In former communist East Germany the feared 'State Security Service' (Staats Sicherheit) - aka the 'STASI' - worked along the same 'US Patriot Act' like lines - and in the same oppressive way - as the FBI's secret scrutiny described in the Washington Post today.

PERMITTING CLANDESTINE SCRUTINY OF U.S. RESIDENTS

FPF - Nov. 6th 2005 - The Washington Post story below as such gives another confirmation of the US administration's totalitarian police state activity - ruthless and lawless scare tactics based on lies and fakes - of which the STASI would have been proud. - [http://tinyurl.com/8fz9n]

In case you want to know why the neocon junta in Washington acts like this: ''Ex-KGB and STASI Chiefs To Work Under Chertoff - KGB and STASI reinforce Homeland Security'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/a4azv

The situation must be really bad when even neocon propaganda sheets like the 'Whitewashington Post' start publishing stories like this. It's probably later on - when they are in court for their vile collaboration with the warmakers - used as an excuse to refer to: "Look how citical we were!".

This low level form of behavior by Quislings in the media is called "Alibi journalism".

And by the way: all those people who say "I've got nothing to hide": just ask for the PIN code of their bank pass...

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The FBI's Secret Scrutiny

In Hunt for Terrorists, Bureau Examines Records of Ordinary Americans

By Barton Gellman - Washington Post Staff Writer

November 6, 2005 - The FBI came calling in Windsor, Conn., this summer with a document marked for delivery by hand. On Matianuk Avenue, across from the tennis courts, two special agents found their man. They gave George Christian the letter, which warned him to tell no one, ever, what it said.

Under the shield and stars of the FBI crest, the letter directed Christian to surrender "all subscriber information, billing information and access logs of any person" who used a specific computer at a library branch some distance away. Christian, who manages digital records for three dozen Connecticut libraries, said in an affidavit that he configures his system for privacy.

But the vendors of the software he operates said their databases can reveal the Web sites that visitors browse, the e-mail accounts they open and the books they borrow.

Christian refused to hand over those records, and his employer, Library Connection Inc., filed suit for the right to protest the FBI demand in public.

The Washington Post established their identities -- still under seal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit -- by comparing unsealed portions of the file with public records and information gleaned from people who had no knowledge of the FBI demand." [end quote]

Read the rest, weep for a while and than - as you can see from the links below - we all as soon as is possible must do something about it, civil disobedience is a good start.

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Washington Post's 'alibi journalism' article - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/72rzj

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