| Morlock Elloi on Mon, 19 Mar 2018 20:56:12 +0100 (CET) |
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| <nettime> History: CounterSpy 1973-1984 |
Texts in general are of good quality and documentary value. Some of them provide insights into origins and longevity of today's burning issues.
(excerpts from Volume 2, Issue 1) p.14, "The Ideology of Internal Security": -- In his August 15, 1973 speech to the nation in answer to the Watergate charges, President Nixon noted that "... every President since World War II has believed that in internal security matters the President has the power to authorize wiretaps without first obtaining a search warrant. "An act of Congress in 1968 [the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act] had seemed to recognize such power. Last year the Supreme Court held to the contrary. And my administration is of course now complying with that Supreme Court decision. But, until the Supreme Court spoke, I had been acting, as did my predecessors ... in a reasonable belief that in certain circumstances the Constitution permitted and sometimes required such measures to protect the national security in the public interest" The President further stated that "instances have now come to light in which a zeal for security did go too far and did interfere impermissably with individual liberty," adding that while "it is essential that such mistakes not be repeated," still, "it is also essential that we do not over-react to particular mistakes by tying the President's hands in a way that would risk sacrificing our security, and with it all our liberties." -- p.19: "Counter-insurgency Comes Home" -- From the end of February until early May, the world press reported on the "occupation" of Wounded Knee by Indians who wanted serious changes in their lives and the institutions that affect them. While the press reported the event as an "occupation," they completely missed the fact that it was a classical military cordon operation, which the Director, of the U.S. Marshals Service called "the world's largest outdoor jail." The experiment with militarizing the police did not begin with Wounded Knee; Wounded Knee was simply a field test where the military was allowed to clandestinely control a rather large army composed of specially trained U.S. Marshals and FBI agents. The Justice Department army was given high powered equipment available only to the military: their tactics in the negotiations as well as their tactics on the Reservation were advised by the military in the same manner as the Military Assistance Advisory Groups operating in Vietnam during the early years of U.S. involvement; even their needs for maps and intelligence were provided by military reconnaissance flights conducted with jets that had once flown the same type missions against the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam. -- . # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: