you can't turn em off if they were never
turned on ...
i see it like this...if you want to alert
people to abuse of Iraqi prisoners....you
have to show the abuse pictures...
if you want people to know legislation is
bad or the RIAA is bad...you can't just beat
about the bush...I posted their suing of
that Grandmother...
they have no compasssion for people, not
kids, not Grandmas...nada...what other group
went after old men, kids, grandmas....
they work by using the Big Lie...what else
used the Big Lie as its propaganda tool...
they call people they are against by names
they know hits people at a stereotypical
level, at an archetypal level..what group
portrayed the group of people they were
trying to get rid of , by caricaturing them
as rats with big noses?
they bully, and threaten people with the
laws they helped pass...
what other group threatened people with laws
they helped pass....
they have been involved in trying to
indoctrinate kids in schools with their
propaganda...
what other group was involved with trying to
indoctrinate school children with
propaganda...and established a youth corps
I could go on and on..but I think most
students of history know where I am going
with this....
Comp...are you really sure we are not in
danger of turning into a fascist state?
Let's see, warrantless searches now are
legal in five states
The Supremes have ruled you must present
your papers to any law enforcement person
asking for them, with or without probable
cause
Our soldiers have been torturing prisoners,
physically and psychologically...
Cops in Oregon Taser and Pepper Spray a 71
yr old blind woman and hit her so hard her
prosthetic eye is knocked out and rolls
around in the dirt, and her 94 year old
mother is accusing of trying to attack a cop
with a bucket of water...
a 97 yr old woman is cuffed and arrested and
taken to jail in the Metroplex here in Texas
for having an expired registration sticker...
They are setting up "brain fingerprinting"
programs
Just about everywhere you go now, they
demand your fingerprint (at least here in
central Texas...thumbprints to pay for
groceries with a check)
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/local/8573715.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
Security or spying? Police gather intel on
G-8 protests
"We have never had this degree of
surveillance," said Schroyer, president of
T.O.E.S. and a professor of
sociology/philosophy at Ramapo College in
Mahwah, N.J. "I have no affiliation with any
groups dangerous to the country in any way -
unless rational discourse is a real threat."
People have to stay in "free speech" zones
away from the president if they disagree
with him
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0413/fahim.php
"Canadian inquiry may reveal CIA secrets on
outsourcing torture
The Invisible Men
by Kareem Fahim
March 30th, 2004 11:30 AM
hile the nation focused on Richard Clarke's
allegations last week, CIA director George
Tenet let slip other revelations in his
testimony to the 9-11 Commission, admissions
that sharpen the contours of the shadowy
intelligence practice called "extraordinary
rendition."
The policy, codified in the late 1980s to
allow U.S. law enforcement to apprehend
wanted men in lawless states like Lebanon
during its civil war, has emerged in recent
years as one of America's key
counterterrorism tools, and has now expanded
in scope to include the transfer of
terrorism suspects by U.S. intelligence
agents to foreign countries for
interrogation—and, say some insiders,
torture prohibited inside this nation's
borders.
Tenet testified that in an unspecified
period before September 11, the U.S. had
undertaken over 70 such renditions, adding
that the Counterterrorist Center at the CIA
had "racked up many successes, including the
rendition of many dozens of terrorists prior
to September 11, 2001." Tenet's testimony
marked a rare occasion when the CIA, which
doesn't comment publicly on the practice,
provided any details about rendition. "
California had to decertify the electronic
voting machines because
"Wired: "California legislators say
paperless electronic voting machines are too
buggy to be trusted with the 2004
presidential election. Fearing a fiasco,
they ask the secretary of state to decertify
the machines.""
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=217&row=2
Winning the Election – The Republican Way:
Racism, Theft and Fraud in Florida
"What really happened in Florida?
Five months before the election, Florida
Secretary of State Katherine Harris ordered
the removal of 57,700 names from Florida’s
voter rolls on grounds that they were
felons. Voter rolls contain the names of all
eligible, registered voters. If you’re not
on the list, you don’t get to vote.
If you commit a felony in Florida, you lose
your right to vote there, and you‘re
“scrubbed” from the rolls. You become a
non-citizen, like in the old Soviet Union.
This is not the case in most other states;
it’s an uncivilized vestige of the Deep
South.
My office carefully went through the scrub
list and discovered that at minimum, 90.2
percent of the people were completely
innocent of any crime – except for being
African American. We didn’t have to guess
about that, because next to each voter’s
name was their race.
When I questioned Harris’ office about the
high percentage of African Americans on the
scrub list, they responded, “Well, you know
how many black people commit crimes.”
But these people weren’t felons, so why were
they scrubbed?
The Florida Republicans wanted to block
African Americans, who largely vote as
Democrats, from voting. In 1999 they fired
the company they were paying $5,700 to
compile their felony “scrub” lists and
replaced them with Database Technologies [DBT],
who they paid $2.3 million to do the same
job. [DBT is the Florida division of Choicepoint, a massive database company that does extensive work for the FBI.]
There are a lot of Joe Smiths in the Florida
phonebook. DBT was hired to verify which Joe
Smith was a felon and which was not. They
were supposed to use their extensive
databases to check credit cards, bank
information, addresses and phone numbers, in
addition to names, ages, and social security
numbers. But they didn’t. They didn’t use
one of their 1,200 databases to verify
personal information, nor did they make a
single phone call to verify the identity of
scrubbed names.
So where did DBT get their data?
From the Internet. They went to 11 other
states’ Internet sites and took names off
dirt-cheap. They scrubbed Florida voters
whose names were similar to out-of-state
felons. An Illinois felon named John
Michaels could knock off Florida voter John,
Johnny, Jonathan or Jon R. Michaels, or even
J.R. Michaelson. DBT matched for race and
gender, but names only had to be similar to
a certain degree. Names could be reversed,
and suffixes (Jr., Sr.) were ignored, but
aliases were included. So the felon John
“Buddy” Michaels could knock non-felon
Michael Johns or Bud Johnson Jr. off the
voter rolls. This happened again and again.
Although DBT didn’t get names, birthdays or
social security numbers right, they were
very careful to match for race. A black
felon named Mr. Green would only knock off a
black Mr. Green, but not a single white Mr.
Green. That’s how DBT earned its $2.3
million.
Why didn’t DBT use their own databases?
They didn’t, because the state told them not
to. Choicepoint vice-president James Lee was
grilled by a Congressional committee, headed
by Cynthia McKinney, and he admitted
everything, but said DBT was following state
directives. Florida state officials told DBT
to knock off voters by incorrectly matching
them with felons.
Congresswoman McKinney led this commission
to her own peril. Choicepoint is in her
Atlanta district. She was destroyed in the
last election by fabricated quotes and a
vicious propaganda campaign.
Is this the only way votes were stolen?
No. There were 8,000 Floridians who had
committed misdemeanors, but were counted as
felons. Their votes were scrubbed. Katherine
Harris’ office illegally scrubbed people
who’d served time in other states, then
moved to Florida, and Jeb Bush’s office
illegally barred these people from
registering to vote at all.
The biggest wholesale theft occurred inside
the voting booths in black rural counties.
In Gadsden County, one of the blackest in
the state, thousands of votes were simply
thrown away. Gadsden used paper ballots
which are read by an optical reader. Ballots
with a single extra mark were considered
“spoiled“ and not counted. The buttons used
to fill out the ballots were set up – with
approval from Bush and Harris – to make
votes appear unclear to the machine. One in
eight ballots in Gadsden was voided by the
state.
The same ballots were used in Tallahassee
County, which is mostly white. There only
one in 100 votes was “spoiled.” What made
the difference? In Tallahassee, ballots were
read on the premises, and if they were
marked incorrectly, voters were sent to
revote until they got it right. In the black
counties, the votes were trucked off
immediately. There were no machines on site.
Voters weren’t told that their votes were
spoiled, and they certainly weren’t
permitted to re-vote.
When Ted Koppel investigated voter theft in
Florida, he concluded that blacks lost votes
because they weren’t well educated, and made
mistakes that whites hadn‘t. He didn’t even
bother to ask how the machines were set up.
This is the kind of reporting we get in
America. In Britain, this story ran 3 weeks
after the election, when Gore was still in
race. It was in the papers and on TV. In the
US, it was seven months before the
Washington Post ran it, and then it was only
a partial version. After the election,
Gadsden County replaced its voting
commissioner. In 2002 they only lost one in
500 votes. So you can say blacks in Gadsden
got smarter in one way – they elected a
black elections chief.
What happened to Choicepoint?
Bush is handing them the big contracts in
the War on Terror; immigration reviews, DNA
cataloging, airport profiling, and their
voting systems are being rolled out across
the country.
It wasn’t reported in mainstream press, but
the NAACP sued Harris and the gang for the
black purge, and won. The state threw up its
hands immediately and said, ‘You got us!
We’ll put these people back as soon as we
can.’ We’re still waiting. "
ONE LIST PALAST SHOWED ON CSPAN, HAD A VOTER
STRICKEN BECAUSE, ACCORDING TO THE PRINTOUT,
THEY COMMITTED A CRIME IN THE YEAR 2007!
TALK ABOUT THE MINORITY REPORT!
http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/ma_eagle/article/0,2071,NPDN_14916_2860751,00.html
"Marco Police consider Web cams to monitor
city waterways
Waterways advisory committee asks city to
fund more marine patrols
By BILLY BRUCE, Staff Writer
May 5, 2004
Marco Island Police are considering the use
of "live" digital cameras to allow them to
monitor boating activity on the city's huge
maze of waterways, Chief Roger Reinke
confirmed April 29.
The key word here is "consider," Reinke
said. Privacy laws and statutes regarding
the use of digital video and other modern
technology must be studied before a
determination can be made as to whether such
a system actually would be implemented on
the island.
The idea for using a digital camera system
to keep an eye on Marco's 22 miles of
shoreline, six large bays, the Marco River,
three creeks, several small islands and 290
canals came from resident Bill Tobin.
Tobin, a member of the Marco Island Marina
Association, told the city's Waterways
Advisory Committee on April 28 that he'd
spoken to Reinke about how well the digital
camera system is working as a security
measure for boat owners who dock in the
marina next to the Marco Island Yacht Club
on North Collier Boulevard."
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,63316,00.html
"If you have ever seen the cult '60s British
television program The Prisoner, in which
captured Cold War spies live on an island
under constant surveillance, you can imagine
what life may soon be like on Ayers Island,
on the Penobscot River near the University
of Maine.
In coming years, visitors to Ayers Island,
the site of an abandoned paper and textile
mill in Orono, Maine, will be spied upon by
a comprehensive network of video cameras,
motion detectors and sensors. Lurking behind
all of those sensors will be an artificial
intelligence system that will decide who can
be trusted and who is deserving of greater
scrutiny.
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Today's the Day. The engineers, drawn
largely from the nearby University of Maine,
will use the network to test the reliability
of new sensors. They will also attempt to
demonstrate that AI, combined with
ubiquitous sensors, may be able to provide
civil authorities with comprehensive,
real-time intelligence about the whereabouts
of individuals and cars, and the status of
buildings and other structures within a
particular geographical area.
Ayers Island will be open to the public, who
are expected to visit the island for its
nature trails, amphitheater, sculpture
garden and museum, all part of a planned
renovation project for the island. A
contemporary arts festival on Ayers Island
is scheduled for this summer. Many cameras
and motion detectors will be in place by
that time, according to the company that
owns the island, Ayers Island LLC.
The island's initial monitoring systems will
be rudimentary, made from off-the-shelf
parts and store-bought alarm systems.
But eventually, ubiquitous cameras and
biometric readers, backed by a central
computer, will recognize and record faces
and license plates, and make it possible for
someone sitting at a computer monitor to
track individuals everywhere they go on the
island, said George Markowsky, president of
Ayers Island LLC."
Justice Scalia sent marshalls to erase a
reporter's recording of his speech. Under
public outcry he apologized, but still
maintained that in his interpretation of
free speech, that it meant he was free to
keep others from recording what he says in
public speeches!
http://www.infowars.com/print/ps/permanent_patriotact.htm
"Bush says it's vital to make Patriot Act
permanent
San Francisco Chronicle| April 20 2004
Hershey, Pa. -- President Bush said Monday
that he considered it vital for Congress to
pass a permanent version of the USA Patriot
Act, which has been criticized by some
liberals and conservatives for giving the
federal government too much power in the
name of fighting terrorism.
Bush told a convention of Pennsylvania
township officials that those concerned
about the expanded wiretapping and
surveillance powers provided by the act were
laboring under a false hope about safety
from terrorism."
But no...we're not near fascism...
But I wonder if, very soon, kids who are
raising their arm to their heart when saying
the pledge, will have to learn a new
phrase...
Sieg Heil!
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