I refuse to be treated like livestock. -hedges- >Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 13:07:19 -0400 (EDT) >From: Information Security <guyat_private> >To: cypherpunksat_private >Subject: DOD tracking you through your children >Sender: owner-cypherpunksat_private >Precedence: first-class >Reply-To: Information Security <guyat_private> >X-Loop: cypherpunksat_private > >------------- Cryptography Manifesto excerpt ------------------------------- > ># "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1 ># ># The Police-taught DARE program encourages students to turn in ># friends and family by becoming a police informant. > >: Real life: a child in school answers the friendly and inquiring police >: officer teaching about drug dangers that yes their parents have some >: of the displayed paraphernalia. >: >: A search warrant is issued, the parents are arrested, and >: the child is put into custody of Child Welfare workers. > >* Boston Globe, June 12, 1997 >* >* PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - A full-time plainclothes police officer and >* drug-sniffing dogs will be put to work at Portsmouth High School to >* control drug use. The plan also calls for volunteer drug testing of >* pupils and creating a Scholastic Crimeline, a tip service for the >* kids to snitch on friends, parents. > >-------------- End excerpt -------------------------------------------------- > > > >[ forward from I-P list ] > >Subj: Department of Defense Gathering Student Info >Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:54:56 -0500 >From: Lisa Tellez <toybox@express-news.net> >To: Steven Wallace List <xcongressxat_private> > >I am a Christian activist and a mother of three. I have recently removed my >children from government schools (no need to tell you why, its obvious) and >am now home-schooling. The head of our school district is, Im sure, a >communist from Peru. She has involved our district in just about every weird >federal program in existence, without parents knowledge, of course. > >Anyway, I've been researching these programs and have learned that one of >them, Co-Nect Schools, which is part of Goals 2000 and the School-to-Work >garbage, is designed by the U.S. Department of Defense. In addition to >designing it, DOD employees are also mentoring students, via computer. It >appears that DOD has access to everything that students put in the computer. > >Shortly before I removed my children from school, my six-year-old brought home >an assignment developed by Co-Nect that required her to tell about her family >and provide family photographs. The assignment was mandatory. Needless to >say, she did not participate in this garbage and now my children are out of >there. > >Do you know anything at all about this? I have also learned that the district >is keeping a database on students and, according to the director, it would >require four entire days to explain the contents pertaining to one student. >Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 13:41:17 -0500 (CDT) >X-Sender: alt1at_private >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: Information Security <guyat_private>, cypherpunksat_private >From: alt1at_private (Al Thompson) >Subject: Re: DOD tracking you through your children >Sender: owner-cypherpunksat_private >Precedence: first-class >Reply-To: alt1at_private (Al Thompson) >X-Loop: cypherpunksat_private > >At 01:07 PM 5/21/98 -0400, Information Security wrote: >> >>Shortly before I removed my children from school, my six-year-old brought >>home >>an assignment developed by Co-Nect that required her to tell about her family >>and provide family photographs. The assignment was mandatory. Needless to >>say, she did not participate in this garbage and now my children are out of >>there. > >When my kids were in government-run schools, one of their mandatory >assignments was to fill out a questionaire which asked such things as how >many guns were in the house, were they stored loaded, etc., and the >assigment was then to draw a detailed MAP of the inside of the house. My >kids missed that assignment too. >
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