We've transcribed the Euro-Parliament STOA report, "An Appraisal of the Technologies of Political Control," 6 January 1998, a portion of which was offered earlier by Axel Horns and Ulf Möller. http://jya.com/stoa-atpc.htm (295K text + 210K images) Zipped version: http://jya.com/stoa-atpc.zip (314K) It's a grim assessment, revealing more than most of us want to face about the dark side of high technology, especially what the most technologically advanced nations are deploying, and building to sell to the worst of humanity, and how export laws are flaunted to cut criminal deals in defiance of high-minded law and public policy. It demonstrates that he national security heritage continues, sharing military technology with governmental outlaws around the globe. And the US is leading the market. It would be cathartic for this report was widely read, pondered, then acted upon, in the US and globally. Kudos to the European Parliament for sponsoring it. And congratulations to the authors and the beleaguered organizations who've been trying for years to diminish this over civilized madness, to jolt us out of techno-narcosis. There's much in the report that's been discussed here, and much more that has not but deserves to be. The full report is 112 pages, 50 pages of main body, 13 pages of notes and 25 pages of bibliography. We've not yet transcribed the detailed bibliography. As noted earlier, the contents are: Abstract Executive Summary Acknowledgements Tables and Charts 1 Introduction 2 Role and Function of Political Control Technologies 3 Recent Trends and Innovations 4 Developments in Surveillance Technology 5 Innovations in Crowd Control Weapons 6 New Prison Control Systems 7 Interrogation, Torture Techniques and Technologies 8 Regulation of Horizontal Proliferation 9 Conclusions 10 Notes and References 11 Bibliography [Not yet transcribed] Appendix 1. Military, Security & Police Fairs. [Not provided with report]