>>http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/09/27/MN181034.DTL
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>>A federal "No Fly" list, intended to keep terrorists from boarding planes, is snaring peace activists at San Francisco International and other U. S. airports, triggering complaints that civil liberties are being trampled.
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>>In addition, I know that many people involved with the Green political party are on the list to be automatically searched at the airport and that has been going on since 9/11/01 as well.
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>I'm getting to think the main reason CIA has left Milosevic so long in power was to study his tricks as long as possible. The exactly same thing happened back home - the police handbook had listed the Green, the activists against nuclear plants, and various NGOs as 'groups collaborating with enemy, often engaged in terrorist activities'.
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>And the media filtering was close to 100% then; they managed to hide 100000 people protesting day after day for a whole month before they confessed they exist. They even had shot weather reports from the same location at the same time, but showed the fog between the top floors of surrounding buildings. Didn't mention about 150000 (estimated for that day) which would have been seen if only they allowed the camera to go a little down.
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>Boy, do I feel at home...


A feeling brought to you and us by the PATRIOT ACT.
That piece of legislation ranks along side of FDR signing a presidential decree, which violated the Census act, allowing Americans with Japanese phenotypes to be imprisioned in concentration camps in the desert for the duration of WWII. The powers it gives the President (who happens to be Bush but could be the next guy) make that office so close to a dictatorship the differnce is hard to distinguish.
JLK