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                    The following news release was distributed May 11-12, 1998 by fax and
                    email to more than 100 news media organizations and journalists in the
                    USA, Canada, and UK.
                    News Release
                    For Immediate Release
                    Spy watcher exposes Bureaucrats'
                    Toolkit.
                    Methods for political control over the
                    American people.
                         VICTORIA BC, CANADA - May 11, 1998 - A spy
                    watcher in Canada continues to be a thorn in the side of
                    the FBI by using the Internet to reveal suppressed
                    information.
                         Lee Adams warns that government has recently been
                    provided with the opportunity - and the means - to
                    permanently wrest control from the population.
                         "We face three separate threats," he says. "Together
                    these combine to give government a stranglehold on
                    civil liberties - a death grip on traditional freedoms."
                         Threat #1 - Computers have taken over surveillance.
                    Entire populations can be supervised and monitored
                    automatically. Dataveillance makes it easy for
                    government to track certain classes of people - like
                    minorities or dissidents- or anyone who dares think for
                    themselves. Databases and CCTV video cameras are to
                    blame.
                         Threat #2 - The militarization of the police. The cops
                    are now using some very nasty weapons. Half the stuff
                    they use is prohibited by the Geneva Convention and the
                    Hague Declaration. The government can't use it in war,
                    but their own population is fair game - for CS and OC
                    gas sprays, beanbag projectiles, new mark-free
                    interrogation tools, and handgun ammunition that can
                    amputate your arm or leg.
                         Threat #3 - Proliferation by private companies. Most
                    of these high-tech gadgets are dual-use. There's no
                    regulation or control over research, manufacture, export,
                    and deployment of this nightmarish technology. The
                    surveillance cameras in Tiananmen Square were
                    exported from the USA as advanced traffic control - but
                    they enabled China's dreaded Guoanbu security service
                    to round up all the "troublemakers". Private companies
                    are reaping huge profits in the newly-emerging
                    police-industrial complex.
                         "These three conditions are being used by bureaucrats
                    as a new technology for political control over people -
                    not only in the USA, but worldwide," he says. "This
                    information comes direct from a report commissioned
                    by the European Parliament."
                         Adams says he has no plans to discontinue publishing
                    his disclosures at his Web site at
                    http://www.SPYCOUNTERSPY.com