May 31, 2004, 5:34PM
Last widow of a Civil War veteran dies at 97
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2601550
"MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alberta Martin, the last widow of a Civil War veteran, died on Memorial Day, ending an unlikely ascent from sharecropper's daughter to the belle of 21st century Confederate history buffs who paraded her across the South. She was 97.
Martin died at a nursing home in Enterprise of complications from a heart attack she suffered May 7, said her caretaker, Dr. Kenneth Chancey. She died nearly 140 years after the Civil War ended.
Her May-December marriage in the 1920s to Civil War veteran William Jasper Martin and her longevity made her a celebrated final link to the old Confederacy.
After living in obscurity and poverty for most of her life, in her final years the Sons of Confederate Veterans took her to conventions and rallies, often with a small Confederate battle flag waving in her hand and her clothes the colors of the rebel banner.
"I don't see nothing wrong with the flag flying," she said frequently.
Chancey said she loved the attention. "It's like being matriarch of a large family," he said.
"She was a link to the past," Chancey said Monday. "People would get emotional, holding her hand, crying and thinking about their family that suffered greatly in the past."
Wayne Flynt, a Southern history expert at Auburn University, said the historical distinctiveness of the South, which is so tied to the Civil War, has been disappearing, but Martin provided people with one last chance to see that history in real life.
"She became a symbol like the Confederate battle flag," he said.
The last widow of a Union veteran from the Civil War, Gertrude Janeway, died in January 2003 at her home in Tennessee. She was 93 and had married veteran John Janeway when she was 18.
In 1997, Martin and Daisy Anderson, whose husband was a slave who ran away and joined the Union Army, were recognized at a ceremony at Gettysburg, Pa. Anderson, who lived in Denver, died in 1998 at age 97. Janeway wasn't invited to the Gettysburg event because, at the time, no one outside her family knew her whereabouts.
Alberta Stewart Martin was not from the "Gone With the Wind" South of white-columned mansions and hoop skirts. She was born Alberta Stewart to sharecroppers on Dec. 4, 1906, in Danley's Crossroads, a tiny settlement built around a sawmill 70 miles south of Montgomery.
Her mother died when she was 11. At 18, she met a cab driver named Howard Farrow, and they had a son before Farrow died in a car accident in 1926.
Stewart, her father and her son moved to Opp. Just up the road lived William Jasper Martin, a widower born in Georgia in 1845 who had a $50-a-month Confederate veteran's pension.
The 81-year-old man struck up a few conversations with the 21-year-old neighbor and a marriage of convenience was born.
"I had this little boy and I needed some help to raise him," Alberta Martin recalled in a 1998 interview.
They were married on Dec. 10, 1927, and 10 months later had a son, William.
She said her husband never talked much about the war, except the harsh times at Petersburg, Va.
"He'd say it was rough, how the trenches were full of water. They were so hungry in Virginia that during the time they were fighting, they had to grab food as they went along. They came across a potato patch and made up some mashed potatoes," she said.
Asked if she loved her husband, Martin said: "That's a hard question to answer. I cared enough about him to live with him. You know the difference between a young man and an old man."
William Jasper Martin died on July 8, 1931. Two months later, Alberta Martin married her late husband's grandson, Charlie Martin. He died in 1983.
She became the focus of a dustup over the depiction of her and her late Confederate husband in the 1998 book "Confederates in the Attic." Among other things, the book by Tony Horwitz described William Jasper Martin as a deserter.
A group that defends Southern heritage disagreed, contending there were at least two William Martins who served in Company K of the 4th Alabama Infantry Regiment and that Horwitz got the wrong one. Horwitz said his research was carefully checked and the book was accurate.
The state government considered Martin's record clean enough to award him a Confederate pension in 1921 and to give Alberta Martin Confederate widow's benefits in 1996.
Martin's older son, Harold Farrow of North Little Rock, Ark., died last June. Her younger son, Willie Martin, lives in Elba.
Alberta Martin is to be interred at New Ebenezer Baptist Church six miles west of Elba, in an 1860s-style ceremony following her funeral June 12."
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For those able to attend, or desiring to send condolences and flowers, you may find the information at the website of the Last Confederate Widow.
--WP
31 May, 2004
On Memorial Day
The men of my family (and recently one of our daughters) have a long record of military service on this continent, in fact going back nearly four (400) hundred years. They have fought both for and against the Union and this is a day, amongst several in my family, to remember.
US Memorial Day Organization
In addition, for remembrance of this day’s founding, Mr. Sharkey sent along the following poem:
The Blue And The Gray
Francis Miles Finch (1827-1907)
By the flow of the inland river,
Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Under the one, the Blue,
Under the other, the Gray
These in the robings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood gory,
In the dusk of eternity meet:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgement-day
Under the laurel, the Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.
From the silence of sorrowful hours
The desolate mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers
Alike for the friend and the foe;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgement-day;
Under the roses, the Blue,
Under the lilies, the Gray.
So with an equal splendor,
The morning sun-rays fall,
With a touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Broidered with gold, the Blue,
Mellowed with gold, the Gray.
So, when the summer calleth,
On forest and field of grain,
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the rain:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment -day,
Wet with the rain, the Blue
Wet with the rain, the Gray.
Sadly, but not with upbraiding,
The generous deed was done,
In the storm of the years that are fading
No braver battle was won:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Under the blossoms, the Blue,
Under the garlands, the Gray
No more shall the war cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red;
They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our dead!
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day,
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
--WP
US Memorial Day Organization
In addition, for remembrance of this day’s founding, Mr. Sharkey sent along the following poem:
The Blue And The Gray
Francis Miles Finch (1827-1907)
By the flow of the inland river,
Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Under the one, the Blue,
Under the other, the Gray
These in the robings of glory,
Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood gory,
In the dusk of eternity meet:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgement-day
Under the laurel, the Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.
From the silence of sorrowful hours
The desolate mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers
Alike for the friend and the foe;
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgement-day;
Under the roses, the Blue,
Under the lilies, the Gray.
So with an equal splendor,
The morning sun-rays fall,
With a touch impartially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Broidered with gold, the Blue,
Mellowed with gold, the Gray.
So, when the summer calleth,
On forest and field of grain,
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the rain:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment -day,
Wet with the rain, the Blue
Wet with the rain, the Gray.
Sadly, but not with upbraiding,
The generous deed was done,
In the storm of the years that are fading
No braver battle was won:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day;
Under the blossoms, the Blue,
Under the garlands, the Gray
No more shall the war cry sever,
Or the winding rivers be red;
They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our dead!
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment-day,
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
--WP
30 May, 2004
The Venus Files: History Repeats on June 8
The Venus Files: History Repeats on June 8
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/venus_transit_history_040528.html
"Venus will pass in front of the Sun on June 8, and skywatchers in many locations around the world will have their first chance in nearly 122 years to see the planet as a black dot against the solar surface. The event is among the rarest of predictable viewing phenomena.
Venus transits recur like clockwork, though in an odd pattern.
Pairs of these events occurring eight years apart, either in June or December. A pair of December transits will follow a June pair after 105½ years. A June pair will come 121½ years after a December pair.
As seen from Earth, only transits of Mercury and Venus are possible. Both hold an interesting place in astronomical history. The main reason is the slightly different times that the events occur as seen from different locations on the surface of the Earth. The diameter of our planet is appreciable when compared to the distance to Mercury and Venus, allowing astronomers to triangulate on the planets from various points on Earth when they are seen against a bright background as the surface of the Sun."
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It is time to mark your calendars for this will provide a grand opportunity to forget the drivel we put up with daily- and be amazed once more.
If you are a photography buff as well, and enjoy taking photographs of the night sky, then visit Richard Shell’s site for some tools you may need.
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/venus_transit_history_040528.html
"Venus will pass in front of the Sun on June 8, and skywatchers in many locations around the world will have their first chance in nearly 122 years to see the planet as a black dot against the solar surface. The event is among the rarest of predictable viewing phenomena.
Venus transits recur like clockwork, though in an odd pattern.
Pairs of these events occurring eight years apart, either in June or December. A pair of December transits will follow a June pair after 105½ years. A June pair will come 121½ years after a December pair.
As seen from Earth, only transits of Mercury and Venus are possible. Both hold an interesting place in astronomical history. The main reason is the slightly different times that the events occur as seen from different locations on the surface of the Earth. The diameter of our planet is appreciable when compared to the distance to Mercury and Venus, allowing astronomers to triangulate on the planets from various points on Earth when they are seen against a bright background as the surface of the Sun."
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It is time to mark your calendars for this will provide a grand opportunity to forget the drivel we put up with daily- and be amazed once more.
If you are a photography buff as well, and enjoy taking photographs of the night sky, then visit Richard Shell’s site for some tools you may need.
Camo cops catch speeders and, in Urban Camouflage, we have more in a second article...
Camo cops catch speeders
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_196220.html
By Bob Stiles
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, May 28, 2004
"First came state police troopers sitting in cars equipped with radar guns.
Then came helicopters tracking motorists from the air, followed by troopers disguised as PennDOT workers.
Now meet the "Camo Cops," dressed to catch speeders and make roadways safer.
This week, state troopers from the Indiana barracks began donning camouflage gear to nab fast-moving motorists in Indiana County.
And they plan to do more of the same."
AND, IN URBAN CAMOUFLAGE, HERE WE HAVE MORE...
Arlington camera acts as a rolling tax collector
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20040527-103628-7477r.htm
By Tarron Lively
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"Property-tax evaders and parking-ticket scofflaws in Arlington County take notice: Officials are collecting outstanding taxes and fines at the rate of about $900 an hour with the help of an electronic roving eye.
County officials last month began using the BootFinder, a small, hand-held camera that scans license plates of parked cars to identify people with delinquent property-tax bills and unpaid parking tickets.
The county spent $27,000 to buy the camera, which was developed by Alexandria company G2 Tactics, and has recovered about $900 each hour of its use, said Arlington County Treasurer Frank O'Leary.
"We have collected $29,847.51 on 72 vehicles in just 33 hours, since we began the program April 19," Mr. O'Leary said. "So in the first month of operations, the camera has paid for itself."
Two treasury workers patrol the city in a van, aiming the camera at the license plates of parked cars. The camera is connected to a laptop computer that compares the license owner's name against a database of persons with outstanding taxes or fines."
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The first article was disgusting on it's own, and then I found the second article via Karen De Coster's Blog, from her May 29th posting, and I concur, it is a sickness.
However, I do wonder, do they have a bag-limit, or, do we?
--WP
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_196220.html
By Bob Stiles
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, May 28, 2004
"First came state police troopers sitting in cars equipped with radar guns.
Then came helicopters tracking motorists from the air, followed by troopers disguised as PennDOT workers.
Now meet the "Camo Cops," dressed to catch speeders and make roadways safer.
This week, state troopers from the Indiana barracks began donning camouflage gear to nab fast-moving motorists in Indiana County.
And they plan to do more of the same."
AND, IN URBAN CAMOUFLAGE, HERE WE HAVE MORE...
Arlington camera acts as a rolling tax collector
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20040527-103628-7477r.htm
By Tarron Lively
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
"Property-tax evaders and parking-ticket scofflaws in Arlington County take notice: Officials are collecting outstanding taxes and fines at the rate of about $900 an hour with the help of an electronic roving eye.
County officials last month began using the BootFinder, a small, hand-held camera that scans license plates of parked cars to identify people with delinquent property-tax bills and unpaid parking tickets.
The county spent $27,000 to buy the camera, which was developed by Alexandria company G2 Tactics, and has recovered about $900 each hour of its use, said Arlington County Treasurer Frank O'Leary.
"We have collected $29,847.51 on 72 vehicles in just 33 hours, since we began the program April 19," Mr. O'Leary said. "So in the first month of operations, the camera has paid for itself."
Two treasury workers patrol the city in a van, aiming the camera at the license plates of parked cars. The camera is connected to a laptop computer that compares the license owner's name against a database of persons with outstanding taxes or fines."
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The first article was disgusting on it's own, and then I found the second article via Karen De Coster's Blog, from her May 29th posting, and I concur, it is a sickness.
However, I do wonder, do they have a bag-limit, or, do we?
--WP
A Saddam Souvenir
A Saddam Souvenir
President Bush keeps the former dictator's pistol at arm's reach
By MATTHEW COOPER
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040607-644112,00.html
Saturday, May. 29, 2004
"When Saddam Hussein was rousted from his spider hole in Dawr, a town near Tikrit, by U.S. soldiers last December, Iraq's fallen dictator was clutching a pistol. He is now in detention at an undisclosed location, being questioned by American authorities and awaiting charges for war atrocities and crimes against humanity. But what ever happened to the pistol?
The sidearm has made its way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Sources say that the military had the pistol mounted after the soldiers seized it from Saddam and that it was then presented to the President privately by some of the troops who played a key role in ferreting out the old tyrant. Though it was widely reported at the time that the pistol was loaded when they grabbed Saddam, Bush has told visitors that the gun was empty—and that it is still empty and safe to touch. "He really liked showing it off," says a recent visitor to the White House who has seen the gun. "He was really proud of it."
The pistol's new place of residence is in the small study next to the Oval Office where Bush takes select visitors after pointing out better-known White House pieces like the busts of Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower and a watercolor called A Charge to Keep, which gets its name from a Methodist hymn. The study—the one where Bill Clinton held some of his infamous trysts with White House intern Monica Lewinsky—has become a place where Bush keeps the memorabilia that hold special significance for him. Another of the room's mementos: a photograph of special-forces soldiers in Afghanistan praying after burying a piece of the World Trade Center there as a tribute to those who died in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001."
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I am not sure which is the more stupid part of the sentence, "Though it was widely reported at the time that the pistol was loaded when they grabbed Saddam," or "...Bush has told visitors that the gun was empty—and that it is still empty and safe to touch."
An unloaded weapon is worthless tool and a pistol is a tool, as all weapons are. A weapon is not safe or unsafe, for it is the man handling the tool, whose inherent responsibility it is, to ensure the safe handling- of any tool.
However, I suppose it is TIME MAGAZINE'S intrinsic hoplophobia and, in my opinion, agenda to control others, which had the writer and the editors, phrase this sentence in such a leading fashion.
--WP
President Bush keeps the former dictator's pistol at arm's reach
By MATTHEW COOPER
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040607-644112,00.html
Saturday, May. 29, 2004
"When Saddam Hussein was rousted from his spider hole in Dawr, a town near Tikrit, by U.S. soldiers last December, Iraq's fallen dictator was clutching a pistol. He is now in detention at an undisclosed location, being questioned by American authorities and awaiting charges for war atrocities and crimes against humanity. But what ever happened to the pistol?
The sidearm has made its way to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Sources say that the military had the pistol mounted after the soldiers seized it from Saddam and that it was then presented to the President privately by some of the troops who played a key role in ferreting out the old tyrant. Though it was widely reported at the time that the pistol was loaded when they grabbed Saddam, Bush has told visitors that the gun was empty—and that it is still empty and safe to touch. "He really liked showing it off," says a recent visitor to the White House who has seen the gun. "He was really proud of it."
The pistol's new place of residence is in the small study next to the Oval Office where Bush takes select visitors after pointing out better-known White House pieces like the busts of Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower and a watercolor called A Charge to Keep, which gets its name from a Methodist hymn. The study—the one where Bill Clinton held some of his infamous trysts with White House intern Monica Lewinsky—has become a place where Bush keeps the memorabilia that hold special significance for him. Another of the room's mementos: a photograph of special-forces soldiers in Afghanistan praying after burying a piece of the World Trade Center there as a tribute to those who died in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001."
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I am not sure which is the more stupid part of the sentence, "Though it was widely reported at the time that the pistol was loaded when they grabbed Saddam," or "...Bush has told visitors that the gun was empty—and that it is still empty and safe to touch."
An unloaded weapon is worthless tool and a pistol is a tool, as all weapons are. A weapon is not safe or unsafe, for it is the man handling the tool, whose inherent responsibility it is, to ensure the safe handling- of any tool.
However, I suppose it is TIME MAGAZINE'S intrinsic hoplophobia and, in my opinion, agenda to control others, which had the writer and the editors, phrase this sentence in such a leading fashion.
--WP
28 May, 2004
Airport security tricky in court - Criminal case dropped to guard secrecy
Airport security tricky in court
Criminal case dropped to guard secrecy
HUGE LINK
Rebecca Carr - Cox Washington Bureau
Monday, May 24, 2004
"Washington --- Last fall, Miami prosecutors thought they had a solid case against a federal baggage screener who was caught on videotape stealing CDs from passengers' luggage.
Just one small problem: The defense would be allowed to question a key prosecution witness from the Transportation Security Administration about Miami International Airport's security and training of baggage screeners.
Fearing the testimony could put what the government calls Sensitive Security Information in the hands of terrorists, prosecutors dropped the charges.
U.S. District Court Judge Adalberto Jordan set the defendant free. He is now in Miami studying radiology.
The case reveals a growing tension between the public's right to know about a crime at one of the nation's busiest airports and the federal government's desire to protect sensitive security information from disclosure.
The federal government argues that even seemingly innocuous information about the nation's transportation systems could aid terrorists and other criminals in their plots. Critics disagree, saying that to cloak such information in secrecy undermines the public's ability to protect itself.
The Miami case is ''a rather shocking story,'' said Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy.
''It sounds like TSA has confused ends and means. They are compromising security for the sake of secrecy,'' Aftergood said.
The critics have it all wrong, said Lauren Stover, the eastern field director for TSA public affairs based in Miami.
''Our agency does not like to hide under the SSI umbrella,'' Stover said."
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I stumbled across this here, while waiting for an appointment with a client. I did not want to register with the Austin American-Hatesmen, so I searched Google and found, what I think, is the original article, dated two day previous to the Hatesmen's running of the story.
The FAS Project On Government Secrecy information can be found here.
--WP
Criminal case dropped to guard secrecy
HUGE LINK
Rebecca Carr - Cox Washington Bureau
Monday, May 24, 2004
"Washington --- Last fall, Miami prosecutors thought they had a solid case against a federal baggage screener who was caught on videotape stealing CDs from passengers' luggage.
Just one small problem: The defense would be allowed to question a key prosecution witness from the Transportation Security Administration about Miami International Airport's security and training of baggage screeners.
Fearing the testimony could put what the government calls Sensitive Security Information in the hands of terrorists, prosecutors dropped the charges.
U.S. District Court Judge Adalberto Jordan set the defendant free. He is now in Miami studying radiology.
The case reveals a growing tension between the public's right to know about a crime at one of the nation's busiest airports and the federal government's desire to protect sensitive security information from disclosure.
The federal government argues that even seemingly innocuous information about the nation's transportation systems could aid terrorists and other criminals in their plots. Critics disagree, saying that to cloak such information in secrecy undermines the public's ability to protect itself.
The Miami case is ''a rather shocking story,'' said Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy.
''It sounds like TSA has confused ends and means. They are compromising security for the sake of secrecy,'' Aftergood said.
The critics have it all wrong, said Lauren Stover, the eastern field director for TSA public affairs based in Miami.
''Our agency does not like to hide under the SSI umbrella,'' Stover said."
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I stumbled across this here, while waiting for an appointment with a client. I did not want to register with the Austin American-Hatesmen, so I searched Google and found, what I think, is the original article, dated two day previous to the Hatesmen's running of the story.
The FAS Project On Government Secrecy information can be found here.
--WP
Found via Claire Wolfe's Blog
I found this via Claire Wolfe's Blog this morning.
As the facts come out, it is apparent that some of those "caught" dealing in "illegal" firearms, were not breaking any laws at all. Where have we heard this before?
--WP
As the facts come out, it is apparent that some of those "caught" dealing in "illegal" firearms, were not breaking any laws at all. Where have we heard this before?
--WP
27 May, 2004
Govt Computer Surveillance Rings Alarm Bells
Govt Computer Surveillance Rings Alarm Bells
Link is Long
Thu 27 May, 2004 05:10
By Andy Sullivan
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nine months after Congress shut down a controversial Pentagon computer-surveillance program, the U.S. government continues to comb private records to sniff out suspicious activity, according to a congressional report obtained by Reuters.
Privacy concerns prompted Congress to kill the Pentagon's $54 million Total Information Awareness program last September, but government computers are still scanning a vast array of databases for clues about criminal or terrorist activity, the General Accounting Office found.
Overall, 36 of the government's 199 "data mining" efforts collect personal information from the private sector, a move experts say could violate civil liberties if left unchecked.
Several appear to be patterned after Total Information Awareness, which critics said could have led to an Orwellian surveillance state in which citizens have little privacy.
"I believe that Total Information Awareness is continuing under other names, and the (Defense Department) projects listed here might fit that bill," said Peter Swire, an Ohio State University law professor who served as the Clinton administration's top privacy official.
Defense Department officials did not respond to a request for comment."
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And I ask, Whose Paranoid are you?
--WP
Link is Long
Thu 27 May, 2004 05:10
By Andy Sullivan
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nine months after Congress shut down a controversial Pentagon computer-surveillance program, the U.S. government continues to comb private records to sniff out suspicious activity, according to a congressional report obtained by Reuters.
Privacy concerns prompted Congress to kill the Pentagon's $54 million Total Information Awareness program last September, but government computers are still scanning a vast array of databases for clues about criminal or terrorist activity, the General Accounting Office found.
Overall, 36 of the government's 199 "data mining" efforts collect personal information from the private sector, a move experts say could violate civil liberties if left unchecked.
Several appear to be patterned after Total Information Awareness, which critics said could have led to an Orwellian surveillance state in which citizens have little privacy.
"I believe that Total Information Awareness is continuing under other names, and the (Defense Department) projects listed here might fit that bill," said Peter Swire, an Ohio State University law professor who served as the Clinton administration's top privacy official.
Defense Department officials did not respond to a request for comment."
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And I ask, Whose Paranoid are you?
--WP
26 May, 2004
May 27- How Many Remember?
May 27- How Many Remember?
For those that do not, the answer is that the Tyrant Lincoln ordered the Union Army to invade Virginia, which led directly to the death of the Republic to which he was elected to serve.
Many citizens today, have been indoctrinated into the lie, that Patriotism is Nationalism, and refuse to see the truth. So many have tossed aside the understanding of, and, so many more never taught, the differences between the two, particularly since September 11th, 2001. So much so, that laws that are an anathema to our Republic, are passed with glee and a lack of concern by the majority, in the name of safety, of which the cost is Liberty.
Moreover, the President of the United Sates signs another, seemingly not related, even though he stipulates he believes the bill to be un-Constitutional, therefore, abrogating his Oath of Office, his previous Oath as an Officer and relegating the responsibility of both oaths to “nine-old men� whose disregard of their oaths is legendary and as consistent as the wind.
These disgusting laws are not in our interest or benefit, but nothing more than ways to divide us, and our union- excessively, as Man naturally divides himself to his likings, his distaste, and his locale. Furthermore, no matter how long that gun is held to his head, Man will never enjoy the taste of the feces he is forced to feed upon, and at the first real opportunity will grab that gun- and turn it.
--WP
For those that do not, the answer is that the Tyrant Lincoln ordered the Union Army to invade Virginia, which led directly to the death of the Republic to which he was elected to serve.
Many citizens today, have been indoctrinated into the lie, that Patriotism is Nationalism, and refuse to see the truth. So many have tossed aside the understanding of, and, so many more never taught, the differences between the two, particularly since September 11th, 2001. So much so, that laws that are an anathema to our Republic, are passed with glee and a lack of concern by the majority, in the name of safety, of which the cost is Liberty.
Moreover, the President of the United Sates signs another, seemingly not related, even though he stipulates he believes the bill to be un-Constitutional, therefore, abrogating his Oath of Office, his previous Oath as an Officer and relegating the responsibility of both oaths to “nine-old men� whose disregard of their oaths is legendary and as consistent as the wind.
These disgusting laws are not in our interest or benefit, but nothing more than ways to divide us, and our union- excessively, as Man naturally divides himself to his likings, his distaste, and his locale. Furthermore, no matter how long that gun is held to his head, Man will never enjoy the taste of the feces he is forced to feed upon, and at the first real opportunity will grab that gun- and turn it.
--WP
Officer's Taser is used on girl, 9
Officer's Taser is used on girl, 9
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/metro/23436.php
By C.J. Karamargin
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"A veteran South Tucson police sergeant is under investigation for firing his stun gun to subdue a handcuffed 9-year-old girl.
At the request of Chief Sixto Molina, the Pima County Sheriff's Department is trying to determine if the sergeant committed a crime when he sent a jolt through the child's body.
The police officer used a Taser on the girl at about 5:30 p.m. May 8, Molina said. The nonlethal weapon uses a pulsating electrical charge to immobilize a person for several seconds.
"I'll be the first to admit, you've got a veteran sergeant Tasing a 9-year-old girl, it doesn't look good," said Molina.
The sergeant was one of at least two officers who responded to a call from the Arizona Children's Home, a school for special needs children, on South Eighth Avenue, he said.
"It had to do with a runaway from the institution," the chief said. He declined to provide further details.
The school could not be reached for comment late Monday. But Molina said that the facility is the source of frequent calls to his 25-person department.
Molina said one officer initially responded to the call from the school. That officer requested assistance from another officer and specifically asked that the second officer bring a Taser.
He said the girl was handcuffed at the time the weapon was used."
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He specifically asked for an officer with a Taser, while he had that nine-year old girl handcuffed, so of course they had to scramble the electrical impulses to her brain!
Astounding!
Moreover, that fine veteran officer is still on the job, and they must perform an investigation to understand what occurred- I suppose we should be thankful, that he did not fear for his life.
However, once that investigation is completed, and his punishment is being decided, I would like to suggest that he suffer the same scrambling of the electrical impulses to his brain, as depicted at the videos at this location, of, say for the rest of his miserable life.
A Google search on Tasers, reveals this, and the newsgroups much more. Moreover, information on the field of "non-lethal� weaponry can be found here, and there.
Oh yes, one last piece of information, or trivia if you prefer, but May 8th, 2004, was the fifty-ninth (59) anniversary of VE Day. I know it swells me with pride to see this, in the united States of America, fifty-nine years after my Father turned twenty-one, which was the day after VE Day.
He had always said, it was the best birthday present he had ever received, and I am so happy to know that he is not alive to see that, what he, and his fellow soldiers, did storming Normandy Beach, of which he was in the first wave, accomplished.
--WP
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/metro/23436.php
By C.J. Karamargin
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"A veteran South Tucson police sergeant is under investigation for firing his stun gun to subdue a handcuffed 9-year-old girl.
At the request of Chief Sixto Molina, the Pima County Sheriff's Department is trying to determine if the sergeant committed a crime when he sent a jolt through the child's body.
The police officer used a Taser on the girl at about 5:30 p.m. May 8, Molina said. The nonlethal weapon uses a pulsating electrical charge to immobilize a person for several seconds.
"I'll be the first to admit, you've got a veteran sergeant Tasing a 9-year-old girl, it doesn't look good," said Molina.
The sergeant was one of at least two officers who responded to a call from the Arizona Children's Home, a school for special needs children, on South Eighth Avenue, he said.
"It had to do with a runaway from the institution," the chief said. He declined to provide further details.
The school could not be reached for comment late Monday. But Molina said that the facility is the source of frequent calls to his 25-person department.
Molina said one officer initially responded to the call from the school. That officer requested assistance from another officer and specifically asked that the second officer bring a Taser.
He said the girl was handcuffed at the time the weapon was used."
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He specifically asked for an officer with a Taser, while he had that nine-year old girl handcuffed, so of course they had to scramble the electrical impulses to her brain!
Astounding!
Moreover, that fine veteran officer is still on the job, and they must perform an investigation to understand what occurred- I suppose we should be thankful, that he did not fear for his life.
However, once that investigation is completed, and his punishment is being decided, I would like to suggest that he suffer the same scrambling of the electrical impulses to his brain, as depicted at the videos at this location, of, say for the rest of his miserable life.
A Google search on Tasers, reveals this, and the newsgroups much more. Moreover, information on the field of "non-lethal� weaponry can be found here, and there.
Oh yes, one last piece of information, or trivia if you prefer, but May 8th, 2004, was the fifty-ninth (59) anniversary of VE Day. I know it swells me with pride to see this, in the united States of America, fifty-nine years after my Father turned twenty-one, which was the day after VE Day.
He had always said, it was the best birthday present he had ever received, and I am so happy to know that he is not alive to see that, what he, and his fellow soldiers, did storming Normandy Beach, of which he was in the first wave, accomplished.
--WP
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