At 8:38 PM -0700 10/5/98, John Young wrote:

We offer Amnesty International's devastating critique of US human rights violations, due to be released in hardcopy tomorrow:

http://jya.com/usa-rfa.htm (365K)

It recounts in voluminous, documented, gruesome detail what American justice is truly like in prisons, jails, precinct houses, on the highways and in the streets.

After this it's going to difficult for the US to preach human rights violations to other countries.

By the way, "The New Yorker" on the newstands has a major article by Seymour Hersh explaining why many experts think the U.S. bombing of the "nerve gas factory" [sic] in Khartoum was unjustified, and the bombings of the Afghan sites were unproductive (even if possibly more justifiable). And there was a report I saw flying by on this list or on the Usenet to the effect that several of the top military commanders who should have been consulted were not, and that Louis Freeh, who was in Nairobi on the investigation, was not consulted. (I don't know how credible this report is.)' Many nations have condemned the "cowboy antics." (Normally I'm not too sympathetic to charges that the U.S. is behaving like a "cowboy," but in this case it appears to be an apt description.) If it turns out that Clinton acted rashly to escape his own Cigargate problems, and that the normal chains of command were bypassed, then his head will really roll. We may have to actually hang the fucker for high treason. (Though I guess the new PC method is lethal injection.) The "Wag the Dog II" war in Albania (coincidence?) is just icing on the cake. --Tim May Y2K: A good chance to reformat America's hard drive and empty the trash. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.