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TOWARDS BIG BROTHER ° go on are instituted by a vindictive neighbor, an overzealous neighbor- hood watch participant, or maybe an angry relative or something of that nature. We know that some of the of fi- cers are dumping drugs on these peo- ple during raids, but we don’t know just how many innocents are af fected by this practice. To our amazement, we are able to obtain a search warrant from almost any Judge by giving nothing more than the person’s name and address. During our weekly card games, our group has discussed this this matter at length; and we feel that if left un- checked that the system will reduce us as officers to nothing more than feared S.S. officers. We know that we are systematically displacing large numbers of black males and poor white males through arrest and imprisonment; and we are getting increased pressure to get into the middle-class areas, to confiscate more property of higher value. We are not offering any political solutions to the situation and we are not suggesting that we stop the war on crime, but we feel that the public and the courts should be more concerned with individual civil rights if we are not to become a brutal police state. Unfortunately, already, we as offi- cers must protect our identity and our location from our own union, depart- ment heads, and fellow officers in fear of serious reprisals from within, for voicing our criticisms. Therefore, we are mailing this letter at our own expense to various people whom we feel may effectively inform the public in one way or another. Please copy and distribute! insights into how the military con- trolled the media during the campaign. "Correspondents were restricted from each access, fired upon, blind- folded, thumped with rifle butts, arrested, made to play out the propa- ganda games of the military high com- mand, interrogated and treated with total paranoia. "Many journalists had their creden- tials removed, or threatened to have their credentials removed. I think it is sometimes forgotten that in two coun- tries, Australia and America, that it was an elected Parliament and an elected Congress that sent forces to the gulf. The people who elected those governments damn well deserved to know what those forces were doing." "No journalist could go forward of a line without a military escort. This escort had to approve everything you saw, every question you asked and so on. Soldiers were ordered not to talk to the press full-stop." (Source: Courier Mail, Sat 6th April 1991) _MEDIA — The return to Australia of retired US Army colonel David Hackworth, one of the US army's most decorated sol- diers has revealed some. startling WHY I CHANGED MY OPINION ABOUT FLUORIDATION References : * Diesendorf M (1986b) A re-examination of Aust. fluoridation trials. Search 17, pp.256-261. + Diesendorf M (1987) Letter. 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NZ Dental Journal 81, pp.12-19. * Diesendorf M (1986a) The mystery of declining tooth decay. Nature 322, pp.125-129. NEXUS - 29 GULF WAR CENSORSHIP MAY/JUNE 1991 *- YEAR BOOK