At 06:03 PM 9/12/95 -0400, Brian Davis wrote:
Unbelievable!!! To add to this distressing truth, I have learned that the White House also subscribes to a number of newspapers and periodicals which are reviewed for things of interest to the Administration and to the President. I I I I I I ammmmmmmmmm shocked!
The government, as you no doubt know, sometimes operates under different rules. Thus when the "Red Squad" (Intelligence Division) of the New York City Police (located in that big building on the North side of Vandam between Greenwich and Houston BTW) was sued for maintaining files on "lawful protest groups" they entered into a consent agreement to refrain from this sort of thing. Later, the courts said that this agreement meant that the cops couldn't even listen to WLIB radio (NYC's favorite radical African-American station) to find out in advance where rallies were going to be. Since the White House is doing this reading of sites with public funds and since that institution is the most powerful in the world --- it can nuke its enemies, for example --- people are naturally interested to discover if they are the subject of an investigation. This is a demonstration of the unintended effect of electronic surveillance technology. The fact is that it can do more harm to the authorities than to the public. The Nixon Tapes/The Thompson Square Park Riot Video/The Rodney King Video. Since those in power are more interesting than ordinary people, they represent a more "target-rich environment." Information about their activities has greater commercial value and is thus more likely to see the light of day. DCF "There are more of us than there are of you."