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Pentagon Monitoring Peace Activists' E-Mails
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Homeland Security is monitoring peace groups and even peering at their e-mails. "This information is being provided only to alert commanders and staff to potential terrorist activity or apprise them of other force protection issues."
It then shares that information with Joint Terrorism Task Forces, which include the FBI and state and local law enforcement, as well as with the Pentagon's notorious Talon (Threat and Local Observation Notice) program.
For instance, an April 12, 2005, Talon document, just released by the ACLU, shows that the Pentagon was concerned about "suspicious activity" at an upcoming event sponsored by the Broward Anti-War Coalition in Florida.
This peace group, according to the document, was planning -- hold your breath here -- "guerrilla theater and other forms of subversive propaganda" at the Fort Lauderdale Air and Sea Show.
The source of the information was the Miami-Dade Police Department, and members of Army Recruiting and the Miami Joint Terrorism Task Force were briefed on it, the document states.
Another Talon document, dated March 1, 2005, released by the ACLU, reveals that Homeland Security agents are monitoring e-mails of such scary groups as the Quakers.
"The source received an e-mail on 25 Feb 05, subject: upcoming peace/anti-war events. The e-mail was from the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Northeast Ohio," the document states. And that source is identified as "a special agent of the Federal Protective Service, US Department of Homeland Security." The document adds, "Source is reliable."
The Joint Terrorism Task Force of Dayton, Ohio, was briefed on this one.
The planned activity of the Quakers that so concerned the Pentagon, Homeland Security, and the Joint Terrorism Task Force was this: "On 19 Mar 05, there will be a 'Stop the War NOW!' rally in commemoration of the second anniversary of the U.S. Invasion/Occupation of Iraq. The Akron rally will have a march and reading of names of war dead. ... The Akron march begins at noon and goes past a local military recruiting station and the FBI office. The march will end at the Federal Building in Akron, for a rally, followed by reading of names of U.S. and Iraqi war dead."
A third Talon document, dated March 7, 2005, also relies on an e-mail from the Quakers. "Source received an e-mail from the American Friends Service Committee" about "actions at military recruitment offices with the goals to include: raising awareness, education, visibility." The source is again identified as "a special agent of the Federal Protective Service, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Source is reliable."
All three Talon documents state at the top: "This information is being provided only to alert commanders and staff to potential terrorist activity or apprise them of other force protection issues."
"Potential terrorist activity." Isn't that delightful?
Word to the wise: If you're a peace activist, the government may be watching you and reading your e-mails.
Something just to keep in mind.
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Posted by: LeftWright on Oct 19, 2006 12:34 AM
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Keeping 9/11 truth front and center, where it needs to be until we get a real investigation.
There are over a thousand facts that contradict the official "conspiracy theory."
Just a few highlights:
1) VP Cheney put in charge of NORAD just before 9/11.
2) The six wargames that were going on the day of the 9/11 attacks. Some of these were live-fly exercises that involved mock hijackings and false radar injects in the northeast air corridor. The total non-response of the Air Force for nearly two hours.
3) President Bush's behavior and statements on the morning of 9/11 and his recollection of that morning.
4) The clear evidence of insider foreknowledge demonstrated by the highly unusual stock trades in the period just before 9/11.
5) The collapse, still unexplained, of WTC 7.
6) The total destruction of the Twin Towers, which even the NIST report does not adequately or scientifically explain. (Where did all the molten steel come from?)
7) No evidence that a Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon.
8) Flight 93 debris spread over eight square miles, no plane or bodies at "crash" site.
9) Pakistan's ISI chief, Gen. Mahmoud Ahmed, ordering Saeed Sheikh to send $100,000 to Mohamed Atta just before 9/11. That same ISI chief meeting with U.S. government officials during the week of 9/11.
I could go on for hours. Instead, read any or all of the following:
The New Pearl Harbor by David Ray Griffin
The Terror Timeline by Paul Thompson
Towers of Deception by Barrie Zwicker
The War On Truth by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
The Politics of Heroin by Alfred W. McCoy
Crossing the Rubicon by Michael C. Ruppert
9/11: Synthetic Terror Made in USA by Webster Griffin Tarpley
Please check these websites:
From The Wilderness
Scholars For 9/11 Truth
911Truth.org
The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.
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» ginmar - who exactly are you talking about?
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» RE: Yeah, but if you believe holcaust deniers, you are
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» I highly recommend the film 9/11: Press for Truth to ease people into the idea
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» RE: You do know that some Jews are Zionist, right?
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» What the hell are you talking about?
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» RE: What the hell are you talking about?
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» Kind of a broad brush there, ginmar, I'm sure you can find some Holocaust Denying pizza cooks, too
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» Noone is saying anything, apparently (I must be another left gatekeeper, huh?)
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» I have a theory of the crime, as do many others, read Michael Ruppert's
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» tc - I offer to debate the facts about 9/11 (again)
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» Instead of debating, tc throws mud
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» Agreed. We need to focus on the specific crime of 9/11, the exposure and resolution
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Posted by: rsaxto on Oct 19, 2006 2:32 AM
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» RE: email
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» RE: email
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» RE: email
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» RE: email
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» Of course, they will not find Osama in our e-mails
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Posted by: Sojourner on Oct 19, 2006 2:47 AM
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How is that different from GM wanting to be "apprised" of Ford's plans for auto model changes? Or Skippy Peanut Butter wanting to be "apprised" of Generic Peanut Butter's change in price? Or one fashion house keeping an eye on another fashion house?
Puhleeze, spare us the pseudo-horrified failed attempts at investigative reporting. They're just like the Pentagon's pseudo-sensitive failed attempts at investigation. Both are kissing up to their respective clientels. Get real!
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» RE: "...potential terrorist activity OR apprise them of other force protection issues."
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» RE: "...potential terrorist activity OR apprise them of other force protection issues."
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» RE: "...potential terrorist activity OR apprise them of other force protection issues."
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» Exactly who now is peddling "Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid"?
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» RE: xactly who now is peddling "Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid"?
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» totally
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» GM doesn't render citizens to secret prisons
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» Thanks for the clarification. We don' need no stinkink misinformed distortions.
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Posted by: talkville on Oct 19, 2006 3:34 AM
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So, as the Yugoslav saying goes: tell the truth, then run!
And don't go terrorizing people with all that peace talk!
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Posted by: Tom Degan on Oct 19, 2006 5:51 AM
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FUCK YOU, RUMSFELD!!!
Gosh, I hope so! The other day, our incompetant, lap dog congress gave the president of the United States despotic power, that will allow him to deem anyone he chooses as an enemy combatant. Do you doubt for a minute that the "detention facilities" that are now being constructed by Dick Cheney's Halliburton won't eventually be host to one or more of the contributors to this great site? These - let's call a spade a spade - concentration camps - will eventually be host to alot of people who choose to excersize their 1st amendment rights. That is why it is so important that the republicans not retain control on the congress in January.
If these dirty old dingbats are allowed to have their way, our country, as we knew it and loved it, is finished. Think I'm kidding? Then vote republican next month. You'll deserve everything that happens to you.
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
"The Rant" by Tom Degan
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» RE: Are they listening?
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» RE: Are they listening?
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» Scary enough!
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» RE: Are they listening? F-U-R, F-U-C, F-U-B, F-U-CR
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Posted by: dougo on Oct 19, 2006 5:55 AM
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Posted by: smidget2k4 on Oct 19, 2006 6:11 AM
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You are a fool think you have any privacy online at all.
And so are these activists if they are complaining about it.
If you need to make a secure communication, the INTERNET IS THE NOT THE PLACE TO DO IT because it is so ridiculously easy to snoop.
Or at LEAST send it though a proxy or use SSL or a one-way-hash encryption.
Learn some things about internet encryption and then try again.
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» RE: Internet Privacy -links please
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» RE: Internet Privacy -links please
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» Stop paying your ISP. The Pentagon will pay it for you if they're that interested.
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» Keywords
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» RE: Keywords
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» Alternet mgt. still not addressing the issue
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» Nothing to hide
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Posted by: keefus55 on Oct 19, 2006 6:16 AM
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The Internet is now far too entrenched and far too pervasive in the World for any bureaucratic, cash-strapped US Government agency to effectively monitor or conrol the millions of e-mails now flowing through the system every hour of every day.
And for Mr. Bush and his merry band of Pentagon despots to now overtly shut it all down would tip their hand to the World as to what they are really up to. It's a classic diplomatic "Catch 22" which they absolutely can't win.
What's more, Bush and his "thought police" tried (and failed) a year or so ago to wrest control of ICANN from the international community. It didn't fly. And that failure was simply more proof that the Internet clearly now belongs to the World, not just the United States. The "genie" is already out of the bottle.
I suggest Mr. Bush and his goons might now want to turn their attention to far more useful and productive pursuits…. like combating SPAM.
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Posted by: Intraspecto on Oct 19, 2006 6:25 AM
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» RE: America oh America, where have you gone?
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» RE: America oh America, where have you gone?
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Posted by: wawa on Oct 19, 2006 6:51 AM
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When I gave 'birth' to WeAreWideAwake, my webmistress provided a link to tell me the origin of where WAWA readers come from-
NOT actual email addresses, but country
OR origin: such as Edu. or Gov.
The USA Military, USA Govt. and Israel have been consistently in the Top 20 of WAWA Readers.
Big Brother doesn't write to me, but I am pleased they are interested, as FREEDOM OF SPEECH means nothing unless you have something to say and say it!
"Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."-...Article 19.
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
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» RE: "MAYBE"???
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» RE: "MAYBE"???
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» RE: "MAYBE"??? If Article 19 right means something today, it won't tomorrow.
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» RE: "MAYBE"???
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Posted by: rockpicker on Oct 19, 2006 7:11 AM
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I'm waiting empty in a cold house
with my shamrock, the dog and some books,
listening for the old tread of new boots,
gunning to kick in this loose-hinged heart.
The angry hands of those with much
to lose, I imagine, close on me.
They drag me burning, unquenchably,
into their unmooned dark.
A chilled cup of tea upon the table
is how my neighbors find me gone.
No sign of struggle. No skeletal sneer.
Only the storm door banging mad in wind.
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» In memoriam.
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Posted by: hotar on Oct 19, 2006 7:16 AM
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It's true that they are using them in paranoid, unjustified ways; Quakers are non-violent pacifists, hardly a terrorist threat (unless you're a paranoid wingnut and think the Quakers have been infiltrated by terrorist orgs).
But this is not a high-tech, packet-sniffing, email intercept program. Those undoubtedly exist and are targeting international email, but they are likely much more targeted and have little relevance for your everyday email communication. As someone said above, there's simply too much email going around for the govt to monitor all of it.
So, in conclusion: big deal.
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Posted by: velvel of atlanta on Oct 19, 2006 7:19 AM
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» Amen to that.However since they own their Congressional oversight, the fox is guarding the hen house
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» RE: Don't they have more to do?
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» RE: Don't they have more to do?
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» RE: Don't they have more to do?
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Posted by: revolutionary80 on Oct 19, 2006 7:32 AM
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» RE: spying doesnt scare me
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» RE: spying doesnt scare me
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» I'm not sitting on my thumbs, are you?
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» RE: spying doesnt scare me
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» Storming Capitol Hill -- That's not how it was done ...
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» RE: Storming Capitol Hill -- That's not how it was done ...
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» and this is exactly why 9/11 Truth is the key
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Posted by: grim ripper on Oct 19, 2006 8:00 AM
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Posted by: thoughtcriminal on Oct 19, 2006 8:11 AM
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Lowell: "We will name names. We will provide the public with evidence of what is going on out there," Lowell said. "It seems to me that is not in the interest of law enforcement."
So, what is going on out here? It's not just listening to phone calls and snooping on emails and internet trafiic (courtesy of AT&T and Verizon) Wired News: Whistle-Blower's Evidence, Uncut (May 22 2006)
It's the coordinated use by the local police and the federal government that's also of concern. It's the use of undercover cops who used to do DEA-type work being used to spy on peaceful groups for political purposes.
Look at the recent HP spy scandal, in which the company attempted to plant people inside the newspaper's headquarters. Groups like Students Against War can rest assured that at least some of their more 'radical' members are undercover cops.
Nixon did the same thing, and as numerous commentators have observed, "Bush is worse than Nixon", and "This is worse than Watergate."
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Posted by: kungfoofighterx on Oct 19, 2006 8:59 AM
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Narus
They make the software that records the ins and outs of the severs that run the web. As do other companies.
EFF has plenty of info on the internet privacy. Its worth checking out their site for a number of reasons.
TOR and PRIVOXY (google them) are software the allow some security over the web. These programs make it hard for search engines to figure out who you are from the searches comming from your IP address. *They are slow and difficult to use on a daily basis.*
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» RE: internet spy stuff
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» RE: internet spy stuff
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Posted by: Reader11722 on Oct 19, 2006 9:13 AM
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Vote them ALL out, except Dr. Ron Paul, he stays.
Final link (before Google Books caves to pressure and drops the title):
America Deceived (book)
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Posted by: Trinity on Oct 19, 2006 9:24 AM
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THE HIGH CABAL'S AGENDAS:PART3
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» Another Conspiracy Wingnut
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» RE: Another Conspiracy Wingnut
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Posted by: Habaro on Oct 19, 2006 9:30 AM
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Posted by: Lauren on Oct 19, 2006 11:08 AM
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When my computer suddenly was unable to log onto AlterNet after copying the adress off Todd's site, I was really boxed, until I started writing a letter to Todd explaining how I was being limited. Then the computer was suddenly able to log on again.
Don't forget this is an interactive, hunting intelligence operating on the line. Stand up for ALL your rights, especially the right to communicate. PS, I email my real address and phone to folks so they can never really stop us without shutting the whole country down.
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Posted by: johngary66 on Oct 19, 2006 12:45 PM
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» That would help the poor. This way they help the rich and help themselves.
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Posted by: mite on Oct 19, 2006 2:18 PM
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"The people can always be brought to the bidding of leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country"
-Hitlers right hand man; Herman Goering, explaining at his war crimes trial.-
The people of the U.S. are in denial and side tracked with lies from the Congress and Media. Part of the Plan is keep us so absorbed in our greed, selfishness, we are unable to find the real truth.
Read: Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars www.lawfulpath.com
Remember what Bush said "your either with us or against us."
Bush has ignored over 900 laws and Belittles the constitution; " I don't give a goddam, I'm the President and commander-in- Chief" An aid said in a meeting; " There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution" Bush said " Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a goddammed piece of paper."
-Doug Thompson- Peoples Online Publishing, The Ferguson Report 03/22/2006
Bush needs a psychological evaluation in my option after reading anothe article from the Ferguson Report. Dr. Stephanie Crossfield a psychologist says Bush has a problem telling the truth.
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Posted by: BobbyGreyFriar on Oct 19, 2006 7:19 PM
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Posted by: BobbyGreyFriar on Oct 19, 2006 7:25 PM
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Posted by: ernest cann on Oct 19, 2006 8:04 PM
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It is the 125th anniversary of the end of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR!
Just think of the field day our government snoops would have had following the likes of Samuel Adams. Ben Franklin, Patrick Henry et al!
They probably would have been found out and HANGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But they sure would have looked awfully pretty in them thar redcoats! HUH?
The jerks have been training for these days for well over 20 years!
Door-to-door searches, prison camps and their plans, dumbing down the kids as they grew up so that violence and savergy were the norm, blindly obey your superiors!, now they have the technology to snoop on our e-mails, phone calls, they can literally see through walls, see you in the dark, trace you electronically anywhere you go, etc, etc,
If we do not start to push back through our local police and government officials, on up to our state folks, then to our Wash. D.C. CREATURES, we will have easily succumbed without a struggle, and I am sorry to report that we are 70% there!
BUT, WE CAN STILL WIN!
We have the numbers, and the truth on our side- and those weapons have always shown to win out!
We better get busy!
www.getonnow.org
www.americafreedomtofascism
Now they have two other places to snoop on!
An American!
Ernest Cann
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Posted by: lafrance on Oct 19, 2006 10:41 PM
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But, not the militia groups and other hate groups who personify the angry white male and are the kind of groups that attracted the timothy mcvays. Remember him. Our terrorist.
What the government, right wing government does not understand is that thier propaganda machines like Limbaugh and Fox incite the angry white males who are the most likely to do a terrorist act. Plus they are our version of the middle east terrorist.
they are angry men, they get incited by propaganda(ours with the gop machine of hate talk and thiers with the mulloahs). They are incited to do terror acts to release thier anger and show they control.
The gov. needs to be targeting these people to understand the middle east terrorist and quit harassing the peace groups who do not promote hate.
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» RE: Monitor the quakers but, not the psuedo militias
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Posted by: Lauren on Oct 20, 2006 7:00 AM
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I am really unhappy with Feinstein, she is not representing our interests very well at all. She is on the big war committees, she knows a lot better what is going on then she lets on.
Todd is calling for open borders. I think that is a mistake, the message needs to be way more nuanced to reassure people about the actual intent. I don't want an open border with Asia. That would overwhelm us in a heartbeat, there are too many people there who want to be here.
The other Americas is another issue. Please Todd, drop the issue, we know your heart, focus on the war. Focus on torture and focus on the war mongering of Feinstein.
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Posted by: masternerd on Oct 20, 2006 7:59 AM
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Somebody once said "America is great because it is good". Well folks that era has been lost to the era of greed! No other motivation for the war in Iraq is present if you look at the facts.
As a former Army tool who was deployed at the start of "Iraqi Freedom" I want to point out a few things.
1. Camp Doha Kuwait--Civilian Security Forces
2. Throughout Kuwait--Jobs typically performed by enlisted men being sub contracted by civilian company's tied to government officials.
My assumption is the contracts bleed money from the tax payer. War would cost a lot less if the resources the military provide were used. Another benefit would be soldiers would gain practical work skills. (I sat in the desert for a year) bringing a stronger workforce for long term stability.
Poor and lower middle class people who join a branch of service are pawns for the rich. I am a capitalist but I don't agree with death and destruction as a marketing plan.
Yes its true America is no longer good and hasn't been for some time. But I feel that things are gonna get much worse before they get any better!
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» Thanks for the post, and good luck
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Posted by: chomsky on Oct 20, 2006 12:00 PM
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None of you encrypt your email, none of you even know what encryption is. Phil Zimmerman suffered terribly to bring military grade encryption to the masses, and you are too simple minded to use it.
Let me spell it out for your numbskulls:
You should all be using Thunderbird as your email client.
You should all have GPG installed on your computers.
You should all be using Enigmail to seamlessly and effortlessly encrypt your email so that not even the NSA can read it.
And finally, you should all be running Ubuntu and not Wiindows, or if you have the cash, Macs.
If you are too stupid to use these free tools (PGP/GPG being over ten years old now) then really we should not have to put up with your WAAAHHH WAAHHHH WAAAAHHH baby crying.
Anyone in ANY political organization should be encrypting ALL their email by default. USE YOUR BRAINS YOU IDIOTS.
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Posted by: p-dowdy on Oct 20, 2006 12:50 PM
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As far as actual terrorist acts go, they're more afraid of the environmentalists.
But we're all in the same stew. And I'm glad for the company.
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Posted by: Bulldog on Oct 20, 2006 4:35 PM
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Phil Zimmermann in the early 1990's forsaw the increasing need for encryption of electronic communications for the layperson.
Once installed, PGP secures all communications using a brilliant combination of a conventional algorithm or block cipher, encryption by asymmetric algorithm & public / private keys. All this goes to ensure a massively effective cryptography.
I studied it briefly as part of a University assignment last year but it's just not that complicated to install and use.
You should all use it. Yes! Even you, you big dummy!
One hint: Version 7.0x will not recognize keys generated by 6.5.x PGP versions, but only locally on your own machine. This is only about the keys created locally on your own computer, so, you should always be able to read messages sent to you that have been encrypted by others, using early PGP versions. The private/public key generation technique may have changed for a local machine but the encryption ciphers are unchanged with time.
Reports on PGP encryption:
"PGP prevents people from reading what you sent to whom, but does not prevent people from monitoring with whom you are communicating. This is called traffic analysis, and can leak
much information about you. PGP does not prevent against this. If you are afraid of this, you should send email indirectly (send the message encrypted to a friend and ask him to send it through with a random time delay), or set up a mail server to do this." [A security analysis of Pretty Good Privacy]
Sieuwert van Otterloo
September 7, 2001
"The government has a track record that does not inspire confidence that they will never abuse our civil liberties. The FBI’s COINTELPRO program targeted groups that opposed government policies. They spied on the antiwar movement and the civil rights movement. They wiretapped the phone of
Martin Luther King Jr. Nixon had his enemies list. And then there was the Watergate mess. Congress now seems intent on passing laws curtailing our civil liberties on the Internet. At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.
If we want to resist this unsettling trend in the government to outlaw cryptography, one measure we can apply is to use cryptography as much as we can now while it’s still legal. When use of strong cryptography becomes popular, it’s harder for the government to criminalize it. Therefore, using PGP is good for preserving democracy.
If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. Intelligence agencies have access to good cryptographic technology. So do the big arms and drug traffickers. But ordinary people and grassroots political organizations mostly have not had access to affordable “military grade” public-key cryptographic technology. Until now."
[Phil Zimmermann - PGP Inventor in 'PGP Users Guide'. June 1999.]
There's also PGP compatible 'HUSHMAIL', that I have not tried, but which uses similar cryptography techniques.
Cryptography & the de-ciphering thereof is a very interesting subject and was pioneered by the likes of Alan Turing at Bletchley Park UK, to help conquer the NAZI's and the enigma cipher machines of WWII.
We can do it hard or we can do it easy. Here's easy.
Just GOOGLE for 'PGP Freeware' and perhaps 'HUSHMAIL'.
Plus, there are masses and masses of Help Documents available, that come with or accompanying the installation programme(s).
Easy! Done! You are now almost ready to be Eyes-only secure. Otherwise, you've only got yourselves to blame.
So Get Encrypted!
Once installed, check it works by sending a series of encrypted mails to yourself.
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