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England Leads The World In Using Spy Cameras And Sensors

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Far from being a 'free' country, England is rapidly morphing into Orwell's '1984' with cameras and hidden monitors reporting silently to authorities showing up in the oddest places such as inside garbage cans, for example. Modern electronic devices and cameras can be used nearly everywhere and abused, too. Total safety can swiftly become total tyranny.

Wilson, the subject in the novel, 1984', had to live a life of total constraint.

The invention of print made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.

Any sound Winston made, above the level of a whisper, would be picked up by the telescreen; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard.

Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth watching, could be kept twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of communication closed. The possibility of enforcing not only complete obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion of all subjects now existed.

We are in the earliest stages of this sort of nightmare world. Everything we say or do is of interest to the State who wishes to not protect us but to protect IT. This doesn't stop terrorism, of course, because all terrorist acts are useful for the State which needs them to keep the citizens cooperative with the spying upon themselves. This is why we recently had to endure the hysterical reports and the hysterical over-reaction to a very sketchy, poorly-developed 'terrorist plot.' Even as it distrupted air travel and harassed visitors, it served its monumental purpose of scaring everyone into backing more wild military adventures that would generate more 'terrorism'.

It isn't just for crime now, they want to use spy devices for nearly every possible imaginable purpose.

This Is London: Electronic spy 'bugs' have been secretly planted in hundreds of thousands of household wheelie bins.

The gadgets - mostly installed by companies based in Germany - transmit information about the contents of the bins to a central database which then keeps records on the waste disposal habits of each individual address.

Already some 500,000 bins in council districts across England have been fitted with the bugs - with nearly all areas expected to follow suit within the next couple of years.

Until now, the majority of bins have been altered without the knowledge of their owners. In many cases, councils which ordered the installation of the devices did not even debate the proposals publicly.
The official reason for the bugs is to 'improve efficiency' and settle disputes between neighbours over wheelie-bin ownership. But experts say the technology is actually intended to enable councils to impose fines on householders who exceed limits on the amount of non-recyclable waste they put out. New powers for councils to do this are expected to be introduced by the Government shortly.

Now the powers that be will be able to 'see' one's trash handling. Prying government officials use trash all the time to track 'crime' and the War on Drugs has been the bludgeon used to break down all restraints on prying and entering private homes. The concept of one's home being one's castle in America has nearly totally collapsed, actually, as of the last three years, it is gone, dead as our Constitution.

The Crown always loved barging in on the peasants. Nobels hated royal prying and huge wars were fought over this. Like the Magna Carta. And revolutions such as the one in 1776, for example.

The government decided to make these spy devices in the garbage cans secret. There was no feedback from the populace. It leaked out despite government attempts at keeping the peeping private within the government. This impulse to hide the spying is deeply embedded within the growing surveillance that is now a cancer within our culture. The Big Brother shows with their cameras all over private areas like bedrooms and bathrooms is well-named and an important part of getting the proles accustomed to the idea that all of what we do should be watched and commented upon.

The Watchers keeping eye on the proles are often corrupted by their secret powers.

BBC: Two council CCTV camera operators have been jailed for spying on a naked woman in her own home.
Mark Summerton and Kevin Judge, from Sefton Council, Merseyside, trained a street camera into the woman's flat.

At Liverpool Crown Court, Summerton, 37, of Kirkdale, Liverpool, admitted voyeurism and attempted voyeurism. He was sentenced to four months in prison.

Judge, 42, from Waterloo, admitted misconduct in public office and was jailed for two months.

I blogged about this in the past. Now they were sentenced. But the cameras are still there and the next crew will be tempted to abuse it and eventually they will succumb to temptation. It is impossible to resist. Eventually there will be a revolving door of peeping toms going to jail and being replaced by new ones who will go to jail and so on. This is why Big Brother in 1984 had strict rules concerning sex. As any garden-variety voyeur knows, everyone is, thanks to our sex drive, a snake in the Garden of Eden.

The government of England has gone totally off the wall crazy about using cameras to make everything perfect.

Teaching unions have protested at plans to install CCTV cameras in a new city academy school.
The Vardy Foundation, which is sponsoring the King's Academy, in Middlesbrough, said they would protect teachers from "unwarranted accusations" of abuse by pupils and safeguard expensive computer equipment.

But unions warned staff would see the cameras as an intrusion.

If things are so dysfunctional cameras are needed to see if students are out of control or teachers can no longer be trusted or whatever reasons, it is too late to save anything. Might as well shut everything down and go home to die.

The idea that people should have to muck along as best they can and develop skills whereby one can figure out how to deal with difficult situations we will see the benign face of Big Brother everywhere, assuring us all He is watching and protecting and fixing everything. This destroys the character and moral development of the populace who become babies needing continuous nannying. The very best parts of my own childhood were the hours spent with no adults supervising anything or anywhere nearby, nay, far away. We had very interesting adventures. And yes, sometimes bad things did happen. Two children playing in the arroyo of the Tanque Verde River dug a hole and it fell in on them and they suffocated to death.

Other children got bitten by rattlers, I got sufficiently injured in one desert battle to be hospitalized. We broke arms and legs. We still loved it despite or maybe because of the dangers. Humans raised with no danger wither on the vine. They never learn the true meaning of life which is, death is always stalking us. Our culture needs the obverse of safety. Risk is always the element all dynamic cultures need or they rot.

Britain has opted for degenerancy and dependency.

The British government is so enthralled with the technology that it announced plans to increase the number of cameras in England to 2 million over the next three years, principally for law enforcement purposes.

Fry says it's high time that Americans jumped on the surveillance bandwagon.

"They're bloody everywhere in England," Fry said. "It's been working over there and we feel the technology has an application here as well. We're good at what we do and we're going after the markets."

Recently in the news, the media was warned that the NSA giant spy center in DC was consuming so much energy it was about to shut down due to overheating during the last heatwave!

Those incidents followed reports that the National Security Agency (NSA), the intelligence world's electronic eavesdropping arm, is consuming so much electricity at its headquarters outside Washington that it is in danger of exceeding its power supply.

"If a terrorist group were able to knock the NSA offline, or disrupt one of the nation's busiest airports, or shut down the most important oil pipeline in the nation, the impact would be perceived as devastating," Beckner said. "And yet we've essentially let these things happen — or almost happen — to ourselves."

Oh my. GADS! Shut the damn place down! Hell!!! Now! Of course, if G. Washington and T. Jefferson were to come back to life, the very first thing they would do is blow up that building. Of course, they were revolutionaries who wrote our Constitution. Dangerous.

I can't believe everyone is so infantile as to want this. Total safety is total death. P. Henry said, most famously, 'Give me liberty or give me death,' not, 'Give me no privacy, I am scared to death.'

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Experts Who Uncovered CIA Spying And Kidnapping In Italy Murdered

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Two men who were keys to the breaking of the CIA kidnapping and spying stories in Italy and Greece are now both dead. Each murder was made to look like a 'suicide' even though both men were very active in ongoing legal cases in Italy concerning the CIA. This is the latest in a long string of very suspicious deaths connected with 9/11 and the anthrax attack that hit only people on a short list of people Bush wanted to intimidate or kill.

Bove uncovered secret CIA spying in Italy.

Two Strange Deaths in European Wiretapping Scandal
By: Paolo Pontoniere and Jeffrey Klein, New America Media on: 20.08.2006 [06:13 ] (127 reads)

Just after noon on Friday, July 21, Adamo Bove — head of security at Telecom Italia, the country's largest telecommunications firm — told his wife he had some errands to run as he left their Naples apartment. Hours later, police found his car parked atop a freeway overpass. Bove's body lay on the pavement some 100 feet below.

Bove was a master at detecting hidden phone networks. Recently, at the direction of Milan prosecutors, he'd used mobile phone records to trace how a "Special Removal Unit" composed of CIA and SISMI (the Italian CIA) agents abducted Abu Omar, an Egyptian cleric, and flew him to Cairo where he was tortured. The Omar kidnapping and the alleged involvement of 26 CIA agents, whom prosecutors seek to arrest and extradite, electrified Italian media. U.S. media noted the story, then dropped it.

The first Italian press reports after Bove's death said the 42-year-old had committed suicide. Bove, according to unnamed sources, was depressed about his imminent indictment by Milan prosecutors. But prosecutors immediately, and uncharacteristically, set the record straight: Bove was not a target; in fact, he was prosecutors' chief source. Bove, prosecutors said, was helping them investigate his own bosses, who were orchestrating an illegal wiretapping bureau and the destruction of incriminating digital evidence. One Telecom executive had already been forced out when he was caught conducting these illicit operations, as well as selling intercepted information to a business intelligence firm.

About 16 months earlier, in March of 2005, Costas Tsalikidis, a 38-year-old software engineer for Vodaphone in Greece had just discovered a highly sophisticated bug embedded in the company's mobile network. The spyware eavesdropped on the prime minister's and other top officials' cell phone calls; it even monitored the car phone of Greece's secret service chief. Others bugged included civil rights activists, the head of Greece's "Stop the War" coalition, journalists and Arab businessmen based in Athens. All the wiretapping began about two months before the Olympics were hosted by Greece in August 2004, according to a subsequent investigation by the Greek authorities.

One thing about secret assassins: they prefer some sort of cover before killing their victims. The war which Israel suddenly sprang upon the world ate up all the major attention. This allowed them to assassinate or kidnap all of the Hamas leadership and the CIA did likewise, I am betting. Of course, we all have no proof at the moment but the deed has been done and anyone meddling in the dark affairs of what I call 'Shadowlands' will now be thoroughly intimidated.

The collapse of the Valarie Plame case after the Republican investigating it was bribed shows clearly, the American rulers don't want any of this nasty, hidden stuff revealed. Wilson was and still is under attack for unveiling the lies and deceptions Mossad and the CIA tried to cook for an excuse to illegally invade Iraq. This disasterous war is now a festering sore on our country that is, like a classic cancer, growing worse by the day and is destroying our collective health.

This startling news that the two men at the center of the Italian case both 'committed suicide' at virtually the same time and both left no 'suicide notes' probably due to the fact that they resisted the offer. I speak as someone who has been inside all of this. When Bush wanted to be rid of Hatfield, the author of 'Fortunate Son', he had the FBI visit him in his hotel room and tell him they had the goods on him and and if he wanted to save his wife and young daughter, he should 'fix' things. They didn't arrest him for the crimes they alleged he committed, they simply taunted him and then left him, knowing full well what would happen next. He did kill himself but the proof I have that he was coerced is the fact that he didn't call me when they visited him despite my urgent warnings to do that just two days previously.

Another reporter contacted me that same night of the suicide, he was frightened. And this is what terror is all about: scaring people by making examples! Lions don't have to kill all zebras in order to inspire fear.

Time to remember the anthrax attacks: who died first and why he got the first letter a mere week after the 9/11 attacks:

Associated Press
Originally published October 6, 2001
LANTANA, Fla. - A 63-year-old Florida man died of the inhaled form of anthrax yesterday in the first such death in the United States in 25 years.

Health officials said there is no evidence he was the victim of a terrorist attack, but the FBI and CDC are investigating.

Bob Stevens, a photo editor at the supermarket tabloid The Sun, died at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis after antibiotics failed to stop the infection, Dr. Jean Malecki said.

Federal and state health investigators have emphasized that the disease is not contagious and that no other cases have been reported.

I remember that event really well. The first story of the photo editor in the hospital due to a mysterious disease which was first published in late September would have gone unnoticed except for two huge matters: Just three days after 9/11, Karl Rove blurted out that Bush was being very carefully protected by the Secret Service for he just had his anthrax antidote administered to him and his staff! That made me sit up. Anthrax? Huh? And why did Karl then blanch and try to change the subject when reporters demanded more information? Then the matter was dropped. I wrote back then, 'Why aren't we all getting anthrax medication if we are going to be attacked, too?'

Then the photoeditor became sick. I thought nothing of it until my photographer husband said, 'Isn't he the man who OKed the Jenna drunk photos last summer?' I immediately put the fate of this man at the top of 'to watch' catagory. Online, I obsessively watched his health until he died and then, in horror, the investigation of where he got the anthrax illness.

I knew instantly he was assassinated. Just one month before his death, the Bushes, in an interview at their ranch, warned the press to 'watch what you say, what you do,' a naked warning. This was in response to a question about the Jenna drunk photos. Back then, I joked that the photo editor, Stevens, should get body guards. Now, he was dead, the very first anthrax victim to get it in the mail, in a letter addressed to himself specifically.

As soon as the FBI announced a huge manhunt for the anthrax killer who hit only Bush enemies, anthrax experts suddenly began to suffer mysterious deaths.

American Free Press:

A string of microbiologists appears to have died under strange circumstances since the anthrax scare surfaced last fall. From Nov. 12 through Feb. 11, seven world-class microbiologists in different parts of the world were re ported to have died of “unnatural” causes, while the cause of the seventh’s death is questionable, according to Michael Davidson of From The Wilderness, an Internet news journal.

The seven microbiologists that Davidson reports to have died under strange circumstances are: Benito Que, Don C. Wiley, Vladimir Pasechnik, Robert Schwartz, Set Van, dean of the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Faculty.

Benito Que was a cell biologist at the University of Miami Medical School, involved in oncology research in the hematology department, which relies heavily on DNA sequencing studies.

Que worked for medical research facilities that received grants from Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), which is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Md. Que was found comatose in the street near the laboratory where he worked on Nov. 12 and died on Dec. 6.

HHMI funds a tremendous number of research programs at schools, hospitals and research facilities, and allegedly conducts “black ops” biomedical research for intelligence organizations, including the CIA, according to Davidson.

Three of the five American scientists who have died, Wiley, Schwartz, and Que, worked for medical research facilities that received grants from HHMI.

Don C. Wiley worked with HHMI at Harvard University and was one of the most prominent microbiologists in the world. He had won many of the field’s most prestigious awards, including the 1995 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for work on anti-viral vaccines. Wiley was also heavily involved in research on DNA sequencing.

Wiley, 57, vanished, and his abandoned rental car was found on the Hernando de Soto Bridge outside Memphis, Tenn. Wiley’s body was found on Dec. 20, snagged on a tree along the Mississippi River in Vidalia, La., 300 miles south of Memphis. Until his body was found, Wiley’s death was handled as a missing person case, and police did no forensic examinations.

By this time, I had several 'Anthrax' threads at several publications that used to have forums. I hosted any and all mention of anthrax and tracked every story. I was one of the first people to surmise all anthrax experts were in grave danger, this before the second mysterious death. As they died, thrown off of bridges just like the latest CIA assassination in Italy, run over by hit and run drivers who were never found, or beaten to death or someone turning on a toxic gas in a laboratory, etc. After this rash of sudden deaths, it ceased and now anthrax experts are no longer in danger (HAHAHAHA).

The CIA has a long, dark history of assassinations. This was made illegal after Nixon was driven from office. The CIA had to sub-contract assassination to various School of the Americas trained thugs working for other governments.

But the number one kidnapper/assassin of the world happens to be the Jews in and out of Israel. And one of their best in and out joints for this sort of garbage is...ITALY. Since our government and Israel's are one and the same, the passing of hit jobs from one to the other isn't so difficult for any of them. And after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, Congress passed the Patriot Act and bills allowing kidnapping and assassination. Using this legal figleaf, our CIA and the military instantly began to do openly what they had to do secretly.

Here is a good summary of the anthrax business.

Sept. 18, 2001: Trenton Mailing of anthrax letters to NBC and NY Post and probably to the National Enquirer.
Oct. 9, 2001: Trenton Mailing of anthrax letters to Daschle and Leahy.

There were only five real targets. Everyone else who got sick, who died, did so as a result of cross contamination in the mail stream. The other victims were not targets. They were collateral damage. I believe their deaths were just as unimportant to Bush and the people around him as the deaths of innocents in Afghanistan or Iraq. They just don't matter to someone like him.

To identify a murderer the police concentrate on method, opportunity and motive. Other members of the right wing/intelligence community/military cabal might have had the method and opportunity, but only Bush had the motive to hit these particular people. They say a serial murder's first victim tells more about him than any subsequent killing so let's examine that first killing.

Florida anthrax letter: postal traces show that a letter containing anthrax must have been sent to the National Enquirer at its previous address, then forwarded to the AMI office.
http://www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxreport.htm
The trail of anthrax spores in postal machinery and equipment shows the letter was originally sent to The National Enquirer at its previous address, then forwarded to the AMI building, which contained offices for both The Enquirer and The Sun, and ended up in the hands of The Sun's photo editor, Bob Stevens, 63. Later investigations indicate he might have opened the letter while sitting at his computer, spilling spores over the keyboard.

*snip*

Who would have had a grudge against the tabloid and the photo-editor? Well, probably a lot of people, but none of them with this particular weapon at their disposal. No one in the putative CIA/intelligence cabal seems likely to have had any grudge against The National Enquirer either. Except for one. Except for George W. Bush. The Enquirer had published the picture of Jenna Bush, falling down drunk and looking like she was humping another girl's leg.

Amerithrax is the official FBI website that is totally dead. It supposedly was set up to track the investigations. It still offers $2 million dollars to anyone who can find 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and arrest Bush but this won't happen because the anthrax investigation is as dead as the photo editor of the National Enquirer.

The mainstream news has no stories about the two dead investigators in Italy and Greece. Like the anthrax business, they are totally silent because they are very scared of what this all means, the unravelling of their pretty little system that has enabled them to rule this planet, using tremendous violence, assassination and rapine. The present system whereby they refuse to cover very important news while obsessing about dead beauty queen tots is still intact despite the internet and google.

Just like the NYT sat on the whistleblower's story of how the NSA is spying on all our communication systems for a whole year, so they will sit on this egg, hatching it only if they want to get rid of Bush and they don't want to get rid of him, yet. Not until they are certain his replacement will be just as steady as he in service of the Israel push for political domination of the Muslims in the Middle East.

It didn't surprise me back then to see the anthrax killer who targeted only a very esoteric list of people who all had only one connection: people Bush wanted to punish or intimidate---pretended he was a Muslim 'terrorist'. Just like the Mossad agent sitting next to Atta on that fatal jet plane that fatal day, it is no coincidence the Jewish secret service was Atta's shadow just as the information that Atta and his gang operated openly in Sarastota, Florida, the place where the CIA spooks go to retire and where the Bush family has a secure compound on Jupiter Island. The idea that a 'Muslim al Qaeda' plot would be hatched so ineptly (Atta was pretty loud about his intentions!) right in the only place in America where one could hit a former or present CIA agent with a stone while throwing blindfolded....

Well, this is the New World Order. And as the media goes bananas celebrating the Day of Fear, 9/11, the silence of the anthrax lambs roars louder than a lion.

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See The Video Of Peaceful American Woman Demonstrator Shot By Cops

Elaine Meinel Supkis

I finally found the actual video of the peaceful woman demonstrator in Miami being first shot and then mocked by the police trainer later. This is what America has come to: right wing loudmouths egging on violence against fellow Americans. They are aided by the media that refuses to shame them into behaving themselves. If Martin Luther King weren't assassinated (ahem) he would be shot dead today if he were to lead any mass demonstrations against the powers of the state.

This video is very shocking, it is obvious the woman was not menacing anyone, she was totally legal and within her rights.

Jones Report | August 17, 2006

Elizabeth Ritter was shot four times with rubber bullets by police while she was protesting a Free Trade Summit in Miami, August 10.

This horrifying example truly shows the disconnect between police and the citizens they pose as protecting and serving.

These police actually laugh at their victims, in spite of news cameras and hundreds of witnesses of which they were certainly aware. Arrogant and unchecked power now threatens to be the norm for ever-increasing riot police.

They rule with faux violence and real threats (rubber bullets been known to cause death, in certain cases). Here, Ritter was even shot in the face in an archetypal showdown with goons dressed in black 'storm trooper' uniforms, over-armed to handle a peaceful protest.

Um, I have a loooong history of being at demonstrations. I have been shot at. I have seen people shot. During the Vietnam war, it was full fledged warfare here in America and young people with no guns were blatantly killed. In Europe, the police would push us around and we would lustily fight back but in America, quiet, peaceful, LEGAL demonstrations would be attacked with tremendous force, every year it got worse and worse.

I still remember how we watched civil rights demonstrators being viciously attacked in the deep South and the media would broadcast it far and wide and condemn the police for being violent. Now we nearly never see police violence on TV except when demonstrators are violent. Then it is shown as a legitimate counter-attack.

But the many, many times peaceful people are, like this lady, shot in the back and then in the face by cowardly fat mostly white males, attacked with vicious glee from far away...this isn't shown over and over again. Then, our media resorts to their favorite toy: words. Pretending there is no video, they tell us a good story filled with lies. When Rachel Corrie was run over by the IDF bulldozer, the video so clearly showed the crime the media didn't even dare show a single still from it! Instead, the NYT and WP, for example, clothed the crime in a costume of words, hiding the criminals from view.

I personally believe that many writers and publishers in the late fifties and early sixties supported Dr. King and his crusade because the Civil Rights Act would stop discrimination against Jews. This is legitimate but what is illigitimate is for these same people to hide the same actions when it is on behalf of Palestinians fighting for the same civil rights.

When I googled rubber bullets/police I got a lot of stories about Jews shooting unarmed, peaceful demonstrators.

Indymedia, Scotland: Today, August 11, the Israeli army and Border Police brutally prevented Bil'in's weekly non-violent demonstration, by firing rubber bullets and sound grenades on protestors as they marched through the village on their way to the Apartheid wall. Thirteen people from Bil'in, Israelis and internationals, have been injured, including an Israeli in critical condition who was shot just above his right ear with a rubber bullet at close range. He is now going into surgery at Tel Hashomer hospital to remove the rubber bullet that is lodged in his skull. Another demonstrator from Denmark has suffered a fracture in her skull after a soldier beat her with the butt of his gun.

The demonstrators marched through the village carrying coffins representing the children who have been killed by the Israeli army in order to protest their "New Style of Killing". The border police and army were stationed along the route of the march that leads to the Apartheid Wall, where the demonstrations usually take place. The military began firing when the protestors were less than 50 meters away, immediately causing many injuries.

I blogged about the video of that attack. It was stunning. American and Israel police are being openly encouraged by the media, emboldened by 'elected officials' and the ruling global elites to attack unarmed, peaceful demonstrators. The deal is, no one will see the violence and no one committing grave crimes against their own people will be punished. And so far, this is holding despite the internet breaking the secrecy veil thrown over the tyranny being imposed upon us all.

Thanks to the cooperation of media owners in America who are all part of the ruling class and who help their fellow rulers, the police have gotten bolder and bolder in attacking anyone and everyone they want so long as these people are outside the zone of visibility. Every once and a while, the police slip up and kill people still under protection.

Israel is by far, one of the nastiest countries that claim to be a 'democracy' (hahaha) that uses lethal force to stop peaceful demonstrators or children throwing small rocks.

Mahajna et al. Blunt and penetrating injuries caused by rubber bullets during the Israeli-Arab conflict in October, 2000: a retrospective study. Lancet. 2002 May 25;359(9320):1795-800.

BACKGROUND: Low-velocity rubber bullets were used by Israeli police to control riots by Israeli-Arabs in early October, 2000. We aimed to establish the factors that contribute to severity of blunt and penetrating injuries caused by these missiles. ... FINDINGS: 151 males and one female (age range 11-59 years) were included in the study, in whom 201 proven injuries by rubber bullets were detected. Injuries were distributed randomly over the body surface ... Severity of injury was dependent on ballistic features of the bullet, firing range, and anatomic site of impact. Two casualties died after a penetrating ocular injury into the brain and one died as a result of postoperative aspiration after a knee injury. INTERPRETATION: Resistance of the body surface at the site of impact (elastic limit) is the important factor that ascertains whether a blunt or penetrating injury is inflicted and its severity...

In Europe in the sixties, we threw cobblestones at cops and the military. Cobblestones are pretty big and heavy. They weigh more than 2 lbs each. I have seen a number of videos (very few of which are in the media here) showing children in Palestine throwing rocks and nearly always, the rocks are quite small, this is what the Infantata was all about: since adults couldn't assemble without being shot dead, the Palestinian people thought no one would tolerate seeing CHILDREN being shot dead!

The flaw in this was the blanket of invisibility the Israeli fascists and their hanger-ons in America would throw over all of Palestine! This blanket now covers all of America, too. Now we are all invisible! This is Nazi-style 'Nacht und Nebel'.

Here is a typical example in America---I saw the video online several years ago.

2000 Police fired tear gas, pepper spray, beanbags, and rubber bullets into a crowd of protesters after a Rage Against the Machine concert outside the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. According to one report, the police were tired and wanted to go home but hippies and anarchists refused to leave.»

2003 An Israeli commission of inquiry concluded that police used excessive force in putting down a riot by Israeli Arabs three years ago in which 13 people were killed. The commission suggested that the police stop using snipers armed with rubber-coated steel bullets to disperse Arab crowds.»

And three years later, yes, the previous shooting in Israel was found to be illegal. So what happened? The police and military now shoot MORE often and MORE viciously! Isn't that great? Democracy in action!

And even if the cops don't shoot us dead, they are using every hook and crook to stop us from exercising our Constitutional Rights.

By Steven Stycos, Boston Phoenix May 26, 2004

Seven weeks ago, in a packed Philadelphia courtroom, protesters making plans for this year’s Democratic and Republican National Conventions won a major battle. You could almost hear the collective sigh of relief when Judge William Mazzola found Providence activist Camilo Viveiros and two co-defendants not guilty of charges that they assaulted Philadelphia police chief John Timoney during the August 2000 Republican National Convention. The "Timoney Three" were the last of 420 arrested demonstrators, including 43 people charged with felonies, to go on trial. They were also the last to prove the "R2K" prosecutions a spectacular failure: not a single defendant was sentenced to jail time, and most had their cases dismissed or reduced to misdemeanors.

But those who think this means activists won the war against police intimidation at the upcoming conventions in Boston and New York should think again. While the lack of convictions may have embarrassed a few Philadelphia prosecutors and police, says R2K Legal Collective spokesperson Kris Hermes, ultimately they were "able to chill dissent, to silence dissent." Not only were Timoney’s repressive tactics widely seen as a response to the successful 1999 World Trade Organization demonstration in Seattle; after Philadelphia they were employed elsewhere, most notably in November 2003 at the Free Trade Area of the Americas meeting in Miami, where Timoney is now police chief. And now, as thousands of New Englanders prepare to demonstrate at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions this summer, many worry that the same tactics will be used again.

To everyone who haughtily tells the Palestinians to act like Martin Luther King and have 'peaceful demonstrations', this can only happen with a free press. And our press isn't working for the people. Not at all. Back in the sixties, I used to tell antiwar demonstrators, it isn't enough to simply be 'for peace'---one does have to take sides. And America was founded as a free nation (gads) after a revoltuion started when there was this 'riot' which we called 'the Boston Massacre' which set the country on fire. People died in that riot. And a nation was born. And Benjamin Franklin published drawings of the massacre and this spread the news. This is why he demanded the First Amendment, the freedom of speech and assembly. All of which we no longer have here, at least, in the 'public' arena. It still hangs on by its fingernails online. And we see daily attempts at curtailing it here, too.

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Bush Tyranny Ruled UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Hooray! A Federal judge slapped Bush on his ugly little snout. No illegal, unconstitutional spying on American citizens! My family came here because of this sort of junk. We fought a revolution and endorsed and supported and fought to protect the Constitution that forbids this junk and arrest Bush! Better still, deport him. He is antiamerican.

The judge was appointed by Jimmy Carter--another reason to like that man!

By DAVID STOUT
Published: August 17, 2006
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 — A federal judge in Detroit ruled today that the Bush administration’s eavesdropping program is illegal and unconstitutional, and she ordered that it cease at once.

District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor found that President Bush exceeded his proper authority and that the eavesdropping without warrants violated the First and Fourth Amendment protections of free speech and privacy.

“It was never the intent of the Framers to give the president such unfettered control, particularly where his actions blatantly disregard the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights,” she wrote, in a decision that the White House and Justice Department said they would fight to overturn. A hearing will be held before Judge Taylor on Sept. 7, and her decision will not be enforced in the meantime pending the government’s appeal.

The crew ripping up the Constitution will run this all the way up to the Supreme Court where they pray the zealots of Papist Rome and one traitor can be found to vote to end our basic Constitutional rights. This is a long, multi-century battle. It started back in England, my ancestors were living there back then....when the Crown and the Landed Gentry struggled for power. Using blunt objects and sharp pointy objects, we managed to eke out some basic civil rights which were always undermined by the Throne whenever they could manage to get the upper hand.

The roisterous crew of pushy people that lived in England long ago always resented it whenever anyone tried to throw their weight around. For a number of my own ancestors, their homes WERE castles and they used these to quite deliberately lock out whoever was posing as 'king'.

All of Europe was burning with the strife and fires of the Reformation/Counter Reformation and during that time, many kings and queens took the opportunity to make themselves total despots! Henry VIII, for example, was a very nasty despot to the point of murdering more than one wife! He took a court set up to protect the little people from the gentry (um, my ancestors, heh) and turned it into a tool to dictate his own rule.

This was how the infamous Starr Chamber morphed into a tool of tyranny.

Wikipedia: Star Chamber sessions were public. Henry Tudor utilized the power of Star Chamber to break the power of the landed gentry which had been such a cause for problems in the Wars of the Roses. When local courts were often clogged or mismanaged, the court of Star Chamber became a site of remittance for common people against the excesses of the nobility.

Under the leadership of Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey and Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer (1515-1529), the Court of Star Chamber became a political weapon for bringing actions against opponents to the policies of Henry VIII, his ministers and his parliament.

Although the court was initially a court of appeal, Henry VIII and his councillors Wolsey and Cranmer encouraged plaintiffs to bring their cases directly to the Star Chamber, bypassing the lower courts entirely.

The Court was used extensively as a colonial legal weapon to control the Celtic fringe, most notably Wales, after the Acts of Union of 1538-43. The Tudor-created gentry in Wales turned to the Chamber to turn out Welsh landowners and protect themselves, and in general protect the English advantages of the Acts of Union.

Court sessions were held in secret, with no indictments, no right of appeal, no juries, and no witnesses. Evidence was presented in writing.

Always, all despots use the same lame excuse, 'We are under attack', to alienate liberties and put whole civilizations under the heel of tyranny. Since there is always the possibility of strife, the need to prevent despots from exploiting possible dissention and attacks for personal gain was the goal of our Founding Fathers who were all descendants of people running away from the abuses of the Throne in the first place!

From the get-go, we wanted to curb the ability to imprison without trial, without witnesses, cross-examination, to stop spying and prying and peeping toms and selling one's neighbors to the authorities, all this crap the Crown used to suppress genuine civil rights and the right of dissent as well as the right of discovery!

Gah. It enrages me how so many people justify ripping up our brave, beautiful Constitution for security? What is so secure in that! If anyone can put anyone in prison for any reason, are we secure? Of course not! Of there really are 'terrorists' then we should be able to find a Sherlock Holmes or two to go out hunting for them using modern police methods that toe the legal fine print! Eh? Or do we have to go around, stomping on everyone, hoping this will raise so much fear and loathing, they run away?

Never works.

This terrorist attack happened a mere few years before a number of my ancestors had to flee England, go to Holland and then to New Amsterdam (NYC).

Wikipedia: Guy Fawkes (April 13, 1570 – January 31, 1606) also known as Guido Fawkes born in York, was an English soldier and a member of a group of Roman Catholic conspirators who attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot on November 5, 1605.

The plot was an attempt to assassinate King James I of England (James VI of Scotland) and the members of both houses of the Parliament of England. To do this, Westminster Palace was to be blown up during the formal opening session of the 1605 Parliament, in which the king would address a joint assembly of both the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Guy Fawkes was in large part responsible for the later stages of the plan's execution. His activities were detected, however, before the plan's completion. Following a severe interrogation involving the use of torture, and a trial in Westminster Hall, Fawkes and his conspirators were executed for treason and attempted murder. Guy Fawkes's failure is remembered with Guy Fawkes Night on November 5.

This is why we decided, collectively, to let Jews and Catholics into America after the Revolution. We Americans wrote this document we called 'The Constitution' and in it we popped all sorts of civil rights and limitations on the power of the state so no one, NO ONE could use the state to persecute or harrass religious people! Unlike Israel, for example, we knew that making the state an arm of any religion would lead to internal dissention, war and destruction.

So in this Brave New World, on the edge of the wilderness, we took our time to try to set up a government that didn't have Starr Chambers nor torture chambers nor a Crown! So hip-hip-hooray for our Constitution! Arrest Bush and all the tyrannists and impeach the Papists on the Supreme Court because they are betraying our Constitution just so they can create religious wars. Gah.

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Lamont Isn't Antiwar Nor Is He Pro-Lower Class

Elaine Meinel Supkis

I was working today and thus, not on line but had the radio. And everyone is all agog that a multimillionaire, spending mostly his own loot, around $5 million smackeroos, won a primary against a hated fake Democrat, the misnamed 'Lieberman'. There is much rejoicing in the blogsphere on the left but this is all too ridiculous. This is no great victory for 'liberals' at all.

One commentator on the radio laughed that everyone was ignoring the fact that the winner of this race is yet another ruling class spawn. Who loved Bush's tax cuts. Who had oodles of money to spend, running for office. He wants to bring the troops home from Iraq but he also wants to make us pay for Israel's wars and he fully supports these illegal wars and loves killing Muslims, he just wants to beat a tactical retreat!

He will, of course, side with whatever the ruling elites want. Right now, most of them want to exit Iraq because that was a total failure. I will note that Lamont wasn't loudly antiwar before this litttle imperial adventure.

I was! I even went to Washington on a very cold day in January to protest the looming war! I wrote editorials and letters to the editors and all sorts of things, I pulled as hard as possible to prevent this foolish war. 'This is a cul-de-sac that will destroy our military if we fall into it!' I yelled. Not to mention the fact that once we disarmed Saddam, attacking him meant no nation will ever disarm again, ever, forever, period!

This was a total disaster before it happened! I don't recall Lamont being on the front lines in this global effort to prevent the war. Now, with the vast majority of Americans against the stupid war, even Mickey Mouse could win against a warmonger like Lieberman. I even wrote, back in 1972, 'Even Mickey Mouse could win against a warmonger...' and that was why Nixon had to run a second time on his stupid magical mystery Kissinger peace tour which amounted to him kissing Mao in public and slobbering over Breshnev in Russia. What a great idea. Go to bed with the two top communist countries. Hoorah for the right wing in America!

The real challenge is, will Lamont vote to cut Israel's funds so they stop bombing civilians with impunity as well as stopping their totally illegal invasions? No?

No. He is 100% Zionist. His number one country is Israel and his number one neighborhood is a gated community. He is very rich and he will represent those people he knows best: the very rich 1%. And they have all of Congress and are willing to share Congress with the Jews in Israel because they work hand in glove and they are all very happy. They are all getting what they want, no questions asked. And they might give us nonentities a pittance but don't expect too many crumbs from this feast of tight-fisted friends. They need to hog everything for themselves.

Lamont like Obama of Illinois, will change absolutely nothing at all. He will ride into office and then put his horse to pasture and nothing will change. We will see corporate America continue to get whatever they want, global trade destroying our jobs will accelerate, our budget deficit will continue to fester, our trade deficit will shoot over a trillion dollars a year and up and up and the incomes of regular people will fall and fall and he will not lift a finger because he won't need us anymore. At least for eight years or so. This is why pushing for more radical candidates must continue. We can't follow the pied pipers forever. Someday, we must learn that the only way we will win is to do it for ourselves. No one on a white horse is going to stop this mess.

It is up to us! And only us! And voting once and a while ain't going to cut it. Not at all. Ask anyone fighting for the right to choose their own paths how this works. It isn't easy, it isn't quick. All short cuts lead to dead ends. The Mexican people are going through strife right now over their latest election. We will too, we did for five years and will do it for five more years, five hundred years. There is no point when one gets to go on vacation. I have been trying to stop imperal wars since I can remember and I can remember a lot.

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Nacht Und Nebel: American Naval Officer Held In Prison Secretly

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Looks like Padilla isn't the only American citizen being held without trial or lawyers. Evidently, a Navy officer (like in the Pollock affair?) named Weinmann, is being held for espionage. The secrecy surrounding arrests these days is very Nazi 'Nacht und Nebel.'

Why the utter secrecy?

By TIM MCGLONE, The Virginian-Pilot
© August 4, 2006

NORFOLK — A petty officer has been in the Norfolk Naval Station brig for more than four months facing espionage, desertion and other charges, but the Navy has refused to release details of the case.

The case against Fire Control Technician 3rd Class Ariel J. Weinmann is indicative of the secrecy surrounding the Navy military court here, where public affairs and trial court officials have denied access to basic information including the court docket – a listing of cases to be heard.

Why is this so top secret? If it is revealing a spy nest, why is it taking four months? Why do they have to hold him in a cell if they 'cracked the case'? If he is cooperating with them in trapping others, why is this taking so long? What is the nature of this crime?

In a country that was totally unable to investigate the vast 9/11 crimes, how can they justify suspending our Constitution in order to stop traitors when it is painfully obvious we have some very huge traitors running around in charge of a significant chunk of our own government? Not one official was even repramanded for allowing 9/11's attackers to utterly succeed. What did this naval officer do that was so bad in comparison?

In an e-mail, Theodore Brown, a spokesman for Fleet Forces Command, said, “It is sometimes a challenge to balance the desires of the media, the public’s right to know, and the rights of an individual accused of a crime.”

How is holding a prisoner for months incognito, unable to talk to even his own family, in darkness, protecting his 'rights'? Are people held without trial enjoying privilages? Huh?

Of course not. If this person wants to be anonymous, he can't if he broke the law! He doesn't get to choose to hide any more than our government can choose to hide him! This is a bedrock principle of our Constitution embodied in the Declaration of Independence, even, for our Founding Fathers were accused, by the Crown, of being traitors and spies and if captured, to be hung! So they had a very strong need to provide for an open trial with full civil rights for even traitors!

The Supreme Court has ruled that the closure of a court proceeding or the sealing of any criminal case must be decided by a judge on a case-by-case basis.

Lucy Dalglish, executive director of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington, said that, even in military courts, an order must be issued closing or sealing a case.

Brown acknowledged Thursday that “there is no order,” but said that the charge sheet in the Weinmann case would not be released.

Fishier and fishier. If no judge has ordered secrecy then why is it so secret? They won't say! This obviously came down from Rumsfeld or Cheney. Are they afraid he will spill more AIPAC beans? Is this secrecy a conspiracy to hide Israeli spying yet again? To strangle an investigation rather than to extend it? One wonders. We don't know and can't know and they ain't talking.

Other than the Weinmann case, Norfolk Naval Station has refused to provide The Pilot with copies of the military court docket since at least November. The docket lists cases heard in military court each day. In March, The Pilot filed a Freedom of Information request for the past year’s dockets but has received no written response.

Beth Baker, a spokeswoman for the Navy Mid-Atlantic Region, has said that computer problems have made it difficult for the Trial Services Office at Norfolk Naval Station to generate a docket.

And of course, they blame the computers. They obviously never heard of other systems like writing things on pieces of paper and filing cabinets and all that sort of Tommy rot. Well? Sigh. This is how they now operate: incompetent plus chaotic equals crimes run rampant and they then clamp down and won't let us see any information.

And then they make fun of us all for 'conspiracy theories.'

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