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11/10/04

MORE CIVIL RIGHTS GOING AWAY SOON?

Homeland Intelligence Chief Hughes Warned Civil Rights Would Have to Be ‘Abridged’ to Prevent Another Terror Attack
By Justin Rood, CQ Staff

Eight months before the White House appointed him the Homeland Security Department’s top intelligence official, retired U.S. Army Gen. Patrick M. Hughes told a public forum at Harvard last year that the government would have to “abridge individual rights” and take domestic security measures “not in accordance with our values and traditions” to prevent terrorist attacks in the United States.

“What I’m about to say is very arrogant — arrogant to a fault,” said Hughes, a former chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), in previously unreported remarks at a March 2003 Harvard University forum on “Future Conditions: The Character and Conduct of War, 2010 and 2020.”

“Set aside what the mass of people think. Some things are so bad for them that you cannot allow them to have them. One of them is war in the context of terrorism in the United States,” Hughes said, according to a transcript obtained by CQ Homeland Security.

http://www.cq.com/corp/ show.do?page=crawford /2004 1027_homeland

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11/2/04

MORE ATTACKS ON U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS, AS JOHN SAID

Cameras to Keep Watch in Hollywood
By Jessica Garrison, Times Staff Writer
In a new step for crime fighting in Los Angeles, the Police Department plans to start installing surveillance cameras on city streets, beginning with Hollywood Boulevard.

Although city officials and privacy advocates have objected in the past to police proposals to use cameras, Downing said he believes "people are ready to feel more secure in their communities. I think they are willing to give up a little bit ... for more security."

Civil liberties advocates are not so sure.

"This is creeping Big Brotherism, and it's really disturbing," said Ramona Ripston, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. "More and more, we are losing our right to any kind of privacy."

http://www.dlatimes.com/ news/local/la-me- watching28oct28,0,24 58226.story?coll=la-home- headlines

By The Associated Press

October 13, 2004, 2:11 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved an implantable computer chip that can pass a patient's medical details to doctors, speeding care.

With the pinch of a syringe, the microchip is inserted under the skin in a procedure that takes less than 20 minutes and leaves no stitches.

http://www.nynewsday. com/news/health/nyc- fdachip1014,0,1736280, print.story?coll=nyc- healthhome -headlines

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9/28/04

CIVIL RIGHTS OF AIRLINE PASSENGERS

New U.S. Travel Checks Flawed, Invasive - Watchdog

Sep 28, 8:06 PM (ET)

By Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent
BERLIN (Reuters) - By subjecting most visitors to scans of their faces and fingers, the United States will this week expand a mass surveillance system that threatens freedom and race relations, a privacy watchdog says.

From Thursday, most visitors entering the United States will have to put each index finger in turn on a glass plate that electronically scans it, and to have a digital photo taken.

http:// news .myway.com /top/ article /id/429798 |09-28 -2004 ::20:10| reuters.html

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9/10/04

MORE ASSAULTS ON CIVIL RIGHTS?

Micro lie detectors help screeners ID air passenger threats
SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM
Friday, August 27, 2004

TEL AVIV - An Israeli firm has developed a miniature system that can provide unobtrusive lie detector tests for commercial air travelers deemed suspicious.
The system uses a miniature computer chip that can provide voice analysis of those responding to questions from screeners at airports.

http://www.worldtribune. com/worldtribune/ breaking_ 13.html

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8/26/04

WACO PREDICTION REALIZED?

HOST: Is this a Waco type incident John warned us about?

Search for shooting perpetrator becomes frustrating for Oshkosh neighborhood

Terry Wesner said “a couple of shotguns and a rifle” were removed from his home by SWAT Team members after he consented to a search, though officers did not tell him they removed the firearms after they completed their search. “That’s what makes me so mad,” Wesner said. “They had no reason (to remove the firearms) without a warrant. … I didn’t know they removed anything until my buddy, who’s staying with me, noticed they were missing. I thought you had to have a warrant to take someone’s guns.”

http://www.wisinfo.com/ northwestern/news/ local/ stories /local_ 16971594.shtml

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8/26/04

AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS FURTHER THREATENED

Bush’s CIA nominee has alarmed civil libertarians with a plan that would authorize the agency to arrest U.S. citizens. Plus, the real threat to the Olympic games

Aug. 11 - Rep. Porter Goss, President Bush’s nominee to head the CIA, recently introduced legislation that would give the president new authority to direct CIA agents to conduct law-enforcement operations inside the United States—including arresting American citizens.

http://www.msnbc.msn. com/id/5675992 /site/newsweek/

The Call Is Cheap. The Wiretap Is Extra.
By KEN BELSON

Published: August 23,
At first glance, it might seem like the simple extension of a standard tool in the fight against the bad guys.
But in fact, wiretapping Internet phones to monitor criminals and terrorists is costly and complex, and potentially a big burden on new businesses trying to sell the phone service.
Earlier this month, the Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to move forward with rules that would compel the businesses to make it possible for law enforcement agencies to eavesdrop on Internet calls.

http://www.nytimes.com/ 2004/08/23/technology /23 wiretap. html?ex=109383400&en= 867015ce0b1fc527& ei=5006& partner =ALTAVISTA1

Human chips more than skin-deep

By Michael Kanellos CNET News.com

August 23, 2004

There's not a lot of middle ground on the subject of implanting electronic identification chips in humans. Advocates of technologies like radio frequency identification tags say their potentially life-saving benefits far outweigh any Orwellian concerns about privacy. RFID tags sewn into clothing or even embedded under people's skin could curb identity theft, help identify disaster victims and improve medical care, they say. Critics, however, say such technologies would make it easier for government agencies to track a person's every movement and allow widespread invasion of privacy. Abuse could take countless other forms, including corporations surreptitiously identifying shoppers for relentless sales pitches. Critics also speculate about a day when people's possessions will be tagged--allowing nosy subway riders with the right technology to examine the contents of nearby purses and backpacks.

http://zdnet.com.com/ 2102-1103_2-5319869 .html?tag= printthis

National ID seen in 9/11 panel plan

By Shaun Waterman
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

The September 11 commission's recommendation for federal standards of identification documents such as driver's licenses and birth certificates is tantamount to the introduction of a national ID card system "through the back door," some lawmakers believe.
"What I hear you saying, Senator Gorton, is that you want a national ID," Mr. Cannon replied, but "you want to get through the back door by using something that everybody already accepts."

http://www.washtimes. com/national/20040821 -115527 -1621r.htm

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8/11/04

DO THE LOSS OF RIGHTS LEAD TO A CIVIL WAR?

The Looting Of America --How over 200 Civil Asset Forfeiture laws enable police to confiscate your home, bank accounts & business without trial.
by Jarret Wollstein

‘A police dog scratched at your luggage, so we’re confiscating your life savings and you’ll never get it back.’ Police stopped 49-year-old Ethel Hylton at Houston’s Hobby Airport and told her she was under arrest because a drug dog had scratched at her luggage. Agents searched her bags and strip-searched her, but they found no drugs. They did find $39,110 in cash, money she had received from an insurance settlement and her life savings; accumulated through over 20 years of work as a hotel housekeeper and hospital janitor. Ethel Hylton completely document-ed where she got the money and was never charged with a crime. But the police kept her money anyway. Nearly four years later, she is still trying to get her money back.

http://www.escapeartist. com/efarm19/Looting_ America.html

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8/6/04

THREATS TO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

Net Phone Calls Must Be Able to Be Tapped - FCC

Wed Aug 4,11:40 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Internet phone carriers such as Vonage should set up their systems so U.S. law enforcers can monitor suspicious calls, the Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) tentatively ruled on Wednesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/ news?tmpl=story&cid=575 &u= /nm/20040804/ wr_ nm/telecoms_wiretap _dc_3& printer=1

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12/28/03

HOST: Is the government moving closer to the Federal Empire John described?

BUSH SIGNS PARTS OF PATRIOT ACT II INTO LAW - STEALTHILY

On December 13, when U.S. forces captured Saddam Hussein, President George W. Bush not only celebrated with his national security team, but also pulled out his pen and signed into law a bill that grants the FBI sweeping new powers. The Act included a simple, yet insidious, redefinition of "financial institution," which previously referred to banks, but now includes stockbrokers, car dealerships, casinos, credit card companies, insurance
agencies, jewelers, airlines, the U.S. Post Office, and any other business "whose cash transactions have a high degree of usefulness in criminal, tax, or regulatory matters."

http://www.sacurrent. com/site/news.cfm ?newsid= 10705756&BRD=2318& PAG=46 1&dept_id= 482778&rfi=6

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11/19/03

CIVIL RIGHTS SUSPENDED IN FLORIDA AS JOHN PREDICTED OR FEARED?

TALLAHASSEE -- The Florida Supreme Court's chief justice ordered Thursday
that guarantees for speedy trials and court hearings will be suspended
temporarily in Miami-Dade County because of next week's free trade meetings.

http://www.sun-sentinel. com/news/local/miami/ sfl-1113 speedytrials,0, 2682752.story?coll= sfla-news-miami

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9/26/03

!!! IS WESLEY CLARK
THE SOURCE OF JOHN'S
"WACO TYPE EVENTS"
IN OUR FUTURE? !!!

Before the civil war started, John said we would see more Waco type events in our future. According to the article, Wesley Clark was a big mucky-muck when that was going on. Is this what John was talking about?

General Alarm
Conspiracy Theorists See Clark as Another Piece of the Waco Puzzle
September 24 - 30, 2003

In the dumps since Bill Clinton pretty much dropped out of sight, conspiracy buffs awoke with a start last week to learn that Wesley Clark had jumped into the presidential race. Not only do right-wing conspiracists hate the Rhodes Scholar and goody-goody Clark for being what they see as yet another Clinton puppet, but they remember him as a possible collaborator in the Waco attack in 1993. At the time of the government's storming of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Clark was commanding officer of the First Cavalry Division of the Army's Third Corps, based at Fort Hood, Texas. Equipment and personnel under his command had some involvement in the Waco fiasco.

http://www.villagevoice. com/issues/0339/ mondo1.php