the following is an article by Eric Margolis in the Toronto sun. The original article entitled 'west has bloodied hands' is located here.
As I have said before, Saddam is an evil man and should be tried for his crimes against humanity in a fair and just court. So too should his accomplises, Bush Snr, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Don Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and others. Please read this article and LEARN something.
I reproduce the article here, because I believe it to be important enough to be shared and I cannot guarentee it staying on their server.
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West has bloodied hands
By Eric Margolis -- Contributing Foreign Editor
Who was the first high government official to authorize use of mustard gas against rebellious Kurdish tribesmen in Iraq?
If your answer was Saddam Hussein's cousin, the notorious "Chemical Ali" -- aka Ali Hassan al-Majid -- you're wrong.
The correct answer: Sainted Winston Churchill. As colonial secretary and secretary for war and air, he authorized the RAF in the 1920s to routinely use mustard gas against rebellious Kurdish tribesmen in Iraq and against Pashtun tribes on British India's northwest frontier.
Iraq's U.S.-installed regime has just announced al-Majid, one of Saddam's most brutal henchmen, will stand trial next week for war crimes.
Al-Majid is accused of ordering the 1988 gassing of Kurds at Halabja that killed over 5,000 civilians. He led the bloody suppression of Iraq's Shias, killing tens of thousands. These were the same Shias whom former U.S. president George Bush called to rebel against Saddam's regime, then sat back and did nothing while they were crushed.
The Halabja atrocity remains murky. The CIA's former Iraq desk chief claims Kurds who died at Halabja were killed by cyanide gas, not nerve gas, as is generally believed.
At the time, Iraq and Iran were locked in the ferocious last battles of their eight-year war. Halabja was caught between the two armies that were exchanging salvos of regular and chemical munitions. Only Iran had cyanide gas. If the CIA official is correct, the Kurds were accidentally killed by Iran, not Iraq.
But it's also possible al-Majid ordered an attack. Kurds in that region had rebelled against Iraq and opened the way for invading Iranian forces.
What's the difference between the U.S. destroying the rebellious Iraqi city of Fallujah and Saddam destroying rebellious Halabja? What difference does it make if you're killed by poison gas, artillery or 2,000-pound bombs?
"Chemical Ali" was a brute of the worst kind in a regime filled with sadists. I personally experienced the terror of Saddam's sinister regime over 25 years, culminating in threats to hang me as a spy.
Saddam Hussein and his entourage should face justice. But not in political show trials just before U.S.-"guided" Iraqi elections nor in Iraqi kangaroo courts. They should be sent to the UN's war crimes tribunal in The Hague, where Saddam should be charged with the greatest crime he committed -- the invasion of Iran, which caused one million casualties.
Britain, the U.S., Kuwait and Saudi Arabia convinced Iraq to invade Iran, then covertly supplied Saddam with money, arms, intelligence, and advisers. Meanwhile, Israel secretly supplied Iran with $5 billion US in American arms and spare parts while publicly denouncing Iran for terrorism.
Up to their ears
Who supplied "Chemical Ali" with his mustard and nerve gas? Why, the West, of course. In late 1990, I discovered four British technicians in Baghdad who told me they had been "seconded" to Iraq by Britain's ministry of defence and MI6 intelligence to make chemical and biological weapons, including anthrax, Q-fever and plague, at a secret laboratory at Salman Pak.
The Reagan administration and Thatcher government were up to their ears in backing Iraq's aggression, apparently with the intention to overthrow Iran's Islamic government and seize its oil. Italy, Germany, France, South Africa, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Brazil, Chile and the USSR all aided Saddam's war effort against Iran, which was even more a victim of naked aggression than was Kuwait in 1991.
I'd argue senior officials of those nations that abetted Saddam's aggression against Iran and supplied him with chemicals and gas should also stand trial with Ali and Saddam.
What an irony it is to see U.S. forces in Iraq now behaving with much the same punitive ferocity as Saddam's army and police -- bombing rebellious cities, arresting thousands, terrorizing innocent civilians, torturing captives and sending in tanks to crush resistance.
In other words, Saddamism without Saddam. A decade ago, this column predicted that when the U.S. finally overthrew Saddam, it would need to find a new Saddam.
Finally, let's not forget that when Saddam's regime committed many of its worst atrocities against rebellious Kurds and Shiites, it was still a close ally of Washington and London. The West paid for and supplied Saddam's bullets, tanks, gas and germs. He was our regional SOB.
Our hands are very far from clean.
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I cannot fault a single word. Facts, Truth reality. Not quite so black and white as Bush and his neo-con hordes would have you believe. Britain's and America's leaderships are up to there necks in war crimes. From both during the Saddam era and in the way that the Saddam era was brought to an end, our leaders hands are stained with the blood of illegally executed innocents. Why should Saddam be the only one to face any kind of justice?
./ later.
Monday, December 20, 2004
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
OK, this is getting sicker by the day
I used to be very tolerant and sympathetic to ordinary Americans. I personally know several Americans and they are awake and, sort of, thinking, rational human beings. However, lately I have been getting more and more frutrated, hence the open letter below.
Now it is just getting sick. The US military, that bastion of freedom and democracy, upholder and defender of global human rights and dignity and liberator of the oppressed. The US miltary, after destroying fallujah, killing countless thousands and planning to turn it into an electronic prison camp, hasn't done enough damage it seems. They are now dropping 2000lb bombs and cluster bombs.
It seems I missed another meeting, I dunno, but my notification of these meetings must be screwed somewhere. I recall that the Yanks were saying in mid November that they will have the city of Fallujah pacified within a week. When did they withdraw and let the 'insurgent terrorists' back in? Or, no, they couldn't possibly be ....Lying ? or is it the case that, Tony Blair made a political decision to bring the Black watch troops home? ignoring strategic needs on the ground, therefore lying in the commons again. (he promised not to make political decisions on troop deployment), the Americans cannot handle the insurgents on their own? could it? The american troops are, after all, uncommonly stupid. Well that's what happens when you recruited your cannon fodder from the stupidest and poorest parts of society.
I don't know, but the name of the black watch has been blackened badly by becoming accessories to war crimes.
1000 and 2000lb bombs, Cluster bombs, anti personnel bombs, depleted uranium rounds, nalpalm, phosphorous grenades and poison gas have been used in a civillian location that was systematically and deliberately robbed of fresh water, food and medical aid. I cannot think of any act that Saddam did that can be its equal.
Yet the dumb yanks keep-a-cheerin' and a hollering for their war-criminal, president-coward-thief religious fundementalist psycho.
I am still waiting for any american to be able to explain to me how it is OK for their troops to commit war crimes? And how this is somehow better for the Iraqis? or how it is even just, given that:
Iraq never attacked America.
Iraq was never likely to attack America.
US/UK Intelligence services knew Iraq was not a threat.
Secret offices in Washington / London created false information about Iraq's WMD.
Iraq had no ties to AL Queda (a western created and funded organisation).
Iraq had nothing to do with September 11th.
Iraqis were hoping for freedom and liberty and have been robbed of their assets, sold into multinationalist slavery, given starvation, disease, mutilation and death.
Gee it's nice to know we are the good guys,
When will they ever learn?
./ later
Now it is just getting sick. The US military, that bastion of freedom and democracy, upholder and defender of global human rights and dignity and liberator of the oppressed. The US miltary, after destroying fallujah, killing countless thousands and planning to turn it into an electronic prison camp, hasn't done enough damage it seems. They are now dropping 2000lb bombs and cluster bombs.
It seems I missed another meeting, I dunno, but my notification of these meetings must be screwed somewhere. I recall that the Yanks were saying in mid November that they will have the city of Fallujah pacified within a week. When did they withdraw and let the 'insurgent terrorists' back in? Or, no, they couldn't possibly be ....Lying ? or is it the case that, Tony Blair made a political decision to bring the Black watch troops home? ignoring strategic needs on the ground, therefore lying in the commons again. (he promised not to make political decisions on troop deployment), the Americans cannot handle the insurgents on their own? could it? The american troops are, after all, uncommonly stupid. Well that's what happens when you recruited your cannon fodder from the stupidest and poorest parts of society.
I don't know, but the name of the black watch has been blackened badly by becoming accessories to war crimes.
1000 and 2000lb bombs, Cluster bombs, anti personnel bombs, depleted uranium rounds, nalpalm, phosphorous grenades and poison gas have been used in a civillian location that was systematically and deliberately robbed of fresh water, food and medical aid. I cannot think of any act that Saddam did that can be its equal.
Yet the dumb yanks keep-a-cheerin' and a hollering for their war-criminal, president-coward-thief religious fundementalist psycho.
I am still waiting for any american to be able to explain to me how it is OK for their troops to commit war crimes? And how this is somehow better for the Iraqis? or how it is even just, given that:
Iraq never attacked America.
Iraq was never likely to attack America.
US/UK Intelligence services knew Iraq was not a threat.
Secret offices in Washington / London created false information about Iraq's WMD.
Iraq had no ties to AL Queda (a western created and funded organisation).
Iraq had nothing to do with September 11th.
Iraqis were hoping for freedom and liberty and have been robbed of their assets, sold into multinationalist slavery, given starvation, disease, mutilation and death.
Gee it's nice to know we are the good guys,
" woooooohar, let that tank roll over another sand nigger camel fucker, he had it a comin' anyhow, that's fer 9 1 1 you ragheaded muji you."
When will they ever learn?
./ later
Thursday, December 02, 2004
The ID Card myth.
People should read more Government documents. I have and it's quite revealing. I have read the Identity Cards Bill Rgulatory Impact Assesment (a .pdf document) This is quite illuminating.
First of all, I would like to go on record and say clearly that there are some genuine benefits to the ID card scheme. If it can be implemented without errors and in time and to cost and if the hardware, software and personnel inputting the data work faultlessly and once fully in place and wholy established, It would dramatically reduce ID theft and repeat immigration through multiple ID's and cut down on organised crime through abolishing multiple IDs.
The Problem is, it would have to be fully implemented and according to this document, that means card readers EVERYWHERE!
What does this mean?
For those wanting to see the benefits of this scheme, they will not be apparent for some time because, as the document makes clear, there is no complusion on anyone to carry the card yet, or for anyone to scan the card yet. So you will still have to carry many other forms of ID (passports, driving license, credit cards, utility bills etc) when you wnt to open an account anywhere. All the other benefits of this scheme are nonsense and cannot be realised until the scheme is fully in place.
The government has admitted a 'catch 22' situation here. The ID card scheme will not be a big brother scheme untill fully implemented, but will not have the benefits of the ID scheme either. The crime will not be lessened, because there is no complulsion in the ID card bill. So you won't get the benefits of the ID card until it is a big brother scheme.
But then it will be too late.
Not only will the Government be able to monitor and extinguish organised crime and multiple entry immigration, it will also be able to identify and extinguish any dissent from the population.
Democracy will be dead, there will be no freedom to object other than what freedoms are granted at the whim of Government.
Am I Being Fair?
Of course I am giving the Government too much credit here. It is big business that wants the control, big business that has no interest in competition, or rules. Big multinational business that requires a monopoly and total control.
It is Big Business through the banking system that finances unacknowledged special access programs in the internation intelligence and security services. These people will be exempt from having to have a 'genuine' identity, these are the people that run the largest drug and prostitute organisations and therefore are behind organised crime.
What? Don't believe me? Fine, explain to me how the Taliban destroyed 95% of Afghanistan's opium and heroin production, then the US/UK invaded and took control of the areas that had poppy production stopped and now those areas are producing more heroin than ever??? War on drugs? or war on competition in the illegal drugs empires? Freelancers beware.
So the organised crime that is NOT commited by intelligence services will be destroyed by the ID card scheme, but Organised crime will flourish.
CIA/MI6/MOSSAD/ISI etc. Terrorism will flourish, not smaller scale animal rights acts of terror, but the really big international terrorism of the scale that makes Governments take notice and change course.
This scheme is designed from the outset to abolish the competition from small time criminals to international organised crime, and suppress domestic dissent.
It is, in short, a fascists charter!
First of all, I would like to go on record and say clearly that there are some genuine benefits to the ID card scheme. If it can be implemented without errors and in time and to cost and if the hardware, software and personnel inputting the data work faultlessly and once fully in place and wholy established, It would dramatically reduce ID theft and repeat immigration through multiple ID's and cut down on organised crime through abolishing multiple IDs.
The Problem is, it would have to be fully implemented and according to this document, that means card readers EVERYWHERE!
What does this mean?
- Every transaction monitored, logged and stored in the National Identity Register.
- Your whole existence will be watched and rated by persons unknown.
- This IS a big brother database on steriods
For those wanting to see the benefits of this scheme, they will not be apparent for some time because, as the document makes clear, there is no complusion on anyone to carry the card yet, or for anyone to scan the card yet. So you will still have to carry many other forms of ID (passports, driving license, credit cards, utility bills etc) when you wnt to open an account anywhere. All the other benefits of this scheme are nonsense and cannot be realised until the scheme is fully in place.
The government has admitted a 'catch 22' situation here. The ID card scheme will not be a big brother scheme untill fully implemented, but will not have the benefits of the ID scheme either. The crime will not be lessened, because there is no complulsion in the ID card bill. So you won't get the benefits of the ID card until it is a big brother scheme.
But then it will be too late.
Not only will the Government be able to monitor and extinguish organised crime and multiple entry immigration, it will also be able to identify and extinguish any dissent from the population.
Democracy will be dead, there will be no freedom to object other than what freedoms are granted at the whim of Government.
Am I Being Fair?
Of course I am giving the Government too much credit here. It is big business that wants the control, big business that has no interest in competition, or rules. Big multinational business that requires a monopoly and total control.
It is Big Business through the banking system that finances unacknowledged special access programs in the internation intelligence and security services. These people will be exempt from having to have a 'genuine' identity, these are the people that run the largest drug and prostitute organisations and therefore are behind organised crime.
What? Don't believe me? Fine, explain to me how the Taliban destroyed 95% of Afghanistan's opium and heroin production, then the US/UK invaded and took control of the areas that had poppy production stopped and now those areas are producing more heroin than ever??? War on drugs? or war on competition in the illegal drugs empires? Freelancers beware.
So the organised crime that is NOT commited by intelligence services will be destroyed by the ID card scheme, but Organised crime will flourish.
CIA/MI6/MOSSAD/ISI etc. Terrorism will flourish, not smaller scale animal rights acts of terror, but the really big international terrorism of the scale that makes Governments take notice and change course.
This scheme is designed from the outset to abolish the competition from small time criminals to international organised crime, and suppress domestic dissent.
It is, in short, a fascists charter!
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
What is wrong with the ID card?
*NB This is an open email I have sent to a radio presenter named Polly Garside after I was woken with her opinions as to the greatness of ID cards.
UPDATE*** Polly Garside has radically altered her views since recieving this and many other emails detailng the dangers of a compulsary ID card scheme, linked with diabolical legislation to allow the government lock up anybody without charge or trial for an indefinate period of time.*
Hello Polly,
Please pass this email to your other presenters too.
I always wake up to your show in the morning and normally really enjoy it. However today I was literally horrified by your comments regarding compulsary bio-metric ID cards. Please let me explain why. I am sorry that the explanation is long, but I
have only just scratched the surface.
OK for those who truly and honestly don't understand what is wrong with the compulsary ID card scheme I shall endeaver to outline it's merits and then clearly
demonstrate the real dangers in it's implementation.
The benefits:
It will eliminate credit card fraud. Well it will cut credit card and debit card fraud. The only way to do this is to produce your ID card at every transaction..
This means that every shop, every travel outlet, everyticket outlet everywhere will have to have a bio-metric ID scanner. You will enter your card into the reader and have an eye or a thumb print scan at the same time. This will mean that you and only you will be able to make the transaction. Hey Ho no more credit card fraud. Wooohoo! But in theory only.
You said it would stop underage drinking? It would stop underage people getting served in pubs.
The bad news is it won't stop an older brother/friend buying alchohol for younger people, or stop kids raiding their parents supplies.
The real bad news is, every shop, travelagent, ticket office, box office, pub, club, etc, will have to have a card reader and scanning device.
The Problems of this : The infrastructure is going to cost a fortune and our taxes will have to go up to pay for it. Currently the government are proposing that it
will cost about 3 Billion pounds. Based on previous, large scale infromation technology projects, This Government has not had any success whatsoever in
establishing these projects to time or to budget. I would estimate that the eventual cost would be more like 9-12 Billion pounds. In addition, it will be
buggy, insecure and fail a lot at the start.
The really, really bad part is this, When you make any transaction, your credit/debit card will be swiped, followed by your ID card and this transaction will be
verified with a bio-metric scan. What happens then? The details of this transaction will be stored in a Government database. Why? So that the Government can
protect us from those evil terrorists. How? Well, the Government will be tracking the transactions carried out in the UK and querying these transactions against
risk metrics to build risk profiles. Certain products, books, videos, dvds, website memberships, club memberships organisations, groups, etc, will be
monitored. Purchasing tickets to certain locations or to see certain speakers give lectures will also be monitored.
These transactions will be risk assessed, and a risk profile of you will be created. Any purchases you make, that the Government defines as risky, will raise
your threat risk level. The Government will be looking for purchases that indicate behaviour that may define a threat. That behaviour could be defined as potential
terrorism, potential serious organised crime, or potential political dissidency.
Do you trust the government with your private data? you may not mind them knowing what you buy at the supermarket, but what about those private purchases,
like sex toys, gambling debts, private club memberships. website memberships. How do you know how your personal data will be stored, used, rated or verified? Will it be kept safe? Will the database be hack proof? If you trust the technology, you may as
well publicly publish your full credtit card information on the internet right now!
The future threat to everyone's liberty:
The Home Secretary has already stated that he would like to be able to track terrorists and arrest them before they commit a crime. The ID card is the tool
that will be used to do that.
So you have a situation whereby your transactions are tracked, a profile is created and a threat assessment is built up. Your entitlements will be based on this,
benefits healthcare and pensions will not be available to you unless you have an ID card. If you have an ID card your threat to the national security of the UK
will be assessed and qualified.
Are you a terrorist?
At this point we need to define what a terrorist is. You will not think that you are one, but how do you know? You do not get to define what a terrorist is,
the Government does. What is worse is that future Governments get to ammend and add any definition they like. Is there a single, clear definition of a terrorist?
The Government of the UK has not clearly done this, but the main player in the war on terror has. Thanks to the USAPATRIOT act, passed unread by congress.The USAPATRIOT Act, which stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terroism, was passed hastily and unread by Congress on Oct. 25, 2001 right after the 9-11 tragedy. It is mislabeled as the
USA Patriot Act.
This American draconian legislation has, in Section 802, a definition of domestic terrorism which defines a terrorist act as: "Any action that endangers human life that is a violation of any federal or state law." Pretty vague that.
This law allows the US government to: Search American homes or offices without the owners knowledge. Monitor their internet use, read their e-mail and examine their online purchases. Wiretap their telephone without a court order. Detain them without access to a lawyer and without charging them with a crime. Monitor their political and religious activities. The UK Government has similar legislation planned. It is
called The Civil Contingencies Bill.
The Civil Contingencies Bill allows for the suspension of elections and the restriction on travel and communication. All it takes is for the Government to
declare a state of emergency. What would cause this State of Emergency? A vague reference to terrorist activity is but one instance.
That's a pretty vague definition and it is The governement that creates law. So if a future Government wished to introduce a law you disagreed with, don't think about protesting against it. Your risk rating will increase. Once the ID entitlement card is in place, the Government will then have the power, should it choose to use it, to prevent you from purchasing things or accessing any Government services. It can prevent you from travelling or communicating with anybody. You will have completely
lost all say as to how you spend your own money. Of course it won't be your money. When the cashless society arrives, you will only be able to make purchases on debit or credit cards. so the money that changes hands will be the banks money.
Does this sound anything remotely like freedom to you?
So you will be tracked and if it seems likely that you may intend to commit a crime that risks the life of another person you could be taken and held without charge or trial indefinately. If you disagree with government policy, you may be held as a potential terrorist. If you travel to the wrong place, buy the wrong books, your risk level increases and you are flagged as a potential threat to the Powers That Be.
You will find your entitlements shrinking until one day, You may just disappear.
Sounds like a good definition of a fascist state to me.
You may think, this cannot happen here, we are a democracy, I trust our Government.
Well, remember Hitler was democratically elected too. His minions burned down the Reischtag, which he then blamed on the communists and declared a state of emergency and brought in the enabling act. Always for the protection of the Fatherland. Slowly over time he introduced more and more powers that reduced individual freedom and liberty. The Germans didn't realise what was going on until it was too late. They
were mislead by anti-terrorist propaganda and told that in order to defend Germany, Poland must be invaded to defeat the Communists and to defeat the foreign threat. The rest is history.
When at school we were tought about the great war, the destruction of Germany and the rise of the third reich, We were also told of words that have stuck with me to this day.:
"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"
What would you do if you were in 1930's Germany now? If you knew Hitler was to come to power, what would you do? Are we not faced with a similar possible threat now. The ID card, and the ID chip that will replace it, are the strongest tools in the totalitarian toolkit.
If you trust our Government, then fine. That is your democratic right, but what about a future Government? would you trust Michael Howard with this power? Or any future leader? The power to suspend elections, detain anybody on the suspicion of the intent to commit crime, and the ID card with which to track them.
Remember this is a Government supported by the opposition that deliberately lied to invade a country that was no threat, an invasion that has cost more lives than were taken by the tyrant Saddam Hussien. Innocent women and children have been literally blown to bits, maimed, disfigured and slaughtered. With a Government with such scant regard for human life, even a child's life, how can we trust them to tell the truth on ID cards? or respect our privacy? Who will protect us from their tyranny?
Why do we need it?
Tony Blair has repeatedly before during and after the invasion of Iraq claimed that the invasion will make, us safer.
"We and the world are safer without Saddam Hussein!" he said. Yet in the Queen's speech, "My Government recognises that we live in a time of global uncertainty with an increased threat from international terrorism and organised crime."
Eh? So now we have an "Increased Threat"? Isn't this Tony blair admitting failure in the waronterra and so we have to pay for his immoral policies with reduced liberty?
Once the ID card and the tracking technology is in place, we lose control of what is done with it. The Civil Contingencies Bill, allows the Government carte-blanche to prevent you from exorsising your democratic rights to remove them from office, the
other proposed laws will allow that Government to detain you without proof, evidence, trial or charge.
With laws of this kind seriously being proposed, do you really think the Government is trying to use these laws to protect us from terrorists, or are they going to be used to protect the Government from the people?
Once these tools are in place, we loose the chance to prevent them from being abused. It will be too late.
The ID card does NOT mean tyranny or dictatorship will follow, but once the tracking and entitlement technology is in place, linked with the new laws to track and detain potential threats, then we will then have lost the ability to prevent fascism from taking over.
The totalitarian toolkit will be in place to make it possible for a future leader to take our country into a technologically advanced version of Nazi Germany.
It's too great a price to pay to stop youngsters drinking in pubs.
I cannot think of any other benefit.
It will not stop terrorism.
It will not prevent assylum seekers, but legitimise them.
It will not prevent ID theft, but in the initial stages, make it easier.
As David Blunkett said, "Of course people will produce false ID's to get an ID card, but then they will be stuck with this false ID for life"
What a fantastic way for dangerous criminals to get a whole new clean slate identity all at once.
No! this is too dangerous a measure.
Are we good people or are we going to do nothing?
Each person must decide for themselves.
I say NO to compulsary trackable biometric ID cards!
www.stopidcards.org
UPDATE*** Polly Garside has radically altered her views since recieving this and many other emails detailng the dangers of a compulsary ID card scheme, linked with diabolical legislation to allow the government lock up anybody without charge or trial for an indefinate period of time.*
Hello Polly,
Please pass this email to your other presenters too.
I always wake up to your show in the morning and normally really enjoy it. However today I was literally horrified by your comments regarding compulsary bio-metric ID cards. Please let me explain why. I am sorry that the explanation is long, but I
have only just scratched the surface.
OK for those who truly and honestly don't understand what is wrong with the compulsary ID card scheme I shall endeaver to outline it's merits and then clearly
demonstrate the real dangers in it's implementation.
The benefits:
It will eliminate credit card fraud. Well it will cut credit card and debit card fraud. The only way to do this is to produce your ID card at every transaction..
This means that every shop, every travel outlet, everyticket outlet everywhere will have to have a bio-metric ID scanner. You will enter your card into the reader and have an eye or a thumb print scan at the same time. This will mean that you and only you will be able to make the transaction. Hey Ho no more credit card fraud. Wooohoo! But in theory only.
You said it would stop underage drinking? It would stop underage people getting served in pubs.
The bad news is it won't stop an older brother/friend buying alchohol for younger people, or stop kids raiding their parents supplies.
The real bad news is, every shop, travelagent, ticket office, box office, pub, club, etc, will have to have a card reader and scanning device.
The Problems of this : The infrastructure is going to cost a fortune and our taxes will have to go up to pay for it. Currently the government are proposing that it
will cost about 3 Billion pounds. Based on previous, large scale infromation technology projects, This Government has not had any success whatsoever in
establishing these projects to time or to budget. I would estimate that the eventual cost would be more like 9-12 Billion pounds. In addition, it will be
buggy, insecure and fail a lot at the start.
The really, really bad part is this, When you make any transaction, your credit/debit card will be swiped, followed by your ID card and this transaction will be
verified with a bio-metric scan. What happens then? The details of this transaction will be stored in a Government database. Why? So that the Government can
protect us from those evil terrorists. How? Well, the Government will be tracking the transactions carried out in the UK and querying these transactions against
risk metrics to build risk profiles. Certain products, books, videos, dvds, website memberships, club memberships organisations, groups, etc, will be
monitored. Purchasing tickets to certain locations or to see certain speakers give lectures will also be monitored.
These transactions will be risk assessed, and a risk profile of you will be created. Any purchases you make, that the Government defines as risky, will raise
your threat risk level. The Government will be looking for purchases that indicate behaviour that may define a threat. That behaviour could be defined as potential
terrorism, potential serious organised crime, or potential political dissidency.
Do you trust the government with your private data? you may not mind them knowing what you buy at the supermarket, but what about those private purchases,
like sex toys, gambling debts, private club memberships. website memberships. How do you know how your personal data will be stored, used, rated or verified? Will it be kept safe? Will the database be hack proof? If you trust the technology, you may as
well publicly publish your full credtit card information on the internet right now!
The future threat to everyone's liberty:
The Home Secretary has already stated that he would like to be able to track terrorists and arrest them before they commit a crime. The ID card is the tool
that will be used to do that.
So you have a situation whereby your transactions are tracked, a profile is created and a threat assessment is built up. Your entitlements will be based on this,
benefits healthcare and pensions will not be available to you unless you have an ID card. If you have an ID card your threat to the national security of the UK
will be assessed and qualified.
Are you a terrorist?
At this point we need to define what a terrorist is. You will not think that you are one, but how do you know? You do not get to define what a terrorist is,
the Government does. What is worse is that future Governments get to ammend and add any definition they like. Is there a single, clear definition of a terrorist?
The Government of the UK has not clearly done this, but the main player in the war on terror has. Thanks to the USAPATRIOT act, passed unread by congress.The USAPATRIOT Act, which stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terroism, was passed hastily and unread by Congress on Oct. 25, 2001 right after the 9-11 tragedy. It is mislabeled as the
USA Patriot Act.
This American draconian legislation has, in Section 802, a definition of domestic terrorism which defines a terrorist act as: "Any action that endangers human life that is a violation of any federal or state law." Pretty vague that.
This law allows the US government to: Search American homes or offices without the owners knowledge. Monitor their internet use, read their e-mail and examine their online purchases. Wiretap their telephone without a court order. Detain them without access to a lawyer and without charging them with a crime. Monitor their political and religious activities. The UK Government has similar legislation planned. It is
called The Civil Contingencies Bill.
The Civil Contingencies Bill allows for the suspension of elections and the restriction on travel and communication. All it takes is for the Government to
declare a state of emergency. What would cause this State of Emergency? A vague reference to terrorist activity is but one instance.
That's a pretty vague definition and it is The governement that creates law. So if a future Government wished to introduce a law you disagreed with, don't think about protesting against it. Your risk rating will increase. Once the ID entitlement card is in place, the Government will then have the power, should it choose to use it, to prevent you from purchasing things or accessing any Government services. It can prevent you from travelling or communicating with anybody. You will have completely
lost all say as to how you spend your own money. Of course it won't be your money. When the cashless society arrives, you will only be able to make purchases on debit or credit cards. so the money that changes hands will be the banks money.
Does this sound anything remotely like freedom to you?
So you will be tracked and if it seems likely that you may intend to commit a crime that risks the life of another person you could be taken and held without charge or trial indefinately. If you disagree with government policy, you may be held as a potential terrorist. If you travel to the wrong place, buy the wrong books, your risk level increases and you are flagged as a potential threat to the Powers That Be.
You will find your entitlements shrinking until one day, You may just disappear.
Sounds like a good definition of a fascist state to me.
You may think, this cannot happen here, we are a democracy, I trust our Government.
Well, remember Hitler was democratically elected too. His minions burned down the Reischtag, which he then blamed on the communists and declared a state of emergency and brought in the enabling act. Always for the protection of the Fatherland. Slowly over time he introduced more and more powers that reduced individual freedom and liberty. The Germans didn't realise what was going on until it was too late. They
were mislead by anti-terrorist propaganda and told that in order to defend Germany, Poland must be invaded to defeat the Communists and to defeat the foreign threat. The rest is history.
When at school we were tought about the great war, the destruction of Germany and the rise of the third reich, We were also told of words that have stuck with me to this day.:
"All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"
What would you do if you were in 1930's Germany now? If you knew Hitler was to come to power, what would you do? Are we not faced with a similar possible threat now. The ID card, and the ID chip that will replace it, are the strongest tools in the totalitarian toolkit.
If you trust our Government, then fine. That is your democratic right, but what about a future Government? would you trust Michael Howard with this power? Or any future leader? The power to suspend elections, detain anybody on the suspicion of the intent to commit crime, and the ID card with which to track them.
Remember this is a Government supported by the opposition that deliberately lied to invade a country that was no threat, an invasion that has cost more lives than were taken by the tyrant Saddam Hussien. Innocent women and children have been literally blown to bits, maimed, disfigured and slaughtered. With a Government with such scant regard for human life, even a child's life, how can we trust them to tell the truth on ID cards? or respect our privacy? Who will protect us from their tyranny?
Why do we need it?
Tony Blair has repeatedly before during and after the invasion of Iraq claimed that the invasion will make, us safer.
"We and the world are safer without Saddam Hussein!" he said. Yet in the Queen's speech, "My Government recognises that we live in a time of global uncertainty with an increased threat from international terrorism and organised crime."
Eh? So now we have an "Increased Threat"? Isn't this Tony blair admitting failure in the waronterra and so we have to pay for his immoral policies with reduced liberty?
Once the ID card and the tracking technology is in place, we lose control of what is done with it. The Civil Contingencies Bill, allows the Government carte-blanche to prevent you from exorsising your democratic rights to remove them from office, the
other proposed laws will allow that Government to detain you without proof, evidence, trial or charge.
With laws of this kind seriously being proposed, do you really think the Government is trying to use these laws to protect us from terrorists, or are they going to be used to protect the Government from the people?
Once these tools are in place, we loose the chance to prevent them from being abused. It will be too late.
The ID card does NOT mean tyranny or dictatorship will follow, but once the tracking and entitlement technology is in place, linked with the new laws to track and detain potential threats, then we will then have lost the ability to prevent fascism from taking over.
The totalitarian toolkit will be in place to make it possible for a future leader to take our country into a technologically advanced version of Nazi Germany.
It's too great a price to pay to stop youngsters drinking in pubs.
I cannot think of any other benefit.
It will not stop terrorism.
It will not prevent assylum seekers, but legitimise them.
It will not prevent ID theft, but in the initial stages, make it easier.
As David Blunkett said, "Of course people will produce false ID's to get an ID card, but then they will be stuck with this false ID for life"
What a fantastic way for dangerous criminals to get a whole new clean slate identity all at once.
No! this is too dangerous a measure.
Are we good people or are we going to do nothing?
Each person must decide for themselves.
I say NO to compulsary trackable biometric ID cards!
www.stopidcards.org
Friday, November 12, 2004
Fallujah war crimes.
Ok, Now that the US (supported by Bush puppy) are commiting wholesale slaughter in Fallujah, bombing clinics, and stopping food, water and medicines from getting to civillians, let's review WHY we went into Iraq in the first place. and check for what parts of those reasons still stand up to scrutiny.
1. Saddam had and was re-building his WMD stocks,
[NO HE DIDN'T, WASN'T BUT THE US IS].
2. Saddam killed thousands of his own people.
[YUP, BUT NOW SO HAVE THE AMERICANS, IN FACT AT A FASTER RATE THAN SADDAM COULD DO IT TOO]
3. Saddam used poisonous gas and illegal weapons on his own people
[The US have used radioactive depleted uranium and napalm on Iraqi civillians]
3.1 Saddam used poison gas on his own people.
[ONE WORD...... WACO!!! WOMEN & CHILDREN GASSED WITH A GAS THAT'S ILLEGAL TO USE IN WARTIME]
4. Saddam had relationships with Alqueda.
[NO HE DIDN'T, BUT BUSH HAS ESTABLISHED BUSINESS INTERESTS AND INTELLIGENCE TIES WITH THE BIN LADEN FAMILY AND BUSH SNR HELPED ESTABLISH BIN LADEN IN AFGHANISTAN]
5. The US are bringing stability and democracy to Iraq.
[NOPE, THEY HAVE BROUGHT CIVIL DISASTER AND FAMINE IN FALLUJAH AND EVERYWHERE ELSE THE US GOES IN IRAQ. AND DEMOCRACY? DONT MAKE ME LAUGH. BUSH HAS NEVER BEEN DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED. HE HAS STOLEN 2 ELECTIONS AND IS A COURT APPOINTED RELIGIOUS FUNDEMENTALIST FASCIST FUCKWIT DESERTING COWARD THIEF WITH AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX MIXED WITH MESSIANIC TENDANCIES ATTRIBUTING TO HIS MEGLOMANIACAL OUTBURTS AND PARANOID DELUSIONAL PSYCHOTIC EPISODES]
Are the WAR CRIMINAL bush cabal developing their illegal, immoral and evil foreign policy by looking in a mirror?
IMPEACH THE BASTARDS!!!
1. Saddam had and was re-building his WMD stocks,
[NO HE DIDN'T, WASN'T BUT THE US IS].
2. Saddam killed thousands of his own people.
[YUP, BUT NOW SO HAVE THE AMERICANS, IN FACT AT A FASTER RATE THAN SADDAM COULD DO IT TOO]
3. Saddam used poisonous gas and illegal weapons on his own people
[The US have used radioactive depleted uranium and napalm on Iraqi civillians]
3.1 Saddam used poison gas on his own people.
[ONE WORD...... WACO!!! WOMEN & CHILDREN GASSED WITH A GAS THAT'S ILLEGAL TO USE IN WARTIME]
4. Saddam had relationships with Alqueda.
[NO HE DIDN'T, BUT BUSH HAS ESTABLISHED BUSINESS INTERESTS AND INTELLIGENCE TIES WITH THE BIN LADEN FAMILY AND BUSH SNR HELPED ESTABLISH BIN LADEN IN AFGHANISTAN]
5. The US are bringing stability and democracy to Iraq.
[NOPE, THEY HAVE BROUGHT CIVIL DISASTER AND FAMINE IN FALLUJAH AND EVERYWHERE ELSE THE US GOES IN IRAQ. AND DEMOCRACY? DONT MAKE ME LAUGH. BUSH HAS NEVER BEEN DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED. HE HAS STOLEN 2 ELECTIONS AND IS A COURT APPOINTED RELIGIOUS FUNDEMENTALIST FASCIST FUCKWIT DESERTING COWARD THIEF WITH AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX MIXED WITH MESSIANIC TENDANCIES ATTRIBUTING TO HIS MEGLOMANIACAL OUTBURTS AND PARANOID DELUSIONAL PSYCHOTIC EPISODES]
Are the WAR CRIMINAL bush cabal developing their illegal, immoral and evil foreign policy by looking in a mirror?
IMPEACH THE BASTARDS!!!
Thursday, November 04, 2004
OK so the data is in, now we know the president didn't win the election, but he had it handed to him by the electronic voting machines - NOT the voters.
Kerry Has not lost this election yet, The electoral colleges in Ohio and Florida should give thier votes to Kerry, there is plenty of evidence that there was vote fraud in Ohio and Florida. I am not endorsing John 'the NWO bitch' Kerry, but the will of the people should be respected.
So to all those who did not vote for Bush, I am sorry for you. There is ample evidence that the electiona was stolen by the Bush Cabal, aided and abettet by the Skull and Bones Brother Kerry. He quit way to easily, and before the mainstream media had to examine the inconsistancies in the polls and the votes.
The republican candidates in several areas all got 18181 votes. From VOXFUX:
The exit polls in districts with an audit trail were accurate to 1% - 0.1%
The exit polls in districts with electronically counted votes and no paper trail all were out by on average 5%
The results in those districts all swung to the president but not in the districts with an auditable paper trail.
What are the odds of only the paperless districts being wrong? multiply those by the odds that all those that are wrong all go to Bush? When Diebold chief promised on the record that he would help Bush get re-elected.
That is more than mere chance.
The election was stolen. The USA is STILL lead by an unelected religious fundamentalist dipshit and a neo-con cabal who create policy based on paranoid-delusional fantasy and a meglomanic massianic psychosis.
It is time to impeach and seek justice for the tens of thousands of innocents killed by the effects of neo-con lies.
The power of nightmares
Al queda was invented by America. Bin Laden was a rich, but powerless leader of a rag-tag bunch of no-hopers and is probably already dead. There is more chance of being injured or killed by ants, than by Al queda terrorists. Not one court case has found anyone guilty, of being a member of or planning or committing terror on behalf of Al Queda, based on verifiable facts. The military in Afghanistan searched all the caves and found empty caves or odd stacks of old, kalashnikovs or AK47's. Al queda was nowhere to be found. because they never existed. Bin Laden merely funded odd terrorist groups and freedom fighters fighting their own tyrannies.
It is a long established Straussian tactic to manufacture fake threats to manipulate others. The fiction surrounding 911 and Al Queda are the greatest lies ever told (next to the banking scam) and those liars that told them have stolen democracy from the American people. They have given you tyranny, oppression and slavery.
It took Hitler many years from the reichstag fire to the culmination of his evil to become apparent. from 1933 to 1939, he was lauded as a strong, charismatic and honorable leader throughout Europe and the world. Even so it took him six years to become a recognised tyrant. America has had three, so far. How much worse can it get in the next four?
I shouldn't compare Bush to Hitler as there are several major differences:
What if the wider public realise this and realise the depths of the lies and the real powerlessness of their leaders? They only have power if you grant them it! They have no more visions of great futures and no power to carry them out and in order to stay feasting at their trough's they must frighten their populations' into submission.
When the realisation that you do not need them to protect you from the outside threat, because that threat is a lie, you will also realise that they have no real power either. Only the power of illusion, without falsehood, illusion is nothing.
They are building the defences of America, not against the evil global network of terrorists, Al Queda, but against the American people. Why? Because they know, that once they are rumbled stealing and raping your nation, the mass outrage will likely foment another revolution. Why do you think Bliar is so close to Bush? Bush represents the British aristocracy and their attempt to steal back the USA. This plan has long roots, from Cecil Rhodes through the Round table groups, the Royal Institute on international affairs, to the CFR, Trilateral comission, Bilderbergers, the highest rites of Masonry, and many other Lucifarian organisations, to your resident in thief.
Your 'common touch cowboy Bush' is a British imperial spy and thief. Your country is being plundered and the rednecks are a hollerin' anda cheerin' him on!! "We love Bush, he's sounds as dumb as us wooooohooooo"
A member of the global elite sounding like a common cowboy? German spies in the 1940's sounded like the english. It's how spies and sabatuers always act, like their victims, it's their job.
Bush a commoner? How many cowboys or ranch-hands do you know that also went to Yale and were initiated into the skull and bones and have shared interests and bank account at Coutts Bank with the Queen of England?
The global elite are lying to you to steal your Country and enslave you. Why? The British lost overt control of the American colony when King George went mad due to arsenic poisoning, and so have had to attempt to maintain control covertly through freemasonry. The underlying aim ever since has been to win back the prized colony for the British. The British are close to acheiving this. They are using lies and deceit to terrorise the American free spirit into submission.
The Al queda comminique's come from Islamic groups in London. The hooked handed islamic extremist, Abu Hamza, wanted by the Americans has been arrested by the British, because he is a British agent and the British do not want him falling into the hands of the American courts and revealing the deception which is all part of the grand delusion.
The emperor has no clothes. They piss on our boots and tell us it's raining. the frightening part is how many people reach for umbrella's.
Wise up! Wake up! and Shake up. Before it truly is too late.
BTW, we are still trying to impeach bLiar.
Later.
Kerry Has not lost this election yet, The electoral colleges in Ohio and Florida should give thier votes to Kerry, there is plenty of evidence that there was vote fraud in Ohio and Florida. I am not endorsing John 'the NWO bitch' Kerry, but the will of the people should be respected.
So to all those who did not vote for Bush, I am sorry for you. There is ample evidence that the electiona was stolen by the Bush Cabal, aided and abettet by the Skull and Bones Brother Kerry. He quit way to easily, and before the mainstream media had to examine the inconsistancies in the polls and the votes.
The republican candidates in several areas all got 18181 votes. From VOXFUX:
TEXAS REPUBLICANS DANNY SCHEEL, CARTER CASTEEL and JEFF WENTWORTH ALL RECIEVED EXACTLY THE SAME NUMBER OF VOTES - 18,181............TIME TO WAKE UP........... THE CHANCES OF ALL THREE GETTING THE EXACT SAME NUMBER OF VOTES IS ON THE ORDER OF MILLIONS TO ONE - YET THE CORPORATE MEDIA REFUSES TO REPORT THIS FACT.......... BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE..............TURNS OUT THAT MICHIGAN REPUBLICAN CANDICE MILLER BEAT HER DEMOCRATIC OPPONENT - SHE GOT 18,181 VOTES.....HMMMMM.....AND REPUBLICAN MICHAEL SMIGIEL FROM MARYLAND BEAT HIS CHALLENGER - CAN YOU GUESS HOW MANY VOTES HE GOT? YOU GUESSED IT - 18,181
The exit polls in districts with an audit trail were accurate to 1% - 0.1%
The exit polls in districts with electronically counted votes and no paper trail all were out by on average 5%
The results in those districts all swung to the president but not in the districts with an auditable paper trail.
What are the odds of only the paperless districts being wrong? multiply those by the odds that all those that are wrong all go to Bush? When Diebold chief promised on the record that he would help Bush get re-elected.
That is more than mere chance.
The election was stolen. The USA is STILL lead by an unelected religious fundamentalist dipshit and a neo-con cabal who create policy based on paranoid-delusional fantasy and a meglomanic massianic psychosis.
It is time to impeach and seek justice for the tens of thousands of innocents killed by the effects of neo-con lies.
The power of nightmares
Al queda was invented by America. Bin Laden was a rich, but powerless leader of a rag-tag bunch of no-hopers and is probably already dead. There is more chance of being injured or killed by ants, than by Al queda terrorists. Not one court case has found anyone guilty, of being a member of or planning or committing terror on behalf of Al Queda, based on verifiable facts. The military in Afghanistan searched all the caves and found empty caves or odd stacks of old, kalashnikovs or AK47's. Al queda was nowhere to be found. because they never existed. Bin Laden merely funded odd terrorist groups and freedom fighters fighting their own tyrannies.
It is a long established Straussian tactic to manufacture fake threats to manipulate others. The fiction surrounding 911 and Al Queda are the greatest lies ever told (next to the banking scam) and those liars that told them have stolen democracy from the American people. They have given you tyranny, oppression and slavery.
It took Hitler many years from the reichstag fire to the culmination of his evil to become apparent. from 1933 to 1939, he was lauded as a strong, charismatic and honorable leader throughout Europe and the world. Even so it took him six years to become a recognised tyrant. America has had three, so far. How much worse can it get in the next four?
I shouldn't compare Bush to Hitler as there are several major differences:
- Hitler was democratically elected, whereas Bush cannot verify that he ever was.
- Hitler saw active military duty in wartime, Bush chickened out and fled, during wartime, going AWOL and becoming a deserter.
- Hitler (part funded by Bush money) built a nation from rubble into a might global power. Whereas Bush is taking a great nation and through debt and deception, running it aground
- Hitler was intelligent
What if the wider public realise this and realise the depths of the lies and the real powerlessness of their leaders? They only have power if you grant them it! They have no more visions of great futures and no power to carry them out and in order to stay feasting at their trough's they must frighten their populations' into submission.
When the realisation that you do not need them to protect you from the outside threat, because that threat is a lie, you will also realise that they have no real power either. Only the power of illusion, without falsehood, illusion is nothing.
They are building the defences of America, not against the evil global network of terrorists, Al Queda, but against the American people. Why? Because they know, that once they are rumbled stealing and raping your nation, the mass outrage will likely foment another revolution. Why do you think Bliar is so close to Bush? Bush represents the British aristocracy and their attempt to steal back the USA. This plan has long roots, from Cecil Rhodes through the Round table groups, the Royal Institute on international affairs, to the CFR, Trilateral comission, Bilderbergers, the highest rites of Masonry, and many other Lucifarian organisations, to your resident in thief.
Your 'common touch cowboy Bush' is a British imperial spy and thief. Your country is being plundered and the rednecks are a hollerin' anda cheerin' him on!! "We love Bush, he's sounds as dumb as us wooooohooooo"
A member of the global elite sounding like a common cowboy? German spies in the 1940's sounded like the english. It's how spies and sabatuers always act, like their victims, it's their job.
Bush a commoner? How many cowboys or ranch-hands do you know that also went to Yale and were initiated into the skull and bones and have shared interests and bank account at Coutts Bank with the Queen of England?
The global elite are lying to you to steal your Country and enslave you. Why? The British lost overt control of the American colony when King George went mad due to arsenic poisoning, and so have had to attempt to maintain control covertly through freemasonry. The underlying aim ever since has been to win back the prized colony for the British. The British are close to acheiving this. They are using lies and deceit to terrorise the American free spirit into submission.
The Al queda comminique's come from Islamic groups in London. The hooked handed islamic extremist, Abu Hamza, wanted by the Americans has been arrested by the British, because he is a British agent and the British do not want him falling into the hands of the American courts and revealing the deception which is all part of the grand delusion.
The emperor has no clothes. They piss on our boots and tell us it's raining. the frightening part is how many people reach for umbrella's.
Wise up! Wake up! and Shake up. Before it truly is too late.
BTW, we are still trying to impeach bLiar.
Later.
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