From: owner-utah-firearms-digest@lists.xmission.com (utah-firearms-digest) To: utah-firearms-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: utah-firearms-digest V2 #102 Reply-To: utah-firearms-digest Sender: owner-utah-firearms-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-utah-firearms-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk utah-firearms-digest Wednesday, September 16 1998 Volume 02 : Number 102 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 98 23:11:00 -0700 From: scott.bergeson@ucs.org (SCOTT BERGESON) Subject: Our Hollow Republic [Courtesy of USA Journal:] Our Hollow Republic - By Jon Dougherty SEPTEMBER 8 -- Yesterday WorldNetDaily contributor and investigative journalist Missy Kelly set the end of September as the date she believes President Bill Clinton will finally pass into history. I read her piece with interest, as I read a similar piece a few weeks ago she had written about the "shadow government" which really pulls the strings in this world of ours -- including the United States. I don't know if she will prove to be correct, but her analysis bears some fleshing out because Americans have, for far too long, continued to believe that our career politicians -- those depraved souls we keep sending to Washington term after term -- are really responsible for their own actions. I'd like to think they were at one time but aren't any longer, and that assumption follows Miss Kelly's conclusions. First of all, to experienced politicos and Washington Watchers, there can be no doubt that most -- if not all - -- legislation that gets passed inside the Beltway is wholly illegal when you put each law to a constitutional test. Granted, while many laws contain the color of constitutionality in spirit, they don't measure up when they are written into United States Code and put into practice. The Drug War is a perfect example of this; I cannot imagine US leaders a hundred years ago allowing law enforcement agencies warrantless search and seizure authority under any circumstances. Today, however, those sorts of searches are accepted as perfectly normal extensions of "legitimate" law enforcement techniques, but not just for drug searches anymore [think of a police roadblock to check for other things like alcohol, guns, and out-of-date driver's licenses]. And there are many other examples. Gun laws which blatantly violate the Second Amendment, government seizure of private land for "environmental" reasons without compensation to the landowner -- in violation of the Fourth Amendment -- and so on. Now, back to Miss Kelly's conclusions. How often have millions of us publicly and privately asked our legislators why they haven't done anything to either prevent these overtly unconstitutional acts or, more preferably, repeal the laws which don't measure up? Maybe it's because Miss Kelly is right. Maybe it's because they're not responsible for their own actions anymore. Letting Bill Clinton slip by with obvious infractions of numerous laws for six years ought to prove this theory to any reasonable person. Like Miss Kelly reported in her piece yesterday, Clinton [while in Ireland] actually said that he wasn't responsible for making decisions. He said "decisions are made by somebody else," inferring that there is some hidden, secretive power behind not just the US government but most other western governments around the globe as well. So, if US presidents don't even have the ability to govern on their own, then it's reasonable to assume that congressmen don't have that luxury either. In other words, perhaps all we have left is just a hollow republic -- a facade, a "virtual" country, if you will [thanks, Miss Kelly]. Why bring this up? Because I'm afraid, if Bill Clinton is forced to step down from office in a couple weeks as Miss Kelly asserts, people will be so relieved that they will fail to see the big picture -- again. Yes, I know that "rational" people don't believe such things. Guys like Rush Limbaugh, for example, pooh-pooh this kind of thinking as impossible, off-the-wall, and reflective of an extremist. People like Larry King would dismiss it as nothing but "right wing babble." Indeed maybe it is. But if so, then I'd like these "experts" to explain to me how it is that a president who so overtly violates laws can get by with it? Or how an attorney general can so flagrantly ignore the law without punishment? While they're at it, perhaps they'd care to explain why supposedly "independent" congressmen [Republicans, pay attention] can hold a majority in both Houses and still fail to punish a guy like Clinton -- for six years? Oh, I see -- it's because the opinion polls say the American people don't want them too. Yes, that's convenient, isn't it? Rush has said so himself -- how can a poll of 800 or 900 people possibly reflect the feelings of an entire nation of some 190 million voting-age adults? No, that's too easy an out. In fact, it's a cop-out. These "experts" also never bother to explain that why, regardless of the party which is in "control" of Congress, this country has continued to follow a path towards socialism for over 45 years? And why, despite who the "ruling elite" happen to be, some things never change -- taxes always seem to go up not down as Americans endure more gun control, more land seizures, increased federal law enforcement abuses, fewer personal freedoms, more domestic spying, and now -- after October, 1999, a national ID card. Rush, Larry -- care to comment? These are the trappings of a Republic? I think not; these are the trappings of a group of "rulers" whose strings are being pulled by somebody else. Somebody "corporate." Somebody with lots of money [and money controls countries]. The question is, what can Americans do about this phenomenon? I'm not sure I have an answer for that. Maybe there is nothing we can do except wait for it all to come crashing down. I'd like to think that voting can change things, but then I think of how Sen. Mary Landrieu [D-LA] and Rep. Lorna Sanchez [D-CA] came to power [via vote fraud] and I wonder. There is always the recall election, but... Some have suggested armed revolution. My question then becomes, who has the guts to start it? And when? Under what circumstances? And how to justify it? Who takes the first step -- because there can be no turning back once America has another "Fort Sumter?" No takers on the horizon, as far as I can see. Missy Kelly provided the answer, and perhaps she didn't even know it. Informing people that this "shadow elite" exists, and by pointing to specific examples -- like Bill Clinton's own words in Ireland last week -- that helps prove 'they' exist, may just do the trick. If these elite hate one thing it is the light of scrutiny. In that respect, they're like cockroaches -- they scurry for cover in the light. *** - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:52:49 -0600 From: "David Sagers" Subject: Fwd: What I would like to see: total war Received: from wvc ([204.246.130.34]) by icarus.ci.west-valley.ut.us; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:49:10 -0600 Received: from fs1.mainstream.net by wvc (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id NAA09684; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 13:37:22 -0600 Received: (from smap@localhost) by fs1.mainstream.net (8.8.8/8.7.3) id PAA26542; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:47:33 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 15:47:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost(127.0.0.1) by fs1.mainstream.net via smap (V1.3) id sma026021; Thu Sep 10 15:46:09 1998 Message-Id: Errors-To: listproc@mainstream.com Reply-To: pwatson@utdallas.edu Originator: noban@mainstream.net Sender: noban@Mainstream.net Precedence: bulk From: Paul M Watson To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: What I would like to see: total war X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0 -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Comment: Anti-Gun-Ban list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 22:15:41 -0500 > From: jqp@inxpress.net > Subject: CAS: Salon: "Stand by for total war" >=20 > SALON | Sept. 10, 1998=20 >=20 >=20 > The embattled White House tries out a new strategy to fend off=20 > impeachment -- but if it doesn't work, stand by for total war.=20 I hope Clinton stays in until the bitter end. I hope all the dirty deeds of all the players at the Federal level comes out. What we need is what Thomas Jefferson talked about, War. So come on Clinton set up your War room call out the Dogs of War, we the people are ready and waiting. Not in arms and real blood but modern day war of words and truth Here is Jefferson on the subject: "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience [has] shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. Papers, 1:429 "A first attempt to recover the right of self-government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more instructed race comes on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed... To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood and years of desolation. For what inheritance so valuable can man leave to his posterity?" --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1823. ME 15:465 "The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It has only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican. But their virtuous feelings have been played on by some fact with more fiction; they have been the dupes of artful maneuvers, and made for a moment to be willing instruments in forging chains for themselves. But times and truth dissipated the delusion, and opened their eyes." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lomax, 1799. ME 10:123 "It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back."=20 --Thomas Jefferson to Arthur Campbell, 1797. ME 9:421 "Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible." --Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1821. ME 15:325 "I have never dreamed that all opposition was to cease. The clergy, who have missed their union with the State, the Anglomen, who have missed their union with England, and the political adventurers, who have lost the chance of swindling and plunder in the waste of public money, will never cease to bawl on the breaking up of their sanctuary." --Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger, 1801. ME 10:259 "[When] corruption.. has prevailed in those offices [of]... government and [has] so familiarized itself as that men otherwise honest could look on it without horror,... [then we must] be alive to the suppression of this odious practice and... bring to punishment and brand with eternal disgrace every man guilty of it, whatever be his station." --Thomas Jefferson to W. C. C. Claiborne, 1804.=20 (*) "Our fellow citizens have been led hoodwinked from their principles by a most extraordinary combination of circumstances. But the band is removed, and they now see for themselves."=20 --Thomas Jefferson to John Dickinson, 1801. ME 10:217 "Manfully maintain our good old principle of cherishing and fortifying the rights and authorities of the people in opposition to those who fear them, who wish to take all power from them and to transfer all to Washington." - --Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1826. FE 10:378 "Public opinion... [is] a censor before which the most exalted tremble for their future as well as present fame." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1816. ME 14:393 "The people cannot be all, and always, well-informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. Papers, 12:356.=20 "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere." --Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1787.=20 "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. Papers, 12:356. =20 - - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 98 18:34:00 -0700 From: scott.bergeson@ucs.org (SCOTT BERGESON) Subject: Here They Come-- Again - ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 18:47:48 -0400 From: Gun Owners of America To: goamail@gunowners.org Subject: Here They Come-- Again The Senate Just Won't Quit - -- Look out for Free Speech Ban and Hatch's Horror Bill by Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151, 703-321-8585 http://www.gunowners.org (Wednesday, September 9, 1998)-- Well, the holidays are over and Congress is back to work. And while you were at those weekend barbecues enjoying your vacation, legislators in Congress were scheming to rob you of your cherished rights. Anti-gun legislation, that had previously been derailed thanks in large part to your efforts, is back on track and could soon be voted on. For example, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) abruptly brought up his Horror Bill for debate last week, but he could not get a Unanimous Consent agreement that would have allowed a vote on the bill. Gun owners should remind their Senators that they do NOT want Hatch's anti-gun crime bill (S. 10). This bill still applies RICO (racketeering) penalties to minor gun infractions and would increase penalties on gun owners who take their kids handgun shooting without a written note of permission. In other news, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) promised a vote on the Incumbent Protection Bill which would restrict the free speech rights of citizens that organize together (like your GOA) to influence legislative policy. While this legislation claims to reform campaign finance laws, it would really prevent the ability of groups like GOA to keep you informed on how your legislator is voting. A vote on this bill is scheduled for tomorrow-- Thursday, September 10. HERE'S WHAT TO DO * Urge your Senators to oppose Hatch's Horror Bill (S. 10) and the McCain-Feingold restrictions on free speech (so-called "campaign finance reform"). Call 202-224-3121. * Fax, email or mail the bottom "postcard" to pro-gun Sen. Bob Smith, asking him to object to any Unanimous Consent agreement that would allow a vote on S. 10. Here's the contact information for Sen. Smith: Phone: 202-224-2841 Email: opinion@smith.senate.gov Fax: 202-224-1353 Address: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510 - -----clip-n-send------- Dear Senator Smith: I want to thank you for your bold leadership in opposing the Hatch Horror Bill (S. 10). I understand that your "hold letter" has had a tremendous effect in slowing down this legislation, and I commend you for your efforts. I have also learned that Senator Orrin Hatch tried to get a Unanimous Consent agreement recently to debate this bill and vote on it. He was unsuccessful. Regardless, I fear he may try again. If he does, I would urge you to object to any Unanimous Consent agreement that would bring up S. 10 for a vote. Among the many problems in S. 10, this bill still applies RICO penalties to minor gun infractions and would increase penalties on gun owners who take their kids handgun shooting without a written note of permission. Thank you for supporting my gun rights! Sincerely, - ------------------------------------------------- Final note: Action on the Smith "Anti-Brady" amendment is expected soon. We will of course keep you updated. **************************************************************** Did someone else forward this to you? To be certain of getting up to date information, please consider subscribing directly to the GOA E-Mail Alert Network. The service is totally free and carries no obligation. Your e-mail address remains confidential, and the volume is quite low, usually one or two messages per week. To subscribe, simply send a message (or forward this notice) to goamail@gunowners.org and indicate your state of residence in either the subject or the body. To unsubscribe, reply to any alert and ask to be removed. To which Richard L. Partridge responded: Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 19:51:05 -0700 From: "Richard L. Partridge" To: opinion@smith.senate.gov Cc: lputah@qsicorp.com, lori@ut-ra.org, apart@infowest.com Subject: Fw: Here They Come-- Again Dear Senator Smith: I want to thank you for exercising your bold leadership in opposing the Hatch Horror Bill (S. 10). I understand that your "hold letter" has been effective in slowing down this legislation, and I commend you for your good work. I have also learned that "my" Senator Hatch tried to get a Unanimous Consent agreement recently to debate this bill and vote on it, and was unsuccessful. However, I fear he may try again. If so, I strongly urge you to object to any Unanimous Consent agreement that would bring S. 10 up for a vote. Among the many problems in S. 10, this bill still applies RICO penalties to minor gun infractions and would increase penalties on gun owners who take their kids handgun shooting without a written note of permission. Thank you for supporting my gun rights! Sincerely, Richard L. Partridge 4480 N. Hwy 38 Brigham City, Utah 84302 435-734-2678 (PS. I find it most peculiar that I need to ask another senator to stop the mischief of the senator who has been elected to serve me.) - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Sep 98 08:14:00 -0700 From: scott.bergeson@ucs.org (SCOTT BERGESON) Subject: Gunslinger Ad Takes Aim at Liberals - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 20:31:57 -0700 From: Ed Wolfe To: pi@involved.com Subject: Gunslinger Ad Takes Aim at Liberals I wish I lived in Maryland so I could vote for this guy. Ed Gunslinger Ad Takes Aim at Liberals By DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press Writer FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- Donned in gunfighter garb, Republican Tim Brooks stares out from a campaign ad, a six-shooter on his hip, a shotgun in one hand and a coiled rope in the other. ``Seen any liberals lately?'' the ad says. Brooks, a 25-year-old candidate for the Maryland House of Delegates, said Wednesday he thinks the ad is funny. His opponents disagree. ``How much more violence can that picture portray?'' Delegate Louise Snodgrass complained. Republican candidate Joseph Bartlett said the ad, which ran in the Frederick News-Post, is silly and shows poor judgment. And Delegate Sue Hecht, a Democrat from the same district, said she was saddened by the ad in light of efforts to reduce violence in schools. ``If this is supposed to be funny, I guess I'm not sophisticated enough to recognize that,'' she said. Brooks said his critics should lighten up. ``The whole purpose of that ad was to have people notice it, and that's what happened,'' said the candidate, a mortgage marketing executive and former Marine making his first run for public office. Brooks is one of four Republicans seeking nomination for three seats from Frederick and Washington counties. The primary is Tuesday. Opponents said the ad was particularly insensitive given that Brooks was charged with battery against his former wife in 1996. Prosecutors later dropped the charges. AP-NY-09-10-98 1601EDT - - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Sep 98 08:14:00 -0700 From: scott.bergeson@ucs.org (SCOTT BERGESON) Subject: MA pols going after Federal CCW bill now - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "William C. Walden" To: "'ma-firearms@world.std.com'" Subject: RE: MA pols going after Federal CCW bill now Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 18:41:28 -0400 For anybody who can't get to the page, this is the text: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Opponents Say Concealed Weapons Bill Jeopardizes Public Safety By Melissa B. Robinson, Associated Press, 09/09/98 20:02 WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Massachusetts Democrats have joined gun control activists in an attempt to defeat legislation that would let gun owners carry concealed weapons across state lines while also allowing off-duty police to remain armed outside their home states. ``Giving private citizens greater latitude to carry concealed and loaded firearms wherever they go means more illegal gun violence, more gun accidents, more lives cut short too young, too soon,'' said Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass., a member of the House Judiciary Committee that approved the bill, sponsored by Rep. Bill McCollum, R-Fla., last month. The bill is scheduled for a House vote Monday under a procedure, usually reserved for non-controversial measures, that does not allow any changes on the House floor. But the procedure, known as ``suspension of the rules,'' also requires a two-thirds majority, rather than a simple majority, for passage. Meehan, a former state prosecutor, and Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., also a Judiciary Committee member, said Wednesday they would lobby their colleagues hard in the next few days to defeat the bill on the floor. ``This bill will not survive on the suspension calendar,'' said Delahunt, a former district attorney. As originally proposed by Rep. Randy Cunningham, R-Calif., the legislation would have exempted off-duty law enforcement officers from state laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed firearms. But in the Judiciary Committee's crime subcommittee, McCollum succeeded in changing the bill to also give civilians greater latitude in carrying concealed weapons outside their states. Under McCollum's version, at least 29 states that issue permits for concealed weapons would be required to recognize concealed weapons permits issued by other states. Another 14 states that also issue permits, but with greater discretion, could recognize out-of-state permits if their governors decide to do so. That group includes Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. ``This bill is an outrage to all of us who have fought so long and so hard to set high standards'' for gun control, said state Rep. Michael Lawlor of Connecticut, who attended the news conference. Seven states, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio and Wisconsin, prohibit carrying concealed weapons and do not issue licenses. ``We cannot overstate the danger of this amendment,'' said Sarah Brady of Handgun Control. Opponents also include some law enforcement officials, including New York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir. Other law enforcement groups are strongly in favor, arguing that the benefit of allowing off-duty police to defend themselves with concealed guns outside their states outweighs any possible threats posed by extending the right to other citizens. Also, states already have the power to enter into compacts to recognize each other's concealed weapons laws, they say. ``We don't think it's going to appreciably increase the amount of individuals who are going to be carrying firearms,'' said Tim Richardson, spokesman for the National Fraternal Order of Police, which supports the bill and represents more than 277,000 officers. Copyright 1998 The Boston Globe - ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. - ----------------------- - - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Sep 98 21:47:00 -0700 From: scott.bergeson@ucs.org (SCOTT BERGESON) Subject: Darwin Award Runner-Up? - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:04:24 -0700 From: Ed Wolfe To: bphipp@pernet.net Subject: Darwin Award Runner-Up? How many needless deaths must we endure before the dangerous practice of marshmellow roasting is finally banned? -Ed Teen Dies in Campfire Accident FOREST, Ind. (AP) -- A 15-year-old boy died when a metal roasting stick lodged in his left temple as he and a group of friends roasted hot dogs and marshmallows at a cookout. Aaron J. Archibald was sitting around the campfire Saturday night at a home in Forest, about 50 miles north of Indianapolis, when a friend tried to put out a burning marshmallow. ``He was swinging the stick up in the air trying to put it out when the metal part of the wiener stick came out from the wooden part, flew a few feet and lodged in boy's left temple,'' Clinton County Sheriff Mike Hensley said. ``It was just a freak accident.'' Archibald was taken to a Frankfort hospital before being taken to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, where he was pronounced dead. AP-NY-09-13-98 2312EDT - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:15:05 -0600 From: "David Sagers" Subject: Fwd: Will we finally be rid of Chucky? Received: from kendaco.telebyte.com ([206.53.160.3]) by icarus.ci.west-valley.ut.us; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 06:30:27 -0600 Received: (from mail@localhost) by kendaco.telebyte.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA05892; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 05:32:25 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: kendaco.telebyte.com: mail set sender to NRA-ILA-EVC-owner@kendaco.telebyte.com using -f Received: from dub-img-10.compuserve.com (dub-img-10.compuserve.com [149.174.206.140]) by kendaco.telebyte.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA05889 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 05:32:21 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by dub-img-10.compuserve.com (8.8.6/8.8.6/2.14) id IAA27764 for NRA-ILA-EVC@kendaco.telebyte.com; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:28:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:28:07 -0400 From: David Adams Subject: Will we finally be rid of Chucky? To: "INTERNET:NRA-ILA-EVC@kendaco.telebyte.com" Message-ID: <199809150828_MC2-5987-D344@compuserve.com> Reply-To: NRA-ILA-EVC@kendaco.telebyte.com Sender: NRA-ILA-EVC-owner@kendaco.telebyte.com Precedence: list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Today is the big day! Will we finally be rid of Chucky Schumer or will we have to wait until November? Thought you all might be interested in this campaign update from = "Politics 1" ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ NEW YORK: In the hotly contested Democratic primary for US Senate, ex-Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro and liberal Congressman Chuck Schumer appear in a dead heat. New York City Public Advocate Mark Green is also running. Ferraro has seen her strong lead in the polls vanish in the face of Schumer's unprecedented $8 million television blitz. With over $13 million raised = to date, watch for Schumer to defeat Ferraro. For Ferraro-who has raised = less than $3 million-this could be a devastating re-play of the 1992 primary race for Senator that she narrowly lost in an upset. For Green, the 1986 nominee against incumbent Al D'Amato (R/C), he's hoping for a low-turn upset. D'Amato appears a strong favorite to win re-election over any of the three Democrats. Schumer will also appear on the November ballot as the Liberal Party nominee. Schumer and Green are also competing in a separate primary for the Independence Party nomination. The Independence Party is the New York affiliate of Ross Perot's Reform Party. Conceivably,= the possibility exists for Ferraro, Schumer and Green to all appear on the November ballot-as, respectively, the Democratic, Liberal and Independence nominees-and completely fragment the Democratic vote. D'Amato is also competing in the Right To Life Party primary against college professor Tom Droleskey, who argues D'Amato is not sufficiently pro-life. Although he has no GOP primary opponent, D'Amato has already spent $11 million on television ads. This could end up becoming the most expensive US Senate race in American history. Five other third party candidates are also running in the general election. As an aside, Schumer is the only one of the three Democrats who agreed to appear with President Clinton at a Democratic Party fundraiser in the state today. ****Owning a firearm is a RIGHT, not a privilege**** The NRA ILA EVC closed mailing list is NOT an=20 official list of the NRA, but is offered as=20 a tool by Jim Kendall (WA-1st District EVC) and Telebyte NW. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send an email request to=20 NRA-1st@telebyte.com *********** Victory 1998! *************** - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Sep 98 18:06:00 -0700 From: scott.bergeson@ucs.org (SCOTT BERGESON) Subject: Chips 1/2 - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 02:23:43 -0600 From: legal@lgcy.com To: discussion@derail.org http://www.cyberhighway.net/~hushj/chips.html "A Chip Behind Everyone's Ear" Consider, for example, what Ronald Kane, vice president of Cubic Corporation, a top maker of high tech control systems, had to say recently about the profit potential of the implantable biochip. "If we had our way," Kane remarked, "We'd implant a chip behind everyone's ear in the maternity ward." Today, the making of human cyberslaves is a highly profitable enterprise. The business of creating humn cyberslaves translates into big, big money. Trillions of dollars are at stake for able corporations supplying government with computerized, smart I.D. cards, iris-scanning devices, DNA blood analysis equipment, fingerprint digitization video displays, and other forms of human control technology. Stock market (Nasdaq) records indicate how very lucrative the making of silicon cages can be. Recently, the stock of one tiny company, Comparator, shot up an astounding 2,900 percent in just three days. This occurred after the company's CEO announced that Comparator had invented an advanced type of portable, biometric, fingerprint identification device. Satan certainly seems to be inspiring the work and activities of the world's largest, high tech corporations. As the Apostle Paul wisely stated in the Scriptures, "For the love of money is the root of all evil" (I Timothy 6:10). From the look of things, if enough money were to exchange hands, most of America's giant, multinational corporations would, today, eagerly compete to build better and more modern concentration camps and more efficient guillotines. In other words, these greedy, corporate chieftains have no scruples about making blood money. Imagine a world in which every aspect of your life, past and present, is encrypted on a personal ID card and stored on a nationwide data base. Where virtually all communications media-soon to be 100% digital-are automatically monitored by computerized phone taps and satellites from control centers thousands of miles away. Where self-training neural net and artificial intelligence data search systems scan for undesirable lifestyles and target you for automatic monitoring. Personal privacy was once considered the most sacred of our constitutional rights; agencies were severely limited by law. All that's about to change drastically thanks to a deadly combination of extremely sophisticated surveillance technology, ubiquitous digital information collection, and centralized interagency data exchange. Until recently the "supersecret" National Reconnaissance Organization did not exist-even though it has the largest budget of any intelligence agency. They are responsible for the design, development and procurement of all US reconnaissance satellites and their continued management once in orbit. Recently photos have surfaced in the press of its huge new complex being completed in Chantilly, Virginia. (Senator John Warner - Liz Taylor's ex - has described the one million square foot complex as a "Taj Mahal.") The NRO is eagerly implementing such technologies as ultra-high storage capacity holographic films (allowing huge amounts of personal information to be present on your ID card) and self-training artificial intelligence software that tracks your personal data without human intervention. A new era of ubiquitous surveillance is dawning. A struggling military-industrial complex searching for new markets for their technologies has merged forces with a government obsessed with ever tighter control over the activities of the general public. ~ Congresswoman Barbara Jordan has proposed a "National Employment Verification Card" that will be required for all employment in the U.S. The card will, of course, have a magnetic data strip, and altering of counterfeiting the card will be a federal felony offense. There is a dedicated and aggressive effort underway to chart various genetic features as part of one's personal information set. The feds' goal is to have the ability to screen individuals for everything from behavioral characteristics to sexual orientation, based on genetic information embedded in your personal (and required) national ID card. Biometric signature technologies have been developing apace. There is even a technique available to translate human DNA into bar codes for efficient digital transmission between agencies. Are these science fiction story lines or the ravings of a paranoid lunatic? I wish they were. As a former research engineer at Lawrence Livermore Labs and other government labs, I watched some of these mad schemes being hatched. This technology is on the street today or about to leave the labs and believe me, it goes way beyond Orwell's worst nightmares. Listen up and hunker down. A fundamental shift in the legal definition of personal privacy is occurring right now. A court-issued warrant used to be a universal requirement for personal surveillance, such as phone tapping, observing physical papers, and probing financial or medical records. Now, in this new age of AI-driven monitoring and data tracking systems, there are no pesky people in the loop. A computer doesn't need to seek a court warrant to monitor every aspect of your private life. A self-training automated surveillance system doesn't need permission to observe your movements or communications. Total data tracking is already commonplace for financial institutions and private security operations. Tomorrow, it will be commonplace for all of us. The technical elements of a massive surveillance engine are in place. It's just a matter of turning the key to fire it up. Let's examine these elements and why you should be concerned. Universal Encryption Chip Is sounds logical. The feds want to preserve privacy, so their story goes, so they've announced that an encryption chip will go into all phones and computers that they buy. But what do they really want in the long run? How about a government-issue encryption chip in all personal computers and communication devices? That way, the feds can deal with drug smugglers, terrorists, kiddie porn merchants, and other miscreants who use encoded messages. Of course, they'd have to prevent tampering with the chip. In fact, the technology to do just that has already been developed at Sandia National Laboratory. Scientists there have developed an optical sensor that uses a powdered silicon optical absorption layer in an optical waveguide embedded in a chip. A micro photodetector detects even the slightest intrusion into the chip package by measuring a slight change in the photonic conduction through the waveguide. It can then send an alert via modem to a central monitoring system to notify an interested party that the device has been tampered with. Sandia is also developing a microchemical intrusion detector that would be sensitive to the chemical signature of human fingertips. Is this all part of some master plan, or what? In fact, in the near future, all encryption hardware and software will be subject to federal registration/authorization. Possession of unauthorized encryption/decryption capability will be punishable as a federal felony. In other words, if it doesn't have a handy back door for NSA snoops, it ain't legal. We can further speculate that the feds will embed chips in all equipment sold for use in data transmission, digital phone calls and all other frequencies. Note: all new phone systems wired and wireless will be digital in the next three years. [ Continued In Next Message... ] - - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Sep 98 18:06:00 -0700 From: scott.bergeson@ucs.org (SCOTT BERGESON) Subject: Chips 2/2 Intelligent Video Nor would you know what's watching you. Security cameras are becoming standard in corporate and government facilities. They may soon even be required. Why? Ostensibly because they want to recover losses in cases of theft, keep insurance premiums down, monitor petulant employees and keep intruders out. But the new genre of video cameras now coming out of the labs do a lot more than that. They're intelligent. They can recognize faces, motion, and other interesting characteristics. In fact, they behave a lot like a human eye, with intelligent preprocessor abilities. Intelligent cameras are needed because a security guard or cop can't monitor the dozens or hundreds of video cameras in a large facility (or dozens of satellite video surveillance channels). Intelligent cameras use artificial intelligence-based object and motion recognition. They scan for what a trained security guard looks for: certain motions, clothing, faces; the presence of people in off-limits places. Instead of watching 100 cameras, only a few at any time send pictures. A single guard or a computer can deal with that. In fact, a steady data stream from multiple intelligent cameras can be uploaded to computerized monitoring facilities anywhere, coupled with other automated observation systems. The next big thing in intelligent cameras will be "content-addressable" imagery. That means they'll automatically detect the content of sophisticated patterns, like a specific person's face, by matching it against a digital "wanted" poster, say. New software that can even run on cheap personal computers makes that possible. MatchMaker from Iterated Systems (Norcross, GA), for example, uses a fractal algorithm that converts image data into mathematical form, automatically recognizing and categorizing realtime "targets"-untouched by human hands and tied into a centralized monitoring facility! A related technology called focal plane array sensors (FPA) discriminates objects at just about any distance. FPA makes it possible to use neuromorphic sensors, modeled biologically on the human eye, which are built into a camera to recognize a person or object by "associative cognition." Carver Mead at Cal Tech has designed a broad-spectrum "human-eye" sensor using FPAs and 3D artificial neural network processors. To prove the viability of such concepts, Raytheon, under contract with the Guided Interceptor Branch of the Air Force at Elgin AFB, has developed "smart eyes" using FPAs for recognizing objects in flight, thus relieving the pilot of visual target recognition tasks while in a high-pressure combat situation. This technology is inexpensive, easily reproducible, and will be part of standard equipment for fully automated, on-site visual and infrared surveillance in the near future. Langley Research Center (Hampton, VA) in conjunction with Telerobotics International (Knoxville, TN) is taking a step further. They're developing an advanced surveillance camera system that's even more intelligent: it uses self-aiming and analyzes motion or other parameters. A fisheye spherical lens views a very wide field of vision while a self-contained image processing subsystem tracks several moving targets at once in real time. Video for suspect targets can be transmitted in real time to a security center. These smart cameras are also getting incredibly tiny and low cost. The Imputer from VLSI Vision Ltd. (Edinburgh, Scotland) is a credit card- sized device that fits in the palm of your hand. It consists of a complete CCD video camera mounted on a circuit board plus an on-board DSP (digital signal processing) coprocessor for realtime image enhancement, feature detection, correlation and convolution (for fast analysis on the fly), and even an optional library of pre-stored feature data so that the camera can independently recognize a specific face or other security- oriented data. It can also download its captured visual data via telephone line to a data collection and processing facility. With everything on a few chips, intelligent cameras can now be mass- manufactured like pocket radios. No need for security personnel-they can be linked to a computer surveillance monitoring and data base system. This is where it gets really insidious. When the technology becomes so cheap, tiny, and powerful, and no guards are needed, they can sprinkle these things around like corn chips...secretly putting them on every street corner, in every waiting room, office, wherever. Keep smiling, because you'll never know when - "You're on Candid Camera" And Hey! Relax - they've just captured your surfaces. Where it really starts to get hairy is when we enter the brave new world of Biometrics. Biometrics is the process of gathering biological information and converting it into data that can be uploaded into automated systems for identifying you. They can use your fingerprint (via automated fingerprint identification systems), retinal scan, voice or other personal signatures. Miros of Wellesley, MA has recently introduced a system called Face-to-Face, using neural nets, that is particularly insidious. Unlike fingerprint or palm recognition, it identifies your face "non-intrusively" (that's technospeak for surreptitiously) with 99% recognition. It can even identify your face when you add glasses or change your hairstyle. There are biometric service bureaus like TRW that provide immediate access to personal dossier information to prisons, banks, military bases, research facilities, pharmaceutical companies, etc. The client simply installs a retinal scanner or other device and transmits your image to a service bureau, which sends back your complete dossier. This is big business for these service bureaus. We're talking billions in government and corporate contracts. What's next? We can expect intelligent scanning systems will be installed in supermarket checkout lines, lobbies, airports, stores, ATM sites, and so on in the near future. Known shoplifters will be tracked from the time they walk into the store. There'll be a cordon sanitaire around playgrounds and day care centers. What happens when the FBI ties its fingerprint verification system at its National Criminal Information Center, with its library of over 250,000 fingerprints, into the national health care card system, employment ID card, IRS, and just about everything else? Resources Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access, Anne Wells Branscomb, Basic Books, 1994. Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security, William E. Burrows, Random House, New Yourk, 1986. The Electronic Eye-The Rise of Surveillance Society, David Lyon, University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Tuning In to Scanning-From Police to Satellite Bands, Bob Kay, TAB Books, 1994. (How to listen in on cordless telephones, military, FBI, Secret Service, and NASA communications). Undercover: Police Surveillance in America, Gary T. Marx, University of California Press, 1988. Privacy for Sale: How Computerization Has Made Everyone's Private Life an Open Secret, Jeffrey Rothfeder, Simon and Schuster, 1992. America's Secret Eyes in Space: The U.S. Keyhole Spy Satellite Program, Jeffrey T. Richelson, Harper & Row, 1990 Hobbyist's Guide to COMINT Collection and Analysis, Tom Roach, 1330 Copper Peak Lane, San Jose, CA 95120-4271; DIY dirty NSA-style tricks. Electronic Surveillance Manual, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Criminal Division, Office of Enforcement Operations, 1991. - - ------------------------------ End of utah-firearms-digest V2 #102 ***********************************