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...control and phone tapping image projection used against radical groups is the mission of the vast political intelligence apparatus of the FBI. Hoover began gathering political intelligence after an order in 1936 by Franklin D. Roosevelt charging him to prepare for war by amassing information on groups likely to commit sabotage in the event of war. John Elliff termed this order the "Magna Carta of domestic intelligence." Hoover has operated on its authority ever since...
...President of the United States would get cracking and get out of Viet Nam, then follow up with currency restrictions on industry and tourism, the U.S. balance of payments would become favorable and the latest dollar crisis would disappear. Instead, President Nixon has chosen to commit economic aggression against the United States' closest friends, allies and, most importantly, its best customers. Why? Simple. We Canadians, the British, French, Japanese and others cannot vote, while U.S. industry greases the electoral machine with money and American tourists do have a vote...
Equator to the Pole. In practical terms, the effects of Britain's entry will be felt gradually over a period of five or six years. The rules of membership commit London to lowering its tariffs against other EEC members by 20% as of April 1973, and by a like amount on each subsequent Jan. 1 until 1977, when the tariffs will be abolished. The Continental countries will do the same with their generally lower tariffs against British goods. The result will be to expose Britain's sometimes lackluster businessmen to competition from makers of Italian refrigerators and woolens...
...Well, I have already say that I not only am not guilty of these two crimes, but I never commit a crime in my life, I have never steal and I have never kill and I have never spilt blood, and I have fought and I have sacrificed myself even to eliminate the crimes that the law and the Church legitimate and sanctify...
...philosophy of the "treat 'em rough" school: that the individual offender exclusively bears the guilt for his crime and that the sole goal of the state's incarceration of him is to force him to recognize this and correct the aberrant part of his psyche that caused him to commit a crime...