From: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com (roc-digest) To: roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: roc-digest V2 #189 Reply-To: roc-digest Sender: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-roc-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk roc-digest Wednesday, October 7 1998 Volume 02 : Number 189 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 17:52:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Ferris Subject: "Partisans Are People" Sends Letter to The New White House Press Secretary (SATIRE) THIS IS A SATIRE THIS IS A SATIRE THIS IS A SATIRE THIS IS A SATIRE October 2, 1998 Office of the Press Secretary The White House Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear Comrade Press Secretary: We, as co-chairmen of the respected Eastern European veterans' advocacy organization PARTISANS ARE PEOPLE (PAP), are writing to you to express our growing dismay over the U.S. Democratic Party's and your office's misuse of the adjective "partisan" to describe current actions of U.S. Republican politicians who, during World War II, neither fought with Russian partisan units against Hitler's invading forces nor fought with Marshal Joseph Broz-Tito's (not to be confused with keyboard wizard Tito Puente) partisan units against Nazi troops stationed in Yugoslavia during the same conflict. PAP has worked hard over the years to clarify the critical role played by real partisans in defeating Hitler's hordes, and we can assure you that we searched our archives and queried survivors of The Big One (not including Monica ... hers was a different big one) to determine if Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott or Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich had seen service as "pampers partisans" in irregular units composed entirely of newborns and of children under the age of five. We could find no evidence of Lott or Gingrich having had any wartime affiliation whatsoever with Russian or Yugoslav partisan units, nor are they dues paying members of PAP. Heck, Messrs. Lott and Gingrich don't even know the words to the PAP fight song! Therefore, we must insist that you and your fellow rabid Clintonista spin meisters cease this unauthorized use of the copyrighted word "partisan" to make reference to your fellow Americans who may merely be intent on seeing that the whole truth is uncovered about your so-called U.S. President whom geishas refer to as "Party-San" when he visits Tokyo with his White House entourage. Please be certain to spell out "Party-San" whenever that unique proper noun is used to describe the current occupant of The House That Is White, where "Party-San" probably guzzled mutiple White Russians while chasing Monica around his desk. We have enclosed some membership information about PAP for your reference files. Note that PAP is quite different from pap, which your press office generates in voluminous quantities. Do not hesitate to contact us if you should have any questions regarding this vital matter. Remember, partisans are people, too. Respectfully, Slowboatdan Gotmilktoomuch Villie Hegropedmadoddatoo Co-Chairmen PARTISANS ARE PEOPLE (PAP) 1600 Painsylserbia Avenue Notvoshintone, Yugoslavia 90210 THIS IS A SATIRE THIS IS A SATIRE THIS IS A SATIRE THIS IS A SATIRE - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Oct 98 17:43:10 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: rkba-list: NEJM letter (fwd) On Oct 2, Edgar Suter wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] 2 October, 1998 Letter to the Editor Jerome P. Kassirer, MD Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine 1440 Main Street Waltham, MA 02154-1649 Re: Teret SP, Webster DW, Vernick JS et al. "Support for New Policies to Regulate Firearms." NEJM. 1998; 339(12):813-818. Dear Dr. Kassirer, Several familiar gun control advocates whose research groups are (or have been) members of a gun control pressure group[1] have conducted a poll that purportedly finds public support for gun control policies that they and the source of their funding advocate.[2] Leff, whose group also funds such radical gun ban groups as the innocently-named Violence Policy Center and Children's Defense Fund, is among the authors. Though vocal in libelously characterizing our independent group as "NRA surrogates,"[3] NEJM concealed these authors' compromising affiliations, a dishonest "double standard." So much for NEJM's objectivity, forthrightness, and self-lauded "peer review." This poll typifies NEJM's habitual and unscientific dishonesty in service of its politics as reviewed by Kleck.[4] To the enhancement of the public debate and thanks to the internet's multithousandsfold-wider readership, knowledge of the illegitimate practices of these "usual suspects" extends far beyond NEJM's censorious paper fiefdom, explaining Congressional restraint on CDC's use of tax money to play gun politics. Now the "usual suspects" must seek funding from private advocacy groups. Even if we were to ignore NEJM's outrageous concatenation of bias and gross conflict of interest, readers are properly skeptical of polls. Similar polls touted lopsided massive support for California's 1982 gun control initiative, Proposition 15,[5] and Washington's 1997 gun "safety" initiative, Initiative 676,[6] shortly before these measures were trounced by voters by almost 3-to-1 margins (the gun ban lobby's most craven and pandering "for the children" propaganda notwithstanding). I-676's recent and wide margin defeat is all the more portentous in this context because I-676 included virtually the entire licensing and gun design wish list for which this poll supposedly found wide support. An explanation from the Wall Street Journal regarding other simplistic polls is apropos: "I have often found that the responses to bottom-line questions were misleading. That's why political pollsters also test subsidiary arguments and try to pose questions that give clues about how people will react when they have fuller information and when they have focused on an issue."[7] Sincerely, Edgar A. Suter MD National Chair Doctors for Integrity in Policy Research Inc. 5201 Norris Canyon Road #220 San Ramon CA 94583 USA [1] Handgun Epidemic Lowering Plan Network. Membership and Statement of Purpose sections of the untitled announcement and registration form for the 1st annual meeting. 1994. [2] The Joyce Foundation. 1994 Annual Report. Chicago IL. 1994. p.53-59. [3] Kassirer J. "A Partisan Attack on Science - The Threat to the CDC." NEJM. 1995; 333(12):793-4. [4] Kleck G. "Illegitimate Practices in Summarizing Firearm Research." in Targeting Guns: Firearms and their Control. Hawthorne NY: 1997. Chapter 2. [5] Bordua DJ. "Adversary polling and the construction of social meaning: Implications in gun control elections in Massachusetts and California." Law & Policy Quarterly 1983(5):345-366. [6] According to Tom Wales, a federal prosecutor who chaired the campaign for I-676: "Six weeks before the election, support for Initiative 676 was 60%...." in "A Hit From the NRA" Washington Post February 24, 1998. p. A21 [7] Barone M. "Impeachment Unpopular? Look Deeper." Wall Street Journal. September 19,1998. p. A10. 1 [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Oct 98 20:04:36 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: RAPTUS: Fwd: Educational trends (fwd) On Oct 2, FrizBMG@aol.com wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Hi everybody.This was forwarded to me and I am passing it on.Enjoy. Tony For all with an ability to keep their heads out of the sand and savour the detiorization of education, the coming of the Y2K crisis, etc. here is a greatreview of how we got here from there------ << In the spirit of the new school year: Teaching math in 1950: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit? Teaching math in 1960: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit? Teaching math in 1970: A logger exchanges a set "L" of lumber for a set "M" of money. The cardinality of set "M" is 100. Each element is worth one dollar. Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set "M". The set "C", the cost of production, contains 20 fewer points than the set "M". Represent the set "C" as a subset of set "M" and answer the following question: What is the cardinality of the set "P" for profits? Teaching match in 1980: A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. Her cost of production is $80 and her profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20. Teaching math in 1990: By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down the trees? There are no wrong answers. Teaching math in 1996: By laying off 40% of its loggers, a company improves its stock price from $80 to $100. How much capital gain per share does the CEO make by exercising his stock options at $80? Assume capital gains are no longer taxed, because this encourages investment. Teaching math in 1997: A company out-sources all of its loggers. The firm saves on benefits, and when demand for its product is down, the logging workforce can easily be cut back. The average logger employed by the company earned $50,000, had three weeks vacation, a nice retirement plan and medical insurance. The contract logger costs $50 an hour. Was outsourcing a good move? Teaching math in 1998: A laid-off logger with four kids at home and a ridiculous alimony from his first failed marriage comes into the logging company corporate offices and goes postal, mowing down 16 executives and a couple of secretaries, and gets lucky when he nails a politician on the premises collecting his kickback. Was outsourcing the loggers a good move for the company? Teaching math in 1999: A laid-off logger serving time in Folsom for blowing away several people is being trained as a COBOL programmer in order to work on Y2K problems. What is the probability that the automatic cell doors will open on their own as of 00:01, 01/01/00? [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Oct 98 14:43:45 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: A Possible opportunity here..... (fwd) On Oct 4, RHill@MICKEY.GC.WHECN.EDU wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Fellow fappers, we might have been give one small round of ammo in the propaganda war. Dave Smith, who runs the "Texans Against Gun Violence" homepage, has sent me an email wherein he states he thinks that HCI twists the truth when it comes to including 19 year-olds in gun death stats....... His response is at the very top of the message below, and the previous exchange is below that response. I would like everyone of you to forward a copy of his statement, along with a little bit of text explaining what he is talking about, to every pro-gun publication, group, website, congress person, etc. you can think of. Since the gun control advocates make hay of any little disagreement they can find among pro-gun groups, why shouldn't we do the same? Roy Hill > ---------- > From: David Smith[SMTP:tagvhou@insync.net] > Sent: Sunday, October 04, 1998 11:33 AM > To: Hill, Roy > Subject: Re: A realization > > RHill@MICKEY.GC.WHECN.EDU wrote: > > > > > ---------- > > > From: David Smith[SMTP:tagvhou@insync.net] > > > Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 1998 7:05 PM > > > To: Hill, Roy > > > Subject: Re: A realization > > > > Roy, > > You'd lose that bet. I have already been trying to get them to be more > definitive in definitions and use "under 18" as children. > > Dave > > > > > > > We are not HCI. The report your source sent is theirs. > > > > > > Comments should be addressed to them. > > > > > > Dave > > > > > You are not HCI, but I'm willing to bet you won't exactly be leading any > > charge to get them to be a little less "Slick-Willy-ish" with their > stats. > > > > Roy Hill [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Oct 98 08:14:19 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fratrum: Fw: GAO Rips Clinton Super-Computer Export Scandal (fwd) Looks like, "The Anti-Gun President" must be feeling like the center of a circle of shotguns. Maybe we should be refering to him that way, too. The, "Anti-Gun President", that is. Maybe he'll take a few Anti's down with him in the PR battle..... On Oct 4, Arlin H. Adams wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] - -----Original Message----- From: CharlesSmith To: cas@majordomo.pobox.com Date: Sunday, October 04, 1998 3:00 PM Subject: GAO Rips Clinton Super-Computer Export Scandal >The latest GAO testimony on HPCS (High Performance Computers) is >now available on line. The GAO took a hard look at the Clinton >export policy surrounding the sale of super-computers for >military research, and found major flaws. > >The prime Clinton excuse for selling super-computers without >restriction is based on fiction and lies. Clinton claims that >similar high speed computers are freely available world wide. >The GAO blows that myth out of the water by actually doing a >global survey and then submitting real results. The GAO wrote >"Our analysis suggests that HPCS (High Performance Computers) >over 2,000 MTOPS are not readily available to tier 3 countries >(China and Russia) from foreign sources without restriction." > >According to Congressman Hyde, "The decision to loosen U.S. >controls on supercomputers was made in spite of the opposition >of a number of Defense Department staff experts, senior military >and intelligence officials, and Members of Congress. It was >justified by a report commissioned and paid for by the >Department of Commerce using outside consultants supplied by >political appointees at the Department of Defense. The contract >for the report was awarded noncompetitively to a well-known >opponent of export controls. Viewed in the context of recent >revelations about Chinese efforts to influence the U.S. >political scene, the significant policy changes that have been >pursued in this area bring into question the Administration's >motives for decontrol." > >The GAO reviewed the 1995 Clinton consultant report and >concluded it was not only flawed but incomplete. The GAO stated >"The study lacked empirical evidence or analysis to support its >conclusions" and "the study did not assess the capabilities of >countries of concern to use HPCS (High Performance Computers) >for military and other national security applications, as >required by its tasking." > >The extraordinary loosening of controls on military-sensitive >supercomputers by President Clinton resulted in the sale to >China of more than 46 supercomputers rated at 2,000 MTOPS and >above. The GAO found that China does not allow U.S. inspections >of previously sold super-computers to ensure that they are not >being used for military purposes. The post sale verification >(PSV) inspections are required by law - yet the administration >has ignored the law and continued to ship computers to China. > >In addition, the GAO found that American computer businesses >were on a honor export system. Clinton regulations provide that >the U.S. based computer company must determine if the computer >buyer is military. It is certain that U.S. businesses know >little about Chinese and Russian Army front companies. However, >no American computer maker has ever cancelled a multi-million >dollar computer sale - even if the end user was a soldier. IBM >even sold a computer directly to a Russian nuclear weapons lab >and then claimed in Court they did not known the end user was >military. > >Super-computers build better nukes but they also have many other >military uses. HPCS can crack cipher codes, build better >conventional weapons, help submarines hide in the ocean, and >control anti-missile defenses. According to the GAO testimony, >the Clinton administration continued to export computers while >laboring for two years on only the nuclear assessment of such >sales. The GAO wrote "Except for nuclear weapons, the executive >branch has not completed an assessment of the national security >risks of exporting HPCS (High Performance Computers)". > >The Clinton administration's assessment managed to identify some >"applications in such national defense areas as nuclear weapons >programs, cryptology, conventional weapons, and military >operations." However, according to the GAO, "the executive >branch has not identified how and at what performance levels >specific countries of concern may use." Thus, the >administration continued to export computers without knowing >what the national security impact would be. > >And where is the NSA? The agency charged with watching over the >computer systems of America should have objected loudly. Did >Ft. Meade stand idle while super-computers flowed out of the US >like water? Absolutely not. > >In November 1993, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown got the thumbs up >from NSA Director McConnell to export. McConnell wrote to Brown >"Our recent agreement to a relaxation of export controls on >telecommunications and supercomputers should enable U.S. >industry to expand markets for these goods and retain its >competitive edge in these critical technologies for the future." > >Within forty eight hours of McConnell's letter - President >Clinton approved China's long standing request to buy a super >high technology computer, supposedly for non military use. >Clearly, the U.S. intelligence community was either asleep at >the switch or muted by political watch-dogs. > >What was the Commerce Department's reaction to the GAO report? >Did Commerce take swift action to correct what appears to be a >big problem? Did they perform an accurate analysis or even try >to address the issue with a clearly written response. > >Not on your life. Commerce picked the "attack-the-critic" >offense that is the trade mark of the Clinton administration. >According to the GAO, "Commerce stated that our report focused >too much on how countries might use HPCS (High Performance >Computers) for proliferation or military purposes and on what it >called an outdated Cold War concept of 'FOREIGN AVAILABILITY.' >The Commerce said that our analysis of foreign availability was >too narrow and that foreign availability is not an adequate >measure of the problem." > >Of course, attacking the GAO is not a very smart thing to do >because accountants have long memories. According to the GAO, >the Commerce Department also preached the same "outdated Cold >War concept" as gospel in their March 1998 annual report to >Congress. The 1998 annual Commerce report states "the key to >effective export controls is setting control levels above >FOREIGN AVAILABILITY." > >President Clinton did not ship super-computers to China because >Japan or Europe could have supplied the same systems. The >President did not set policy limits based on military threats >from exported computers. Clinton allowed the sales long before >any national security threat assessment was completed. The >Clinton export policy was, and still is, based solely on the >financial and political support of Bill Clinton provided by the >same firms that sell digital death. > >=================================================================== > >Source Document index - > >1998 GAO testimony High Performance Computer Exports > >- http://www.softwar.net/gao250.html > >China Denies U.S. Inspection Of Super Computers > >- http://www.softwar.net/prcusa.html > >Friend of John Huang Works With China In 1998 > >- http://www.softwar.net/ziac.html > >NSA Letter To Ron Brown November 1993 > >- http://www.softwar.net/huangnsa.html > >Super Computers For Nuclear Weapons Research > >- http://www.softwar.net/cpu235.html > >================================================================ >1 if by land, 2 if by sea. Paul Revere - encryption 1775 >Charles R. Smith >SOFTWAR http://www.softwar.net softwar@softwar.net >Pcyphered SIGNATURE: >9E1AC4DCD119060925DD4DF319AF8688DF82B7394DE4B1D2ED0CB1168005518C >FAC59AA9CB191AD224A363F3EA597392489078B348A55AE48614D028C4E0354F >F6A7F9C707115C9C >================================================================ >SOFTWAR EMAIL NEWSLETTER 10/04/1998 >*** to unsubscribe reply with "unsubscribe" as subject *** >================================================================ [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 98 00:12:29 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: Fw: EIA Communique - 10/5 (fwd) On Oct 5, Kevin McGehee wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] Apparently the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy(tm) is branching out. Why wasn't I informed!? Kevin McGehee North Pole, Alaska mcgehee@mosquitonet.com http://www.mosquitonet.com/~mcgehee/ *** Choose Truth *** - -----Original Message----- From: EducIntel@aol.com To: EducIntel@aol.com Date: Monday, October 05, 1998 1:22 PM Subject: EIA Communique - 10/5 The Education Intelligence Agency COMMUNIQU=C9 =97 October 5, 1998 + The reaction to the release of NEA's right-wing report (now available = on the web at http://www.nea.org/publiced/paycheck) ranged from indifference= to ridicule. The mainstream newspapers failed to write anything at all. Robe= rt Greene of the Associated Press covered the report's release, remarking "B= ut if there is evidence, other than by association, that supporters of dues restrictions are motivated by a desire to dismantle public schools, it wa= s not clearly laid out in the NEA's new 144- page booklet." The conservative Washington Times and the Detroit News were less generou= s. The Times gave ample space to critics of the report. "This looks more lik= e a fund-raising attempt on their part than a substantive report on policy issues," said Mark Wilson of the Heritage Foundation. Heritage was named = as the "head" of The Conservative Network =97 NEA's name for the conspiracy.= The News pointed out that their own editorial page editor, Thomas J. Bray, wa= s mentioned in the report. Meanwhile, conservative organizations named in the report had a field da= y. The Michigan-based Mackinac Center noted that NEA released the report in = a "closed-door" news conference. Americans for Tax Reform released its own report, entitled "Unprotected Paychecks: The Truth Behind Big Labor's Campaign Against Proposition 226." The Institute for Justice released "Top Ten Conspiracies the NEA Report Missed," including "New Math invented by same scientist who invented New Coke" and "There is no AFT." The immediate reaction tends to support the idea that NEA produced the report to rally its own troops, not to persuade outsiders. + Expecting a $50-$90 million budget windfall from the state, United Teachers Los Angeles and six other bargaining units want to reopen their contracts= to add to their guaranteed raises. All the unions are in the second year of = a three-year contract. The Los Angeles Board of Education discussed the mat= ter in a seven-hour closed session, but delayed making a decision. The Los Angeles Times editors took the unusual step of coming out against the raise. "In exchange for bigger paychecks, what, if anything, would the union be will= ing to give?" the Times asked. "If failing schools do not improve, is the uni= on willing to give up some job protections so the superintendent can reconstitute those schools' staffs? Is it willing to change tenure rules that protect teachers who have no business being in a classroom? To allow principals t= o assign teachers based on student needs instead of allowing teachers to choose their assignments based on seniority?" + The Albuquerque Public Schools and the Albuquerque Teachers Federation agreed to a deal which would give teachers a 6.8 percent raise. The pay question received extra media attention due in part to a riot by high sch= ool students who were protesting for higher teacher pay. The raise will empty the district's emergency reserve and cut its supply budget by 20 percent. District officials are counting on the state to provide additional funds to replen= ish the reserve. + Speaking of contracts, the staff unions of both Education Minnesota an= d the Texas State Teachers Association reached contract agreements just prior t= o the start of the school year. The Texas staff received an undisclosed raise a= nd reduced steps on the salary scale. The Minnesota staff will receive money for staff development, release time of 900 hours during the three-year term o= f the contract, 401k contributions of 2.5%, 3% and 3.5%, and a $25,000 self- insurance pool to cover deductibles and copayments. The new contract cove= rs the former staffers of both the Minnesota Education Association and the Minnesota Federation of Teachers. + Some of you had difficulty accessing Rich Gibson's story on the NEA/AF= T merger. I had no trouble reaching the site directly through both AOL's we= b browser and Netscape Navigator 4.0. If you are still having trouble, try going to http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/ first, and then accessing the articl= e. If all else fails, contact EIA and I'll arrange to fax the story to you. + The next EIA Communiqu=E9 will appear on Tuesday, October 20. I will celebrate my ethnic heritage by following in the footsteps of Christopher Columbus =97 sailing to the Caribbean, exchanging trinkets with the nativ= es, and sampling the local beverages. + Quote of the Week: "Calisthenics are definitely out. They sound too mu= ch like the Army." =97 Charlene Burgeson, a public health adviser at the Cen= ters for Disease Control and Prevention, describing the "New Phys Ed" to the W= all Street Journal. Reporter Joseph Pereira tells us that the gym at Madison Junior High School in Napierville, Illinois, is now the "personal wellnes= s facility." At Wichita South High School in Kansas, gym class is now "Physical Dimensions." The class director, Bobbie Harris, says "New PE is for all those poor souls who were picked last on a team and hated every single minute waiting to be chosen." # # # The Education Intelligence Agency conducts public education research, analysis and investigations. Director: Mike Antonucci. Ph: 916-422-4373. Fax: 916-392-1482. [------------------------- end of forwarded message ------------------------] - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***** Blessings On Thee, Oh Israel! ***** - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- An _EFFECTIVE_ | Insured | All matter is vibration. | Let he who hath no weapon in every | by COLT; | -- Max Plank | weapon sell his hand = Freedom | DIAL | In the beginning was the | garment and buy a on every side! | 1911-A1. | word. -- The Bible | sword.--Jesus Christ - ----------------+----------+--------------------------+--------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:35:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Paul M Watson Subject: Judicial Watch report now part of Congress Impeachment - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 00:13:48 -0500 From: "Brenda C. Jinkins" Subject: CAS: NM: House Committee Cites Judicial Watch Report Not for commercial use. For academic use in the virtual=20 classroom.=20 =20 House Committee Cites Judicial Watch Report In Impeachment Resolution Christopher Ruddy October 5, 1998 Washington--The House Judiciary Committee moved today to include Judicial Watch's report calling for the impeachment of Bill Clinton as part of its official resolution authorizing a broad inquiry into Presidential wrongdoing.=20 Late into Monday's marathon Congressional hearing that led to a historic vote in favor of impeachment hearings, Congressman Robert Barr(R-Georgia) had the committee officially endorse Judicial Watch's report as part of its official impeachment resolution. The report, published by the public interest legal group headed by Larry Klayman, a former Justice Department lawyer, was pivotal in the committee's decision for expanded hearings, a source close to the proceedings told NewsMax.com The source said Klayman's report "created the factual basis for the expanded House impeachment inquiry." The House Judiciary committee, over the objections of Democrats, has asked the full House to investigate any and all matters involving Presidential misconduct.=20 Just weeks ago, Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde and other top leaders were content to limit the scope of the investigation to the Lewinsky case that Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr had reported on in early September.=20 Because Starr had not provided any final report on other matters under his jurisdiction, including the Travel Office scandal, the FBI file matter, and related Whitewater inquiries, Congress had little basis to expand impeachment hearings, the source said.=20 But Hyde and other top Republicans abruptly changed their position and decided to expand hearings after the release of the Judicial Watch report. A source said they were swayed because the mammoth 145 page report, entitled "Judicial Watch's Interim Report on Crimes and Other Offenses Committed by President Bill Clinton Warranting His Impeachment and Removal from Elected Office," contained more than 4000 pages of exhibits detailing dozens of impeachable offenses.=20 The report deals with several major areas of alleged illegal activity by the President and his subordinates: the Travel Office matter, misuse of FBI files; and misuse of the Internal Revenue Service, and improper fundraising activities relating to the 1996 Presidential campaign.=20 Klayman told NewsMax.com that the report includes numerous examples of "clear cut" examples directly implicating the President in wrong doing.=20 Klayman cited a pattern of abuse relating to misuse of personnel files by the White House, including the violation of the Privacy Act relating to FBI background files and the release of information from Linda Tripp's Pentagon file.=20 Clinton became directly implicated when he authorized the release of letters and documents from a White House file on Kathleen Willey, Klayman explained.=20 The White House released letters written by Tripp to the President to show their relationship was far more amicable than she had publicly claimed. James Carville, in a deposition to Judicial Watch, testified that Clinton had called him to discuss the release of Willey's file.=20 "It's an impeachable offense. The President conspired to violate the Privacy Act," Klayman said. see http://www.judicialwatch.org =A9 1998, NewsMax.com =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D This mailing list is for discussion of Clinton Administration Scandals. If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing list, send electronic mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com. In the message body put: unsubscribe cas - - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 98 13:26:38 PST From: roc@xpresso.seaslug.org (Bill Vance) Subject: URGENT!! TODAY, TELL YOUR SENATOR "NO MORE CLINTON (fwd) On Oct 7, Douglas Davis wrote: [-------------------- text of forwarded message follows --------------------] >Return-Path: >X-Sender: eagle@mail.accessus.net >Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 14:16:31 -0500 >To: Court_Watch@eagleforum.org >From: Eagle Forum >Subject: URGENT!! TODAY, TELL YOUR SENATOR "NO MORE CLINTON > JUDGES!!!!!" > > C O U R T W A T C H > > URGENT!! TODAY, TELL YOUR SENATOR > "NO MORE CLINTON JUDGES!!!!!" > > Oct. 6, 1998 > > On Friday, October 2, 1998, the Senate confirmed judicial activist > Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. > The Wall Street Journal has called her a "liberal" and has touted her > as a strong but troubling candidate for the next Supreme Court > vacancy. Judge Sotomayor defends the school of legal thought > known as Legal Realism which accepts the premise that the "law is > not fixed and that change in the law is inevitable and to be > welcomed." In her most publicized case, Judge Sotomayor used > the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to give the plaintiff more > time to take the New York bar exam because the plaintiff had > dyslexia. In her decision, Judge Sotomayor failed to analyze what > Congress intended the ADA to mean but instead used and twisted > the statutory words to achieve an absurd result. Here is how your > Senator voted: > > YES - 68: Bennett (UT), Chafee (RI), Coats (IN), Cochran (MS), > Collins (ME), D'Amato (NY), DeWine (OH), Domenici (NM), Frist > (TN), Grams (MN), Hatch (UT), Helms (NC), Jeffords (VT), Lugar > (IN), Mack (FL), Nickles (OK), Roth (DE), Santorum (PA), Smith > (OR), Snowe (ME), Specter (PA), Stevens (AK), Warner (VA) > . . . plus 42 Democrats. > > NO - 28: Abraham (MI), Allard (CO), Ashcroft (MO), Brownback > (KS), Coverdell (MS), Craig (ID), Enzi (WY), Faircloth (NC), Gorton > (WA), Gramm (TX), Grassley (IA), Hagel (NE), Hutchinson (AR), > Hutchison (TX), Inhofe (OK), Kempthorne (ID), Kyl (AZ), Lott (MS), > McCain (AZ), McConnell (KY), Roberts (KS), Sessions (AL), Shelby > (AL), Smith (NH), Thomas (WY), Thompson (TN), Thurmond (SC) > > NOT VOTING - 4: Bond (R-MO), Hollings (D-SC), Glenn (D-OH), > Moseley-Braun (D-IL) > > In this last week of the Senate's session, several more judges may > be confirmed. Call Majority Leader Lott, and your Senator and tell > them > > "NO MORE CLINTON JUDGES FOR THIS CONGRESS!!!" > > Call Majority Leader Lott's office at: 202-224-3135 or fax the > Majority Leader at 202-224-2262. Call your Senator [ask for the > Judiciary Staffer] at 202-224-3121. Also, call your Senator's home > office to voice your opinion. > > DO NOT EMAIL THEM. > > THEIR EMAIL IS VERY BACKED UP > DUE TO THE CLINTON SCANDAL. > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >EAGLE FORUM >PO Box 618 >Alton, IL 62002 >Phone: 618-462-5415 >Fax: 618-462-8909 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > URL: http://www.eagleforum.org > mailto:eagle@eagleforum.org >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ****************** Firearms, self-defense, and other information, with LINKS are available at: http://shell.rmi.net/~davisda Latest additions are found in the group NEW with GOA and other alerts under the heading ALERTS. 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