Freedom Lawyers of America

Microsoft, HP partner on police state software InfoWorld"Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft are working together to offer governments national identity systems built on the .Net platform. The tech giants have been working on a code base that will allow them to offer a set of technology components for functions such as online and offline demographic and biometric data capture, regional verification and registration, and document lifecycle management. They unveiled their plan to target worldwide governments with the technologies at an event in Geneva on Friday. HP is bringing its hardware and consulting services to the table, while Microsoft is supplying software products such as its Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and BizTalk Server 2004. The companies are tapping partners in the security market, such as biometric technology vendors and public key infrastructure (PKI) providers, to offer specific national identity systems." (05/27/05)

Signs of drug-war shift Christian Science Monitor"Evidence is beginning to build that the approach to the war on drugs in the United States could be changing -- by shifting attention away from small-time drug dealers and individual users toward major drug traffickers. The nation's drug czar has alluded to changes in thinking. 'Break the business,' said John Walters at a congressional hearing earlier this year. 'Don't break generation after generation [of poor, minority young men], is what we're going for.' Another sign of a shift involves the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant program, which since 1988 has earmarked federal money for local communities to use in the war on drugs. ... President Bush is proposing the elimination of the program by next year -- though this budget cut is still being fought in Congress." [editor's note: This is supposed to be good news? Prohibition II and the destruction of the Bill of Rights still reigns! - SAT] (05/27/05)