nobody cared. I just wanted to hurt them or kill them." Before Columbine, the local sheriff had been given copies of Eric Harris' Web site, describing his pipe bombs, with page after page of threats: "You all better f------ hide in your houses because im comin for EVERYONE soon, and I WILL be armed to the f------ teeth and I WILL shoot to kill and I WILL f------ KILL EVERYTHING." COMMUNICATION: They aren't "loners." In more than three-fourths of the cases, the attacker told someone about his interest in mounting an attack at school. In more than half the incidents, the attacker told more than one person. Some people knew detailed information, while others knew "something spectacular" was going to happen on a particular date. These communications were usually with friends or schoolmates; in only two cases was the confidant an adult. In fewer than one-fourth of the cases did the attacker make a direct threat to the target. "I'm going to kill her sometime today or tomorrow," a student warned. BYSTANDERS: Those who knew in advance sometimes encouraged the attack and sometimes urged an escalation of the plan, but only rarely told anyone or shared their concern with others before the attack. In about one-third of the cases, the attack was influenced or dared by others or a group. A friend of Harris' asked him what he was going to do with bomb-making equipment. "He said he was going to blow up the school." A friend of of one shooter was told what would happen. "I was his friend. Calling someone would have been a betrayal. It just didn't seem right to tell." MENTAL ILLNESS: Few shooters had been diagnosed with a mental illness, or had histories of drug or alcohol abuse. But more than half had a history of feeling extremely depressed or desperate. About three-fourths either threatened to kill themselves, made suicidal gestures or tried to kill themselves before the attack. Six killed themselves during the attack. Luke Woodham's journal: "I am not insane. I am angry. I am not spoiled or lazy, for murder is not weak and slow-witted, murder is gutsy and daring. . . . I killed because people like me are mistreated every day. . . . I am malicious because I am miserable." Woodham says now, "I didn't really see my life going on any further. I thought it was all over with. . . . I couldn't find a reason not to do it." MOTIVES: Many shooters had more than one motive. The most frequent motivation was revenge. More than three-fourths were known to hold a grievance, real or imagined, against the target and/or others. In most cases, this was the first violent act against the target. In his journal, Kip Kinkel of Springfield, Ore., wrote, "Hate drives me. . . . I am so full of rage. . . . Everyone is against me. . . . As soon as my hope is gone, people die." Eric Houston: "My HATEtrid tord humanity forced me to do what I did. . . . I know parenting had nothing to do with what happens today. It seems my sanity has slipped away and evil taken it's place. . . . And if I die today please bury me somewhere beautiful." PROBLEM SOLVING: Many saw the attack as a way to solve a problem. Bullying was common. Two-thirds of the attackers described feeling persecuted, bullied or threatened--not teasing but torment. Other problems they were trying to solve: a lost love, an expulsion or suspension, even a parent planning to move the family. Loukaitis: "Some day people are going to regret teasing me." "I just remember life not being much fun," a shooter recalls. " `Reject, retard, loser.' I remember `stick boy' a lot, 'cause I was so thin." Houston: "Maybe to open up somebody's eyes to see some of the stuff that goes on, . . . of how the school works, and make them understand a little bit some of the stuff I went through. STRESS: In more than three-fourths of the incidents, the attackers had difficulty coping with a major change in a significant relationship or loss of status, such as a lost love or a humiliating failure. Woodham: "I actually had somebody I loved and somebody that loved me for the first time in my life, the only time in my life. And then she just, all of a sudden one day she broke up with me and I was devastated, I was going to kill myself." TARGETS: These weren't rampage killers. Many of the killers made lists of targets, even testing different permutations of the order of the killing. Students, principals and teachers--all could be targets. In about half the cases, someone in addition to the target was attacked. In half the incidents, the actions appeared designed to maximize the number of victims. Scott Pennington says he did not dislike his English teacher, Deanna McDavid, whom he killed in 1993 in Grayson, Ky. His writings had concerned her; she shared her concern with the school board, which told her it was his family's responsibility to get him help. He says his only goal was to kill two people, any two people, making him eligible for the death penalty. VIOLENCE: Most were not bullies, were not frequently in fights, were not victims of violence, had not harmed animals. Six in 10 showed interest in violent themes in media, games, or, more frequently, their own writings. Scott Pennington says he read Stephen King's Rage, about a school murder, after his killing, not before as has been reported. WEAPONS: Getting weapons was easy. Most of the attackers were able to take guns from their homes or friends, buy them (legally or illegally), or steal them. Some received them as gifts from parents. More than half had a history of gun use, although most did not have a "fascination" with weapons. "F--- you Brady," Eric Harris wrote in his journal about the Brady gun law. "All I want is a couple of guns and thanks to your f------ bill I will probably not get any! Come on, I'll have a clean record and I only want them for personal protection. It's not like I'm some psycho who would go on a shooting spree." POLICE: Most incidents were brief. Almost two-thirds of the attacks were resolved before police arrived. The attacker was stopped by a student or staff member, decided to stop on his own, or killed himself. SWAT teams would not have helped. In only three cases did police discharge their weapons. Q. Would metal detectors have stopped you? A. Luke Woodham: "I wouldn't have cared. What's it going to do? I ran in there holding the gun out. I mean, people saw it. It wasn't like I was hiding it. I guess it could stop some things. But by the time somebody's already gotten into the school with a gun, it's usually gonna be just about too late." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The choice: Arm all or arm none <http://orlandosentinel.com/automagic/columnists/2000-10-03/OPEDreese03100300.html> October 03, 2000 by Charley Reese Let's play let's pretend. Let's pretend that Suzy, an innocent citizen, and Joe, a cop, are forced to deal with the same criminal, Zack. Now Zack one night catches Suzy on the way to her car in a parking lot, beats the stew out of her, and rapes her. Now the gun-control crowd absolutely insists that Suzy does not need a handgun in order to deal with Zack. So an unarmed Suzy becomes a victim of Zack. Now Joe, the cop, tracks down Zack and puts his worthless carcass into the can. What's the difference? Joe was armed with a handgun when he had to deal with Zack. Now you tell me what warped, sick logic says that the victim of a criminal should not have a handgun while the policeman who arrests the very same criminal should have a handgun. If, as the gun-control crowd purports, Suzy doesn't need a handgun in her encounter with the criminal, why does the policeman? After all, Joe, the cop, is bigger than Suzy. Why does he need a weapon? How can people who live in gated communities with armed guards argue that we common folk must be disarmed? I say, take down your gates and fire your armed guards. I say to politicians, get rid of your bodyguards. I say to Congress, tell the Capitol police to go write traffic tickets; you no longer need their arms to protect you. I say to the president, get rid of the Secret Service or at least take its guns away. Disarm every one of the 60,000 federal officials authorized to carry handguns. It seems to me that either we all disarm or we all arm. It seems to me unacceptably illogical to argue that crime victims must be unarmed while the police, dealing with the very same criminals, should be armed. This business of the elitists, living behind the protection of pistols, telling the common folk you must not have firearms smacks of totalitarianism. It was clearly the intent of the Founding Fathers that every American be armed. That's why the ancient Anglo-Saxon right to keep and bear arms was included in the Bill of Rights. And the amendment states "right of the people" not right of the states or right of the militias. All honest scholars agree that in every instance the Bill of Rights uses the word "people," it is referring to individual rights. I know that millions of Americans today suffer from urban psychosis, in which their world view is distorted by dishonest politicians and even more dishonest news media and their miserable environment of stone, concrete and asphalt. But the facts are simple. A handgun is a tool, just like a saw or a hammer. It is an ideal tool for self-defense. With a handgun, 90-pound Suzy can stop 200-pound Zack. After Samuel Colt invented his revolver, a common saying in America was, "God created all men, but Sam Colt made them equal." And so he did. You don't have to be built like a linebacker or invest five years of sweat in becoming a martial artist. You can defend yourself quite well with a handgun with just a little bit of practice and common sense. It is, in fact, an ideal tool for women and for the elderly. Gun-control has always been an elitist method of controlling the common folk. It always has been racist. New York City's first gun-control laws were aimed at those immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe whom the hoity-toity types viewed as vermin. In the South, gun-control laws most often applied only to blacks. Nevertheless, if the urban insane wish to be prey for predators, that's their privilege. But no one has the right to tell someone else that he or she cannot possess the tools necessary to defend his or her life and the lives of loved ones. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Israeli-U.S. Agreement Near For Spy-Planes Procurement by BARBARA OPALL-ROME Defense News Correspondent TEL AVIV - Israeli defense officials say they are concluding an agreement with Washington that will jump-start an estimated $250 million spy plane procurement program stalled for more than a year due to U.S. technology transfer concerns. Once finalized, the agreement will allow the Israeli Ministry of Defense to integrate locally developed avionics with U.S.-made airframes for purposes of electronic surveillance and signals intelligence. The three-aircraft program - known simply as the SIGINT, or signals intelligence - will bolster the Israel Air Force's ability to gather intelligence, perform surveillance and engage in information warfare missions similar to those performed by the U.S. Air Force's fleet of RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft, U.S. and Israeli sources here said. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linked stories: ******************** US Election Fraud & Scams <http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=folder&title=US+Election+Fraud+%26+Scams> Why whoever we vote for, the President always gets in. ******************** Anti-Olympics Protests 2000 <http://www.disinfo.com/disinfo?p=folder&title=Anti%2DOlympics+Protests+2000> What NBC and CNN don't want you to know about. Anti-Olympics Protests 2000. ******************** ====================================================== "Anarchy doesn't mean out of control. 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