BIG BROTHER IS ALIVE AND WELL

New York State started a pilot program upstate north of Albany on the Northway to catch speeders using the Easy Pass system. Recording devices were installed at intervals along the highway. Once an Easy Pass equipped vehicle passes, the device registers the account number and the time. Same is again registered at the next "check-point". Based upon the distance between the register points and the posted speed limit, the state is sending speeding tickets in the mail to the guilty persons.

Because every driver does not have Easy Pass, the State is "perplexed" as what to do to impose the system state-wide. The solution has been found. Soon all new vehicle registration stickers will have a metal strip or chip imbedded in same. This will take the place of the Easy Pass system as stated above. When a vehicle passes the registering device, the strip will relay all the information.

This is not fictional. New York State contracted with VERIZON to install the system. The system has already been installed and the entire Bronx River Parkway in Westchester County has been "wired" for when the new system begins. Once the State makes the new program public and advises all motorists of the potential for numerous speeding tickets, it will also reveal that the system has already been installed.

Another reason that will be given for the new system is to enable the authorities to track stolen vehicles, to trace kidnap victims, to monitor and trace suspected criminals and terrorists, etc.

BIG BROTHER IS ALIVE AND WELL.

Pass this along to every one you know.

Paul W. Meyer, Jr.
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HUNDREDS RALLY FOR JOHN WHITE IN LONG ISLAND NY

RIVERHEAD, Long Island, N.Y. (FinalCall.com) - Chanting “Free John White!” “Free John White!” hundreds of demonstrators, Black, White and Latino, answered a call from the Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Action Network to show up in front of the Suffolk County courthouse to protest the guilty verdict against John White, 54, of Miller Place, Long Island.

Mr. White faces a maximum of 15 years in jail after being convicted of manslaughter in the second-degree. His sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 21. The father and husband was convicted on Dec. 22 in the “accidental” shooting death of Daniel Cicciaro. He remains free on $100,000 bail; and his defense team is preparing an appeal.

“We come today as one community, because if they are allowed to invade and violate the property of one of us, then they will be allowed to invade and trespass on the property belonging to any of us,” Rev. Sharpton told the Jan. 5 gathering.

Mr. White, a construction foreman, has maintained that the shooting was unintentional, saying the 17-year-old lunged for the handgun, and it went off.

During the three-week trial, Mr. White’s lawyers maintained he felt threatened by five White teens who invaded his property after 11 p.m. on a week night, threatening to harm his son, Aaron, and rape his wife, Sonia. The lawyers told the jury that the drunken youths were reminiscent of southern lynch mobs.

Rev. Sharpton noted that police only focused on the shooting, ignoring the culpability of the “drunken White teens,” who according to testimony used racial epithets. “What amazes me,” said the longtime activist, “is how you start an investigation halfway after the events of the evening was over.” Suffolk County law enforcement officials did not start their investigation at the moment the teens “decided to trespass and menace the White family,” he said.


You can’t start half way and come back with full justice, Rev. Sharpton stressed.
“At that point they committed a crime. A crime they have not been prosecuted for, or held accountable for, if they can do that to him, they can do that to any family or home owner in this county—Black, White, Asian and Latino,” Rev. Sharpton said.

“Everybody that lives in this county needs to understand that as long as these young men have not been prosecuted—there will be a legal precedent in this county—people have the right to come to your home to block your driveway, ring your bell, threaten your life and expect nothing to happen, because they can cite the John White case,” he warned, bringing an energetic response from the crowd.

“I have come to join the leadership here to demand the immediate arrest and prosecution of the mob that went to John White’s house,” Rev. Sharpton added.

“There is an injustice in Long Island,” Kevin Muhammad, student minister from Muhammad Mosque No. 7 in Harlem told the crowd, while holding up a copy of The Final Call newspaper. Then turning to look at Mr. White, who was standing nearby, Mr. Muhammad said, “He does not deserve to spend years in prison, so let’s be supportive of him not just today, but tomorrow and the next day.”

Mr. Muhammad stood with the White family throughout the trial.
John White, reading from a prepared statement, thanked the crowd for its support.

“I know God will walk me through the fire,” he said. “The past months have been very difficult for my family and me,” Mr. White said. “But I have never wavered in my commitment to obtain fair treatment,” he noted.

“We came to these hallowed halls looking for justice, and what we found was just-us,” defense attorney Fred Brewington told the crowd. “I came before this system and said be just to John White,” Mr. Brewington said. They had a trial, but it was not a trial by an impartial jury of Mr. White’s peers, he said.

“This John White case is the most egregious example of racism. They are telling us, you can’t defend your own home, and you can’t defend your own family against racist thugs,” Heather Cotton, of Freeport, Long Island, told The Final Call. Ms. Cotton, who is White, is an activist with the Martin Luther King Jr. Coalition

“I am glad to see a significant number of White people out here today,” she said. “There has always been racism out here against Blacks, I know because I grew up out here,” Ms. Cotton said.

“I had to be out here support this brother and his family; and make sure that justice is done,” said Dorothy Gist, an elderly woman from Elmont, Long Island. The man was just trying to protect his home, she said.

A 24-year-old Black man from Nassau County, said a lot of young people understand what’s going on. “There’s a lot of people from my generation here today,” he said. “We know racism exists, and it’s time for a change.”

Lashana, a young Black woman, braved the cold, with her four year-old son on her shoulder and the one-year-old in a stroller. She lives some 15 minutes from the courthouse. “I had to be here to be a part of this. If this could happen now, what’s going to happen to my son’s when they grow up?” she asked. “It’s important to be here to support John White.”

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WHOS PLAYING THE RACE CARD?

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and her husband have come under fire in recent weeks because of remarks that some blacks have found offensive.
The idea that the Clintons are racists is a tough sell, but there's no question the dialogue has hurt them with black voters in South Carolina, where Democratic voters will cast their primary ballots Jan. 26.

The latest ABC News poll found that black voters who once supported Clinton, 52 percent to 39 percent, are now backing Obama, 60 percent to 32 percent.

Now campaigning in South Carolina, Clinton spent the weekend doing damage control and trying to regain ground after a 40-point swing in the last 30 days.

"I'm so proud of Sen. Barack Obama," she said at a black church in Columbus, Sunday.
Just hours earlier on "Meet the Press," she spent nearly an hour defending herself and her record of support for blacks.

"The Obama campaign is deliberately distorting this," Clinton told the show's host, Tim Russert, trying to explain why she has come under fire.

Also on Sunday Bob Johnson, the founder of Black Entertainment Television, came out in support of Clinton's record, but some say his comments only added fuel to the blaze.

"I am frankly insulted that the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood that I won't say what he was doing but he said it in his book," Johnson said.

That was interpreted by some as a reference to Obama's admitted past drug use. Johnson insisted that it was not, saying he actually had in mind the time Obama spent as a

On the Tom Joyner syndicated radio show today, Bill Clinton continued to defend his wife's record on race.

"The only racist comment made in this campaign is when the Obama campaign called Hillary the 'senator from Punjab,'" the former president said. He also called the idea that Hillary is racist "a stretch," reminding listeners that right out of college Hillary's first job was knocking on doors in poor neighborhoods as part of an effort to stem the rise in college drop-out rates among blacks.
Playing the Race Card?

The race controversy she's now facing started in New Hampshire, when some felt that her remarks about Dr. Martin Luther King suggested it took a white politician to realize a black man's dream.

"Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964," Clinton said in New Hampshire. Some blacks were offended by that, but Clinton maintains it's Obama's fault, implying his campaign has been playing the race card.

"This is, you know, an unfortunate story line that the Obama campaign has pushed very successfully," she said on "Meet the Press."
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Meanwhile Obama has been denying the accusation while campaigning this weekend.
"For them somehow to suggest we're injecting race as a consequence of a statement she made that we haven't commented on is pretty hard to figure out," he said in Nevada, Sunday.

The Clinton campaign is also trying to control the damage from former President Clinton's swipe at Obama at Dartmouth.

"Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen," he told a group at Dartmouth, Jan. 7.

On half-a-dozen black radio shows, Clinton has argued that he was talking about Obama's record opposing the Iraq War, not Obama's candidacy as a whole.

"I never said that he, his life or his campaign is a fairy tale. It is a serious campaign. And it might be a successful one," he said on Sirius Satellite Radio.

The campaign may have moved on to a new state, but the debate hasn't caught up. It's almost a new corollary to the Las Vegas slogan: "What happens in New Hampshire, doesn't stay in New Hampshire."

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TORWARD A BLACK AND BROWN POLITICAL COALITION

As we find ourselves in the throes of the current political agendas, it is of the utmost importance that the Black and Brown communities recognize that a political coalition is in the best interest of the two groups. Black Americans who adhere to a nationalistic doctrine simply echo the racist bigotry of White Supremacy.

Under the guise of nationalism, White Supremacy continues to employ a divide and conquer strategy designed to maintain dominance over Blacks, Browns, Reds and all other non-Whites. The outrage over granting so-called “illegal” people’s drivers licenses masks a fear that voting rights will be granted next. Blacks should not allow ourselves to be manipulated into joining the inhumane call to deport millions of so-called illegal Mexican immigrants. To do so is a mistake. America has yet to grant its Black population one of the nation’s most important civil and human rights, a permanent right to vote. Black people can ill afford to perpetrate a myth that Mexican immigrants are robbing us of our jobs, costing us tax dollars or infiltrating our healthcare and educational institutions. Nor can we allow our relationship with the Mexican people to be prejudiced by drug turf battles between Black and Mexican rival street gangs.

America’s Black and Mexican populations should be mindful that those in power have always feared unity between them. Such an alliance would create a block of 25 percent of America’s population and empowering the peoples of the Americas and amplifying their voices at the negotiating tables. As a result, the government has conspired to infiltrate the two groups with agent provocateurs whose mission is to create conflict and tension between the groups.

Most Blacks are totally unaware of their racial and cultural relationship to Mexicans, such as significant numbers of Blacks in the population of Mexico and a common African ancestry and major African contributions to the culture of Mexico. Too many Blacks are prone to be influenced by the call for unbridled “nationalism” rather than the racial and cultural identity ties of Blacks and Mexicans as oppressed peoples. It is a brand of nationalism that fosters a belief that nations benefit from acting independently rather than collectively. Under this form of nationalism the goals of the elite exploiters supersede humane international goals. It is a doctrine that perpetrates foreign domination when it is perceived to be in the best interest of the elitists. Historically, when unbridled nationalism is coupled with exploitive capitalism it leads to the genocide of oppressed people and their cultures.

Like the Native American people, the people of Mexico played a significant role in providing sanctuary for runaway African slaves. The term Afro-Mexican designates Mexican citizens who are Black or of African descent and are assimilated into Mexico’s total population. The Mexican government does not include race in its census count, preferring to classify the population based on culture rather than race. Historically, Africa has made a significant contribution to Mexico’s culture. The faith, language and culture of Mexico is an infusion of West African influence. Yes, racial problems exist in Mexico. However, despite that fact, we have too much in common and a great deal to gain through our joint political efforts.

My latest book, “God Save America: The Ultimate Conspiracy,” outlines the conspirators’ economic framework for a movement toward a nationalistic “one world” globalization in fulfillment of the notion of the European’s Manifest Destiny and the belief that White Supremacy has a divinely inspired mission to expand. This agenda is being accomplished under the pretext of spreading so-called “democracy” and alleged “freedom.” This belief is reflected in America’s international policies including the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), as a broader expression of a belief in White Supremacy’s “mission,“ the economic expansion of capitalism, and White Supremacy.

Elitist power-brokers created the myth of White Supremacy to divide powerless Whites, who are the descendants of slaves (indentured servants) and Blacks, who are the descendants of slaves. That same conspiracy is being played out today under the guise of “nationalism.” Without a doubt, Black people have a great deal in common with the peoples of Mexico. In truth, both Blacks and Mexicans share a legacy of European oppression that has resulted in severe psychosocial impairments causing us to choose nationalism over race. Nationalism is a historical ploy designed to incorporate oppressed people to leverage the ranks of White Supremacy.
The genotype for all civilized people is borne out of the loins of Africa. If we are truly a common African race, then the essence of our being is a core culture that celebrates principle and values that enhance godliness in the form of cooperative human existence. We should not continue to pledge allegiance to differences that have been forcibly imposed by restrictive borders, borders that function in the interest of those who have subjugated us to their will and not the will of God.

(Harry R. Davidson, Ph.D. is the co-chair of the Association of Black Psychologist’s Legislative Education Committee.)