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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lazarre who wrote (16180)	6/16/1998 9:53:00 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 20981

Huh? Clarify. JLA

To: lazarre who wrote (16180)	6/16/1998 12:58:00 PM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20981

Phone Tax -- Thank Al Gore for Those Bigger Bills Come July Manchester Union Leader June 16, 1998 Richard Lessner Look closely at your telephone bill when it arrives next month. You will find a new 2.5 percent tax listed. Al Gore is the mug to thank for this new federal levy on your phone privileges. Over Republican protests, the Federal Communications Commission last Friday imposed the E-rate, as it is officially called, or the Gore Tax as we prefer. This tax is another of Mr. Gore's blinding flashes of genius. Unfortunately, Mr. Gore's latest brainstorm will cost the American taxpayers $7 billion by 2003, an amount roughly equal to what we will pay in federal gasoline taxes. What will the feds do with the money? Wire school classrooms and libraries to the Internet, another of Mr. Gore's many New Age fevers. Mr. Gore and his co-conspirator, former FCC commissioner Reed Hundt, slipped the E-rate into the behemoth 1996 telecommunications bill, a monstrosity so immense and complicated that not even its most avid proponents pretended to understand it. Little wonder the Gore Tax went all but unnoticed. Unfortunately for Mr. Gore's utopian visions, markets move faster than government bureaucrats. Although the FCC is just now getting around to imposing the Gore Tax, at least 80 percent of the nation's schools and libraries already are hard-wired into the information superhighway. Mr. Gore, however, rarely allows such inconvenient things as facts to get in the way when he is busy doing good "for the children." Of course, Mr. Gore's fawning admirers in the teachers' unions are all ga-ga over the E-rate windfall, which they see as yet another source of taxpayer money to raid, if not for the Internet then for other vital educational needs. Condoms, perhaps. Mr. Gore and his education establishment cronies simply ignore recent research findings that the educational benefits of the Internet are vastly overstated, at best, and just another faddish gimmick at worst. Nevertheless, the taxpayers must cough up another $7 billion on their phone bills. Thus does the plundering of the American taxpayer continue. Voters should remember the Gore Tax and who gave it to them each month when they sit down to pay their telephone bills. Manchester Union Leader --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To: lazarre who wrote (16180)	6/16/1998 3:01:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20981

>>Looks like Starrs possible 6E violation HAS LEGS. Not in the slightest. Just a minor diversion by the corrupt who want to delay justice.

To: lazarre who wrote (16180)	6/17/1998 10:33:00 PM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 20981

CLINTON - DIAL 'M' FOR MURDER June 11,1998 Charles Smith In November 1996, William Reinsch, head of the US Commerce Department - Bureau of Export Administration, wrote a memo noting the Clinton administration had a problem. Reinsch questioned the technology transfers approved by President Clinton, including strong (no back door) ciphered radios for China. In his memo, Reinsch wondered "whether we should allow the current practice of licensing encryption hardware to safe end-users (e.g. foreign police departments and security services) to continue". What Mr. Reinsch left out of his memo is the fact that one of these so called "safe end users" of strong US encryption technology is the PAP or Peoples Armed Police of China. For the unaware, the PAP is not your ordinary "foreign police department" or "security service". PAP is the GESTAPO of China, charged with rounding up political and religious dissidents. The PAP serves as the armed guards of China's concentration camps - the Luigao. They not only arrest people for political crimes, they shoot them. In fact, it is well documented that the PAP executes political prisoners in order to harvest their body parts for human organ transplants. In short, the PAP kills for fun and profit. President Clinton personally approved the sale of over a hundred million dollars of encrypted radios and cellular phones to the Chinese secret police in 1995. The letters seeking White House approval, over the objections of the State Department, were written by a Motorola executive who also happens to be a former Clinton administration member. You can view the materials from Dr. Richard Barth, former Clinton White House NSC member and now very rich Motorola executive, at my web site - us.net Ironically, strong Motorola encryption for the Chinese secret police is a valid export to Bill Clinton. The relationship between Motorola and Clinton extends beyond hiring former members of his staff. Motorola has donated millions in PAC money to most incumbents, spreading tidings of joy all over capitol hill. Motorola has attended White House coffees, traveled with Ron Brown and even sent it's CEO to have dinner in the White House with Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin. However, the same Motorola technology, according to Clinton, is way too strong for American citizens. Clinton opposes the sale of strong encryption to the American public because we might be criminals. We might use this technology to keep the FBI from monitoring us. The Clinton administration has gone so far as to consider legislation "mandating" all US citizens must use weak ciphering with a back door for the FBI. Of course, strong encryption on US cellular services could stop billions in criminal fraud. Strong encryption in US hospital computers could end hacker intrusions and save lives. Strong encryption in American businesses could protect intellectual property from commercial espionage. Strong encryption in the US could protect Americans and their privacy from unwarranted intrusion by police state wannabes. Alas, to Bill Clinton, strong encryption is for the red Chinese secret police - not for a free America. Curiously, the 1995 waiver given to Motorola by Bill Clinton was NOT to avoid US government technical review of the export to China. Motorola sought "a waiver from requirements for individual export license notifications to Congress". Motorola did not mind the government check out the pending export as long as the details were never made public. Thus, in 1995 Motorola quietly got Clinton's okay to take the Chinese blood money and send the secure radios. Why not advertise the sale? With such a large, satisfied, customer one would think that Motorola and Bill Clinton would be proud of the People's Armed Police. The bragging rights alone are certainly worth future sales to other dictatorships. I can see the ad now... "Four out of five secret police services prefer Motorola over the nearest competitor". The Chinese armed police know that red party commands to arrest and execute dissidents are safely protected from interception by the best US technology that money can buy. Besides, if they need to purchase more radios - All they have to do is execute another dissident. FOR MORE INFORMATION: us.net "mandate" the government solution us.net Bill Reinsch and his letter us.net secret DOJ Memo on export policy us.net Commerce memo on Clinton policy 1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Paul Revere - encryption 1775 Charles R. Smith SOFTWAR us.net softwar@us.net Pcyphered SIGNATURE: 0E6A08A504E428907B2803C2B13B14A2B17373279373103244AE3FFD68ADB644 2E846D5D3F0EBBC46D5A624B31543DA3E004EA9926549EFA588370CE6C47BBA4 1E0F1E09D754A868 ============================================================== SOFTWAR EMAIL NEWSLETTER 06/11/1998