] "The government is trying to paint a picture of
] terrorism, but these dentists, lawyers and high-tech
] workers are not the terrorists," she said. "Not the ones
] who willingly go the INS office for a six-hour
] registration process."

Fallout from last month's mass detention... 3 Canadians working in Silicon Valley were detained for a week because they got their dates screwed up. INS is catching a fair amount of hell in the press.

[ American Racism at work. --Rek ]

3 tech workers freed after INS detention / Bay Area men face deportation hearings

This book is a MUST read for anyone who wants to understand the power structure and how it works via the media in America. It's right up there with Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky, but supplies specific anecdotal evidence of real life suppression and how it works.

The journalists involved in these experiences are from the mainstream: CBS, CNN, Associated Press, Reuters, etc, and none were particularly radical before personally encountering the censorship mechanisms of the power elite, which is what makes the book so fascinating.

Give a shit. Care. Get involved. Read this book.

18 Tales of Media Censorship : Into the Buzzsaw

Is it just me or does racism keep in America just keep charging ahead at full steam.

From a flyer recently handed out on the U.C. Davis KKKampus:

Special Registration Now Expanded to Include Armenia, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia

In an effort to keep you up to date with respect to the INS Special Call-In Registration requirement, SISS is sending out this information. In a notice published in the Federal Register on December 16, 2002, nonimmigrant males aged 16 or older from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Armenia who entered the U.S. on or before September 30, 2002 must appear at an INS office for NSEERS registration between January 13, 2003 and February 21, 2003. Please note that although we are attempting to notify individual international students or scholars personally, we want to make sure that this information is available to others who might also be impacted by this requirement. If you have any questions or concerns regarding these requirements, please contact SISS at 752-0864 or e-mail us at siss@ucdavis.edu

INS has made detailed information regarding the special registration
requirements available on its Web site at: http://www.ins.gov (click on special registration)

Requires nonimmigrant aliens who meet all of the following criteria to appear before an immigration officer on or before February 21, 2003 for registration in the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS):

* Males born on or before January 13, 1987;
* Nationals or citizens of Armenia, Pakistan, or Saudi Arabia;
* Last admitted to the U.S. on or before September 30, 2002 and will remain in the U.S. after February 21, 2003.

Wow a movie. Dissenting was never so easy and fun! (except maybe in the sixties when you got to have group sex after the protest.)

Watch it damnit.

[ Originally from the Swater man... --Rek ]

American Civil Liberties Union : Total Information Awareness: Watch the ACLU's New Flash Movie

Rattle wrote:
] Disturbing article about a provision of the No Child Left
] Behind Act, which forces public secondary schools to give
] military recruiters the names and addresses of attending
] students or get their federal aid cut. An act that lives up to
] its title.

Some choice pieces of this article:

] 'The military complained this year that up to 15 percent
] of the nation's high schools are "problem schools" for
] recruiters. In 1999, the Pentagon says, recruiters were
] denied access to 19,228 schools. Rep. David Vitter, a
] Republican from Louisiana who sponsored the new
] recruitment requirement, says such schools "demonstrated
] an anti-military attitude that I thought was offensive."
] ...
] Recruiters are up-front about their plans to use school
] lists to aggressively pursue students through mailings,
] phone calls, and personal visits -- even if parents
] object. "The only thing that will get us to stop
] contacting the family is if they call their congressman,"
] says Major Johannes Paraan, head U.S. Army recruiter for
] Vermont and northeastern New York. "Or maybe if the kid
] died, we'll take them off our list." '

BTW, it is now Anti-American (implied) to be a pacifist. You are with us or against us. Three little words:

Hitler Youth Corp

Witness the slow regression of your country.

RE: Military Demanding Names of Children

Hurray! Just when I thought it was all going to hell in a hand-basket there is a bright ray of sunshine. Now if only people would understand what a crock it is to have to pledge allegiance to any particular nation at all (much less a god). . .

CNN.com - Pledge of Allegiance ruled unconstitutional - June 26, 2002

Visitors subject to the increased scrutiny will be from countries considered by the United States to be sponsors of terrorism and other unspecified nations that critics said are likely to be Middle Eastern.

The beginnings of fascism in the U.S.? I really can't believe how stupid this is. It's been said before by others, but now I believe it: Ashcroft is a full-on Nazi.

Yahoo! News - U.S. Unveils Fingerprint Plan, Angers Arab Groups

If you haven't already please take the time to sign the Anti-DMCA petition.

Abolish the Digital Millenium Copyright Act Petition

http://www.aclu.org/news/2002/n031802a.html "

ACLU Press Release: 04-10-02 -- ACLU Joins Broad Coalition in Constitutional Challenge to Campaign Finance Law

This is just fucking criminal.

Rising Fears That What We Do Know Can Hurt Us