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- Many feel Internet is a great blessing. Outspoken activists
can set up their own homepage or website and mouth off, while muttering
to themselves, "To hell with the news networks!" Electronic mail
goes up and back like in a flash [or does it? Read on.]
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- Politically incorrect commentators, once kept in the
shadows, can now be read worldwide. With video streaming on Internet soon
to blossom, they may be heard and SEEN worldwide. Feel-good types chirp,
"The genie is out of the bottle" [Or is it?]
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- Cynics darkly sneer, "Don't you understand, America's
bulb is getting brighter just as it is about to blow out, Hitler-style."
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- Are old-timers the only ones who remember the bad old
days? During the civil rights and peace movements of the 1960s and 1970s,
the FBI was in active opposition to them. Supposedly forbidden by statute
to do domestic operations, the American CIA nevertheless had their domestic
units doing dirty tricks on U.S. citizens. The CIA's excuse? They did it
upon the default or neglect of the incompetent FBI. Maybe the FBI, as America's
secret political police, was just too busy framing up labor activists and
union organizers on charges of plotting bombings and other violence against
corporate dictators.
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- In the 1970s, an official of the CIA admitted to a Congressional
committee, that the spy agency had for many years been screening U.S. Mail
and telegraph transmissions to overseas locations. Somehow, they never
brought themselves to admit, even to Congress, that they had been spying
as well on mail and other communications WITHIN THE U.S.
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- Now if you post something really too hot about the secret
police on your homepage or website, the FBI, WITHOUT A COURT ORDER, reserves
the right to shut off your transmissions.
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- First Class Mail, domestically, was supposedly by regulation,
sacrosanct. A top-level U.S. Postal Inspector once bent my ear with his
off-the-record, candid complaint, "We believe dope is being sent into
Chicago in First Class packages. By regulation, we cannot open First Class
packages unless we have definite prior proof of illicit shipment."
He was talking to ME, not George Orwell, author of "1984", the
epic book on the total police state. I could have countered the postal
inspector by mentioning the major dope enters the U.S. with the blessings
of the highly corrupt DEA and for espionage purposes of the American CIA.
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- [On our Cable TV Show, we talked about the dope warehouse
in Chicago where it is piled up like so many bags of produce. Every six
weeks, we said, the dope comes in on a sizeable truck escorted by corrupt
local police. We decided not to give the exact address, for fear the place
would be bombed and innocent people injured. A week after our cablecast,
a similar warehouse, much smaller, was identified in the monoppoly press.]
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- Who bothers to tell you, the one for years having the
monopoly on domain registration for websites, Network Solutions, Inc.,
is a sinister creature of the intelligence agencies. I am probably not
the only one who can finger them from personal experience. All during the
U.S. War against Serbia and their province of Kosovo, spring of 1999, Network
Solutions blocked my website. Network Solutions' phone was constantly on
busy signal. They failed to respond to my many complaints by E-mail. They
even failed to respond to my complaints sent to their headquarters by Registered
Mail, Return Receipt Requested, via U.S. Postal Service.
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- Did someone give Network Solutions a list of loudmouths
to be censored? Were YOU on their list? Some say Internet is like fire-ants.
Texans know, you can pour lighted fuel on fire-ants, yet they continue
to march on. [At least that is what some Texans have told me.]
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- Most have become so accustomed to Electronic Mail, E-Mail
for short, they even use it from their office for personal notes, on their
bosses' machinery. Some have been fired for cause, based on company secrets
and other inappropriate communications sent, accidentally or otherwise,
as personal notes to pals. Retrieved from the system by an employer, the
E-Mail becomes a document of accusation. Many employes have long known
the company phones are bugged by the boss. So why would anyone expect the
E-Mail was exempt?
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- Something seems to happen when you send E-Mail with something
REALLY HOT, politically or spy-wise. In July, 1999, following the death
of John F. Kennedy, Jr., I sought to post what we understood was the FBI's
secret preliminary report on the aircrash, showing an explosive device
blew off the tail of the plane, making it a death warrant.[The how, when,
and why is in our four part series, What Happened to America's Golden Boy:
www.skolnicksreport.com] My E-Mail transmissions took four days on our
REALLY HOT, Part Four story. To be certain, I sent some twice. Friends
told me both E-Mails arrived at the same time, four days after the date
I sent them. I sent the same E-Mails to myself. Same result. U.S. Postal
Service, called snail-mail in current lingo, would most likely have arrived
sooner, and supposedly not been screened or spy-tampered.
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- I once got on the line with the Technical Support of
my Internet Service Provider. The one answering was quite polite and seemed
well-informed. They might give their first name, rare, if ever, their last
name. So whatever is said, they remain NAMELESS AND FACELESS, typical of
the government bureaucracy, many large corporate offices, public utilities,
and such. I outlined the problem of politically really HOT E-Mails of mine
delayed for several days.
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- "As your server, we don't screen E-Mail," she
tried to assure me. But then she added, "On the other hand, our server,
I believe, does screen". She outlined to me how her company, as my
server, had THEIR own server. She was not sure if THEY had a phone number
where you could call them. Just to perform my sarcastic test, I asked Directory
Assistance for the 800 number of "Big Brother Internet". "One
moment sir" and then came the answer, "I show no listing".
I then asked Directory Assistance with the same name for Virginia. "Where
in Virginia?" she asked. "McLean, Virginia" I answered.
"You know, operator, under the listing [if any] for U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency". The office of Network Solutions, Inc., I smiled to myself,
was not far away. [Do they want Directory Assistance operators to have
a sense of humor or recognize sarcasm?]
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- America On Line, AOL, has plenty I think they do not
tell you. They are NOT an Internet Service Provider, ISP, but an online
service, sort of a middle man TO AN ISP. That technical or lawful difference
reportedly justifies them having a screening or censorship committee. In
other words, a NAMELESS, FACELESS CENSORSHIP BOARD. Who are THEY? Under
WHAT circumstances do THEY reserve the right or "authority" to
block your postings and transmissions? What, if any, is your remedy or
recourse? Are they, what is known in public utility and other law, as a
Common Carrier, or are they a different animal?
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- Supposing the U.S. has a very serious decline, even a
collapse, in the stock and other markets. And suppose as well that at such
at time, there is a run on banks. Would the various Internet Service Providers
and the Online Services function as before? Or would they obey a secret
government directive to silence loudmouths by blocking their E-Mail and
other transmissions? On the one hand, Internet, and the World Wide Web,
and E-Mail, seem to be a great blessing, countering censorship. On the
other hand, great numnbers of folks have become overly dependent on the
electronic communication. Thus created is a dilemma.
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- With the phone company, you have a choice to be listed
or unlisted. With Internet, there are services that purport to be directory
listings. Whether your website and such is listed there, is a matter of
political consideration and quite arbitrary. Under state regulations, you
would have a remedy, of sorts, against the phone company for refusing to
list your phone in their regular directory. What remedy or recourse do
you have NOW against these other "directories" that somehow fail
to list you? Can you actually reach a real PERSON at these electronic directories,
to express your complaint at not being listed?
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- Some radio talk shows are also available, by audio streaming,
on Internet, either live or can be retrieved at any time later. AND, some
radio talk shows, on Internet, if they get on a REALLY HOT topic, suddenly
are blanked out. By whom? Under what lawful regulations are they censored?
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- So, on the one hand, Internet has been a blessing. On
the other hand, it is also part of NAMELESS, FACELESS BIG BROTHER IN CYBERSPACE.
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- If this takes four days to get to you, or never arrives
at all---Well, it is just Big Brother Internet doing his thing.
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- Since 1958, Mr. Skolnick has been a court reformer. Since
1963, founder/chairman,Citizen's Committee to Clean Up the Courts, disclosing
certain instances of judicial and other bribery and political murders.
Since 1991, a regular panelist,and since 1995, moderator/producer of "Broadsides",
one-hour weekly public access Cable TV Show cablecast within Chicago, to
some 400,000 viewers. We regularly condemn the monopoly press, and on occasion,
have identified media fakers as assets of the secret political police,
the FBI, CIA, NSA, and such. For a heavy packet of our printed stories:
send $5.00 [U.S. funds] and a stamped, self-addressed business size envelope
[#10 envelope, 4-1/4 x9-1/2] WITH THREE STAMPS ON IT, to Citizen's Committee
to Clean Up the Courts, Sherman H. Skolnick, Chairman, 9800 So. Oglesby
Ave., Chicago IL 60617-4870. Office, 8 a.m. to midnight, 7 days: (773)
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