Just spit it out, will ya?
Just another day at the office when Homeboy walks up and hands me his passport, green card and Customs Declaration. In one motion I compare him to the pictures on his documents, swipe the machine-readable strip in his passport, annotate his Dec and ask “How long were you out of […]
Posted on January 15th, 2003
On Wearing Kevlar
It’s hard to stay in a good mood when you’ve been wearing a Kevlar vest for 13 hours.—Inspector “Westside”.
Posted on January 12th, 2003
The Man’s Name is John Ashcroft
Things that make me smile: The John Ashcroft Snow Globe, brought to us by an irreverent artist. —- Remember America before Homeland Security? Before racial profiling became SRC=”http://opendna.freeshell.net/img/JohnAshcroftSnowGlobe.jpg” HEIGHT=”182” WIDTH=”143” ALIGN=right VSPACE=”5” HSPACE=”5” ALT=”IMG shamelessly mirrored from PureProductsUSA.com”/> the norm? When our streets, homes and offices were safe and our […]
Posted on November 1st, 2002
Canadian Thanksgiving (2002)
Sometime in the 1960s, in a land about 700 miles north of here, the nation’s grandmothers felt very much left out of all the protesting against war and nuclear weapons and the like. Free health care and a generous social security system didn’t leave much for them to demand in […]
Posted on October 14th, 2002
Life on The Line
I’m living a stone’s throw from the San Francisco International Airport where I works as a cog in the National Security-Industrial Complex. April to August was a battery of federal law, gun smoke, beatings, planes, rubber stamps and Bad Guy-inspired seriousness interrupted with a surf session in Florida, a many […]
Posted on October 8th, 2002
PRO·PA·GAN·DA: a primer for identification
There has been considerable discussion on Kuro5hin.org recently surrounding media bias, propaganda and advertising. But what is propaganda and how can we tell? Analysis of discourse sheds light on both the motivations of actors and the credibility of their Reality. I believe biased accounts of events, root causes, history and […]
Posted on March 22nd, 2002
The Narco-State Cometh
NarcoNews.com is running an investigative report by Al Giordano about presidential “narco-candidacy” of Colombian governor Alvaro Uribe Vélez. According to the report Uribe, Washington’s preferred candidate, is caught a web of Colombia’s Greatest Hits of cocaine scandals. Among the sordid threads are ties to infamous narcotrafficers like Pablo Escobar, genocidal […]
Posted on March 20th, 2002
Find Your Voice In A Conspiracy
DO NOT FORGET THE PROCESS. IF YOU DO YOU WILL FAIL. Late in the summer of 2001 I sat down with SW on many occasions, under the stars and over beers, and discussed Life, the Universe and Everything. We discussed our regrets of the past, our dreams of the future, […]
Posted on January 18th, 2002
Why the Jackrabbit?
Since I wrote Enter The Jack-Rabbit several people have asked me what significance, if any, the title had. I always mumbled something about politics, sleep deprivation and Hunter S. Thompson which, I gather from the responses, was never very clear. So, for the first time, the passage that inspired the […]
Posted on January 1st, 2001
Enter the Jackrabbit, Part 2
Enter the Jackrabbit is a subset of the Viper Pit series. It was written during the 1998 congressional campaigns over the course of a few days and has been split up to accommodate the web. I got a call one night recently and instantly recognized the voice on the other […]
Posted on November 1st, 1999
Enter the Jackrabbit, Part 1
Enter the Jackrabbit is a subset of the Viper Pit series. It was written during the 1998 congressional campaigns over the course of a few days and has been split up to accommodate the web. “Going ninety, it ain’t scary, when I’ve got my Virgin Mary sitting on the dash-board […]
Posted on November 1st, 1999
Enter the Jackrabbit, Prologue
Enter the Jackrabbit is a subset of the Viper Pit series. It was written during the 1998 congressional campaigns over the course of a few days and has been split up to accomodate the web. Jack Rabbit’s Taile, Prologue Four Puerto Ricans, one Bahaman, one naturalized Vietnamese, one […]
Posted on November 1st, 1999
Why The CIA Has My Name On File
In the spring semester of 1999 I was studying at George Washington University, in Washington DC, and doing an internship at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). One of my projects was to find out if the US Government had encourage Intel to include a unique identifier on the PIII […]
Posted on February 15th, 1999
Privacy & Human Rights 1999
In the spring semester of 1999 I was studying at George Washington University, in Washington DC, and doing an internship at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). One of my project was to research Latin American privacy rights. The research and my summaries were included in an annual survey published […]
Posted on February 15th, 1999
October 3 1995 at 9:00 A.M.
The first time I took the oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America (and the Constitution of the State of California) “against all enemies foreign and domestic”. I was 16 years old. [URL] —- REGULAR MEETING OF THE MARIN COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HELD TUESDAY, OCTOBER […]
Posted on October 3rd, 1995