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utah-firearms-digest   Wednesday, September 16 1998   Volume 02 : Number 102




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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 98 23:11:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: Our Hollow Republic

[Courtesy of USA Journal:]

Our Hollow Republic - By Jon Dougherty

SEPTEMBER 8 -- Yesterday WorldNetDaily contributor and
investigative journalist Missy Kelly set the end of
September as the date she believes President Bill Clinton
will finally pass into history. I read her piece with
interest, as I read a similar piece a few weeks ago she
had written about the "shadow government" which really
pulls the strings in this world of ours -- including
the United States.

I don't know if she will prove to be correct, but her
analysis bears some fleshing out because Americans have,
for far too long, continued to believe that our career
politicians -- those depraved souls we keep sending to
Washington term after term -- are really responsible for
their own actions. I'd like to think they were at one
time but aren't any longer, and that assumption follows
Miss Kelly's conclusions.

First of all, to experienced politicos and Washington
Watchers, there can be no doubt that most -- if not all
- -- legislation that gets passed inside the Beltway is
wholly illegal when you put each law to a constitutional
test. Granted, while many laws contain the color of
constitutionality in spirit, they don't measure up when
they are written into United States Code and put into
practice. The Drug War is a perfect example of this; I
cannot imagine US leaders a hundred years ago allowing
law enforcement agencies warrantless search and seizure
authority under any circumstances.

Today, however, those sorts of searches are accepted as
perfectly normal extensions of "legitimate" law enforcement
techniques, but not just for drug searches anymore [think
of a police roadblock to check for other things like
alcohol, guns, and out-of-date driver's licenses].

And there are many other examples. Gun laws which
blatantly violate the Second Amendment, government
seizure of private land for "environmental" reasons
without compensation to the landowner -- in violation
of the Fourth Amendment -- and so on.

Now, back to Miss Kelly's conclusions. How often have
millions of us publicly and privately asked our
legislators why they haven't done anything to either
prevent these overtly unconstitutional acts or, more
preferably, repeal the laws which don't measure up?

Maybe it's because Miss Kelly is right. Maybe it's
because they're not responsible for their own actions
anymore. Letting Bill Clinton slip by with obvious
infractions of numerous laws for six years ought to
prove this theory to any reasonable person.

Like Miss Kelly reported in her piece yesterday,
Clinton [while in Ireland] actually said that he
wasn't responsible for making decisions. He said
"decisions are made by somebody else," inferring
that there is some hidden, secretive power behind
not just the US government but most other western
governments around the globe as well.

So, if US presidents don't even have the ability to
govern on their own, then it's reasonable to assume
that congressmen don't have that luxury either. In
other words, perhaps all we have left is just a hollow
republic -- a facade, a "virtual" country, if you will
[thanks, Miss Kelly].

Why bring this up? Because I'm afraid, if Bill Clinton
is forced to step down from office in a couple weeks as
Miss Kelly asserts, people will be so relieved that they
will fail to see the big picture -- again.

Yes, I know that "rational" people don't believe such
things. Guys like Rush Limbaugh, for example, pooh-pooh
this kind of thinking as impossible, off-the-wall, and
reflective of an extremist. People like Larry King
would dismiss it as nothing but "right wing babble."

Indeed maybe it is. But if so, then I'd like these
"experts" to explain to me how it is that a president
who so overtly violates laws can get by with it? Or
how an attorney general can so flagrantly ignore the
law without punishment? While they're at it, perhaps
they'd care to explain why supposedly "independent"
congressmen [Republicans, pay attention] can hold a
majority in both Houses and still fail to punish a guy
like Clinton -- for six years?

Oh, I see -- it's because the opinion polls say the
American people don't want them too. Yes, that's
convenient, isn't it? Rush has said so himself -- how
can a poll of 800 or 900 people possibly reflect the
feelings of an entire nation of some 190 million
voting-age adults? No, that's too easy an out. In fact,
it's a cop-out.

These "experts" also never bother to explain that why,
regardless of the party which is in "control" of Congress,
this country has continued to follow a path towards
socialism for over 45 years? And why, despite who the
"ruling elite" happen to be, some things never change --
taxes always seem to go up not down as Americans endure
more gun control, more land seizures, increased federal
law enforcement abuses, fewer personal freedoms, more
domestic spying, and now -- after October, 1999, a
national ID card. Rush, Larry -- care to comment?

These are the trappings of a Republic? I think not;
these are the trappings of a group of "rulers" whose
strings are being pulled by somebody else. Somebody
"corporate." Somebody with lots of money [and money
controls countries].

The question is, what can Americans do about this
phenomenon? I'm not sure I have an answer for that.
Maybe there is nothing we can do except wait for it
all to come crashing down.

I'd like to think that voting can change things, but
then I think of how Sen. Mary Landrieu [D-LA] and Rep.
Lorna Sanchez [D-CA] came to power [via vote fraud]
and I wonder. There is always the recall election, but...

Some have suggested armed revolution. My question then
becomes, who has the guts to start it? And when? Under
what circumstances? And how to justify it? Who takes
the first step -- because there can be no turning back
once America has another "Fort Sumter?" No takers on
the horizon, as far as I can see.

Missy Kelly provided the answer, and perhaps she didn't
even know it.

Informing people that this "shadow elite" exists, and by
pointing to specific examples -- like Bill Clinton's own
words in Ireland last week -- that helps prove 'they' exist,
may just do the trick. If these elite hate one thing it
is the light of scrutiny. In that respect, they're like
cockroaches -- they scurry for cover in the light. ***



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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:52:49 -0600
From: "David Sagers" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fwd: What I would like to see: total war

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> Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 22:15:41 -0500
> From: [e-mail]
> Subject: CAS: Salon: "Stand by for total war"
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> SALON | Sept. 10, 1998=20
>=20
>=20
> The embattled White House tries out a new strategy to fend off=20
> impeachment -- but if it doesn't work, stand by for total war.=20

I hope Clinton stays in until the bitter end. I hope all the dirty deeds
of all the players at the Federal level comes out. What we need is what
Thomas Jefferson talked about, War. So come on Clinton set up your War
room call out the Dogs of War, we the people are ready and waiting.
Not in arms and real blood but modern day war of words and truth
Here is Jefferson on the subject:

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should
not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all
experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while
evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to
reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is
their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for
their future security." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence,
1776. Papers, 1:429

"A first attempt to recover the right of self-government may fail, so may
a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more instructed race comes
on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth,
or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately
succeed... To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and
years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood and
years of desolation. For what inheritance so valuable can man leave to his
posterity?" --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1823. ME 15:465

"The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of
the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous
feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have
been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing
instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth
dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes." --Thomas Jefferson to
Thomas Lomax, 1799. ME 10:123

"It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and
steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same
agency alone we can be kept from falling back."=20
      --Thomas Jefferson to Arthur Campbell, 1797. ME 9:421

"Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect
institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of
principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on
the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept
off as long as possible." --Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1821. ME
15:325

"I have never dreamed that all opposition was to cease. The clergy, who
have missed their union with the State, the Anglomen, who have missed
their union with England, and the political adventurers, who have lost the
chance of swindling and plunder in the waste of public money, will never
cease to bawl on the breaking up of their sanctuary."  --Thomas Jefferson
to Gideon Granger, 1801. ME 10:259

"[When] corruption.. has prevailed in those offices [of]... government and
[has] so familiarized itself as that men otherwise honest could look on it
without horror,... [then we must] be alive to the suppression of this
odious practice and... bring to punishment and brand with eternal disgrace
every man guilty of it, whatever be his station." --Thomas Jefferson to W.
C. C. Claiborne, 1804.=20
      (*)

"Our fellow citizens have been led hoodwinked from their principles by a
most extraordinary combination of circumstances. But the band is removed,
and they now see for themselves."=20
      --Thomas Jefferson to John Dickinson, 1801. ME 10:217

"Manfully maintain our good old principle of cherishing and fortifying the
rights and authorities of the people in opposition to those who fear them,
who wish to take all power from them and to transfer all to Washington."
- --Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1826. FE 10:378

"Public opinion... [is] a censor before which the most exalted tremble for
their future as well as present fame." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams,
1816. ME 14:393

"The people cannot be all, and always, well-informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is a
lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty."  --Thomas
Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. Papers, 12:356.=20

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain
occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be
exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I
like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the
atmosphere." --Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1787.=20

"What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty
must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and
tyrants. It is its natural manure." --Thomas Jefferson
to William Stephens Smith, 1787. Papers, 12:356.


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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 98 18:34:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: Here They Come-- Again

- ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:47:48 -0400
From: Gun Owners of America <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Here They Come-- Again

The Senate Just Won't Quit
- -- Look out for Free Speech Ban and Hatch's Horror Bill

by Gun Owners of America
8001 Forbes Place Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151, 703-321-8585
http://www.gunowners.org

(Wednesday, September 9, 1998)-- Well, the holidays are over and
Congress is back to work. And while you were at those weekend
barbecues enjoying your vacation, legislators in Congress were
scheming to rob you of your cherished rights.

Anti-gun legislation, that had previously been derailed thanks in
large part to your efforts, is back on track and could soon be voted on.

For example, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) abruptly brought up
his Horror Bill for debate last week, but he could not get a Unanimous
Consent agreement that would have allowed a vote on the bill.

Gun owners should remind their Senators that they do NOT want Hatch's
anti-gun crime bill (S. 10). This bill still applies RICO (racketeering)
penalties to minor gun infractions and would increase penalties on gun
owners who take their kids handgun shooting without a written note of
permission.

In other news, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) promised
a vote on the Incumbent Protection Bill which would restrict the
free speech rights of citizens that organize together (like your
GOA) to influence legislative policy. While this legislation claims
to reform campaign finance laws, it would really prevent the ability
of groups like GOA to keep you informed on how your legislator is
voting. A vote on this bill is scheduled for tomorrow-- Thursday,
September 10.

HERE'S WHAT TO DO

* Urge your Senators to oppose Hatch's Horror Bill (S. 10) and the
  McCain-Feingold restrictions on free speech (so-called "campaign
  finance reform"). Call 202-224-3121.

* Fax, email or mail the bottom "postcard" to pro-gun Sen. Bob
  Smith, asking him to object to any Unanimous Consent agreement
  that would allow a vote on S. 10.

  Here's the contact information for Sen. Smith:

  Phone: [phone]
  Email: [e-mail]
  Fax: [phone]
  Address: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510

- -----clip-n-send-------

Dear Senator Smith:

I want to thank you for your bold leadership in opposing the Hatch
Horror Bill (S. 10). I understand that your "hold letter" has had a
tremendous effect in slowing down this legislation, and I commend
you for your efforts.

I have also learned that Senator Orrin Hatch tried to get a Unanimous
Consent agreement recently to debate this bill and vote on it. He was
unsuccessful. Regardless, I fear he may try again. If he does, I would
urge you to object to any Unanimous Consent agreement that would bring up
S. 10 for a vote.

Among the many problems in S. 10, this bill still applies RICO
penalties to minor gun infractions and would increase penalties on gun
owners who take their kids handgun shooting without a written note of
permission. Thank you for supporting my gun rights!

Sincerely,

- -------------------------------------------------

Final note: Action on the Smith "Anti-Brady" amendment is expected
soon. We will of course keep you updated.


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To which Richard L. Partridge responded:

Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 19:51:05 -0700
From: "Richard L. Partridge" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject: Fw: Here They Come-- Again

Dear Senator Smith:

I want to thank you for exercising your bold leadership in opposing
the Hatch Horror Bill (S. 10). I understand that your "hold letter"
has been effective in slowing down this legislation, and I commend
you for your good work.

I have also learned that "my" Senator Hatch tried to get a Unanimous
Consent agreement recently to debate this bill and vote on it, and
was unsuccessful. However, I fear he may try again. If so, I strongly
urge you to object to any Unanimous Consent agreement that would
bring S. 10 up for a vote.

Among the many problems in S. 10, this bill still applies RICO
penalties to minor gun infractions and would increase penalties on gun
owners who take their kids handgun shooting without a written note of
permission. Thank you for supporting my gun rights!

Sincerely,

Richard L. Partridge
4480 N. Hwy 38
Brigham City, Utah 84302
435-734-2678
(PS. I find it most peculiar that I need to ask another senator
to stop the mischief of the senator who has been elected to serve me.)


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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 98 08:14:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: Gunslinger Ad Takes Aim at Liberals

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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 20:31:57 -0700
From: Ed Wolfe <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Gunslinger Ad Takes Aim at Liberals

I wish I lived in Maryland so I could vote for this guy. <g> Ed

Gunslinger Ad Takes Aim at Liberals

By DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press Writer

FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- Donned in gunfighter garb, Republican
Tim Brooks stares out from a campaign ad, a six-shooter on his
hip, a shotgun in one hand and a coiled rope in the other.

``Seen any liberals lately?'' the ad says.

Brooks, a 25-year-old candidate for the Maryland House of Delegates,
said Wednesday he thinks the ad is funny. His opponents disagree.

``How much more violence can that picture portray?'' Delegate
Louise Snodgrass complained.

Republican candidate Joseph Bartlett said the ad, which ran
in the Frederick News-Post, is silly and shows poor judgment.

And Delegate Sue Hecht, a Democrat from the same district,
said she was saddened by the ad in light of efforts to reduce
violence in schools.

``If this is supposed to be funny, I guess I'm not
sophisticated enough to recognize that,'' she said.

Brooks said his critics should lighten up.

``The whole purpose of that ad was to have people notice it, and
that's what happened,'' said the candidate, a mortgage marketing
executive and former Marine making his first run for public office.

Brooks is one of four Republicans seeking nomination for three seats
from Frederick and Washington counties. The primary is Tuesday.

Opponents said the ad was particularly insensitive given that Brooks
was charged with battery against his former wife in 1996. Prosecutors
later dropped the charges.

AP-NY-09-10-98 1601EDT




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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 98 08:14:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: MA pols going after Federal CCW bill now

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From: "William C. Walden" <[e-mail]>
To: "'[e-mail]'" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: MA pols going after Federal CCW bill now
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:41:28 -0400

For anybody who can't get to the page, this is the text:
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Opponents Say Concealed Weapons Bill Jeopardizes Public Safety

By Melissa B. Robinson, Associated Press, 09/09/98 20:02

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Massachusetts Democrats have joined gun control
activists in an attempt to defeat legislation that would let gun owners
carry concealed weapons across state lines while also allowing off-duty
police to remain armed outside their home states.

``Giving private citizens greater latitude to carry concealed and loaded
firearms wherever they go means more illegal gun violence, more gun
accidents, more lives cut short too young, too soon,'' said Rep. Martin
Meehan, D-Mass., a member of the House Judiciary Committee that approved
the bill, sponsored by Rep. Bill McCollum, R-Fla., last month.

The bill is scheduled for a House vote Monday under a procedure, usually
reserved for non-controversial measures, that does not allow any changes
on the House floor.

But the procedure, known as ``suspension of the rules,'' also requires a
two-thirds majority, rather than a simple majority, for passage. Meehan,
a former state prosecutor, and Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., also a
Judiciary Committee member, said Wednesday they would lobby their
colleagues hard in the next few days to defeat the bill on the floor.

``This bill will not survive on the suspension calendar,'' said Delahunt,
a former district attorney.

As originally proposed by Rep. Randy Cunningham, R-Calif., the
legislation would have exempted off-duty law enforcement officers from
state laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed firearms.

But in the Judiciary Committee's crime subcommittee, McCollum succeeded
in changing the bill to also give civilians greater latitude in carrying
concealed weapons outside their states.

Under McCollum's version, at least 29 states that issue permits for
concealed weapons would be required to recognize concealed weapons
permits issued by other states.

Another 14 states that also issue permits, but with greater discretion,
could recognize out-of-state permits if their governors decide to do so.
That group includes Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

``This bill is an outrage to all of us who have fought so long and so hard
to set high standards'' for gun control, said state Rep. Michael Lawlor of
Connecticut, who attended the news conference.

Seven states, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio and
Wisconsin, prohibit carrying concealed weapons and do not issue licenses.

``We cannot overstate the danger of this amendment,'' said Sarah Brady of
Handgun Control. Opponents also include some law enforcement officials,
including New York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir.

Other law enforcement groups are strongly in favor, arguing that the
benefit of allowing off-duty police to defend themselves with concealed
guns outside their states outweighs any possible threats posed by extending
the right to other citizens.

Also, states already have the power to enter into compacts to recognize
each other's concealed weapons laws, they say.

``We don't think it's going to appreciably increase the amount of
individuals who are going to be carrying firearms,'' said Tim Richardson,
spokesman for the National Fraternal Order of Police, which supports the
bill and represents more than 277,000 officers.

Copyright 1998 The Boston Globe
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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 98 21:47:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: Darwin Award Runner-Up?

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Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:04:24 -0700
From: Ed Wolfe <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Darwin Award Runner-Up?

How many needless deaths must we endure before the dangerous
practice of marshmellow roasting is finally banned? -Ed

Teen Dies in Campfire Accident

FOREST, Ind. (AP) -- A 15-year-old boy died when a metal roasting
stick lodged in his left temple as he and a group of friends roasted hot
dogs and marshmallows at a cookout.

Aaron J. Archibald was sitting around the campfire Saturday night at a
home in Forest, about 50 miles north of Indianapolis, when a friend
tried to put out a burning marshmallow.

``He was swinging the stick up in the air trying to put it out when the
metal part of the wiener stick came out from the wooden part, flew a
few feet and lodged in boy's left temple,'' Clinton County Sheriff Mike
Hensley said. ``It was just a freak accident.''

Archibald was taken to a Frankfort hospital before being taken to
Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, where he was pronounced dead.

AP-NY-09-13-98 2312EDT



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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:15:05 -0600
From: "David Sagers" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fwd: Will we finally be rid of Chucky?

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Today is the big day!  Will we finally be rid of Chucky Schumer or will we
have to wait until November?
Thought  you all might be interested in this campaign update from =
"Politics
1"
___________________________________________________________________________=

________
NEW YORK:

In the hotly contested Democratic primary for US Senate, ex-Congresswoman
Geraldine Ferraro and liberal Congressman Chuck Schumer appear in a dead
heat. New York City Public Advocate Mark Green is also running.  Ferraro
has seen her strong lead in the polls vanish in the face of Schumer's
unprecedented $8 million television blitz.  With over $13 million raised =
to
date, watch for Schumer to defeat Ferraro.  For Ferraro-who has raised =
less
than $3 million-this could be a devastating re-play of the 1992 primary
race for Senator that she narrowly lost in an upset.  For Green, the 1986
nominee against incumbent Al D'Amato (R/C), he's hoping for a low-turn
upset.  D'Amato appears a strong favorite to win re-election over any of
the three Democrats.  Schumer will also appear on the November ballot as
the Liberal Party nominee.  Schumer and Green are also competing in a
separate primary for the Independence Party nomination.  The Independence
Party is the New York affiliate of Ross Perot's Reform Party.  Conceivably,=

the possibility exists for Ferraro, Schumer and Green to all appear on the
November ballot-as, respectively, the Democratic, Liberal and Independence
nominees-and completely fragment the Democratic vote.  D'Amato is also
competing in the Right To Life Party primary against college professor Tom
Droleskey, who argues D'Amato is not sufficiently pro-life.  Although he
has no GOP primary opponent, D'Amato has already spent $11 million on
television ads.  This could end up becoming the most expensive US Senate
race in American history.  Five other third party candidates are also
running in the general election.  As an aside, Schumer is the only one of
the three Democrats who agreed to appear with President Clinton at a
Democratic Party fundraiser in the state today.


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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 98 18:06:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: Chips                 1/2

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http://www.cyberhighway.net/~hushj/chips.html

"A Chip Behind Everyone's Ear"

Consider, for example, what Ronald Kane, vice president of Cubic
Corporation, a top maker of high tech control systems, had to say
recently about the profit potential of the implantable biochip.
"If we had our way," Kane remarked, "We'd implant a chip behind
everyone's ear in the maternity ward."

Today, the making of human cyberslaves is a highly profitable enterprise.
The business of creating humn cyberslaves translates into big, big money.
Trillions of dollars are at stake for able corporations supplying
government with computerized, smart I.D. cards, iris-scanning devices,
DNA blood analysis equipment, fingerprint digitization video displays,
and other forms of human control technology.

Stock market (Nasdaq) records indicate how very lucrative the making of
silicon cages can be. Recently, the stock of one tiny company, Comparator,
shot up an astounding 2,900 percent in just three days. This occurred after
the company's CEO announced that Comparator had invented an advanced type
of portable, biometric, fingerprint identification device.

Satan certainly seems to be inspiring the work and activities of the
world's largest, high tech corporations. As the Apostle Paul wisely
stated in the Scriptures, "For the love of money is the root of all evil"
(I Timothy 6:10). From the look of things, if enough money were to
exchange hands, most of America's giant, multinational corporations would,
today, eagerly compete to build better and more modern concentration
camps and more efficient guillotines. In other words, these greedy,
corporate chieftains have no scruples about making blood money.

Imagine a world in which every aspect of your life, past and present,
is encrypted on a personal ID card and stored on a nationwide data base.
Where virtually all communications media-soon to be 100% digital-are
automatically monitored by computerized phone taps and satellites from
control centers thousands of miles away. Where self-training neural net
and artificial intelligence data search systems scan for undesirable
lifestyles and target you for automatic monitoring.

Personal privacy was once considered the most sacred of our
constitutional rights; agencies were severely limited by law. All
that's about to change drastically thanks to a deadly combination of
extremely sophisticated surveillance technology, ubiquitous digital
information collection, and centralized interagency data exchange.

Until recently the "supersecret" National Reconnaissance Organization
did not exist-even though it has the largest budget of any intelligence
agency. They are responsible for the design, development and procurement
of all US reconnaissance satellites and their continued management once
in orbit. Recently photos have surfaced in the press of its huge new
complex being completed in Chantilly, Virginia. (Senator John Warner -
Liz Taylor's ex - has described the one million square foot complex as a
"Taj Mahal.") The NRO is eagerly implementing such technologies as
ultra-high storage capacity holographic films (allowing huge amounts of
personal information to be present on your ID card) and self-training
artificial intelligence software that tracks your personal data without
human intervention. A new era of ubiquitous surveillance is dawning.

A struggling military-industrial complex searching for new markets
for their technologies has merged forces with a government obsessed
with ever tighter control over the activities of the general public.
~
Congresswoman Barbara Jordan has proposed a "National Employment
Verification Card" that will be required for all employment in the U.S.
The card will, of course, have a magnetic data strip, and altering of
counterfeiting the card will be a federal felony offense.

There is a dedicated and aggressive effort underway to chart various
genetic features as part of one's personal information set. The feds'
goal is to have the ability to screen individuals for everything from
behavioral characteristics to sexual orientation, based on genetic
information embedded in your personal (and required) national ID card.

Biometric signature technologies have been developing apace. There is
even a technique available to translate human DNA into bar codes for
efficient digital transmission between agencies.

Are these science fiction story lines or the ravings of a paranoid
lunatic? I wish they were. As a former research engineer at Lawrence
Livermore Labs and other government labs, I watched some of these mad
schemes being hatched. This technology is on the street today or about
to leave the labs and believe me, it goes way beyond Orwell's worst
nightmares. Listen up and hunker down.

A fundamental shift in the legal definition of personal privacy is
occurring right now. A court-issued warrant used to be a universal
requirement for personal surveillance, such as phone tapping, observing
physical papers, and probing financial or medical records. Now, in this
new age of AI-driven monitoring and data tracking systems, there are no
pesky people in the loop. A computer doesn't need to seek a court warrant
to monitor every aspect of your private life. A self-training automated
surveillance system doesn't need permission to observe your movements
or communications.

Total data tracking is already commonplace for financial institutions and
private security operations. Tomorrow, it will be commonplace for all of
us. The technical elements of a massive surveillance engine are in place.
It's just a matter of turning the key to fire it up. Let's examine these
elements and why you should be concerned.

Universal Encryption Chip

Is sounds logical. The feds want to preserve privacy, so their story goes,
so they've announced that an encryption chip will go into all phones and
computers that they buy. But what do they really want in the long run?

How about a government-issue encryption chip in all personal
computers and communication devices? That way, the feds can deal
with drug smugglers, terrorists, kiddie porn merchants, and other
miscreants who use encoded messages.

Of course, they'd have to prevent tampering with the chip. In fact,
the technology to do just that has already been developed at Sandia
National Laboratory. Scientists there have developed an optical sensor
that uses a powdered silicon optical absorption layer in an optical
waveguide embedded in a chip. A micro photodetector detects even
the slightest intrusion into the chip package by measuring a slight change
in the photonic conduction through the waveguide. It can then send an
alert via modem to a central monitoring system to notify an interested
party that the device has been tampered with. Sandia is also developing
a microchemical intrusion detector that would be sensitive to the
chemical signature of human fingertips.

Is this all part of some master plan, or what?

In fact, in the near future, all encryption hardware and software will be
subject to federal registration/authorization. Possession of unauthorized
encryption/decryption capability will be punishable as a federal felony.
In other words, if it doesn't have a handy back door for NSA snoops, it
ain't legal.

We can further speculate that the feds will embed chips in all equipment
sold for use in data transmission, digital phone calls and all other
frequencies. Note: all new phone systems wired and wireless will be
digital in the next three years.
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 98 18:06:00 -0700
From: [e-mail] (SCOTT BERGESON)
Subject: Chips                 2/2

Intelligent Video

Nor would you know what's watching you. Security cameras are becoming
standard in corporate and government facilities. They may soon even
be required. Why? Ostensibly because they want to recover losses in
cases of theft, keep insurance premiums down, monitor petulant
employees and keep intruders out.

But the new genre of video cameras now coming out of the labs do a
lot more than that. They're intelligent. They can recognize faces,
motion, and other interesting characteristics. In fact, they behave
a lot like a human eye, with intelligent preprocessor abilities.

Intelligent cameras are needed because a security guard or cop can't
monitor the dozens or hundreds of video cameras in a large facility
(or dozens of satellite video surveillance channels). Intelligent
cameras use artificial intelligence-based object and motion recognition.
They scan for what a trained security guard looks for: certain motions,
clothing, faces; the presence of people in off-limits places. Instead
of watching 100 cameras, only a few at any time send pictures. A single
guard or a computer can deal with that.

In fact, a steady data stream from multiple intelligent cameras can be
uploaded to computerized monitoring facilities anywhere, coupled with
other automated observation systems.

The next big thing in intelligent cameras will be "content-addressable"
imagery. That means they'll automatically detect the content of
sophisticated patterns, like a specific person's face, by matching it
against a digital "wanted" poster, say. New software that can even run
on cheap personal computers makes that possible. MatchMaker from
Iterated Systems (Norcross, GA), for example, uses a fractal algorithm
that converts image data into mathematical form, automatically
recognizing and categorizing realtime "targets"-untouched by human
hands and tied into a centralized monitoring facility!

A related technology called focal plane array sensors (FPA) discriminates
objects at just about any distance. FPA makes it possible to use
neuromorphic sensors, modeled biologically on the human eye, which are
built into a camera to recognize a person or object by "associative
cognition."

Carver Mead at Cal Tech has designed a broad-spectrum "human-eye" sensor
using FPAs and 3D artificial neural network processors. To prove the
viability of such concepts, Raytheon, under contract with the Guided
Interceptor Branch of the Air Force at Elgin AFB, has developed "smart
eyes" using FPAs for recognizing objects in flight, thus relieving the
pilot of visual target recognition tasks while in a high-pressure combat
situation.

This technology is inexpensive, easily reproducible, and will be part
of standard equipment for fully automated, on-site visual and infrared
surveillance in the near future.

Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA) in conjunction with Telerobotics
International (Knoxville, TN) is taking a step further. They're developing
an advanced surveillance camera system that's even more intelligent: it
uses self-aiming and analyzes motion or other parameters. A fisheye
spherical lens views a very wide field of vision while a self-contained
image processing subsystem tracks several moving targets at once in
real time. Video for suspect targets can be transmitted in real time to
a security center.

These smart cameras are also getting incredibly tiny and low cost. The
Imputer from VLSI Vision Ltd. (Edinburgh, Scotland) is a credit card-
sized device that fits in the palm of your hand. It consists of a complete
CCD video camera mounted on a circuit board plus an on-board DSP
(digital signal processing) coprocessor for realtime image enhancement,
feature detection, correlation and convolution (for fast analysis on the
fly), and even an optional library of pre-stored feature data so that the
camera can independently recognize a specific face or other security-
oriented data. It can also download its captured visual data via
telephone line to a data collection and processing facility.

With everything on a few chips, intelligent cameras can now be mass-
manufactured like pocket radios. No need for security personnel-they
can be linked to a computer surveillance monitoring and data base
system.

This is where it gets really insidious. When the technology becomes
so cheap, tiny, and powerful, and no guards are needed, they can
sprinkle these things around like corn chips...secretly putting them
on every street corner, in every waiting room, office, wherever.

Keep smiling, because you'll never know when -
"You're on Candid Camera"
And Hey! Relax - they've just captured your surfaces.

Where it really starts to get hairy is when we enter the brave new
world of Biometrics. Biometrics is the process of gathering biological
information and converting it into data that can be uploaded into
automated systems for identifying you.

They can use your fingerprint (via automated fingerprint identification
systems), retinal scan, voice or other personal signatures. Miros of
Wellesley, MA has recently introduced a system called Face-to-Face,
using neural nets, that is particularly insidious. Unlike fingerprint
or palm recognition, it identifies your face "non-intrusively" (that's
technospeak for surreptitiously) with 99% recognition. It can even
identify your face when you add glasses or change your hairstyle.

There are biometric service bureaus like TRW that provide immediate
access to personal dossier information to prisons, banks, military bases,
research facilities, pharmaceutical companies, etc. The client simply
installs a retinal scanner or other device and transmits your image to
a service bureau, which sends back your complete dossier. This is big
business for these service bureaus. We're talking billions in government
and corporate contracts.

What's next? We can expect intelligent scanning systems will be installed
in supermarket checkout lines, lobbies, airports, stores, ATM sites, and
so on in the near future. Known shoplifters will be tracked from the time
they walk into the store. There'll be a cordon sanitaire around playgrounds
and day care centers.

What happens when the FBI ties its fingerprint verification system at
its National Criminal Information Center, with its library of over 250,000
fingerprints, into the national health care card system, employment ID
card, IRS, and just about everything else?

Resources

Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access, Anne Wells
Branscomb, Basic Books, 1994.

Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security, William E.
Burrows, Random House, New Yourk, 1986.

The Electronic Eye-The Rise of Surveillance Society, David Lyon,
University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

Tuning In to Scanning-From Police to Satellite Bands, Bob Kay, TAB Books,
1994. (How to listen in on cordless telephones, military, FBI, Secret
Service, and NASA communications).

Undercover: Police Surveillance in America, Gary T. Marx, University
of California Press, 1988.

Privacy for Sale: How Computerization Has Made Everyone's Private
Life an Open Secret, Jeffrey Rothfeder, Simon and Schuster, 1992.

America's Secret Eyes in Space: The U.S. Keyhole Spy Satellite
Program, Jeffrey T. Richelson, Harper & Row, 1990

Hobbyist's Guide to COMINT Collection and Analysis, Tom Roach, 1330
Copper Peak Lane, San Jose, CA 95120-4271; DIY dirty NSA-style tricks.

Electronic Surveillance Manual, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Criminal Division,
Office of Enforcement Operations, 1991.



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