State Surveillance
We feed the mind and strengthen the heart.

Governments are building a "global
registration and surveillance
infrastructure" in the US-led "war on
terror", civil liberty groups warned
yesterday.

The aim is to monitor the movements
and activities of entire populations in
what campaigners call "an
unprecedented project of social control".

The warning came from the
International Civil Liberties Monitoring
Group, including the American Civil
Liberties Union, and Statewatch, a
UK-based bulletin which tracks
developments in the EU.

They point to the system whereby all
visitors to the US are to be digitally
photographed and fingerprinted. The EU
has agreed that member states must
fingerprint all passport holders by the
end of 2007. The information will be held
on databases.

National ID cards, they warn, will become a "globally interoperable biometric passport".
The setting up of airlines' passenger name records (PNRs) could include more than 60
different kinds of information, including meal choices which could reveal personal,
religious or ethnic affiliations.

The US and EU governments are expanding legal powers to eavesdrop and to store the
product of intercepted personal communications, the groups warn.

They also point to an agreement between Europol - the EU's incipient police
headquarters - and the US giving what they say will be an unlimited number of
American agencies access to sensitive information on the race, political opinions,
religious beliefs, health and sexual life of individuals.

The groups point to increasingly close cooperation between national police, security,
intelligence, and military establishments.

To achieve their ends, they say, governments have suspended judicial oversight over
law enforcement agents and public officials, concentrated unprecedented power in the
hands of the executive arm of government, and rolled back criminal law and due
process protections that balance the rights of individuals against the power of the
state.


These initiatives, say the civil liberty groups, are not effective in identifying terrorists.  


Comments by Dr. Le Roy Gillam

If President George W. Bush our fearless leader, focused more on the needs of the
people of this nation and less on gaining world recognition,  most of all stop trying to
take control of the people of the world,through finger printing implants and his other
strange ideas that  he may come up with, then and only then he will work wonders for
the people of the United States.


GENERAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS
PART I.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
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TITLE XX.
PUBLIC SAFETY AND GOOD ORDER

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CHAPTER 140. LICENSES

SALE OF FIREARMS

Chapter 140: Section 131J Sale or possession of electrical weapons; penalties

Text of section effective until July 15, 2004. For text effective July 15, 2004, see below.]

Section 131J. No person shall sell, offer for sale or possess a portable device or weapon from which an
electrical current, impulse, wave or beam may be directed, which current, impulse, wave or beam is
designed to incapacitate temporarily, injure or kill. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be
punished by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment
for not less than six months nor more than two years in a jail or house of correction, or both.

[ Text of section as amended by 2004, 170, Sec. 1 effective July 15, 2004. For text effective until July 15,
2004, see above.]

Section 131J. No person shall possess a portable device or weapon from which an electrical current,
impulse, wave or beam may be directed, which current, impulse, wave or beam is designed to incapacitate
temporarily, injure or kill, except: (1) a federal, state or municipal law enforcement officer, or member of a
special reaction team in a state prison or designated special operations or tactical team in a county
correctional facility, acting in the discharge of his official duties who has completed a training course
approved by the secretary of public safety in the use of such a devise or weapon designed to incapacitate
temporarily; or (2) a supplier of such devices or weapons designed to incapacitate temporarily, if
possession of the device or weapon is necessary to the supply or sale of the device or weapon within the
scope of such sale or supply enterprise. No person shall sell or offer for sale such device or weapon, except
to federal, state or municipal law enforcement agencies. A device or weapon sold under this section shall
include a mechanism for tracking the number of times the device or weapon has been fired. The secretary
of public safety shall adopt regulations governing who may sell or offer to sell such devices or weapons in
the commonwealth and governing law enforcement training on the appropriate use of portable electrical
weapons.



Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 or
by imprisonment in the house of correction for not less than 6 months nor more than 21/2 years, or by
both such fine and imprisonment. A law enforcement officer may arrest without a warrant any person
whom he has probable cause to believe has violated this section.



Those people who have found themselves in a situation that they are being punished
by those who are known, or unknown, need more help than just a  Bill being passed.
That has no way or means to protect them from the enemies, with this  so call high
Tech weaponry. I commend each state that thinks enough of their people to pass a Bill
to try and give them more protection but they need much more than that. They need a
solution to the problem. Each Governor needs to hear the cry of the people and see
their despair.
Warring on the spread
of State Surveillance.