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To: sea_urchin who wrote (23014)	4/20/2005 12:07:27 PM
From: The Wharf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81050

news.bbc.co.uk Utopian Nightmares

To: sea_urchin who wrote (23014)	4/21/2005 4:07:21 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81050

Re: To be governed is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censored, checked, valued, enrolled, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. Warning on spread of state surveillance Richard Norton-Taylor Thursday April 21, 2005 The Guardian Governments are building a "global registration and surveillance infrastructure" in the US-led "war on terror", civil liberty groups warned yesterday. The aim is to monitor the movements and activities of entire populations in what campaigners call "an unprecedented project of social control". The warning came from the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, including the American Civil Liberties Union, and Statewatch, a UK-based bulletin which tracks developments in the EU. They point to the system whereby all visitors to the US are to be digitally photographed and fingerprinted. The EU has agreed that member states must fingerprint all passport holders by the end of 2007. The information will be held on databases. National ID cards, they warn, will become a "globally interoperable biometric passport". The setting up of airlines' passenger name records (PNRs) could include more than 60 different kinds of information, including meal choices which could reveal personal, religious or ethnic affiliations. The US and EU governments are expanding legal powers to eavesdrop and to store the product of intercepted personal communications, the groups warn. They also point to an agreement between Europol - the EU's incipient police headquarters - and the US giving what they say will be an unlimited number of American agencies access to sensitive information on the race, political opinions, religious beliefs, health and sexual life of individuals. The groups point to increasingly close cooperation between national police, security, intelligence, and military establishments. To achieve their ends, they say, governments have suspended judicial oversight over law enforcement agents and public officials, concentrated unprecedented power in the hands of the executive arm of government, and rolled back criminal law and due process protections that balance the rights of individuals against the power of the state. These initiatives, say the civil liberty groups, are not effective in identifying terrorists. guardian.co.uk "These initiatives,... are not effective in identifying terrorists." LOL... Of course they aren't! But who said the Judeofascist state's primary goal was "identifying" genuine terrorists in the first place??!? The more data, records and files the police state collects on any individual, the easier it's gonna be for it to FRAME him/her later on... Remember Mohamed Atta and his alleged 911 accomplices: all were CIA wannabees recruited and trained in the US who expected to be eventually dispatched to Arab countries and spy for the US... and they were all snuffed out by their callous US employer --and framed posthumously as the "911 hijackers". Gus