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To: mishedlo who wrote (45129)	1/24/2006 9:27:26 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 116555

mish You may or may not be familiar with ADSX, the Digital Angel company that received FDA approval for the human chip implant. One of their recent PRs notes they have now distributed over 4,000 scanners capable of reading implanted human chips. These scanners are in hospitals, ERs, and who knows where else. The chip is slowly gaining popularity. Add in biometric drivers licenses(already here) and biometric passports(next year at the latest is my bet). Mix with Viper Squads at all major public transportation terminal in conjunction with GPS implanted vehicles. In context with your article, I believe that when(not if) the currency "event" takes place it will be a SENS type event. Welcome to the cashless, totally controlled society. Gold will still have value...but only to those legally allowed to 'own' it electronically. Deflation and inflation won't matter because it will be whatever the government tells you it is. -ng-

To: mishedlo who wrote (45129)	1/24/2006 10:04:26 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 116555

Well speak of the devil...Devil's Island that is.... US may use Guantanamo for military executions Tue Jan 24, 4:13 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - New US military rules mean that executions of condemned "war on terror" detainees could be carried out at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the US Army said. The new rules authorize the army to set the location for executions "imposed by military courts-martial or military tribunals and authorized by the president of the United States." "Enemy combatants could be affected by this regulation," said Sheldon Smith, a spokesman for the US Army. Only 10 war-on-terror detainees have so far been charged and referred to special military commissions for trial, and the United States is not seeking the death penalty in any of those cases. But the United States has not ruled out the death penalty for war-on-terror detainees, and the issue has long been a sore point for some US allies with nationals detained at Guantanamo. The army said the changes in the regulations allow executions to be conducted at locations other than Fort Leavenworth, previously the only authorized site for military executions. Currently, seven military inmates are on death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. No dates have been set for their execution. The last time the military executed a prisoner was April 19, 1961, when it put to death John A. Bennet for rape and attempted murder. The order signed January 17 by General Peter Schoomaker, the army chief of staff, said the changes were a "major revision" of the regulations, which apply to all the services, not just the army. The regulations were last revised in 1999. Death penalty opponents said the measure appeared to be a "technical adjustment." "I don't think there is anything imminent but eventually there might be," said Richard Deiter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington. "I suspect it is aimed at the military tribunals in Guantanamo. They don't want to bring people from Guantanamo and put them on US soil," he said. Under the regulations, only the president has the power to approve and order an execution. The secretary of the army then approves the location for the execution. The secretary must set a date for it within 60 days of the president's order. If there is a stay of execution, it would be conducted 14 to 30 days after the stay is lifted. The regulations stipulate that executions must be carried out by lethal injection administered by medical personnel or other persons who are qualified to administer intravenous injections. Media interviews with the condemned prisoner are forbidden. But at least two media representatives would be chosen from a pool to witness the execution, along with military officials, a chaplain, family members of the condemned and relatives of the victim. "The condemned prisoner will be placed on the execution table and restrained by means of appropriate fasteners to ensure safety and security of the prisoner and EWT (execution watch team) personnel," the regulations state. "Once the prisoner is secured to the bale, the execution team will insert a large-bore intravenous channel into an appropriate vein, assure the flow of a normal saline solution, and connect the condemned prisoner to the electrocardiograph machine," it says. The senior military officer in charge would then read aloud the charges, the finding of the court, the sentence and the execution orders before giving the order to commence the execution.

To: mishedlo who wrote (45129)	1/24/2006 10:23:37 PM
From: shades	Respond to of 116555

It is extremely difficult to hold even local police forces accountable. Who is going to hold accountable a federal police protected by Homeland Security and the president? Rodney king videos weren't around in Stalins day eh? hehe The net, webcams, global news - different world today - harder to keep secrets.

To: mishedlo who wrote (45129)	1/25/2006 12:11:27 AM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 116555

<The new police are empowered to "make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing suc> Isn't that what regular police do now?? I mean he doesn't need a warrant to arrest anyone he see's committing a crime... or someone who has just committed a crime and someone says "he did it" and points at the guy running down the street. < What is "an offense against the United States"? What are "reasonable grounds"? You can bet the Alito/Roberts court will rule that it is whatever the executive branch says.> Well, if anyone thought this might be a reasonable piece of journalism, the above 'ditty' puts that idea to rest. Obviously a piece of crap. Nothing against you Mish... obviously anyone can post whatever they want, but just pointing out the natrue of the article. Don't get me wrong, I'm not for the Patiot Act... I don't know enough about it either way to be honest. But when someone says that... I mean why even read it.. it's taken itself out of even "contention" for being a reasonable article. To imply a supreme court justice would rubberstamp "whatever the executive branch says"... a direct 180 degree from his (being the judiciary branch) stated "raison d'etre" is really just blatent propaganda. All JMO DAK