- In the 21st Century, the right to communicate is an apparent
outgrowth and update of the rights, privileges, and immunities enumerated
in the 18th Century U.S. Constitution and Bills of Rights.
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- How would Americans know when and where to assemble,
with fellow citizens, to picket and parade For War or Against War?
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- How would Americans go about petitioning for redress
of grievances, if they could not call up the office of their Congress person
and express an opinion for or against some proposed or pending legislation?
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- What Freedom of the Press would Americans have, if they
could not effectively use their phone lines to send out news bulletins,
by fax or e-mail, to fellow Americans on their address lists?
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- Starting at least in the 1960s and 1970s, a period of
protest against the perceived unconstitutional Viet Nam War and denial
of fundamental Civil Rights to blacks, the phone companies secretly connived
with the secret political police, like the FBI, In the nations heartland
and elsewhere. A leading devil, typical of others nationwide, was Illinois
Bell Telephone Company, headquartered in Chicago.
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- Under the pretext of "quality control" and
"clear phone lines", Illinois Bell had a clandestine department
of operators listening and noting the conversations of leading peaceniks
and civil rights protesters.
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- In advance of a peace parade or civil rights protest
march near a courthouse, the organizers and parade marshals often found
they could not phone each other. The bosses of Illinois Bell gave easy
and illegal secret access to the phone companies windowless, supposedly
highly secure facilities.
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- Petitioners seeking redress of grievances found they
could dial up others, but it would not actually contact the phone of others.
Agents of the local police "Red Squad" (started originally in
big city police departments nationwide on the false idea all protesters
were "Communists") and the FBI, aided by certain Illinois Bell
supervisors, fixed the phones of "trouble-makers" so it would
be "an open line" or would connect to a useless phone.
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- Another dirty trick of the secret political police, aided
by pliable and corrupt Illinois Bell personnel, was to arrange a recorded
false report message "the number you are calling has been disconnected.
No further information is available".
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- If you reported the phone trouble to "Repair Department",
you would be put through a phone company bureaucratic song-and-dance, with
no restoration of service until after the protest parade or event. The
phone company warned their employees that they are to never, never, never
admit that anyone's phone service has been sabotaged by the "Red Squad"
and the FBI. Proof of the sabotage, however, later came out in court and
other public tribunals.
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- Also later made known publicly was that Illinois Bell's
Security Department boss was himself in charge of arranging the sabotaging
of the phones of political activists. Phone operators were warned they
must not give out the phone number of the Security Department as if it
did not exist.
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- In the 1970s, a Chicago Alderman headed a committee of
the City Council. He announced he was going to bring out by public hearings
the illegal activities of Illinois Bell Telephone Company including their
illegal wiretapping of phones. Part of the scheduled inquiry was apparently
going to be that top officials of Illinois Bell were part of political
campaign committees and these officials sabotaged the phones of political
opponents.
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- As Chairman of the City Council committee, the Alderman
was just starting the public hearings when Illinois Bell bosses brought
the hearings to a quick end. They secretly made available a multi-million
dollar sweetheart contract to a firm owned by the Alderman. Now just as
years ago, phone company bosses on occasion use pay-offs to get what they
want out of city, county, state, and federal officials. Several years ago,
the telecommunications industry bought Congress to get a favorable new
law.
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- On occasion, state public utility regulators as well
as State and Federal Judges are "for sale" to phone companies
across the land. Those who regulate public stock issuances by phone companies
and others, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, can grant favored
treatment for a sum under the table.
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- Has everyone forgot that in December,1969, Illinois
Bell Telephone Company bosses made their company trucks available to a
group of Chicago police trained by the American CIA, and under disguise
as if a phone company crew, at 4 a.m. in the morning broke into the residence
of Illinois Black Panther Party Chief Fred Hampton, and while he was asleep
with his wife, machine-gunned him to death and wounded his pregnant wife?
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- Tight with Illinois Bell bosses and the American CIA,
CBS' Chicago unit, WBBM-TV, Channel 2, went on the air with a completely
fraudulent story seeking to justify the murder of Fred Hampton and Fred
Clark, another Panther official.
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- By 1969, organized in Chicago was a group of 25,000 members,
all of them Black, of the Southside Contract Buyers League. They were protesting
that certain Chicago neighborhoods were "red-lined", meaning
mortgages were not to be issued in such all-black resident areas. The
Afro-Americans had no choice but to seek to be a home buyer, buying "on
contract" not mortgage, and paying twice the appraised value price
of poorly built houses on extremely narrow lots.
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- The blacks organized a payment boycott which would have
driven under several banks. The Cook County Sheriff Joseph Woods (brother
of Nixon's secretary Rosemary Woods who wiped out the infamous 18 and one
half minute Nixon tape) was given the task of throwing all the Buyers League
members on the street. To start with, hooligans working for the banks with
the okay apparently of the Sheriff, forced their way into many of the homes,
and smashed their toilets, kitchen sinks, and other essential items like
refrigerators.
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- Early on the morning of the planned mass evictions, the
Sheriff illegally arranged to turn off their phones, electricity, gas,
and water of a vast all-black neighborhood. Boycott blacks as well as non-member
blacks, all had their public utilities illegally turned off. The bosses
of Illinois Bell Telephone Company were the ring leaders of the whole dirty
business.
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- The idea, among others, was to absolutely block the blacks
from communicating with anyone, or informing anyone else, or seeking aid
from anyone else, including those in the area who were not even members
of the Buyers League.
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- At the urging of the leaders of the Southside Contract
Buyers League, I agreed to be their unpaid, volunteer consultant. Some
of the Buyers League became members of my group, the Citizen's Committee
To Clean Up The Courts. I did the compilation of statements of the members
and non-members as to the role of Illinois Bell at the time of the mass
evictions. The purpose was the legal research leading to a possible massive
racial discrimination damage suit, involving false disconnection of all
the phones of blacks in the area and denial of phone service to blacks,
accusing as defendants Illinois Bell Telephone Company and their bosses.
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- Illinois Bell informed me and the boycott leaders that
the phone firm wanted a meeting at my residence. To try to psyche out both
me and the black leaders, Illinois Bell's agent was a black official with
a gold chain around his neck with a Star of David attached.
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- This apparent Black Jew bluntly came to the point. Illinois
Bell will pay the boycott leaders a half a million dollars if they saw
to it that no suit was filed in court against the phone company and the
phone bosses for their racial discrimination in having cut off the phones
of tne entire black area, phones of both boycott members and non-members,
said the Illinois Bell agent.
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- My hollaring and screaming could most likely be heard
a block away. "There will be no bribery deal in my house. Do you get
it? No bribery!"
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- Instead, later Illinois Bell's money was siphoned to
quite a number of the members through a real estate shill.
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- My investigations later turned up that much of the land
on which the Buyers League members were paying for houses on discriminatory
contracts, was secretly owned by the Catholic Archbishop of Chicago. And
even worse, that the Buyers League attorneys Jenner & Block who kept
telling them to stop the payment boycott, were secretly paid by a Jesuit
group called the Gamaliel Foundation and fronting for such was a person
with a purported Jewish name. I call such Royal Court Jews, by the German
word being hofjuden, traitors to their tribe and stooges for the Establishment.
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- Nine Black Catholics, members of the Buyers League, bravely
sued the local head man of their religion, the Archbishop. The suit was
based on my documented proof of the fact that the Archbishop, secret owner
of the land in his strage capacity as "Corporation Sole", wanted
the blacks thrown off his land for trespass, non-payment of contracts.
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- As a result of my investigations uncovering and publicly
divulging these dirty secrets, for years thereafter Illinois Bell and the
Archbishop's office hounded me with rotten illegal tricks against me personally.
I do not wish to list all such details here now.
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- In later years, Illinois Bell Telephone Company was bought
out and merged with what was later called SBC. Operating as SBC Illinois,
SBC Indiana, SBC Michigan, SBC Ohio, SBC Wisconsin, SBC has continued the
stinking policies against political activists, just like Illinois Bell.
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- Now SBC commits their treachery with Homeland Security,
FEMA, and the FBI Counter-Intelligence Division. Even if you finally complain
to an executive assistant at SBC's corporate headquarters, just like Illinois
Bell, they continue in full denial. They would pretend to never have heard
of FBI, FEMA, or Homeland Security, or "sabotage", and immediately
steer you to their "Repair Department".
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- If you ask for the phone number of SBS own "Security
Department", they put you into a dead end, getting rid of you by giving
you the number of their ADT Division, SBC Home Burglar Alarm System.
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- Like phone companies across the country, SBC's press
flack, if asked, would most likely deny any of the higher ups at SBC know
anything about foul play directed against the phone service of outspoken
bloggers and such. If you are a guest by phone on a radio talk show, if
you say something very revealing about the White House, you can fully expect
that SBC, or other phone companies elsewhere, on behalf of the secret political
police, will suddenly make your phone go dead. And re-connecting may just
as quickly become difficult.
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- Some contend that SBC continues the rotten policies of
Illinois Bell that discriminated against blacks in the inner city. That
is, that all-black neighborhoods, unlike fancy suburbs, do not greatly
increase their use of phone services from year to year. So it is okay to
go slow in replacing old, worn out phone cables in all black areas. That
it is okay to give poorer service in such areas as compared to "Lily
White" suburbs.
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- The many fine, dedicated workers at SBC are generally
powerless to stop, or publicly comment on, the illegal dirty business of
the bosses at SBC.
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- Employees at SBC know, like those years ago at Illinois
Bell, they have to shut up and deny everything. All that changed over the
years is the name.
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- More coming. Stay tuned.
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- Mr. Skolnick's investigative reports can be viewed www.skolnicksreport.com
also magazine format and audiostreaming internet radio shows at www.cloakanddagger.de
and a more complete archive
- www.rense.com/Datapages/skolnickdatapage.html
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